Is the world
Is the world better off
because your business is in it?
“As leaders we face a choice.
We can have transition forced upon us.
Or we can transform with intent.“
Afuture is a cross-European-based advisory and community that helps leaders around the world transform their organisations with intent.
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 competitive advantage is created by making sure your company is purpose-driven and future-fit by embracing the following principles:
Personal transformation first
In the past, leaders could go far by being experts on their companies and industry. But this is no longer enough. We need self-aware leaders with a healthy mindset, who are visionary and able to stretch themselves and their organisations to serve a purpose beyond themselves.
We are part of a bigger whole
A systems thinking perspective enables us to clearly see the opportunities on the transformational journey that we are all part of. It allows us to ask better questions from a we-and-not-me perspective before jumping to conclusions. And it motivates us to collaborate across conventional borders for a healthy society and for the future of our planet. Look ahead, look inside, and look around.
Cross Generational
There is deep wisdom in the ancient principle of making decisions that are good for seven generations. There is a great need to integrate cross-generational perspectives to ensure a truly long-term approach to build a sound economic, social and environmental system.
Connecting strategy and culture
Success comes from truly connecting strategy and culture. Culture is the enabler and the energy that engages and moves the whole company in a meaningful direction. It is nurtured by healthy relations and behaviours. When the culture belongs to everyone and is everybody’s responsibility, it unites, and the choice of strategy and action becomes natural, manifesting as impact and results.
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
“The future belongs to companies
that serve humanity“
What we do
Our purpose is to amplify the private sector’s role to create value for current and future generations, in a holistic and collaborative way. We raise the awareness of leaders and we speed up the creation of future-proof business. We motivate leaders to act and support them and their organisations in all stages of this transformational journey.
Our work can take many forms – from tailored board and management team support and one-on-one coaching to multi-generational awareness initiatives and road map design. Our programs are often built around three interconnected areas:
Illuminate
Transformation starts with awareness. We create a bridge of meaning between where we are now and how we got there. Together we transform active mutual listening and profound observation of reality into generative dialogue. Then we imagine the future we wish to see and identify the models, thinking and behaviours we will need to get there. How big is the gap? What needs to change?
Transform
Within the sustainability-driven transformation that is reshaping business we have a strong focus on the human side, arguing that we won’t capture the opportunities and benefits of frameworks, regulations, methodologies and processes if we are not equipped with the skills and mindsets to use them effectively.
Engage & Sustain
Transformation management isn’t a one and done process, and the go-live isn’t the end of our change journey, it’s the beginning. Through global platforms and networks we amplify the impact towards sector and societal transformation, with an eye to new emerging needs, and with people remaining in constant focus.
Areas of expertise
Advisory board | Awareness | Behavioural transformation | Company soulprint | Brand promise | Capacity building | Conscious business | Corporate social impact | Cross-sector-bridging | Culture transformation | Diversity equity and inclusion | Executive & team coaching | Inner development strategy | Purpose-driven leadership | Regenerative business | Strategic philanthropy | Transformative Education for Sustainable Development | Mental Health and Wellbeing | Intergenerational Management
Sustainable Human Energy
The next competitive frontier
DE&I is the biggest contributor for social sustainability. The ‘S’ in ESG (Environment, Social and Governance) is among the most pressing issues for companies globally, and something that investors and all stakeholders ask about. Everybody talks about it, but few know what to actually do, and even less so how to measure it. That is what we worked on for Be Smart Be Equal.
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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
Afuture 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, Afuture 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
Afuture 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
Sustainable Human Energy
The next competitive frontier
DE&I is the biggest contributor for social sustainability. The ‘S’ in ESG (Environment, Social and Governance) is among the most pressing issues for companies globally, and something that investors and all stakeholders ask about. Everybody talks about it, but few know what to actually do, and even less so how to measure it. That is what we worked on for Be Smart Be Equal.
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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
Meet the team
The backbone of Afuture is the brain trust. A dynamic, multicultural group of independent international advisors with a global entrepreneurial business network.
We are Milano-based but most of us hail from Sweden. We have built up, over the course of our careers, a deep experience supporting leaders who are ready to work for important change.
Marianne Fröberg
Core member
Sustainable Business Coach
Specialist in Corporate Culture and Behaviour Change. Marianne 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 experience from leading fast-growing organisations with a holistic approach, Marianne is a cherished hands-on change catalyst, developing leaders who are ready to work for sustainable business.
Amelie Reuterskiöld
Core member
Sustainable Growth Strategist
Amelie supports companies and organisations to become future fit – through developing new collaborative business models that are good for both business and society. She is an expert in cross‐sector collaborative partnerships, tapping into an impressive global network. After two decades of working with leaders of large global organisations in the intersection between business growth and societal challenges, Amelie knows how to raise leaders’ awareness and insights; how they see risks and opportunities, how they bridge solution gaps.
Elisabetta Cammarota
Core member
Sustainable Development
Senior Advisor able to inspire and enable companies and organisations to transform their business model to create value for current and future generations. She supports executives and management teams to undertake a sustainability journey in an authentic and pragmatic way. Elisabetta is very experienced in strategic planning, management, accountability, financial and non financial reporting, and driven by an innate curiosity. She has the capability to ‘connect the dots’ and create systematic solutions and efficient methodologies.
