A strategic foresight consultancy empowering organizations to anticipate and better prepare for uncertain futures.
Leveraging collective imagination and capacity, we work at the intersection of people, change, and futures to create broader systemic change for the betterment of people and the planet.
The futures are guided by our actions today. We are dedicated to making the future tangible and relevant in the present. In a world where the future is never treated as urgent, it’s critical to make people feel potential futures to drive real change.
Founded in Copenhagen, Denmark, ANTICIPATE wants to position people to take ownership of futures and foresight. We combine Nordic values of trust, inclusion, and responsibility with a global outlook and network of clients and partners.
We cultivate futures readiness, create meaningful change, and democratize futures for organizations and individuals.
Mission
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We bring foresight into today’s decisions, bridging visionary thinking and creative ideation with practical implementation. We develop futures-informed strategies and innovations that are not only viable, feasible, and desirable from a present perspective but also consider the needs and challenges of the futures. To cultivate futures readiness, we proactively help to reorient and reinvent organizations, before they are forced to do so.
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We empower individuals and organizations by making strategic foresight and futures thinking accessible to a wider audience. This involves fostering a culture where ownership of foresight is shared, and futures thinking becomes an integral part of society.
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Meaningful change is intentional and co-created in nature, and guided to a greater purpose. We create meaningful change by examining the dynamics that shape society, ensuring that actions taken today contribute to a positive and sustainable future.
Mathias Behn Bjørnhof
Futurist & Founder
Leading global foresight strategist who empowers organizations and individuals to navigate uncertain futures, successfully guiding Fortune 500, international institutions, and SMEs to become futures ready.
Expert in analyzing trends and uncertainty, identifying emerging opportunities, crafting futures scenarios and guiding businesses towards transformative strategies
Main expertise across tech & innovation, culture & consumers, energy & sustainability, and democracy & governance domains.
Experienced teacher within strategic foresight, scenario planning and futures-driven innovation, helping leaders and strategists learn how to anticipate disruptive shifts
Prior to founding ANTICIPATE, Mathias spent 5 years consulting at the world-renowned futures think tank Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies. Also, associated consultant with Earthshine Group (transformative sustainability consultancy)
Academic background within Organisational Innovation & Entrepreneurship with focus on sustainability and strategy + Business, Languages (Spanish & English) and Cultural Studies from Copenhagen Business School.
ANTICIPATE Advisory Board
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Dr. Wendy Schultz
DIRECTOR, INFINITE FUTURES
Dr. Wendy Schultz is an internationally renowned futurist with over 40 years of global foresight practice. She has designed futures research projects for non-governmental organisations, government agencies, and businesses.
Wendy specialises in participatory futures workshops and holds a master’s and PhD in Futures Studies from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa.
She is on the faculty of the master’s program in Strategic Foresight at the University of Houston, is a Senior Fellow of the Centre for Postnormal Policy and Futures Studies, and a Fellow of both the World Futures Studies Federation, and the Geneva Centre for Security Policy.
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Richard Walakira
PROGRAM MANAGER, ALLIANCE OF DEMOCRACIES
Richard Walakira works at the intersection of local and global democracy, activism, and technology.
He founded and directs both the Democracy Tech Entrepreneur Fellowship and Democracy Tech Hackathons to empower visionary entrepreneurs developing technology-driven solutions to strengthen democratic resilience.
Richard also serves as Vice-Chair of Crossing Borders, promoting global citizenship, Originally from Uganda, he is an activist and artist advocating for social justice. He has been recognized as an Obama Leader (2023) and a recipient of the Alain Sylvain Creative Fund (2024). -
Miguel Jiménez
CEO & HEAD OF FUTURES INTELLIGENCE, FFWD + NEWNESS
Miguel Jimenez is an international strategic foresight practitioner with 25+ years of experience helping organizations make sense of complexity and build futures-ready capabilities.Miguel works at the intersection of systems thinking, design, and innovation to guide long-term strategic decision-making. He combines a cross-disciplinary background in computer science, industrial design, and business administration with deep expertise in foresight, future anticipation, and agile methodologies.
Founder of the futures intelligence platform Newness and previously served as Vice Chair of the Association of Professional Futurists.
ACT Foresight Framework
Our 3-step approach designed to guide you from foresight to action
The process, based on principles of open exploration, co-creation, engagement, iteration, and relevance, ensures foresight translates into impactful decisions and drives meaningful change. Throughout our Throughout our ACT Foresight Framework, the emphasis is on the process of transforming present-day decisions and actions to navigate complexity, innovate proactively, and shape the futures.
ANTICIPATE
Explore the futures through
signals & scenarios
CREATE
Craft new strategies,
innovations, or visions
TRANSFORM
Turn foresight into
meaningful action
Anticipate COMPASS
Our guiding principles for futuring meaningfully
At ANTICIPATE, we believe the futures are not something that just happen—we actively need to understand and shape them. The ANTICIPATE Compass sets the guiding principles for how we approach foresight, helping us create futures that are more thoughtful, inclusive, and impactful.
Empowering
Use our agency to take action and empower others to shape the futures.
Imaginative
Encourage creative thinking about the futures, both individually and collectively.
Experiential
Create immersive experiences that make future possibilities feel real and relatable
Diverse
Include multiple perspectives equally and recognise everyone sees the world differently
Value-driven
Respect current values while staying open for values to evolve as we shape the futures.
Responsible
Be mindful of future planet, society, generations, and ourselves.
Inquisitive
Always question and challenge ideas and assumptions to stay open to new possibilities.
Actionable
Do everything to make sure structured futures thinking leads to concrete actions.