Capitalism is at a tipping point,
Capitalism is at a tipping point,
are you on the right side?
“Are you ready
for a reset?“
Business as usual is over. We need to speed up the creation of resilient future-proof business; successful companies serving the world in a meaningful way. We are raising the awareness of company leaders that they have a unique opportunity to transform their companies into instruments for great change, while increasing profits. We motivate them to act and support them in all stages of this journey.
Can a reimagined capitalism build an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable world? Can the private sector drive this transformation? We believe the answer is a resounding yes. Our purpose is to amplify the private sector’s role to create value for current and future generations, in a holistic and collaborative way. Because it is a win-win for all.
A fast rising tide over the last five years*
375
Global sustainable
investments
280
Companies with a
sustainability committee
157
Global ESG
regulations
Smart companies get a head of this wave
*Sources: Global Sustainable Investment Review, NYU, and, Principles for Responsible Investment
A fast rising tide over the last five years*
+ 375 %
Global sustainable
investments
+ 280 %
Companies with a
sustainability committee
+ 157 %
Global ESG
regulations
Smart companies get a head of this wave
*Sources: Global Sustainable Investment Review, NYU, and, Principles for Responsible Investment
What we do
This is probably the most inspiring time in our history to be in business. We need to mobilise our great minds and all our companies to do the right thing and do it well. It means to be willing to reimagine the way we work, its purpose and impact as well as what we measure and celebrate. A true long-term advantage is created by making sure your company is purpose-driven and future-fit and by leveraging the ever-increasing compliance standards.
We guide leaders to identify extraordinary opportunities and navigate challenges and risks. We also support with triple bottom line compliance or risk management. Our lean, agile and cost-effective approach (not one size fits all), provides individualized services and solutions for companies of all sizes and sectors. Together, we can transform your company into an instrument for true long-term value, for itself and the society.
Get in touch with us and find out what this can mean for your company today and tomorrow.
Review and analysis of
your strategy & processes
Insights and direction to
future-proof your business
Agenda and actions
to amplify your impact
The future belongs to companies that work for the next generation.
Who we are
The backbone of A future is the brain trust. A dynamic, multi-cultural group of independent international advisors with a global entrepreneurial business network. We know how to uplevel your business model and use the right mindset for year 2030 and beyond to your advantage.
A group of strategists, design-thinkers, doers, and culture-shifters. We are engineers, financial and development economists, futurists, coaches, human rights lawyers, keynote speakers, and social workers, who know what it takes to get a great job done.
Marianne
Fröberg
Core member
Sustainable Business
Coach
Marianne is a Business Coach and specialized in Corporate Culture and Behaviour Change. She supports executives and management teams in measuring and evolving the corporate culture, and with a strong focus on values and awareness she helps leaders to evaluate the impact of the current situation and find the business opportunities and motivation to change. She strongly believes in the opportunity of transforming the economic system to become circular, and the need for conscious and future oriented business leaders. With a long background as manager of fast-growing organisations and a holistic business approach, Marianne is a requested hands-on change catalyser helping you integrate executive development with strategic sustainable business focus.
+39 335 1835860
Amelie Reuterskiöld
Franchin
Core member
Sustainable Growth
Strategist
Amelie is a Sustainable Strategist and expert in cross‐sector collaborative partnerships. She supports companies and organizations become future fit – through developing new collaborative business models beneficial for both business and society. She is motivated by the potential of cross sector partnerships, and after having worked for almost two decades at the intersection of business long-term growth and societal challenges with leaders of large global organizations from various sectors, Amelie manages to spark a transformation in how leaders see risks and opportunities and how they evaluate and bridge solution gaps. Her sectorial global network enables a unique partner screening and matchmaking.
+39 320 6749440
Elisabetta
Cammarota
Core member
Sustainable Development
Advisor
Elisabetta is a Senior Advisor strongly committed to inspire and enable companies and organizations to transform their business model to create value for current and future generations. She supports executives and management teams start and undertake the sustainability journey with true authenticity and pragmatism. She is eager to break down the silos and move companies and organizations towards holistic and systematic approaches. With a background in strategic planning, management, accountability, financial and non financial reporting, and driven by an innate curiosity and capability to ‘connect the dots’ and create systematic solutions, Elisabetta becomes invaluable in assuring each phase’s efficient methodology.
