BE READY FOR THE FUTURE

The future is unpredictable, but you can develop the ability to anticipate and adapt to change. We help teams develop the capabilities to leverage and adapt to fundamental shifts in society and be ready for the futures. By learning 7 practices, your team will learn how to turn vision into understanding, gain clarity on the road ahead, and act with agility. We call this Futures Ready: to be ready for any future that may come your way.

Our programs are experiential learning journeys that are customized to your organization’s context, group size and development needs. A program can be just one day of training, a half-year learning journey, or anything in between.

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ARE YOU FUTURES READY?

Get Futures Ready by learning how to anticipate change as a leader of the 21st century and apply new practices in your daily work.

Take our Futures Ready Scan and we will challenge you with various statements on the Futures Readiness of your team. In just 10 minutes we can tell you what opportunities for development you have and how we can assist you in designing a customized program based on your scan. Find out how Futures Ready you are now.

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7 PRACTICES FOR THE FUTURE

Based on years of working on the future with organizations worldwide and hundreds of conversations with experts, scientists, leaders and teams, these 7 practices will allow you to be ready for any possible future. We will train you how to apply these practices effectively so you and your team can create the future you wish to see. The 7 practices are the backbone of how we design our programs.

Every organization is a complex system. In order to turn an organization into an adaptive ecosystem that can withstand external shocks and anticipate changes flexibly it is essential to be able to observe the entirety of the system and find the right levels of intervention…
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Continuous learning is a foundational practice for every futures ready individual. The future can never be predicted and this means that you have to train yourself to always be exploring new things…
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Being ready for changes that might come your way in the near future, requires you to be adaptive with the way that you work. In other words: your working culture should transform in reaction to external shifts…
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What drives and stimulates people to change their day-to-day routines to new ways of working and being? That question is at the heart of the futures ready practice on impact. It is the smallest possible intervention that will have the biggest impact on your course for the future…
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It is often said that the best way to predict the future is to create it. How do you do that? Design thinking is an effective practice to create solutions for real problems that people experience today…
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What will happen in the near future is uncertain. Nobody can predict where we will end up and more than ever before we are living in a world that is extremely volatile. Change seems to be the only constant we can still rely on…
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If the future can’t be predicted, then why plan for it? This practice turns strategic thinking into an everyday activity and trains you how to involve your entire team and organization into making strategy and executing it…
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7 PRACTICES FOR THE FUTURE

Based on years of working on the future with organizations worldwide and hundreds of conversations with experts, scientists, leaders and teams, these 7 practices will allow you to be ready for any possible future. We will train you how to apply these practices effectively so you and your team can create the future you wish to see. The 7 practices are the backbone of how we design our programs.

Every organization is a complex system. In order to turn an organization into an adaptive ecosystem that can withstand external shocks and anticipate changes flexibly it is essential to be able to observe the entirety of the system and find the right levels of intervention…
SEE THIS PRACTICE
Continuous learning is a foundational practice for every futures ready individual. The future can never be predicted and this means that you have to train yourself to always be exploring new things…
SEE THIS PRACTICE
Being ready for changes that might come your way in the near future, requires you to be adaptive with the way that you work. In other words: your working culture should transform in reaction to external shifts…
SEE THIS PRACTICE
What drives and stimulates people to change their day-to-day routines to new ways of working and being? That question is at the heart of the futures ready practice on impact. It is the smallest possible intervention that will have the biggest impact on your course for the future…
SEE THIS PRACTICE
It is often said that the best way to predict the future is to create it. How do you do that? Design thinking is an effective practice to create solutions for real problems that people experience today…
SEE THIS PRACTICE
What will happen in the near future is uncertain. Nobody can predict where we will end up and more than ever before we are living in a world that is extremely volatile. Change seems to be the only constant we can still rely on…
SEE THIS PRACTICE
If the future can’t be predicted, then why plan for it? This practice turns strategic thinking into an everyday activity and trains you how to involve your entire team and organization into making strategy and executing it…
SEE THIS PRACTICE

FACILITATING YOUR JOURNEY

Our facilitators are leading experts in their specific domains and will facilitate your customized learning journey. We are your facilitators, your challengers, your experts and your designers and will guide you to be ready for the future, whatever it will be.

Céline Janssen
Charlotte van Veelen
Arjan Postma
Cathalijne Bol-Oudijk

Céline Janssen

Céline Janssen is an ‘Opera Innovator'. Through her work as an artist (opera soprano and theater maker) she is always looking for connection and interaction. At Minkowski, she strives to create experiences for everyone to feel like a member of an opera choir, a large orchestra, or as a conductor.

“Being a member of a choir or orchestra is about seeking harmony and harmonizing with each other, while being a conductor (the maestro) is about taking leadership. I love to help people orchestrate their own futures and find the balance between these two aspects!”

Charlotte van Veelen

Charlotte is an experience designer and program manager. She supports the lead facilitators of our programs in design and delivery and focuses on continuously improving the participants’ experience and learning journeys.

“It is amazing to see how driven people are to create better futures. With Minkowski, hopefully we give more people the ability to activate these motivations into driving the change they wish to see.”

