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Rapid shifts in global demographics, the importance of design, technology and the co-ordination and location of work are driving a revolution in business.

Dr Sander is an advisor to businesses looking to understand and interpret these forces, gain consumer and client insight, and develop a future-proof mindset. Libby brings editorial rigour, insight based on a multi-disciplinary global perspective and groundbreaking empirical research.

Libby has extensive experience working with grassroots local organisations right through to large multi-nationals across the following service offerings.

  • Designing a workplace to support cognitive, behavioural and performance outcomes aligned with organisation goals. Libby is able to work closely with the leadership and project teams from concept development, employee and stakeholder consultation, consultant liaison, design development, change management and communication, and measurement of workplace and performance outcomes post-delivery.

  • Development of talent attraction and retention strategies to achieve competitive advantage in the context of a highly mobile workforce and new ways of working.

  • Courses, consulting and research services to workers and organisations successfully transition to the new way of working including flexibility around time and location and fully remote work.

  • Leadership development and training on how to manage a hybrid workforce.

  • Development of community engagement strategies including place activation, third place design and development, community and stakeholder research, design consultation and community development strategy and implementation.

  • Coaching and mentoring for leaders and managers.

 

 

Anticipating the shifts and changing dynamics of your market is crucial to your short, medium and long-term survival. Rethink Trend Futures projects forecast the future of your market and competition to ensure you stay ahead of market forces and competitor activity, determining your creative and commercial success. Libby uses cross-disciplinary trend insights, proprietary research, design thinking and focus groups/interviews to achieve deep understanding and insight into the shifts and changing dynamics around our relationship with work that are crucial to developing customer value and competitive advantage for your organisation.

Rethink Trend Futures

Using Cultural Triangulation, and a host of qualitative and quantitative research techniques, Trend Futures projects deliver the following:

  • Thorough and thought-provoking investigations into the future of work and where your market and competitors are headed over the next one, three, five and 10 years.

  • The driving social, cultural, economic, political and technological forces shaping changes around work, our workplaces, our communities and our living environments.

  • Exclusive research incorporating focus groups and interviews into the trends and forecasts that are influencing consumer behaviour and desire around work and the workplace and what that means for your organisation and market

  • Consumer typologies that will appear on the horizon in your market.

  • An immersive trend workshop to enable you to assess the trend forecasts you can own to survive and thrive in the future.

  • Case studies of game-changing, innovative and successful concepts and comparisons

  • Consumer typologies to support the business to develop plans, products, services and marketing.

  • A trend strategy for owning key trends, with a future roadmap to success and guidelines delivering against future success criteria. This will summarise the research, focus groups, interviews, case-studies and other findings to help articulate your customer value proposition and a distinct competitor advantage.

  • Projects and programmes created around these areas of focus will help you future-proof your organisation, understand your competition and prepare your teams for the future.

Rethink Trend Immersions

Observing trends in action in the real world is a powerful and intriguing alternative to yet another meeting.

Our Trend Immersions allow you to carry out an in-depth exploration of the most cutting-edge aspects of the society, culture and retail scene of any urban centre, guided by Libby with access to her global network of experts and correspondents.

Clients that have gone on Immersion with us are among some of the most innovative people, projects and spaces that encapsulate the shape of things to come.

 

Owners and designers explain their venues and projects, leading local experts to explore their city from the viewpoint of their particular discipline, and a guidebook captures your trip in specific detail.

Breakfast, lunch, dinner and drinks at the most forward-looking restaurants, cafés and bars provide a backdrop to your journey into the future. Immersions range from a day in your local city up to 10-day immersive trips to places like San Francisco, Portland, London and Berlin.

Trend Immersions are personally facilitated by Libby, the insights gained will improve your business and innovation edge.

 

All Immersions:

  • Begin and end with a presentation that contextualises the area, neighbourhood or city you are about to see.

  • Come with a guidebook that reveals the hidden underbelly of the places you are about to visit and the people you are about to meet.

  • Contain Innovator and Early Adopter interviewees who take you behind the scenes and explain the places you are visiting, or case studies you are being exposed to, in ways that relate directly to your core business needs.

  • Come with a follow-up Immersion bulletin containing a full set of links to the case studies, trends, facts and statistics we believe you’ll need to add additional layers of value and insight to the journey you’ve undertaken.

Immersions can also be followed up with workshops that will enable you to harness the ideas encountered more effectively in ways designed to improve your product stream, maximise your innovation activities, and better understand the changing needs of your current and future customers both internal and external.

Rethink Presentations

Libby's presentations and briefings are renowned globally and are highly sought-after for their evidence-based insight, calibre of delivery, multi-disciplinary perspectives and the impact of their visual case studies.

All of Libby’s presentations are designed to challenge thinking, offer insight, kick-start ideas and showcase what is new and next in work, living, experiences, brands, products and services that are redefining consumer, citizen and employee desire.

Contact Libby to discuss topics or to tailor a unique presentation for your audience.

 

You can book Libby for any of the following:

  • Conference keynotes

  • In-house Trend Briefings

  • Leadership and training programmes

  • Workshops or inspiration sessions

Clients who regularly book Libby include some of the biggest names in business.

Client Feedback

  • Libby showed her versatility in contributing to the plan for opening two new Government schools in the Northern Territory in 2011. Libby rolled up her sleeves and had a profound impact on our teams. Libby’s ability to adjust the collective thinking of teams to develop new models of operation within innovatively designed architecture speaks volumes. Libby’s impact continues to resonate with the schools today. But further, Libby takes a personal interest in her clients, demonstrating a deep passion for her work. I unreservedly recommend Libby to any organisation looking to find new ways, processes and spaces through which to succeed.

    Adam Voigt, Former Principal, Rosebery Schools

  • Libby is an excellent facilitator, having witnessed Libby's involvement at a number of events with business leaders across a variety of industries. Libby has a great ability to get everyone involved, share their opinions and speak their minds in an open and transparent manner. She clearly challenges traditional approaches to business management and leadership, thus encouraging 'out of the square' thinking.

    David Brown, Vice President Operations, HPL Hotels and Resorts

  • Libby is a creative thinker who has managed to find a successful way to add value to our diverse group of leaders in a way that means something to each one of them, from both a team perspective, and as individuals.

    Jo Devin, HR Director, Plantation Homes

  • Libby is a very valuable asset to any business serious about building an internal culture of empowerment, creativity and loyalty. In this challenging business environment every business needs to differentiate iteself from its competitors. Libby can help do this providing the management of the business are serious about creating long-term cultural change in their business. I cannot speak highly enough of Libby's attitude, integrity and effectiveness in bringing about change. She has the unique ability to very quickly grasp a problem and develop a creative solution to unlock hidden human potential.

    Stephen Milne, Director, Brand and Communication, Riviera Marine

  • Libby is a professional that has the insight and intellectual calculation to be both a creative problem solver and an instigator of positive growth through a new approach to old problems. I've worked with Libby in the past and will be hiring her again in the near future. She has an absolutely positive effect on my business.

    Dallas Heale, Director