Build a future-ready mindset for the age of AI
Join change-makers from market-leading companies developing strategic imagination and futures thinking through product sci-fi workouts. Transform how you think about tomorrow in 10 minutes a week.
The future is coming faster than our strategies can adapt.
While AI accelerates change, our ability to imagine and navigate uncertainty becomes the key differentiator.
Yet most leaders still prepare for tomorrow using yesterday's tools: trend reports, market analyses, and abstract forecasts.
Imagine walking into your Monday morning meeting.
Your AI assistant has already analyzed trends, processed data, and generated strategic recommendations.
The insights are perfect, and the data is flawless.
But something is missing.
The human element: the ability to see beyond data points to imagine possibilities and the capacity to envision how today's changes reshape tomorrow's world.This is the challenge of leadership in the AI age.
While machines master existing patterns, humans must imagine new ones. While AI is processing the past, leaders must envision the future.
Closing the Imagination Gap
We are facing a cascade of unprecedented challenges.
AI is transforming businesses, climate change is reshaping markets, and geopolitical shifts disrupt supply chains. In this environment, traditional strategic planning feels like using a paper map to navigate a city that rebuilds itself every night.
But there's even a greater challenge: our mental models aren't keeping pace with change.
We try to understand tomorrow's possibilities using yesterday's frameworks.
We read about trends but struggle to imagine their implications.
We analyse data but cannot see the human element behind the numbers.
Why Product Sci-Fi Works
The most powerful visions of the future are not found in boardroom presentations or market reports.
They're found in everyday moments:
→ A coffee chat about AI-driven personal avatars handling your meetings
→ A dinner discussion about children playing with AI companions
→ A water cooler conversation about trading lifestyle presets
→ A commute encounter with emergency recharge drones
→ A family breakfast debate about smart homes making decisions
Product sci-fi transforms abstract futures into tangible everyday scenarios we can relate to.
Instead of reading about the "AI-driven transformation," we explore how it changes your next client meeting. Rather than analysing "shifting consumer behaviours," we experience how new products reshape your morning routine.
The Practical Futures Method
READ → Immerse yourself in a short story exploring near-future products and services grounded in relatable, easy-to-imagine, everyday situations.REFLECT → Work with guided self-reflection prompts designed to fire up your inspiration and encourage you to think outside conventional boundaries in the safe space of your personal growth.RELATE → Transform "memories from the future" into practical insights by connecting story scenarios to your professional contexts and challenges, building strategic thinking through structured exercises.RECOGNISE → Develop pattern recognition across domains by identifying emerging trends and building adaptability tactics and strategies for navigating complex futures.REPEAT → Results compound weekly, building your future-ready mindset through training you wish you had started in 2020 when the world stopped being business as usual.Why Strategic Thinkers Choose Practical Futures
Join strategic thinkers from market-leading organisations who use strategic imagination workouts to:
Spark strategic discussions in leadership meetings
Prepare compelling examples for interviews
Facilitate engaging team workshops
Develop future-ready thinking capabilities
After just 4 weeks of consistent practice, you will:
Recognize emerging patterns faster
Make complex futures more tangible
Have more and better ideas
Develop stronger strategic narratives
Build confidence in future-oriented discussions
Transform abstract trends into relatable scenarios
Why Now?
In an AI-driven world, machines excel at processing what exists. The human advantage lies in imagining what could be.
The most valuable leadership skill isn't about executing known strategies—it's about imagining new possibilities.
Because in a world where AI masters existing patterns, human imagination becomes the key differentiator.
Leaders with bold ideas are key to moving our world forward.Practical Futures works best for:
Strategic Decision-Makers
→ CEOs, Board Members, Investment Directors, Portfolio Managers
Leaders who are:
Evaluating long-term investments in emerging technologies
Making strategic decisions in uncertain markets
Identifying disruption risks and opportunities
Assessing the impact of social changes on business models
How does it help? Build stronger pattern recognition for emerging changes through weekly product sci-fi workouts that transform abstract futures into tangible scenarios about everyday innovations.
Perfect for leaders evaluating long-term opportunities in rapidly changing markets.
Innovation Catalysts
→ Chief Innovation Officers, Product Leaders, R&D Directors, Startup Founders
Innovators who are:
Identifying unmet future needs
Bridging technical possibilities with user needs
Making innovation roadmap decisions
Evaluating emerging technologies' potential
How does it help? Develop strategic imagination through stories exploring how emerging technologies and social changes reshape daily human interactions.
Super-effective for innovation leaders looking to strengthen cross-domain pattern recognition and human-centred thinking.
Transformation Leaders
→ Change Management Directors, Digital Transformation Leaders, Strategy Implementation Managers
Leaders who are:
Communicating complex changes to stakeholders
Building buy-in for transformation initiatives
Developing future-ready capabilities
Managing resistance to change
How does it help? Access structured reflection exercises that help make complex changes tangible through relatable product scenarios.
Essential for leaders who need to communicate future changes and build adaptive thinking capabilities.
Strategic Advisors
→ Management Consultants, Innovation Facilitators, Foresight Specialists
Professionals who are:
Making trend analysis actionable for clients
Developing engaging future scenarios
Building convincing cases for change
Facilitating strategic planning sessions
How does it help? Strengthen your strategic thinking through weekly workouts that bridge trend analysis with human implications.
Invaluable for professionals who must make complex futures engaging and actionable.
Emerging Strategic Thinkers
→ Future Leaders, Strategy Associates, Product Managers, Business Analysts
Professionals who are:
Developing strategic thinking capabilities
Building confidence in future-oriented discussions
Understanding the implications of emerging trends
Contributing to strategic conversations
How does it help? Build future-ready thinking capabilities through accessible stories and reflection prompts that connect personal experience with professional growth.
Perfect for developing confidence in strategic thinking and pattern recognition.
Hi, I'll be your host.
I'm Pawel.
In 2020, when the world stopped its "business as usual," I realized that now, more than ever, leaders with bold ideas are key to moving our world forward.
I decided to share what I'm best at—combining product thinking, two decades of creative experience, and my love for how technology drives social change.
For nearly a decade, I've helped design software that solves enterprise problems for complex and data-heavy industries, including finance, market research, insurance, and cybersecurity.
Today, I run these weekly workouts to help leaders develop future-ready mindsets and bold imaginations so they can have more and better ideas for tomorrow's challenges.
Leaders with bold ideas are key to moving our world forward.
Ten minutes a week is all you need to start, whether you work out with a journal, as leadership interview prep or as an icebreaker for your team's weekly meetings.
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💯 Pawel
Love this! We have to learn how to learn and adapt to the ever increasing rate of change.