+39 335 5825678
Vesna
Lucca
Core member
Conscious Business
Strategist
Vesna is a Conscious Business Strategist and expert in Brand and Communications. She supports companies and organisations find and define their corporate blueprint and transform their business – through clarity, ideas that last, and communication. So that they become a sustainable, successful brand that people love and respect – a prerequisite for growth and great impact. She has long been fascinated by how companies can improve society. – Vesna has worked with and inspired many leaders of multinational companies. After two decades in leadership roles in the global corporate world, she has seen the impact that companies have when they commit to a purpose bigger than themselves. Her global business network provides a strong platform for growth.
+46 70 6019220
Maria
Baldjieva
Education for Sustainability
Adviser
Development Consultant
Maria is a senior advisor specialized in development consultancy and leading in organizations. In her daily work, she accompanies profit and non-profit entities in making lasting and sustainable changes through education and training, applying systemic approaches and best practices in various fields. She is in her element in an international environment, bringing to the equation her background in financial reporting to assist in guiding individuals and companies through periods of change and reorganization. Marias cross-sector network exposure makes her invaluable in enriching dynamics of groups and institutional processes.
+39 388 7583653
Nina Luzzatto
Gardner
Strategic advisor
Corporate Sustainability
Expert
Nina is the founder of the corporate sustainability advisory firm Strategy International. She works with companies to improve their commitment to sustainability and the SDGs, and with investors to better understand ESG risks. A lawyer by training, Nina has been teaching Corporate Sustainability, Business & Human Rights as an adjunct professor since 2008 (last five years at Johns Hopkins SAIS in Washington D.C). She is a member of the secretariat of ASviS. She believes that companies paying more attention to environmental and social issues (ie. human rights) by setting up proper due diligence processes will be much better positioned in the sustainable capitalist future. They will be more purpose driven and respected, thus attract and retain a more talented workforce and be rewarded by attracting more sustainable investments.
+39 347 3208862
Global Goals Kids’ Show Italy
Onboarding the next generation of leaders
Why
As we head into the final decade of the Agenda 2030, we still see a lack of information and material for children about the Sustainable Global Goals (SDGs) and the growing urgency for sustainability. The shared purpose driving this initiative is to convey the SDGs message in an engaging and easy to understand format in order to onboard the next generation of leaders and decision-makers in Italy. It will both empower and inspire them to use their voices and actions.
What
Our goal was to bring the online Kids Show to Italy. The show was created in 2019 by the Swedish strategic communication group, The New Division to teach children about the 17 Global Goals. There was a need to adopt the content and identify the accurate partner for the right impact. The new show “Global Goals Kids Show Italy” was presented during the Sustainable Development Festival organized by ASviS on the 22nd of September to the 8th of October 2020 and all the episodes are now available online to over 5 million children between 5-10 years of age living in Italy as well as teachers/trainers on the platforms of the project partners as well as many others. It is also being aired on national TV channel Rai Yoyo within the program “La posta di Yoyo”.
Who
The partners are united by their shared purpose, their belief in a collaborative approach, and their technical expertise and experience. Together with Alleanza Italiana per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile (ASviS) we adopted the content. Through their collaboration with the Ministry of Education and RAI they became the key partner for the promotion and distribution in Italy. Wildside, an Italian company belonging to Fremantle (one of the largest creators, producers and distributors of television brands in the world) was selected for the production. The popular and well-known Caroline Benvenga was selected as the presenter of the show to attract and engage children.
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A future partnered up with ASviS in the development of the Global Goals Kids’ Show Italia with the aim to together create awareness and engagement among children around the Global Goals.
Global Goals Kids’ Show Italy
Onboarding the next generation of leaders
Why
As we head into the final decade of the Agenda 2030, we still see a lack of information and material for children about the Sustainable Global Goals (SDGs) and the growing urgency for sustainability. The shared purpose driving this initiative is to convey the SDGs message in an engaging and easy to understand format in order to onboard the next generation of leaders and decision-makers in Italy. It will both empower and inspire them to use their voices and actions.
