Marcella Bremer

The future depends on what you’re doing today

Looking forward to the Futures

We’re all time travelers headed for the future. Looking out from the present moment, many futures are possible. Where would you like to arrive?

Are you looking forward to the future?
Many people dread it.
Many organizations hang on to the status quo as long as they can.

Meanwhile, the future that will come true depends on what we’re doing today.

What we’re doing today is often based on what we did yesterday. We need to change as the world is becoming more complex, interconnected, and interdependent than before. Our world is VUCA: volatile, ambiguous, uncertain, and complex.

What if you felt ready for possible futures?
What if you engage in Strategic Foresight?
What if you developed futures-preparedness, resilience, and agility?
What if you prepare for the transition ahead?

From

Positive cultures to futures

Welcome! I am Marcella Bremer (consultant, author), and I’m working with Marcel Lamers (coach, tech-wizard).

We’ve worked on organizational development, leadership, and organizational culture for almost 30 years. We started OCAI Online (the online organizational culture assessment, © 1999 Kim S. Cameron), and the Positive Culture Academy.

Working with organizational culture evolved into helping organizations develop a positive culture.

Positive organizations are agile, more innovative, competitive, collaborative, and productive. They are inspired by a positive purpose and have a positive impact on people, performance, and the planet.

While working on a positive purpose and strategy, we started scanning the possible futures and engaging in foresight with our clients.

In our current era, more people and organizations can benefit from becoming future-prepared!

That’s why we are hosting the Foresight & Futures community.

We help people and organizations to explore, envision, prepare, and create a livable future.

A Future to look forward to

Looking at the world and into the futures we see that our era is VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous). The rate of change is accelerating and we’re globally interdependent. Challenges in different fields become a “poly-crisis”:

Ecology: The climate and biodiversity crises
Geopolitics: New wars and tensions
Politics: The breakdown of the social contract
Technology: The accelerating digital storm
Economy: Economic stress and transformation
Urban: Massive demographic transformation ahead
Culture: Social fractures caused by acceleration, fake truths, and bubbles

We want to see a world where people and organizations envision their future options, and where they prepare and co-create a future they prefer.