Identifying Impact:
Climate Foresight for Start-Ups & Innovation Teams
with Elaine France

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Start-Ups, MSMEs and Innovation Teams have a vital role to play in taking climate action.

Understanding the challenges of the climate crisis is the key to being resilient and ensuring that their businesses thrive amidst volatility and uncertainty.

Using Strategic Foresight Climate Scenarios, enables the teams in your portfolio to navigate forward by anticipating the potential impacts of:
  • Key drivers of change on their businesses, helping them – and you - to mitigate risks and seize opportunities for greater innovation.
  • Their solutions on people and planet in terms of pollution, loss of biodiversity and energy use, to take action to minimize or eradicate them. 
  •  Their solutions on people and planet, in terms of increasing wellbeing and delivering value that is transformational in tackling climate and sustainable developments issues.
 
Identifying impact by exploring climate scenarios, gives them key insights which enable them to:

  • Make better decisions to mitigate risks today when they are prototyping, getting feedback from potential customers or talking to investors.  
  •  Navigate challenges and move forward towards realizing their mission and vision.
  •  Accelerate innovation by recognizing ways to create more powerful solutions.
 
Why YOU need the teams in your portfolio to explore climate scenarios?
 
You are investing money, time and resources into the teams in your portfolio, because you believe in their solutions…and the power of those solutions to have positive impacts for people and planet.
 
Plus, you want to make a return on investment by reducing the risk of them not succeeding in their mission.
 
When your teams understand impact on and of their businesses, it enables you to:

  • Make informed decisions about how and when to support them.
  • Identify new opportunities for innovative solutions.
  • Future-proof strategies with robust plans to keep moving forward.
  • Deliver on your mission to make positive impact for green, clean and fair futures.

In this experiential, interactive workshop, participants will learn:

Introduction to Climate Foresight: An overview of strategic foresight and the value of climate scenarios.
Scenario Planning: How to create and use climate scenarios centred around their solution to identify impacts on their businesses and of their businesses.
Impact Assessment: How to explore potential impacts and consequences, to inform their strategic thinking and decision-making.
Risk Management: How to identify steps to mitigate risks and take action.
Accelerate Innovation: How to use insights to learn, adapt and accelerate innovation for a more powerful solution. 

As an experienced Strategic Foresight practitioner in innovation and entrepreneurship, Elaine France will guide participants through the workshop, so that they will leave with actionable insights. 

By the end of the workshop, each team will have:
 
  • Recognition of the value of using foresight climate scenarios.
  • Developed their futures literacy as a core competence for successful teams. 
  • Built their own, relevant climate scenarios.
  • Identified potential core impacts on and of their businesses.
  • Prioritised impacts to take action on.
  • Created a strategic road-map of next steps to develop their solution further and manage their businesses.  

Plus, they - and you - will automatically become part of the Flourishing Futures Collective, a community of rulebreakers and changemakers unfolding innovation for green, clean and fair futures for all.
Who should book this workshop? Innovation Hubs, Investors, Incubators and Accelerators who want to empower their start-ups and innovation teams to deliver real impact for people and planet with their solutions.

Who should attend the workshop? Start-Up Founders, Start-Up Teams, Innovation Teams.

This Workshop Package includes:
  • Pre-engagement call to determine your needs.
  • Workshop content design.
  • Workshop materials for participants.​
  • Workshop delivery (online, face to face or hybrid options)

Length: This workshop can be run as a 1-day or multi-day workshop, depending on requirements. 

Email: [email protected] to book your discovery call, where we will discuss your requirements for a workshop.