Vesna Lucca
Core member
Conscious Business Strategist
Vesna is a Conscious Business Strategist and expert in Brand and Communications. She supports companies and organisations to 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.
Maria Baldjieva
Education for Sustainability
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.
Zakaria Bekkali
Young Advisory Board
Management Consultant
Zak is a 24-year-old management consultant, and in this early stage of his career, he aims to capitalize on his exposure to a wide range of industries, clients and people to explore avenues of cross-sector synergies for social good in the field of international development. He is passionate about human and organizational psychology and strongly believes in his generation’s responsibility and power to reassess the capitalistic role of work in society, towards a more sustainable model that enables humans to unleash their full potential and achieve true personal fulfilment through connectivity and purpose.
Alessandro Percudani
Young Advisory Board
Bocconi Master student
Alessandro is a 22-year-old student in Master of Science in Economics and Management of Government and International Organization at Bocconi University. His academic choice is aligned with his professional future aspirations: to be able to directly affect the reality around us to stimulate the development of society in a more equitable and sustainable way.
Afuture collaborates and connects a global network of partners and specialists.
Meet the team
The backbone of Afuture is the brain trust. A dynamic, multicultural group of independent international advisors with a global entrepreneurial business network.
We are Milano-based but most of us hail from Sweden. We have built up, over the course of our careers, a deep experience supporting leaders who are ready to work for important change.
Marianne Fröberg
Core member
Sustainable Business Coach
Specialist in Corporate Culture and Behaviour Change. Marianne 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 experience from leading fast-growing organisations with a holistic approach, Marianne is a cherished hands-on change catalyst, developing leaders who are ready to work for sustainable business.
+39 335 1835860
Amelie Reuterskiöld
Core member
Sustainable Growth Strategist
Amelie supports companies and organisations to become future fit – through developing new collaborative business models that are good for both business and society. She is an expert in cross‐sector collaborative partnerships, tapping into an impressive global network. After two decades of working with leaders of large global organisations in the intersection between business growth and societal challenges, Amelie knows how to raise leaders’ awareness and insights; how they see risks and opportunities, how they bridge solution gaps.
+39 320 6749440
Elisabetta Cammarota
Core member
Sustainable Development
Senior Advisor able to inspire and enable companies and organisations to transform their business model to create value for current and future generations. She supports executives and management teams to undertake a sustainability journey in an authentic and pragmatic way. Elisabetta is very experienced in strategic planning, management, accountability, financial and non financial reporting, and driven by an innate curiosity. She has the capability to ‘connect the dots’ and create systematic solutions and efficient methodologies.
+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 to 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
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
Zakaria Bekkali
Young Advisory Board
Management Consultant
Zak is a 24-year-old management consultant, and in this early stage of his career, he aims to capitalize on his exposure to a wide range of industries, clients and people to explore avenues of cross-sector synergies for social good in the field of international development. He is passionate about human and organizational psychology and strongly believes in his generation’s responsibility and power to reassess the capitalistic role of work in society, towards a more sustainable model that enables humans to unleash their full potential and achieve true personal fulfilment through connectivity and purpose.
+44 7756 536170
Alessandro Percudani
Young Advisory Board
Bocconi Master student
Alessandro is a 22-year-old student in Master of Science in Economics and Management of Government and International Organization at Bocconi University. His academic choice is aligned with his professional future aspirations: to be able to directly affect the reality around us to stimulate the development of society in a more equitable and sustainable way.
+39 331 854 4509
Afuture collaborates and connects a global network of partners and specialists.
When we work together
Our clients value us for being provocative, counter-intuitive thinkers; strategic, human communicators; and challenging, sensitive facilitators.
The Afuture team works shoulder-to-shoulder with executive teams and boards. They strive to transition their companies to regenerative, inclusive ones that help move society forward. By helping them succeed, we are making a contribution to the wider transformation the world needs.
Through a highly co-creative way of working with our clients, we activate the collective intelligence and arrive at deep conclusions and important results, on a personal as well as a professional level.
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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With the objective to accelerate the work towards the SDGs, this global initiative develops the capabilities, qualities and skills we need to deal with our increasingly complex environment and challenges. As the Italian focal point for the global IDGs framework and movement Afuture designs and mobilizes a web of people and organisations from different sectors and generations, and hosts the conversations needed to make this evolving framework truly global, while being culturally sensitive.
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In the spirit of developing a proactive, holistic and longtime approach to DE&I, Afuture and Lundquist have entered a partnership that unites their long-standing experience and deep expertise in the areas of social sustainability, leadership development & coaching and communications. This unique collaboration will enable support to companies on DE&I that aligns expectations and practices, behaviours and communications. A partnership that will help Italian CEOs transform their DE&I costs to DE&I return on investments capturing the real organizational value within DE&I.
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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.
Resources
Contact us
If you want to get to know us, share and reflect together,
and find out how we could co-create, we would love to hear from you!
+39 320 6749440
amelie@afuture.se