About us
Our working method and our team
Your future is our core focus
At Futureconsult, your future is our core focus Futureconsult analyses, supports, mirrors, surprises, and makes connections. We are both future experts and process managers and have worked for governments, profit, and non-profit organisations for over 20 years.
Futureconsult helps organisations to anticipate and shape their own future. We focus on future research and future-proof strategy development. Presenting and creatively imagining the future helps break out of an organisation’s rigid thinking patterns. We broaden and deepen each organisation’s view of its future.
We help your organisation to prepare, develop and implement a future-oriented strategy. We also give masterclasses and workshops on the theory and practice of the future strategist.
Principles
Thinking together and doing together
Our projects are always realised in co-creation with our client. We work together with our clients on the future of their organisation. We stimulate, offer guidance, and support where necessary but, most importantly, we develop the ability of our client’s team and organisation to anticipate the future themselves.
Being honest about uncertainty
Uncertainty is always the starting point of any future strategy. We do not offer deterministic, numerical visions of the future; we offer insight into uncertainty and make it manageable.
Supported decisions
Our working methods allow internal and external stakeholders to be involved in shaping a future-oriented strategy.
Get to know our team
Loulou Nekkers
Director | Future strategist
Bart van Beerschoten
Senior consultant | Future strategist
Bodil Jurg
Senior consultant | Future strategist
Aileen Schuurmans
Senior consultant | Future strategist
Marre Hollemans
Senior consultant | Future strategist
Josephine Hoendervangers
Junior consultant | Future strategist
Imre Ovaa
Operations manager | Junior consultant
Jonna den Tuinder
Junior consultant
Bobby Seeder
Junior consultant
Associates
Jan Nekkers
Founder Futureconsult
Jan Nekkers is the founder and former director of Futureconsult. He has more than twenty-five years of experience in developing scenarios and strategic future visions. He is the author of numerous publications on a wide range of topics. In 2007, his practical handbook on scenario planning, “Wijzer in de Toekomst”, was published; it has since appeared in a fully revised edition after 17 reprints. In addition, he regularly gives lectures and masterclasses on scenario planning, strategy and vision development, and innovation.
Peter van der Wel
Associate
Peter van der Wel loves the future. He has spoken about the future at conferences, seminars, and other events for more than 20 years. As a futurologist, economist, and keynote speaker, he delivers inspiring and surprising lectures and presentations. Peter has worked for many large multinationals, small and medium-sized companies, non-profit organisations, and many local, national, and international authorities.
Wim Derksen
Associate
Prof. Dr. Wim Derksen is an independent consultant for the government. An essential part of his work focuses on education for departments and municipalities. Together with Karen Ephraim, he develops masterclasses and courses at the interface of knowledge and policy. He draws on his many years of experience in government and science.