Embrace Strange, Make Change
Our Capabilities
Foresight
Building foresight fluency and running foresight-enabled strategy sprints to strengthen resiliency and harness change and disruption.
Horizon Scanning
Scanning and research into emergent changes, to equip inviduals, teams and organisations with knowledge and insights needed to navigate and create change.
Assessment
Retrospectives, lessons learned evaluations, governance reviews, knowledge management and cultural audits to help establish workplaces that are based on a shared reality.
Facilitation, Participation & Collaboration
Convening and facilitating, and coaching individuals, teams and leaders in the skills needed for small to large participatory and collaborative approaches
Storytelling
Collaboratively developing core narratives and pathways to clarify communication and create coalitions around change.
Creative Strategy & Execution
Creating assets, artefacts, reports, experiences and campaings that incite engagement, action and change.
Foresight
Building foresight fluency and running foresight-enabled strategy sprints to strengthen resiliency and harness change and disruption.
Horizon Scanning
Scanning and research into emergent changes, to equip inviduals, teams and organisations with knowledge and insights needed to navigate and create change.
Assessment
Retrospectives, lessons learned evaluations, governance reviews, knowledge management and cultural audits to help establish workplaces that are based on a shared reality.
Facilitation, Participation & Collaboration
Convening and facilitating, and coaching individuals, teams and leaders in the skills needed for small to large participatory and collaborative approaches
Storytelling
Collaboratively developing core narratives and pathways to clarify communication and create coalitions around change.
Creative Strategy & Execution
Creating assets, artefacts, reports, experiences and campaings that incite engagement, action and change.
Our Work
Facilitation
Appointed facilitators to the Deep Transitions Futures project (based at the Universities of Utrecht and Sussex) in April 2021 for a 15-month tenure to facilitate the process of developing desirable future worlds, stress-testing, international investor panel activity. This culminated in the negotiation of a sustainable investment philosophy to act as a manifesto for next generation investment practices. Specialist expertise in foresight, narrative, and collaboration added value across other aspects of the process, including the development of an impact strategy playbook and guidance to support the amplification of the investment philosophy. Continuing into 2025, we remain involved in the next phase of the project, Deep Transitions Lab, offering our facilitation and process design expertise to the Lab’s application of the transformative investment philosophy to Lab partners including global organisations ranging from the finance sector to not-for-profit NGOs and charities.
Futures Fluency
This partnership is now in its fifth year, and is currently focused on continued research into the emerging bio age focused on rights for non-humans and the application of the project’s past foresight research to internal strategic process. Most recently, we have hosted participatory foresight workshops exploring the future of law in space, and the impact of genAI on legal services. Our deep dive in 2022 into post pandemic operations in small and medium lawfirms continues to be relevant. Through that process we also developed a cultural assessment tool for firms, and young lawyers to use as a test for future preparedness.
Collaborative Learning Programme
A long-term collaboration about collaboration, originating in a programme developed for the WHO Global Learning Committee in 2010 and 2011, moved in 2016 to ILO-ITC and a three-day foresight workshop in Cairo exploring the future of youth employment in the region through the lens of fast versions of 13 foresight methods. It continued in phase II with a refresh and extension of the foresight methodology resources as an online toolkit delivered by Wendy. In parallel, Victoria’s delivery of the Collaborative Learning Programme continues to provided practical approaches to making each aspect of collaboration generative. Collaboration and foresight work are hand in glove, as effective collaboration and convening capability set the conditions in which horizon scanning and foresight work can create dialogue, change, resilience and preparedness.
Futures Fluency
As part of World Organisation for Animal Health‘s 100th anniversary, Jigsaw led a mass participatory futures project resulting in five thought-provoking exploratory scenarios around health and wellbeing for livestock and food animals. This research explores changes that are resounding across multiple systems to create key uncertainties impacting the future of animal health. Will our futures involve eco-revolutions, Hangry Games, or resilience in an emergent polycrisis? The outputs of this project were immediately applied to reimagining and renegotiating WOAH’s general text (it’s foundational document) during a Jigsaw Foresight facilitated session at the 91st General Session of the World Assembly of Delegates. Read the case study on the Association of Professional Futurists website.
“Working with the team at Jigsaw Foresight was an absolute pleasure. The foresight project for which we hired them had great ambitions and limited resources, yet the team rolled up their sleeves and put their energies and expertise behind every design session, workshop, report and publication as if it were a million euro project. It is clear they care and take pride in their work as experts in foresight, knowledgement management, facilitation, workshop design and delivery. As a client, I felt heard and supported – the team delivered and often went beyond what was expected. Without hesitation, I would work with them again.”
Futures Fluency
Jigsaw founders Victoria Ward and Dr. Wendy Schultz both have open-access chapters in the 2024 Handbook of Futures Studies edited by Prof. Roberto Poli, published by Edward Elgar press. Victoria’s chapter offers perspectives on activating the places and spaces in between today and tomorrow , leading, hosting and connecting collaborative change spaces in between today and tomorrow; Wendy’s is a comprehensive overview of existing futures research methods and how to use them to answer specific types of questions, applicable to all sorts of leadership or strategy functions.
Futures Fluency
Jigsaw led a collaborative, interdisciplinary research enquiry including Natural England, The Law Society, and global organisations in the pharmaceutical industry and scientific publishing sector to interrogate the implications of genAI for knowledge professionals working in scientific and environment-adjacent professions. An article Artificial Intelligence and the environmental professions is now available open-access (page 21.) Other research documentation, change cards and processes are part of our deepening collection of materials to spark new collaborations and conversations that push against productivitiy and short term action by bringing in longer, deeper and broader insights to provide time and space to make more considered decisions about how to act today, with tomorrow in mind.