What
Our goal was to bring the online Kids Show to Italy. The show was created in 2019 by the Swedish strategic communication group, The New Division to teach children about the 17 Global Goals. There was a need to adopt the content and identify the accurate partner for the right impact. The new show “Global Goals Kids Show Italy” was presented during the Sustainable Development Festival organized by ASviS on the 22nd of September to the 8th of October 2020 and all the episodes are now available online to over 5 million children between 5-10 years of age living in Italy as well as teachers/trainers on the platforms of the project partners as well as many others. It is also being aired on national TV channel Rai Yoyo within the program “La posta di Yoyo”.
Who
The partners are united by their shared purpose, their belief in a collaborative approach, and their technical expertise and experience. Together with Alleanza Italiana per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile (ASviS) we adopted the content. Through their collaboration with the Ministry of Education and RAI they became the key partner for the promotion and distribution in Italy. Wildside, an Italian company belonging to Fremantle (one of the largest creators, producers and distributors of television brands in the world) was selected for the production. The popular and well-known Caroline Benvenga was selected as the presenter of the show to attract and engage children.
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A future partnered up with ASviS in the development of the Global Goals Kids’ Show Italia with the aim to together create awareness and engagement among children around the Global Goals.
Sustainable Human Energy
The next competitive frontier
Survey results
Why
Factors relating to ‘S’ are among the most pressing issues for companies globally, and something that investors increasingly ask about. Everybody talks about it, but few know what to actually do, and even less so how to measure it. In Italy, data tells us that initiatives around DI&E (Diversity, Inclusion & Engagement) are rapidly growing in number and impact. Largely thanks to HR. This is great. But this needs to be demonstrated by true leaders throughout the company and a strategic change of culture in order to confront the underlying causes. People are starting to realise this isn’t something you can turn away from or ignore. And it’s not just the business that benefits from a better workplace culture. It’s what the world needs most right now: happy people who leave work and inspire their family, their community. Companies need to rethink their approach and redesign their roadmap. They would serve as great examples and go a long way just by having leaders who really walk the walk and by developing KPIs that capture the rewards from a sound ecosystem between society and company. What if Italian companies could leapfrog into a caring lifework “model” that would impress even the Nordic countries? What can we humbly learn from each other? What can we rediscover? And co-create?
What
A future is partner of the initiative Be Smart Be Equal promoted and led by the Nordic Council of Ministers. Our goal is for companies from Italy and the Nordic countries to learn from each other’s best practices and lessons learned, and together elevate and co-create ways to design and live a culture that is good for its people and therefore for business. With courageous and innovative leaders and a value-driven moderator, with experience from board positions in important Italian companies, A future developed two highly rated seminars. It was a dynamic and transparent dialogue full of sharing and discussion, rarely seen in Italy, including insights and results from our survey designed to identify the costly and risk filled perception gap – between what a company say they do vs how it plays out, to evaluate the impact of DI&E initiatives.
Who
A future developed the webinars together with the Embassies from Denmark, Norway and Sweden, with the support from EWMD (European Women’s Management Development) and the patronage from ASviS. Elena Bonetti, Italy’s minister for Equal Opportunities and the Family, participated in the second webinar.
Watch a clip from one of the webinars
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Sustainable Human Energy
The next competitive frontier
Why
Factors relating to ‘S’ are among the most pressing issues for companies globally, and something that investors increasingly ask about. Everybody talks about it, but few know what to actually do, and even less so how to measure it. In Italy, data tells us that initiatives around DI&E (Diversity, Inclusion & Engagement) are rapidly growing in number and impact. Largely thanks to HR. This is great. But this needs to be demonstrated by true leaders throughout the company and a strategic change of culture in order to confront the underlying causes. People are starting to realise this isn’t something you can turn away from or ignore. And it’s not just the business that benefits from a better workplace culture. It’s what the world needs most right now: happy people who leave work and inspire their family, their community. Companies need to rethink their approach and redesign their roadmap. They would serve as great examples and go a long way just by having leaders who really walk the walk and by developing KPIs that capture the rewards from a sound ecosystem between society and company. What if Italian companies could leapfrog into a caring lifework “model” that would impress even the Nordic countries? What can we humbly learn from each other? What can we rediscover? And co-create?
