The future is uncertain.
Do you dare to move forward?

Advisory for future courage

We help businesses find and adjust their course in a changing environment.

Have you ever asked yourselves what would happen if…

sales of your main product collapse overnight?your main product collapses?

the materials you need can no longer reach you?

good people become unaffordable?

Questions like these are where comes in.

is an advisory for future courage.We work with mid-sized companies, craft businesses and companies going through succession. They know they have to stay able to act in the midst of change. But between knowing and doing, things often get stuck. That is why we bring proven futures methods, entrepreneurial expertise and moderation that takes teams along. Because the future isn't a fixed plan, it's a constant act of balance.

Projects
Futures of AI & Quantum

Futures of AI & Quantum

Novo Nordisk Foundation2024 & 2026, Denmark

To make conference participants aware of possible futures and find impactful research questions.

Format
90-minute workshop with 150 participants
Context
At the conference of the Novo Nordisk Foundation's AI & Quantum cluster, participants engaged interactively with current trends and sketched new possible paths into the future.
Result
New research questions, a sharper eye for possible futures and an exchange beyond one's own research field.
One team, many sites

One team, many sites

Engineering company2025–2026, several sites

To turn many sites into one team in order to hold their own against competitors.

Format
Longer-term support with workshops, targeted formats and strategy work
Context
Competitors are getting faster, and prices are under pressure. A strong lever for staying competitive: closer collaboration between the international sites. Through interviews, workshops and prototyping, we found out what stood in the way and tested first solutions.
Result
A new CRM tool, formats for exchange between the sites and a lively, sharper strategy.
North Sea Futures

North Sea Futures

Infiverde2025, Scotland

To anchor open, future-oriented thinking before the engineering process begins.

Format
Two-day workshop with ten people
Context
A team of engineers faced a visionary task: producing, storing and making use of hydrogen in the North Sea. How can that succeed? And if it isn't possible today, how could it become possible in 20 years? The project ran over several months and phases.
Result
The workshop was the starting signal and gave the joint work farsight from the very beginning.
Token Economy

Token Economy

KfW Group2025, Germany

To understand a new technology field before it changes one's own innovation work.

Format
One-day futures workshop, co-facilitated with Stefan Bergheim
Context
Representatives of different departments came together for a day. Using Futures Literacy methods, they thought through how the token economy could develop.
Result
Clarity on which prototypes, topics and next steps the team focuses on, and what it keeps an eye on.

Further projects, realised with valued partners

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  • Futures workshop: trust tomorrowIT start-up, Germanywith Stefan Bergheim
  • Futures workshop for the teamSchool for Entrepreneurship, Denmark
  • Participatory scenario process on political futuresUS-based fundwith Thays Prado
  • Workshop: from vision to actionBern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
  • Futures workshop on the city of MannheimTransforMA, Germanywith Stefan Bergheim
  • Futures workshop on mobility and climateEIT Urban Mobility & EIT Climate-KIC, Sweden
  • Keynote: discovering the futureCity of Zurich, Switzerland
The Offer

Pulse

Sharpen Your View

60 min conversation

We find out which future questions matter most for your business. We bring knowledge of existing future scenarios and identify what is already on your radar and what isn't yet.

Result Clarity on which future questions matter to you

Workshop

Create Momentum

3–6 hours

A format for your team or leadership group, and your entry into working with the future. Together we open up and look at the changes that are already here: what is shifting in your environment, and which developments really matter for your business? First understand the future, then find your answer to it.

Result A shared view of the changes around you

Future Vision

Set the course

3–4 sessions or 1-day workshop

For businesses that want to set themselves a clear goal. Building on the changes you already know, we develop a shared picture of where you want to be in a few years, which core values guide you, and why. From this we derive concrete first steps and agree who takes them. The result is a course your whole team stands behind.

Result A clear goal and first steps everyone stands behind

Prototype

Test the direction

4–8 weeks

Prototyping is an established method for testing a new direction before every detail is planned. Together we develop a concrete prototype and put it to use in order to get real feedback: does the direction hold up, or does it need sharpening? A prototype can be an offer for a new target group, a sharper brand presence or a new way of working.

Result Real feedback on whether your new direction holds

Not sure which format fits? Start with Pulse

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Methods

In our projects, we look outward, inward and ahead.

The MapThe changes in your environment and what they mean for your daily business.
The ShipWhat your business can realistically handle and where to strengthen it.
The CompassYour clear direction and the next steps towards it.
More about our method

works across Europe with a global network of futures practitioners. It was founded by Lena Tünkers.

