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”:

  1. Ecology: The climate and biodiversity crises
  2. Geopolitics: New wars and tensions
  3. Politics: The breakdown of the social contract
  4. Technology: The accelerating digital storm
  5. Economy: Economic stress and transformation
  6. Urban: Massive demographic transformation ahead
  7. 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.

seeds of the future

"The best way to predict the future is to create it"

Are you

Ready to learn more?

Do you want to upgrade your knowledge and skills in foresight, resilience, and change? 

Do you want to prepare for the transition to a livable future? 

Both organizational professionals and individual people are welcome to join the Foresight & Futures community.

Learn more about the Foresight & Futures community.

Our timeslot to make a difference is now

Academy

Enroll in the online Positive Culture Academy and change your workplace.

Foresight & Futures

Explore, envision, prepare, and co-create the future!

OCAI Survey

Use the validated OCAI culture survey as a road map to change.

Books

Read Marcella's books to learn about positive leadership, culture, and change.