Ecological challenges, managing uncertainty, competing in different cultures, anticipating crises

Are you busy, but bored?

Do you get angry when someone asks hard questions no one can answer?

What do you notice, but cannot explain?

What keeps you awake at night?

Are you comfortable, but uneasy?

Do you sense that you and your organisation are – perhaps – very unprepared?

Barbara Heinzen helps organisations face the future creatively. She is known for her intellectual rigour and inventive processes. Her work is long term and strategic. She has frequently anticipated events before others took note.

Most organisations ask Barbara Heinzen to help them create scenarios of the future, but these processes are usually a means to other ends:

Barbara Heinzen describes her practice as the “politics of learning”. She has worked with large corporations, government departments, and civil society organisations. Many of her assignments have been in Asia, Africa and Latin America where Western business assumptions can be a poor guide to future success. Her work has helped people accept uncomfortable truths and to prepare for unimagined change.