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Future // Now
Accelerating Gen Z to thrive at work
Future//Now is a development programme for emerging talent, designed to build key skills, resilience, and confidence for today’s workplaces. It supports those shaped by Covid and digital-first upbringings to realise their potential and thrive in their careers.
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Why it matters
The next generation is entering a world of work defined by complexity, speed, and shifting expectations. Many professionals in their 20's face this transition without the support or experience needed to navigate it with confidence. Without early development in core capabilities, like resilience, confidence, leadership, and voice, they risk being misunderstood, underused, or burnt out. This affects not only individual potential, but also organisational culture, performance, and long-term competitiveness.
Supporting them now builds stronger people, and stronger organisations.
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Who's it for?
This programme is designed for early-career talent, who are stepping into a world of work that’s fast-changing, emotionally demanding, and often unclear.
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New graduates, learning how to contribute meaningfully while still figuring out how things work.
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Emerging professionals feeling the pressure to perform while still figuring out their place.
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Young changemakers who care about doing meaningful work, but feel stretched by expectations.
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Future leaders who don’t want to wait until they’ve got a title to make an impact.
What This Programme Builds
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Understand your stress patterns
Learn to recognise how you respond under pressure and build resilience, so you can stay focused and effective when it matters most. -
Handle difficult situations
Gain the skills to navigate tension, awkward moments, and mixed signals in ways that strengthen relationships and collaboration. -
Get clear on personal effectiveness
Understand what matters most to you and where you can make the biggest impact, now and in the future. - Self-confidence and voice
Work on your presence, impact, and trust in your own judgement, opening doors for influence and future opportunities. -
Tools for making responses to uncertainty
Equip yourself with strategies to navigate uncertainty and complexity, so you can contribute with clarity even when the path isn’t obvious. -
A peer group that gets it
People you can share your real Build connections with people who understand your challenges, so you can share experiences, get support, and grow together.
- Strengthen your Employee Value Proposition - Giving people the support they need to succeed, be productive and engaged.
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Resilience and well-being - Support Future Talent to engage and connect, reducing the risk of lost time and performance to your business due to burnout.
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Develop your future leaders - Ensuring tomorrow’s leaders have the insight and capacity to accelerate business growth and succession readiness.
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Strengthen culture from the ground up - Building the alignment and collaboration that drive adaptability, innovation, and long-term success.
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Bridge intergenerational expectations - Connecting people across the organisation to harness the innovation and fresh thinking their diversity makes possible.
- Skill focus - Build critical thinking and the confidence to connect, engage, and realise their potential
Want to equip your early talent for the future of work?
Bring Future // Now In-House
This programme can be delivered in-house and tailored to your organisation's context and needs.
Supporting your emerging talent together builds shared foundations, confidence, and connection. It turns early investment into long-term capability, helping your next generation of leaders grow with more confidence, resilience and impact.
Programme Outline
Future // Now runs over six months, featuring a mix of in-person and virtual sessions designed to run alongside your day-to-day work demands.
Content Overview
The modules are designed to build core capabilities that support success in today’s fast-moving, collaborative work environments. Across the programme, participants strengthen their ability to think clearly, take effective action, relate well to others, and manage themselves under pressure.
Explore the framework that shapes our work: the Collaboration Compass
Module 1: How Work Really Works
Get behind the scenes of modern work life.
This session breaks down the everyday realities of organisational life, how things actually work. You’ll explore unwritten rules, myths and stories, and common misconceptions that can trip people up early in their careers. By connecting with others and naming what’s often left unsaid, you’ll build the awareness and confidence to navigate your environment more effectively.
Module 2: Your Patterns Under Pressure
Exploring and better noticing your patterns under pressure.
This module helps you decode how your mind and body respond under pressure, spot the early signals of burnout, and distinguish between healthy drive and harmful patterns. You’ll leave with simple, evidence-informed strategies to support focus, energy, and long-term wellbeing.
Module 3: Know Your Modes
Shift from reacting to responding.
We all have patterns, especially when things get tough. This session introduces practical tools to help you recognise when you're operating on autopilot (people-pleasing, overworking, withdrawing) and how to shift into a more grounded, creative mode. It’s about building skill and learning to lead from wherever you are at.
Module 4: Perspective & Possibility
Your view isn’t the whole picture, and that’s a strength.
Being able to pause, reflect, and notice how your story might differ from others’ is key to working well in teams. This module builds your capacity for perspective-taking, introduces practical tools and helps you get more comfortable with complexity, disagreement, and collaboration.
Module 5: Voice That Connects
Speak up, stay open, and build trust.
Navigating power, feedback, and relationships is a key part of modern work, but it can feel risky. This session gives you practical ways to express yourself clearly, listen with care, and turn difficult conversations into opportunities for connection and trust.
Module 6: Put It Into Practice
Apply what you’ve learned, and shape what comes next.
This final, in-person day gives you space to test new tools, reflect on your learning, and define what success looks like for you going forward. You’ll leave with a clearer sense of what you bring, and how to keep growing it.
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Upcoming Open Programmes
We’ll update this section when dates for our next open programmes are confirmed. Until then, Future // Now is available as an in-house programme for organisations.
Dates to be announced
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Got questions?
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