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.
Cambiamenti significativi negli ultimi 5 anni*
375
Investimenti
sostenibili
280
Imprese con Commissioni del CdA
dedicate alla Sostenibilità
157
Regole Globali
ESG
Le imprese di successo sanno cogliere queste opportunità
*Sources: Global Sustainable Investment Review, NYU, and, Principles for Responsible Investment
Cambiamenti significativi negli ultimi 5 anni*
+ 375 %
Investimenti
sostenibili
+ 280 %
Imprese con Commissioni del CdA
dedicate alla Sostenibilità
+ 157 %
Regole Globali
ESG
Le imprese di successo sanno cogliere queste opportunità
*Sources: Global Sustainable Investment Review, NYU, and, Principles for Responsible Investment
“The future belongs to companies
that serve humanity“
Cosa facciamo
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
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
Perché
I fattori relativi all’ “S” di ESG (ambientale E, sociale S e di governance G) sono fra i problemi più pressanti per le aziende a livello globale, e un argomento sempre più di interesse per gli investitori. Tutti ne parlano, ma pochi sanno cosa fare a livello pratico, e ancora meno persone sanno come misurarli. In Italia, i dati ci dicono che le iniziative di diversità e inclusione stanno crescendo rapidamente, sia di numero che nella loro efficacia. Il successo di queste iniziative è principalmente dovuto alle iniziative dei dipartimenti di Risorse Umane, ed è grandioso. Ma questi progressi devono essere dimostrati da veri leader in ogni dipartimento aziendale, ed è necessario implementare uno strategico cambiamento culturale nelle aziende per potersi confrontare con le cause alla base di questo cambiamento. Si sta iniziando a realizzare che non ci si può più voltare dall’altra parte e ignorare ciò che sta succedendo. E non sono solo le aziende a trarre beneficio da una cultura aziendale migliore e più inclusiva. Questo è ciò di cui il mondo ha più bisogno in questo momento: persone felici che quando escono dal lavoro possano inspirare la loro famiglia, la loro comunità. Le aziende devono ripensare il loro approccio e ridefinire il loro percorso. Già solo avendo leader in grado di passare dalle parole ai fatti e sviluppando degli indicatori adatti a catturare l’impatto positivo di una contaminazione fra ambiente di lavoro e società, le aziende potrebbero diventare degli esempi virtuosi e migliorare enormemente la situazione attuale. E se le aziende italiane riuscissero a sviluppare un modello di vita e di lavoro più vicino alle necessità dei suoi dipendenti, tanto da impressionare persino i paesi nordici? Cosa possiamo imparare l’uno dall’altro? Cosa possiamo scoprire? Cosa possiamo creare lavorando insieme?
Cosa
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.
Chi
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.
Guarda una clip da uno dei webinar
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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Perché
I fattori relativi all’ “S” di ESG (ambientale E, sociale S e di governance G) sono fra i problemi più pressanti per le aziende a livello globale, e un argomento sempre più di interesse per gli investitori. Tutti ne parlano, ma pochi sanno cosa fare a livello pratico, e ancora meno persone sanno come misurarli. In Italia, i dati ci dicono che le iniziative di diversità e inclusione stanno crescendo rapidamente, sia di numero che nella loro efficacia. Il successo di queste iniziative è principalmente dovuto alle iniziative dei dipartimenti di Risorse Umane, ed è grandioso. Ma questi progressi devono essere dimostrati da veri leader in ogni dipartimento aziendale, ed è necessario implementare uno strategico cambiamento culturale nelle aziende per potersi confrontare con le cause alla base di questo cambiamento. Si sta iniziando a realizzare che non ci si può più voltare dall’altra parte e ignorare ciò che sta succedendo. E non sono solo le aziende a trarre beneficio da una cultura aziendale migliore e più inclusiva. Questo è ciò di cui il mondo ha più bisogno in questo momento: persone felici che quando escono dal lavoro possano inspirare la loro famiglia, la loro comunità. Le aziende devono ripensare il loro approccio e ridefinire il loro percorso. Già solo avendo leader in grado di passare dalle parole ai fatti e sviluppando degli indicatori adatti a catturare l’impatto positivo di una contaminazione fra ambiente di lavoro e società, le aziende potrebbero diventare degli esempi virtuosi e migliorare enormemente la situazione attuale. E se le aziende italiane riuscissero a sviluppare un modello di vita e di lavoro più vicino alle necessità dei suoi dipendenti, tanto da impressionare persino i paesi nordici? Cosa possiamo imparare l’uno dall’altro? Cosa possiamo scoprire? Cosa possiamo creare lavorando insieme?
