The Futures Project®

Where ideas become impact.

A bespoke one-day activation experience — anywhere in the world.

If you have an idea that could change something that matters, this is where it becomes real.

What is The Futures Project®?

Over the past 20 years, I’ve worked with organisations navigating complexity, uncertainty and disruption. I’ve developed and refined frameworks that have shaped national workforce strategies, informed future-of-health initiatives, guided public-sector transformation and contributed to opportunities worth billions for some of the world’s largest consumer brands.

What I learned from all this work is simple:

When leaders have a transformative idea, the world rarely gives them the space to explore it properly. And most strategy processes slow great ideas down instead of activating them.

So I designed something different.

A space without bureaucracy or delay.
A day where we work together to take one idea as far as it can go — with intensity, clarity and curiosity.
An experience where the only agenda is the idea itself.

The Futures Project exists because some ideas deserve to be taken seriously.

This is that place.

The Futures Project is a private, high-intensity engagement for leaders with ideas that matter.
Ideas that can reshape organisations, industries, communities, or society.
Ideas that deserve to be taken seriously, and turned into impact.

This is not a workshop.
Not a program.
Not consulting in any traditional sense.

This is a space where you borrow my brain for a day — and we expand, articulate and activate the idea that has been harassing you for your attention.

If you have a transformative idea and want clarity, structure and momentum, this is where the work begins.

The Experience

For ideas that matter, and people who intend to make them real.

The Futures Project is built around one principle:
The world needs more leaders willing to bring meaningful ideas into existence, and fewer obstacles between idea and impact.

Everything about the experience is bespoke.
Everything centres on the idea you bring.

This work is for ideas with gravity.

Ideas with potential societal benefit.
Ideas that move beyond incrementalism.
Ideas that require courage, clarity and a well-framed future.

You are not coming to me for validation.
You are coming to turn your idea into impact.

There is no set curriculum or formula.
The process is designed around the idea, not the other way around.

Through a deeply immersive day, we:

  • stretch the idea

  • pressure-test assumptions

  • map the futures it could create

  • surface risks and opportunities

  • design the strategic logic

  • identify first moves

  • and shape the narrative you can use to activate it

The goal is simple and demanding:
Take your idea seriously, and give it the future it deserves.

Before We Come Together

Before we meet in person, I create the environment around your idea:

  • A curated trend and market scan

  • A bespoke pre-work questionnaire

  • A pack of frameworks and toolkits relevant to you from my published and unpublished work

  • A refined focal question to anchor our engagement

By the time we sit down together, groundwork has already been done.

The Workday: A Deep, Generative Conversation

This is the centrepiece — an intensive, high-trust, high-clarity working session.

It doesn’t always fit neatly into eight hours, because some ideas require more.
Some breakthroughs happen at 10pm.
Some insights emerge the next morning.

If the idea warrants a 24-hour cycle, we follow the work, not the clock.

Across the day, we map futures, explore consequences, unpack constraints, design pathways and build a strategic frame you can act on.

After the Experience: From Insights to Activation

Within 72 hours, you receive:

  • Your Future on a Page
    A clean, elegant map of the idea and the future it’s stepping into.

  • The Futures Dossier (12–16 pages)
    A strategic narrative capturing frameworks, implications, pathways and recommended actions.

  • The Visual Futures Wall
    Sketches, models and horizon maps from the session.

  • A Structured Transcript
    Pulling key insights, quotes and hypotheses from the conversation.

  • A Follow-Up Call
    Refining early moves and reviewing emerging signals.

These become the permanent record of your idea’s transition from concept to strategy.

This is for you if…

  • You have a transformative idea with potential societal benefit

  • You want to move from concept to impact with speed and clarity

  • You know your idea has value but haven’t yet found its structure

  • You want to explore the future the idea creates before you commit

  • You need rigorous thinking, honest challenge and strategic synthesis

  • You lead at a level where your decisions carry real consequences

  • You want a bespoke experience, not a program or template

  • You value depth, pace and precision

This is for leaders who don’t just want to predict the future - they want to shape it.

The Futures Project® is not the right fit if:

  • You want incremental improvements

  • You’re seeking validation rather than clarity

  • The idea has limited consequence or low ambition

  • You want a standardised framework or curriculum

  • You don’t want to be challenged

  • The idea doesn’t have potential for meaningful impact

  • You’re looking for long-term embedded consulting (I do futurist-in-residence work, but only for very limited organisations… but if that’s something you’d like to explore, please feel free to contact me).

  • You’re not ready to commit to action

This work is designed for people who take their ideas seriously.

If the idea isn’t big enough, bold enough or consequential enough, this won’t be the right format.

What Others Say

The Futures Project creates clarity, momentum and possibility.

Leaders bring ideas into this room because something important is at stake.
They leave with a sense of direction that wasn’t available before the day began.

Here’s how past participants describe the shift:

“Alex helped me map my future on a page in an afternoon.”
— Founder & CEO, Social Enterprise

“I went from being the director of a good idea to having a business plan and first steps done.”
— Director, Government Agency

“Alex is an encyclopaedia of epic ideas.”
— Author & Speaker

“This guy really knows his sh!t.”
— COO, ASX-listed Energy Company

Different industries.
Different challenges.
Different futures.

Yet the outcome is consistent:

Sharper thinking.
A clearer future.
And the confidence to move with purpose.

Availability and Investment

To protect the depth, quality and intensity of the work, I only have 10 slots per year (one per month from February to November) available for The Futures Project®. The cost is $20,000 AUD plus travel expenses, or you can come to me at my studio in Melbourne Australia.

Enquire About The Futures Project®

If you have an idea worth taking seriously, send one an email with paragraph describing it (even rough is fine), and I’ll come back to you with next steps.

Take the first step