The Biodiverse Futures Design School
Bringing Nature to the Future
DESIGN FOR FUTURES OF FLOURISHING. THRIVE IN TURBULENCE.
The future will not be linear. But it can be one of flourishing for humanity and biodiversity.
At the Biodiverse Futures Design School, we equip organisations to navigate change, anticipate disruption, and build thriving futures in which people and planet flourish together.
Our focus is simple: education and capacity-building. We don’t consult from the outside — we empower your teams to develop the skills, foresight, and ecological intelligence needed to thrive in complexity and meet any challenge with confidence.
What We Do
Every organisation is embedded in a web of natural, human, and social systems, which are also referred to as our ‘capitals’ dependencies. These invisible foundations are what business ultimately depends on — even when they’re hard to picture, account for, or measure.
We help you:
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Understand Capitals: Learn how your organisation relies on and impacts natural, human, and social systems and how these should inform business strategy and decision-making.
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Anticipate Change: Use strategic foresight to spot emerging risks, opportunities, and disruptions before they land.
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Design Regeneratively: Apply ecological design principles to create futures that are adaptive, resilient, and biodiverse.
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Build Capacity: Equip your teams with the tools and confidence to meet any regulation or reporting requirement — CSRD, CSDDD, TNFD, or the next one — with ease and economy of scale.
This isn’t compliance training. It’s future literacy for thriving organisations.
Why It Matters
The urgent challenges of our time — climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, supply chain fragility, shifting societal values — cannot be solved with incremental tweaks. They require a new way of thinking, working, and imagining the future.
By building capacity in integrated capitals thinking, strategic foresight, and ecological design, your organisation can:
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Anticipate disruptions instead of reacting to them.
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Regenerate the capitals you depend on.
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Transform reporting and compliance from a burden into a natural byproduct of how you work.
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Thrive in turbulence rather than survive it.
Who We Serve
The School is designed for those shaping futures in dynamic and uncertain environments, including:
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Sustainability leaders building resilient supply chains.
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Innovators and strategists working on regenerative business models.
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Public sector teams developing adaptive policy and services.
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ESG and finance professionals seeking to move beyond compliance.
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Educators, facilitators, and change-makers cultivating systemic capacity.
Our Approach
At BFDS, learning is experiential, collaborative, and immediately applicable. We don’t drop in blueprints. We create conditions for insight, foresight, and action to emerge within your teams.
How We Work
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Immersive Workshops & Design Sprints: High-energy sessions that spark new ways of seeing and acting.
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Learning Programmes: 6–12 week journeys that blend training, coaching, and co-design.
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Organisational Partnerships: Longer-term collaborations that embed eco-futures literacy and regenerative practice into the culture of your organisation.
Can You Use This in Your Organisation?
The short answer is yes.
The methods we teach are applicable across sectors, scales, and contexts — from supply chains to community initiatives, from corporate boardrooms to public sector programmes.
The School’s frameworks integrate seamlessly with established approaches:
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Capitals Thinking (Natural, Human, Social Capitals).
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Strategic Foresight (scenarios, backcasting, signals scanning).
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Ecological Design (Biomimicry, regenerative design, systems practice).
These aren’t abstract theories — they are practical capacities that build organisational coherence, resilience, and confidence in the face of change.
Our approach works best when applied collaboratively, drawing ethically from the diverse perspectives and knowledges of participants.
We suggest opening design learning processes to those beyond your traditional organisational boundaries to uncover unexpected and critical insights for futures of flourishing.
Below are some collaborations to consider:
Local Communities
Inhabitants with traditional and Indigenous knowledge and cultural practices who, when engaged ethically and on their own terms, can provide critical insights to help ensure futures strategies are relevant, inclusive, and beneficial for those directly impacted.
Environmental NGOs, Conservationists, and Conflict Resolution Specialists
Organisations and experts focused on biodiversity protection, ecosystem restoration, and managing conflicts arising from differing stakeholder interests, ensuring futures are ecologically sound and socially just.
Policymakers, Regulators, and Multilateral Organisations
Regulatory bodies and international institutions that shape policy frameworks, set global standards, and mobilise resources to align strategies with biodiversity targets.
Academia, Research Institutions, Technologists, and Systems Change Experts
Universities, research bodies, technology specialists, and systems change experts who bring scientific knowledge, data analysis, and innovative approaches for addressing complex systems and advancing strategic outcomes.
Corporate and Financial Sector
Companies, investors, and financial institutions that integrate nature-positive strategies into business models, risk management, and finance, driving systemic change in financial markets.
Project Professionals and Large Group Facilitation Experts
Specialists in project design, management, and execution, along with facilitators skilled in guiding large group processes and implementing systems change, ensuring strategic aims are effectively pursued through structured programmes of work.
Join the School
The Biodiverse Futures Design School exists for one reason:
To help organisations design and embody biodiverse futures where both people and planet thrive.
Whether through a single workshop, a structured learning programme, or a deep partnership, we equip your teams with the foresight, literacy, and ecological intelligence they need to regenerate the capitals they depend on — and flourish in the futures to come.