Survey results
What
A future is partner of the initiative Be Smart Be Equal promoted and led by the Nordic Council of Ministers. Our goal is for companies from Italy and the Nordic countries to learn from each other’s best practices and lessons learned, and together elevate and co-create ways to design and live a culture that is good for its people and therefore for business. With courageous and innovative leaders and a value-driven moderator, with experience from board positions in important Italian companies, A future developed two highly rated seminars. It was a dynamic and transparent dialogue full of sharing and discussion, rarely seen in Italy, including insights and results from our survey designed to identify the costly and risk filled perception gap – between what a company say they do vs how it plays out, to evaluate the impact of DI&E initiatives.
Who
A future developed the webinars together with the Embassies from Denmark, Norway and Sweden, with the support from EWMD (European Women’s Management Development) and the patronage from ASviS. Elena Bonetti, Italy’s minister for Equal Opportunities and the Family, participated in the second webinar.
Watch a clip from one of the webinars
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Teachers as agents for change
Learning to transform the world
Why
In Italy compulsory teaching of civic education was introduced in 2019, with one of three pillars relating to sustainable development and the Sustainable Development Goals and Agenda 2030. This is an important milestone for Italian education, even if in the first three years, responsibility of the content and methods of implementation and evaluation of the teaching has been delegated directly to the schools, without any guidance being given to teachers. The various educational, cultural, and structural challenges this responsibility implies for the schools and teachers have been further complicated by the Covid pandemic. Our vision in completing this project is to support schools, teachers and families in grasping the opportunity presented by the law of empowering and inspiring the children to use their voices and act, in a very challenging moment for the school community.
What
With the goal to enable teachers to transmit the passion, knowledge and importance of the SDGs, thus triggering active citizenship behaviors on the part of young learners, 17 pedagogical/didactic cards have been created, and now made available to thousands of teachers and their students (aged 5-10 years old) through Pearson’s website “kilometro zero”. Each didactic card dives deeply into each of the 17 SDGs – describing the global as well as local context of the goal pertaining to Italy, the disciplines in the classroom which could treat the particular goal transversally and help understand how the children can directly help achieve the goal. The cards go on to suggest external links for further reading and studying on the topic as well as suggest ideas to teachers for the measurement and evaluation of the impact of the activities performed by the students. The education path offered in this project allows for visualizing the topic as transversal across the various subjects taught at school as well as creating and enhancing a dialogue between students, families, schools, and the territory as a whole.
Who
Building on our project The Global Goals Kids Show Italy we reached out to Pearson Italia, a leading publishing and education company, who shares our views regarding the need to support the teachers in this critical moment. A future also joined forces with Global Shapers Milano (the Youth arm of the World Economic Forum) who based on their experience from their project Seriously Playing created the activities and bonus activities for each goal.
Teachers as agents for change
Learning to transform the world
Why
In Italy compulsory teaching of civic education was introduced in 2019, with one of three pillars relating to sustainable development and the Sustainable Development Goals and Agenda 2030. This is an important milestone for Italian education, even if in the first three years, responsibility of the content and methods of implementation and evaluation of the teaching has been delegated directly to the schools, without any guidance being given to teachers. The various educational, cultural, and structural challenges this responsibility implies for the schools and teachers have been further complicated by the Covid pandemic. Our vision in completing this project is to support schools, teachers and families in grasping the opportunity presented by the law of empowering and inspiring the children to use their voices and act, in a very challenging moment for the school community.