More about ORA
Workshop participants sorting sticky notes together on the floor

We help businesses find and adjust their course in a changing environment.

Have you ever asked yourselves what would happen if…

your main product collapses overnight?

the materials you need can no longer reach you?

good people become unaffordable?

Questions like these are where ORA comes in.

is an advisory for future courage.

We work with mid-sized companies, craft businesses and companies going through succession. They know they have to stay able to act in the midst of change. But between knowing and doing, things often get stuck. That is why we bring proven futures methods, entrepreneurial expertise and moderation that takes teams along. Because the future isn't a fixed plan, it's a constant act of balance.

Projects

Futures of AI & Quantum

Novo Nordisk Foundation · 2024 · Denmark

To make conference participants aware of possible futures and find impactful research questions.

Format
90-minute workshop with 150 participants
Context
At the conference of the Novo Nordisk Foundation's AI & Quantum cluster, participants engaged interactively with current trends and sketched new possible paths into the future.
Result
New research questions, a sharper eye for possible futures and an exchange beyond one's own research field.

One team, many sites

Engineering company · 2026 · several sites

To turn many sites into one team in order to hold their own against competitors.

Format
Longer-term support with workshops, targeted formats and strategy work
Context
Competitors are getting faster, and prices are under pressure. A strong lever for staying competitive: closer collaboration between the international sites. Through interviews, workshops and prototyping, we found out what stood in the way and tested first solutions.
Result
A new CRM tool, formats for exchange between the sites and a lively, sharper strategy.

North Sea Futures

Infiverde · 2025 · Scotland

To anchor open, future-oriented thinking before the engineering process begins.

Format
Two-day workshop with ten people
Context
A team of engineers faced a visionary task: producing, storing and making use of hydrogen in the North Sea. How can that succeed? And if it isn't possible today, how could it become possible in 20 years? The project ran over several months and phases.
Result
The workshop was the starting signal and gave the joint work farsight from the very beginning.

Token Economy

KfW Group · 2025 · Germany

To understand a new technology field before it changes one's own innovation work.

Format
One-day futures workshop, co-facilitated with Stefan Bergheim
Context
Representatives of different departments came together for a day. Using Futures Literacy methods, they thought through how the token economy could develop.
Result
Clarity on which prototypes, topics and next steps the team focuses on, and what it keeps an eye on.

Further projects, realised with valued partners

  • Futures workshop: trust tomorrowIT start-up, Germany · with Stefan Bergheim
  • Futures workshop for the teamSchool for Entrepreneurship, Denmark
  • Participatory scenario process on political futuresUS-based fund · with Thays Prado
  • Workshop: from vision to actionBern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
  • Futures workshop on the city of MannheimTransforMA, Germany · with Stefan Bergheim
  • Futures workshop on mobility and climateEIT Urban Mobility & EIT Climate-KIC, Sweden
  • Keynote: discovering the futureCity of Zurich, Switzerland
The Offer

Pulse 60 min conversation

Sharpen Your View

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We find out which future questions matter most for your business. We bring knowledge of existing future scenarios and identify what is already on your radar and what isn't yet.

ResultClarity on which future questions matter to you

Workshop 3–6 hours

Create Momentum

Learn moreLess

A format for your team or leadership group, and your entry into working with the future. Together we open up and look at the changes that are already here: what is shifting in your environment, and which developments really matter for your business? First understand the future, then find your answer to it.

ResultA shared view of the changes around you

Future Vision 3–4 sessions or 1-day workshop

Set the course

Learn moreLess

For businesses that want to set themselves a clear goal. Building on the changes you already know, we develop a shared picture of where you want to be in a few years, which core values guide you, and why. From this we derive concrete first steps and agree who takes them. The result is a course your whole team stands behind.

ResultA clear goal and first steps everyone stands behind

Prototype 4–8 weeks

Test the direction

Learn moreLess

Prototyping is an established method for testing a new direction before every detail is planned. Together we develop a concrete prototype and put it to use in order to get real feedback: does the direction hold up, or does it need sharpening? A prototype can be an offer for a new target group, a sharper brand presence or a new way of working.

ResultReal feedback on whether your new direction holds

Not sure which format fits?

Start with Pulse
Workshop participants sorting sticky notes together on the floor

works across Europe with a global network of futures practitioners. It was founded by Lena Tünkers.

More about ORA

See more clearly.
Stay successful.

hello@ora-futures.com

Write to us, and let's see what the future holds

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