Together, we can design better and more intentional futures.

Our Services

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.

What it includes:

Planning and facilitation of multi-stakeholder workshops

One-on-one primary stakeholder interviews

Synthesis report articulating main findings

Our Service

Design Strategy

A design strategy establishes guiding principles that align the business' mission and vision with the design of its products or services. Guided and 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.

What it includes:

Stakeholder interviews

Benchmarking research into sector best practices and emerging trends

Identification of organizational challenges and opportunity spaces

Vision and goal setting workshop

Day-in-the-life and user experience design workshop to identify key experiences and design principles

Vision and program definition report

Our Service

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.

What It Includes:

Futurist for a Day, Week, or Month - Include us in your team meetings and projects so that we can inject some strategic foresight framing. Learn how to plan for today and lead into the future.

Drivers of change workshop

Future trends presentation

Future focus: The identification and invitation of a key guest speaker(s) to reveal insights into an area

Design and facilitation of foresight workshop to address a specific topic of interest (ie, future of learning, supply chain futures, future of the metaverse)

Synthesis report identifying major challenges, opportunities and vision for the future

Who We Serve

We believe that by partnering with our clients we can strategically design and deliver better outcomes and experiences.

Academic Institutions

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

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.

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.

“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.”

Siqi Zhu

Former Director of Planning, Sidewalk Labs

Associate Principal & Director of Planning and Urban Technology, Sasaki

How To Get Started

1

Tell us about your project

Contact us and describe your current situation and potential service requirements.

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.