What Reinvent Futures Does
What if you knew what was really going on in the world right now? If you had insights that went against the conventional wisdom but were more accurate and true?
What if you knew what probably was coming in the next 10 years? What new technologies were going to emerge, what trends actually play out, what systems were going to fundamentally change?
What if you knew what’s possible to achieve in the next 25 years — for the world, for America, for your field or for your organization? What if you understood the best case about what is truly possible in solving our many challenges?
And what if you knew what you could do now to help hit those ambitious long-term targets? Or what could be done now to prepare for those changes inexorably coming in the decade ahead?
If you knew the answers to all those four sets of questions, how useful, how valuable would it be? It would be very valuable.
If you even had early insights into what’s really going on now, what’s probably coming in the next 10 years, what’s possible to achieve in the next 25 years, and what you could do today to make the most of it - that would be very useful indeed.
That’s what Reinvent Futures does.
What Reinvent Futures Is
Reinvent Futures is a strategic foresight company that helps people better understand the future and what they can do now to make that future the best it can be.
We help people figure out the answers to the four key questions: what’s really going on now, what’s probably coming in the next 10 years, what’s possible to achieve in the next 25 years, and what you could do.
We do that by focusing on a couple core areas: convening remarkable innovators to help figure out the future, and advising senior leaders of organizations about what can be done.
The Mission of Reinvent Futures
We believe that America and the world have the potential to lay the foundations for many fundamental system changes that could open up an era of great progress. Much depends on what we do in this critical decade.
We believe those new 21st-century systems could scale up by 2050 in time to help solve many of the great challenges of our time like climate change.
We’re on a mission to do our part to help reinvent those systems and bring about a better future for all.
The adjacent video was created after our first event series season in 2023 that kicked off our convenings and it explains what we do.
The Founder of Reinvent Futures
Reinvent Futures is a company based in San Francisco that specializes in strategic foresight and can be broadly categorized as working in professional services.
The company was founded by Peter Leyden and this company is where he does all of his private advisory work. Leyden is a well-known tech expert and thought leader on the future who is frequently in the media, like in the short documentary-style interview in the adjacent video.
Some of the value of the company comes from the extensive, high-quality networks that Leyden brings into the business. He constantly draws off those networks for Reinvent Future’s convening and advisory work.
You can find out more about Peter Leyden in the People section or on his other website for his keynote speaking and writing at PeterLeyden.com.
Convening Remarkable Innovators
By 2025 we were partnered with the company Big Think Media to design and produce our event series at ground zero in San Francisco called The Great Progression: 2025 to 2050.
Leyden hosts the quarterly invite-only convenings at the Shack15 Club at the top of the iconic Ferry Building. And Big Think produces the event and handles all the media production including videos of all the talks and interviews.
See the Convening section for more on the 2024 series and watch the adjacent video for more on how the series will work going forward.
Advising Senior Leaders
Our business works on the Advising side by finding the right clients who want to draw off what we are constantly learning and get their senior leadership thinking differently about our four key questions: what’s really going on, what’s probably coming, what’s possible to achieve, and what you should do.
See the Advising section for the various forms those services can take.