Michael helps C-suite leaders challenge the assumptions holding their organization back from creating the future — and build the capability, individually and collectively, to act on what they discover.
Michael has an unusual ability to get a room full of Chinese innovation-ecosystem leaders to speak candidly with a European executive team, or bring a Fortune Global 500 boardroom face to face with the people quietly making their business model obsolete.
This access, which spans the U.S., the EU, and China, comes from two decades of research relationships, institutional standing, and a reputation for bringing the right people into the room.
The two Formats
Futures Immersion: Take your leadership team out of the office and into the future — not the one you‘re planning for, but the one someone else is already living.
In a Futures Immersion, Michael brings a single company‘s leadership directly into an unfamiliar context where a different future is already operating in practice — not theorized, not modeled, but real. What does „China
Futures Expedition: Some of the clearest signals about your future come from outside your own industry — from people who are already living something you haven‘t yet faced.
A Futures Expedition brings your organization face to face with them: leaders from a different sector, sometimes with directly conflicting views of what‘s coming, in the same room, on equal footing. What does the shift
There‘s no fixed format. Engagements typically run anywhere from a few weeks to several months. Every engagement starts with a conversation.
The method
Creative Collision — combining a client‘s own experience with the deliberate collision of conflicting external perspectives. This Isn‘t Forecasting — not what‘s likely, but what‘s desired. Full method in Practices of Futurecasting → (links externally to the book‘s publisher page — NOT the site‘s own Practices nav page, to avoid the name collision)