Our services: How we can work with you

Forum for the Future works to drive transformational change and accelerate progress towards a just and regenerative future. One of the key ways we achieve our mission is through engaging directly with ambitious businesses, as well as via philanthropically-funded collaborations with both business and broader stakeholders.

How we can support you:

Forum for the Future has almost 30 years of experience of working with organisations, and businesses in particular, to:

Co-create future-fit strategies

Support effective implementation

Provide strategic advice on key issues

Convene multi-stakeholder collaborations

Our expert team of futurists, strategists and system change designers can work collaboratively with you to navigate the increasing complexity and volatility of your operating context. Get in touch to discuss your needs.

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Co-create future-fit, transformational strategies

Our unique approach is grounded in our futures, strategic foresight and system change expertise. We can help you:

Develop an integrated and ambitious sustainability or just transition strategy
Conduct a dynamic double materiality assessment with effective, executive-level engagement
Enable you to respond to compliance requirements and competing demands in a way that generates most business value
Define or refine a compelling purpose for your organisation that is both inspiring and credible
Co-create visions for the future of a sector, an industry, or a particular topic

Image of partners' ideas being visualised into symbols and notes, during a workshop for Forum's project, Enabling Systemic Circularity in Fashion ("ESCF").

Provide customised strategic advice on key issues

With almost 30 years of working at the leading edge of sustainability, we have unrivalled expertise in inspiring, educating and advising businesses leaders on the nuance of complex ESG challenges. We can:

Run inspiration sessions for boards, executives, and leadership teams that clarify the business case for sustainability leadership
Equip executives with advanced training in sustainability to enable them to effectively navigate complex issues and prioritise action
Provide tailored one-to-one coaching for business leaders
Deliver expert guidance on advocacy strategy, value-chain resilience, and just transition planning
Build internal system change capability in partnership with our sister organisation, The School of System Change

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Deliver the Big How: support effective implementation

Our partners trust us to constructively challenge them to raise their ambition, unlock faster progress towards goals, and ensure that strategies are delivering meaningful impact and value.

We can:

Help you to create more business value from your existing strategy by conducting a ‘critical friend’ review to identify gaps and opportunities
Coach you to make implementation plans stronger and maximise effectiveness of investments
Co-create transformational action plans or just transition roadmaps to future-proof your business strategy
Enable you to overcome challenges with specific departments such as strategic sourcing or innovation
Support more effective and accelerated scope 3 decarbonisation throughout your value chain

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Convene collaborations for systemic change

Working collaboratively is critical for addressing common challenges and accelerating the wider change we need. Together with our ambitious partners, we tap into the power of collaboration, bringing together the key stakeholders across a system to:

Initiate and convene pre-competitive collaborations to enable collective action
Evaluate if a new collaboration is needed or existing coalitions can be leveraged
Advise on design principles for successful multi-stakeholder collaboration
Support systemic diagnosis and identification of potential levers for change

Are you a trust or a foundation? Philanthropic funding makes many of our collaborations possible. Read more about our current collaborations here and how to support us here.

What our business partners say about our work:

“As companies face into a more uncertain and volatile operating context in the 2020s, purpose-led business transformation has never been more important. Forum combines deep insight into sustainability issues with the facilitation skills needed to effectively engage the most senior leaders in a business.”

Anke Ehlers

Managing Director International Sustainability, ALDI South

“Forum was our thought partner to refresh our sustainability strategy for 2030. The combination of futures thinking, deep issue expertise and constructive challenges helped us to shape the evolution of our ambitions and plans to make our business future fit.”

Nemanthie Kooragamage

Director Group Sustainable Business, MAS Holdings

“For more than two decades, Forum has been a key partner for Unilever on our sustainability journey. Their support to help us create deeper, more systemic change on the issues that matter most has been absolutely invaluable.”

Rebecca Marmot

Chief Sustainability Officer, Unilever

“Through their Horizon Scan process, Forum helped deepen the board’s understanding of the challenging context within which Wates operates. These insights enabled the development of a strategy that powerfully blends purpose with profit.”

Jonny Wates

Owner, Wates Group

“As a long-term partner of Bupa’s, Forum supported us to test Bupa’s new sustainability strategy before it launched, where we used the Business Transformation Compass as a stimulus to really push our thinking on what just and regenerative might mean for Bupa.”

Mar Soro

Group Head of Sustainability Advocacy, BUPA

“I have worked in partnership with Forum for over a decade. Forum’s focus on shifting hearts and minds has been critical to unlocking the full potential for change, and their current focus on just and regenerative business is such an obvious next step, and welcomed.”

Caroline Laurie

VP Corporate Responsibility, Burberry

Connect with us

See recent examples of our work on our blog and in our work that is focused on the purpose of business in society, the food system and the energy system.

Get in touch to discuss your needs by contacting [email protected]

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