Arjan Postma

At Minkowski Arjan designs and facilitates strategy sessions and leadership programs with a focus on Futures Studies, Unconventional Thinking & Breakthrough Strategies. He has a long history in helping organizations build actionable strategies and a thriving culture.

“The Minkowski family is for me a great partnership where we can all create more impact together, learn from the many disciplines available and all try to set each-other (and especially the client) up for success.”

Cathalijne Bol-Oudijk

Cathalijne is an experienced leadership development coach with an international business background. As an organisational psychologist she supports leaders and teams in driving change by exposing the human dynamics that drive or inhibit high performance.

"With Minkowski I help leaders and organizations transform mindsets and behaviors to create growth and become Future(s) Ready. I love how in our work strategic focus, creativity, organizational aspects and the psychological side of human motivation all come together.”

Céline Janssen
Charlotte van Veelen

Céline Janssen

Céline Janssen is an ‘Opera Innovator'. Through her work as an artist (opera soprano and theater maker) she is always looking for connection and interaction. At Minkowski, she strives to create experiences for everyone to feel like a member of an opera choir, a large orchestra, or as a conductor.

“Being a member of a choir or orchestra is about seeking harmony and harmonizing with each other, while being a conductor (the maestro) is about taking leadership. I love to help people orchestrate their own futures and find the balance between these two aspects!”

Charlotte van Veelen

Charlotte is an experience designer and program manager. She supports the lead facilitators of our programs in design and delivery and focuses on continuously improving the participants’ experience and learning journeys.

“It is amazing to see how driven people are to create better futures. With Minkowski, hopefully we give more people the ability to activate these motivations into driving the change they wish to see.”

Arjan Postma
Cathalijne Bol-Oudijk

Arjan Postma

At Minkowski Arjan designs and facilitates strategy sessions and leadership programs with a focus on Futures Studies, Unconventional Thinking & Breakthrough Strategies. He has a long history in helping organizations build actionable strategies and a thriving culture.

“The Minkowski family is for me a great partnership where we can all create more impact together, learn from the many disciplines available and all try to set each-other (and especially the client) up for success.”

Cathalijne Bol-Oudijk

Cathalijne is an experienced leadership development coach with an international business background. As an organisational psychologist she supports leaders and teams in driving change by exposing the human dynamics that drive or inhibit high performance.

"With Minkowski I help leaders and organizations transform mindsets and behaviors to create growth and become Future(s) Ready. I love how in our work strategic focus, creativity, organizational aspects and the psychological side of human motivation all come together.”

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CONTINUOUS LEARNING

All of our programs are supported by an online learning platform called ‘Futures Academy’. The platform provides you with a wide range of creative and collaborative tools designed to help you and your team to grow and lead confidently in a fast-changing world.

Becoming more futures ready and making a positive impact is all about designing your business for transition. From the ways we look at the world to the way we work and live together. The Futures Academy platform provides small interventions to trigger people to engage, shift, learn and create large-scale change.

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WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT US



Bill Stephenson – DLL

“I’ve worked together with Minkowski and an internal team to design a leadership program with the aim to change the mindset of our leaders to become more disruptive. The continued drive of the team to make the program better with every new cohort and deliver the most successful experience was truly inspiring. It was one of the most enjoyable programs I’ve been associated with.”



Rue Veja Chaladauskaite – Baillie Gifford

“I had the pleasure of partnering with Minkowski in co-creating a full-day bespoke futures thinking program for our investment analysts. The experience was educational and energising, benefiting both the workshop participants and myself throughout the design process. Excited to partner again!”



Thomas Junod – UEFA

“We could not have dreamt of a better outcome for our first ever alumni summit. Thanks to your brio, content, style and flow this became a memorable program. I have learnt a lot from it myself as well. So thank you for my personal development, also on behalf of the 300 other attendees. I really look forward to collaborating more with you.”



Joanita Oud – Brunel

“The program we designed with Minkowski helped our leaders to translate the overall strategy into personal actions and enabled us to set the next step in our growth across different regions and business units.”



Christian Fransen – SThree

“Our strong strategic collaboration with Minkowski helped us to get the people in our companies aligned on what we wanted to achieve. With the roll-out of an engagement program throughout our organization the excitement peaked and helped us take crucial steps in the right direction.”



Chantal Verburg – Ouwehands Dierenpark

“Minkowski’s art of capturing the essence of what was said between the lines is really very special. I haven’t seen that being done so well in other places. They were able to uncover what was in our minds and align that with crucial behaviours and structure. It was fascinating to see it come together like that.”



Arjan Grootendorst – ProRail

“I was struck by the particular view on empathy. Understanding what drives and moves individuals empowers me to craft compelling stories for change that truly resonate with them.”



Karin Swinkels – EyeWish

“While we were working together with Minkowski to develop a new vision and strategy for our company I was struck by the quality of the facilitators. They were experienced business professionals with a breadth of expertise that really helped us find new value in the future. And the speed of the entire process was as fast as I’ve ever seen it.”