Aligning your strategic objectives to your design aspirations.

We are a strategic design and futures co-creation consultancy working with organizational leadership to create intentional and meaningful systems, services, spaces, and experiences.

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We are all being asked to navigate ambiguity. You don’t need to do it alone.

The future is uncertain, volatile, and difficult to predict. Yesterday’s solutions solved yesterday’s problems, but won’t necessarily help us successfully address tomorrow’s.

Moving forward we need to develop new strategic tools and bring together diverse perspectives and skills to manage future risks and realize desired outcomes.

While uncertainty presents challenges for us, ambiguity also offers us a chance to define a future narrative inspired not by scarcity but rather by an abundance mindset.

With all of the resources available to us in the 21st century, there exists a tremendous opportunity to create a future that enables us to be more productive in our work, and more fulfilled in our daily lives without compromising the health of people or the planet.

Our Services

We offer a range of services focused on delivering the best outcomes to our clients and their future users.

Facilitation

Engaging stakeholders in envisioning the organization's future is crucial for the success of your change management initiatives and the adoption of your plans. As experienced facilitators, we can assist with the planning of your agenda, leading a productive strategic planning process, and ensuring clear next steps and outcomes are achieved.

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Design Strategy

A design strategy results in a set of guiding principles that align the business's mission and vision with the design of its products or services. Guided focused exploration ensures your organization is impacting and innovating in the right areas, designing the right solutions, and focused on what to do and not to do next.

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Foresight

Increasingly companies must be prepared to navigate ambiguity and complex futures. Our foresight tools and processes equip organizations with the means to develop strategic roadmaps, address challenges, and achieve desired future outcomes.

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Who we serve

Academic Institutions

We partner with leadership at academic institutions to envision their desired future state, create optimal student learning, living, and growth experiences, and develop the programming needed to support those outcomes and experiences.

Who we serve

Public Sector

We work with city agencies and community leaders to develop strategic future roadmaps by engaging internal and external stakeholders in a collaborative process to define and realize their aspirational future state and identify the actions needed to get there.

Who we serve

Architecture, Engineering, Construction Sector

We collaborate with leadership in the AEC sector to plan and facilitate multi-stakeholders sessions focused on identifying and generating future-facing strategic plans.

How To Get Started

1 Tell us about your project

2 Schedule a consultation

Schedule a consultation with us to follow up on your inquiry and to find out more about how we can best support you.

3 Receive a tailored approach

We will follow up with a recommended approach tailored to meet your needs and service requirements.

“I have worked with Francesca on many workshops and events with the goal of aligning disparate thinking and creating actionable insight that can move us towards our aims. Her preparation is always thorough and her facilitation humane and insightful.”

Fiona Cousins

Chair, Arup Americas

“We wanted to do something bold and innovative, we were lucky to engage Francesca. She has been instrumental in helping us break the mold and create world-class facilities and programs on campus. We continue to use Francesca and her team on projects when we need to create inspiration. If you want to do something great, the Aretee team will get you there.”

Troy D’Ambrosio

VP of Innovation, University of Utah

“Francesca facilitated a zero-to-one concept development process for a large team spanning multiple cities and time zones, resulting in an innovative application in the public realm. We could not have done it without her insights, empathy, and strategic acumen.”