The Futures Agency

Gerd Leonhard is a leading futurist and one of the world’s foremost authorities on the future of media, technology, and business. In 2010, he founded The Futures Agency, a consulting and advisory firm focused on helping organisations and leaders to better understand, anticipate, and manage the future.

At the heart of The Futures Agency is the belief that the digital age is transforming how people work, live, and play. The agency strives to provide timely insights and advice to help organisations and leaders embrace the opportunities and manage the risks associated with digital transformation.

Leonhard and his team of experienced futurists have worked with some of the world’s most innovative companies, including Apple, Google, Microsoft, IBM, and many others. They have also authored several books, including The End of Control: How The Digital Age is Transforming Our Lives, The Future is Faster than You Think, and The Future of Music.

The Futures Agency’s mission is to help leaders prepare for the future by exploring emerging trends, technologies, and scenarios. To this end, the agency offers a variety of services, including futurist keynote presentations, customised research projects, and workshops. The agency also produces thought-provoking videos and related content.

TFA also collaborates for The Good Future Project under the leadership of its founder, Gerd Leonhard. The project is a global, non-profit network of like-minded individuals and creators who focus on making ‘The Good Future’ a reality.  TGFP’s concept is based on Gerd’s 2021 film ‘The Good Future’.  The project’s blogs, video channels, and live-stream sessions serve as a platform for experienced contributors and as a space for planting the seeds of change, exploring what a ‘Good Future‘ might look like, and gathering momentum to make it a reality. 

Gerd Leonhard is a digital futurist, author and keynote speaker who is widely credited with creating The Futures Agency, a digital strategy and consulting firm. He is also a founding partner of The Futures Agency. The Futures Agency was founded by Gerd Leonhard in 2010 in Zurich, Switzerland.

The Futures Agency provides digital strategy and consulting services to large organizations and companies, helping them to understand the digital and technological trends that will shape their future. Gerd Leonhard and his team of experienced digital and technology experts have helped companies and organizations in various industries such as media, music, entertainment, health, and education to identify and implement the right strategies to remain competitive in the digital age.

The Futures Agency has become a renowned leader in the field of digital strategy and consulting, and has worked with a number of prestigious clients such as Microsoft, Nokia, SAP, Audi, and the World Economic Forum.

Gerd Leonhard and his team have developed a unique approach to digital strategy, which is based on the idea that organizations and companies must become “future-ready” in order to remain competitive in the digital age. This approach involves understanding the current trends in digital technology, anticipating the future trends, and then using this knowledge to develop strategies that will help the organization or company stay ahead of the competition. 

The mission of The Futures Agency is to create a culture of innovation and foresight through the development of solutions that anticipate future needs and challenges. Under the leadership of futurist and humanist Gerd Leonhard, the organisation believes that by building a better understanding of tomorrow, today, we can create a better world for everyone. Through its services and solutions, it strives to empower people, organisations, and communities to take control of their own destinies and make informed decisions about their future.

The Futures Agency's vision statement is to "create a world where everyone has the opportunity to have a better future". TFA is committed to empowering individuals and communities to take control of their own futures and create positive and sustainable change. It seeks to use its expertise and resources to support those who are working to create a more equitable and just society. 

The agency works to foster collaboration and collective action across sectors and to promote social justice, economic opportunity, and responsible stewardship of the planet.

Digital Event Curation: Major events are the complex rituals of modern organisations, meant to propel the tribe forwards as well as cement long-term client and partner relationships. Gerd and his team are experienced architects of corporate events in any shape, from intimate executive seminars to employee workshops to large-scale customer conferences. The Futures Agency operates not only as a speaker/talent agency but can also provide many creative services to help with your event script and design.

Speaker bookings: TFA provides experienced and top-rated keynote speakers (real-life & virtual) and expert presenters for all kinds of conferences, shows, and events (both single bookings as well as packages and entire programs), complete digital event programs, online and on-location future-training sessions, advisory services and board-level consulting, media commentary and many other creative services, globally.

Immersive Presentations: Presentations may be looked down upon by some, but in the right hands they remain the daily language of global commerce. Gone are the days of jaded rhetoric and predictable slide decks. Gerd Leonhard and his team of story artists are now engaged in generating totally immersive experiences for audiences, including highly dynamic stage setups that follow the speaker’s key statements in real-time. The company offers its users to drive their future agenda forward utilising its unique combination of thematic expertise, creative expressiveness, and visual excellency.

Customised Speeches: As demonstrated by Steve Jobs (RiP) in Stanford University over a decade ago, great speeches can define a leader’s career. Not only does Gerd Leonhard travel the world delivering his own high-powered recipe of tailored communication, but his team is also equally adept at co-creating unique storylines and speech scripts for clients, as well.  Gerd’s team helps its users deliver timeless tales anywhere in the world, in any time frame.

Webinars: As lifelong education becomes the new normal in professional life, original webinar content is more valuable to enterprise's future than it’s ever been. To make transformational change a cultural fixture, TFA specialises in creating highly interactive webinars that engage attention and impact behaviour from the get-go. TFA makes change successful and permanent by adopting an inclusive education element in its users' future strategy.

Film Production: As we enter the age of mobile video, visualisation means every organisation on the planet must now become its own publisher, television network, or film production company. The Futures Agency is recognised as the bespoke filmmaker for executive visions and strategies, capable of producing a full feature-length movie to industry standards or creating a multi-year-running episodic web series crafted for its users' future.