Helping you navigate uncertain futures.

Are you making decisions based on the past, instead of your future?

Do you need an evidence-based roadmap but feel tired of guessing what the “new normal” means for your organization?

Is the “status quo” planning approach no longer serving you?

Do you need to improve your ability to make future-focused decisions?

 Our unique approach.

  • Everything we do is future-focused.

    Using applied foresight research, we help you navigate complexity and embrace uncertainty, arming you with the tools you need to think beyond present-day issues to imagine, prepare for, and navigate multiple potential futures.

  • We turn ideas into actions.

    We like to think, but we love to drive action. We’ll introduce you to novel ideas and theories and help you turn them into new strategies, projects, policies, action plans, staffing decisions, investments, business mandates, and revenue goals.

  • We are collaborative and participatory.

    We work hand-in-hand with you and your team, embracing unique opportunities that may crop up. We also design meaningful engagement experiences to support the participation and inclusion of key stakeholders in the process.

  • We openly share what we know.

    We take a capacity-building approach to every project, ensuring everyone we work with understands and is involved in our collaborative process. Working with us, you can expect to walk away with a basic understanding of futures thinking.

Featured report.

Career Development in 2040: Preparing for Possible Scenarios of Work and Careers

Looking forward to 2040, what might be the role of career developers? Will “careers” as they are currently conceptualized exist in the same way, or how might they evolve given current macro-level changes impacting jobs and the way we work? The Career Development in 2040 research series explores how major changes may shape work and career development by 2040, and what that might mean for career development professionals. The purpose of this final report is to help career development professionals prepare for a range of possible futures facing their profession. This research project is funded by CERIC.

Strategic foresight:

Our special ingredient.

Strategic foresight is a method for anticipating potential futures and better preparing for inevitable change. It provides a structured and systematic framework for making sense of current day complexity and uncertainty, helping clarify critical emerging disruptions, and putting in place the actions needed to unlock a successful future. At Creative Futures, this is our special ingredient. We sprinkle in future-focused methodologies into everything we do. 

Organizations, teams and leaders everywhere are tasked with planning for their futures, but this is a challenging assignment when the current environment has become increasingly complex, uncertain and ambiguous. Strategic foresight tools help leaders make sense of these difficulties to prepare for what their futures hold.

Our clients.

Land acknowledgement.

At Creative Futures, it is our privilege to live, work and play on the traditional territories of the Wendat, Haudenosaunee, the Anishinabeg, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. We acknowledge our role as uninvited guests to this beautiful place, and endeavour to learn about and honour its rich history and the communities who have called it home for 13,000+ years.

Get in touch.

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