Survey results
Cosa
A future è partner dell’iniziative Be Smart Be Equal promossa e guidata dal Consiglio Nordico dei Ministri. Il nostro obbiettivo è promuovere la condivisione fra aziende italiane e dei paesi nordici delle reciproche pratiche migliori e lezioni apprese, per creare insieme nuovi modi di progettare e vivere una cultura positiva per le persone, e di conseguenza per le aziende e per il business. Con leader coraggiosi e capaci di innovare ed un moderatore di sani principi, con l’esperienza accumulata ricoprendo posizioni in consigli di amministrazione di importanti aziende italiane (Laura Cavatorta), A future ha organizzato e sviluppato due seminari molto apprezzati, durante i quali si è instaurato un dialogo dinamico e trasparente ricco di condivisione e confronto, come raramente se ne vedono in Italia, in cui sono stati discussi anche i risultati e le intuizioni emerse dal sondaggio che abbiamo elaborato per valutare l’impatto delle iniziative di diversità e inclusione identificando i costosi e rischiosi divari di percezione fra cosa le aziende dichiarano di fare e cosa invece avviene realmente.
Chi
A future ha sviluppato i webinar insieme alle ambasciate di Danimarca, Norvegia e Svezia, con il supporto del network internazionale EWMD (European Women’s Management Development) e con il patrocinio dell’ASviS. Elena Bonetti, ministro italiano per le pari opportunità e la famiglia, ha preso parte al secondo webinar.
Guarda una clip da uno dei webinar
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 Advisor
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 è senior advisor, specializzata nella consulenza di sviluppo organizzativo. Nel suo lavoro quotidiano accompagna realtà profit ed NGOs nei cambiamenti che durino a lungo e sono altrettanto sostenibili attraverso percorsi di formazione e change management, applicando approcci sistemici e best practices in campi diversi. A suo agio in contesti internazionali, porta un forte contributo grazie al suo background in reporting finanziario per guidare individi e aziende che stanno attraversando trasformazioni e riorganizzazioni. Il suo network “cross-sector” le consente di portare nei progetti valore dove bisogna ottimizzare dinamiche di gruppi e processi istituzionali.
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. He works to be a changemaker in the spaces he inhabits, his main areas of interest being minorities’ representation and empowerment and mental health destigmatization.
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 Advisor
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 è senior advisor, specializzata nella consulenza di sviluppo organizzativo. Nel suo lavoro quotidiano accompagna realtà profit ed NGOs nei cambiamenti che durino a lungo e sono altrettanto sostenibili attraverso percorsi di formazione e change management, applicando approcci sistemici e best practices in campi diversi. A suo agio in contesti internazionali, porta un forte contributo grazie al suo background in reporting finanziario per guidare individi e aziende che stanno attraversando trasformazioni e riorganizzazioni. Il suo network “cross-sector” le consente di portare nei progetti valore dove bisogna ottimizzare dinamiche di gruppi e processi istituzionali.
+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. He works to be a changemaker in the spaces he inhabits, his main areas of interest being minorities’ representation and empowerment and mental health destigmatization.
+44 7756 536170
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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La collaborazione tra A future e The New Division ha l’obiettivo di promuovere consapevolezza, coinvolgimento, impegno e azioni concrete sulla sostenibilità. È una partnership internazionale che garantisce maggiore impatto attraverso un lavoro congiunto per lo sviluppo di prodotti e servizi basato su esperienze, competenze e reti condivise.
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Lo scopo della collaborazione tra A future e Corporate Unplugged è dare voce ai nostri futuri leader e supportarli nell'esprimere i loro sogni, le loro esperienze e ciò a cui non rinuncerebbero mai. Vogliamo anche ispirare i leader di oggi affinché sappiano ascoltare con attenzione queste voci giovani e sagge per comprenderle e trovare nuovi modi per co-creare e collaborare per costruire un mondo economicamente, socialmente e ambientalmente sostenibile.
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A future e AWorld hanno unito le forze per creare nella vita quotidiana delle persone consapevolezza, impegno e azione attorno agli SDGs. La nostra visione comune è quella di sfruttare la combinazione vincente di tecnologia e sostenibilità per offrire soluzioni innovative nello sviluppo di culture aziendali sostenibili e adatte al futuro, oltre ad educare e ispirare le future generazioni di leader.
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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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La collaborazione di A future con Ecomate ha lo scopo di far leva sul ruolo che le piccole e medie imprese hanno nel creare valore per le attuali e future generazioni, facilitando/garantendo l’adozione di un approccio sistemico e basato sul coinvolgimento di tutti i principali stakeholder.
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Contattaci
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