What
With the goal to enable teachers to transmit the passion, knowledge and importance of the SDGs, thus triggering active citizenship behaviors on the part of young learners, 17 pedagogical/didactic cards have been created, and now made available to thousands of teachers and their students (aged 5-10 years old) through Pearson’s website “kilometro zero”. Each didactic card dives deeply into each of the 17 SDGs – describing the global as well as local context of the goal pertaining to Italy, the disciplines in the classroom which could treat the particular goal transversally and help understand how the children can directly help achieve the goal. The cards go on to suggest external links for further reading and studying on the topic as well as suggest ideas to teachers for the measurement and evaluation of the impact of the activities performed by the students. The education path offered in this project allows for visualizing the topic as transversal across the various subjects taught at school as well as creating and enhancing a dialogue between students, families, schools, and the territory as a whole.
Who
Building on our project The Global Goals Kids Show Italy we reached out to Pearson Italia, a leading publishing and education company, who shares our views regarding the need to support the teachers in this critical moment. A future also joined forces with Global Shapers Milano (the Youth arm of the World Economic Forum) who based on their experience from their project Seriously Playing created the activities and bonus activities for each goal.
Our future “live”
Listen to young and wise voices
Why
We wish to give a voice to our future leaders and support them in expressing their dreams, experiences and what they would never give up. It is a great source of inspiration for today’s leaders to listen profoundly to these young and wise voices so that they can better understand each other and to find new ways to co-create a more friendly and beautiful world – with sound economic, social and environmental systems.
What
We all know that the power that businesses can have, in changing the world and leading the progress, is huge. Most of us also realise that we need to stop thinking that our personal life and our professional life are separate. We can’t be different people outside the home to who we are inside. Business isn’t isolated from the rest of the world anymore. It’s a part of the fabric of our society and as such it must play a part in the change we want to create. Young leaders know that.
Who
It’s about amplifying the voices of the young generation who often believes a longterm vision for CEOs and founders of startups and new enterprises should be to question to what extent they can help society besides the profit they’re making. This contribution could come in a number of forms, from creating jobs and products and services that are beneficial, as well as realise how their processes, their practices, their governance can have socially impactful effects on society at large.
Our future “live”
Listen to young and wise voices
Why
We wish to give a voice to our future leaders and support them in expressing their dreams, experiences and what they would never give up. It is a great source of inspiration for today’s leaders to listen profoundly to these young and wise voices so that they can better understand each other and to find new ways to co-create a more friendly and beautiful world – with sound economic, social and environmental systems.
What
We all know that the power that businesses can have, in changing the world and leading the progress, is huge. Most of us also realise that we need to stop thinking that our personal life and our professional life are separate. We can’t be different people outside the home to who we are inside. Business isn’t isolated from the rest of the world anymore. It’s a part of the fabric of our society and as such it must play a part in the change we want to create. Young leaders know that.
Who
It’s about amplifying the voices of the young generation who often believes a longterm vision for CEOs and founders of startups and new enterprises should be to question to what extent they can help society besides the profit they’re making. This contribution could come in a number of forms, from creating jobs and products and services that are beneficial, as well as realise how their processes, their practices, their governance can have socially impactful effects on society at large.
Our partners
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The purpose of the collaboration between A future and The New Division is to promote awareness, commitment, engagement, and actions around sustainability. An international partnership that jointly creates a greater impact through co-development of products and services based on shared experiences, expertise and networks.
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The purpose of the collaboration between A future and Corporate Unplugged is to give a voice to our future leaders and support them in expressing their dreams, experiences and what they would never give up. We also want to inspire today’s leaders to listen profoundly to these young and wise voices to better understand each other and find new ways to co-create and collaborate to build an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable world.
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A future and AWorld have joined forces to bring literacy, engagement, and action around the SDGs into people’s everyday life. Our common vision is to leverage the killer combination of technology and sustainability to offer innovative solutions when developing sustainable and future fit corporate cultures as well educating and inspiring the next generation of leaders.
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The purpose of the collaboration between A future and Exsulting is to leverage the synergy between the powerful strategic and managerial support that Exsulting brings to businesses engaging in sustainability and the profoundly ethical and socially responsible leadership support from A future. We believe that the private business sector can be a driving force in the transition to a sustainable society and economy. With our partnership we aim to make our beliefs become reality.
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The purpose of the collaboration between A future and Ecomate is to unlock the prominent role for SMEs to create value for current and future generations in a holistic and collaborative way.