Together, we can design better and more intentional futures.

Our ServiceS

Strategic Foresight & Planning

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

What It Includes:

Future scenarios workshop - Plan and examine how your organization will perform in future scenarios to adjust your strategic planning for the future

Drivers of change workshop to explore how mega trends will impact your organisation

Future trends presentation to inspire and challenge your team

Future focus: The identification and invitation of a key guest speaker(s) to reveal insights into a relevant and emerging 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 a clear vision and narrative for the future

Our ServiceS

Design Strategy & UX Research

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 to identify pain points, needs, and aspirations within the organization

Benchmarking research into sector best practices and exemplars to inform future programming priorities

Identification of organizational challenges and opportunity spaces to influence resource allocation and investment priorities

Vision and goal setting workshop to align stakeholders

Personas and User Experience workshops to identify future user requirements

Vision and program definition report to communicate a clear future narrative

Our Services

Workshop 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 to align disparate stakeholders and create a future-ready plan

One-on-one primary stakeholder interviews to better understand primary pain points and aspirations

Synthesis report articulating main findings for your C-suite and teams

Who We Serve

We believe that by partnering with our clients we can strategically design and deliver better outcomes and experiences. With Aretee, clients walk away with more than a plan. They leave with a shared purpose, a resonant narrative, and a roadmap built to evolve.

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.

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Receive a tailored approach

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