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dR. arndt

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FUTURE-PROOFING ORGANIZATIONS

- disruption designed to delight -
MANAGING PARTNER
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“Future doesn’t just happen. It is created. By you or by others. You decide!”

Offers for design sprints and innovation approaches are abundant. Most of them will fail to make you future-proof. Without an exponential mindset, a shared purpose and an integration into your organization, every initiative will die shortly after the consulting team has left. Don’t waste your money, don’t risk your people’s frustration. If your goal is to make your organization future-proof – future-proof as in having impactsurviving disturbances and transforming your business – you are absolutely right with us. We help you to make disruption delightful.

Bio

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Based in Berlin, Dr. Arndt Pechstein, is founder of the boutique consultancy phi360, CEO of The Future Company, and one of Europe’s leading minds in Future Skills, future-readiness, innovation, and transformation. With a PhD in neuroscience and specialist expertise in biomimicry, design thinking, agile transformation, and exponential organizations, he brings together deep scientific knowledge and human-centered creativity to navigate complexity and shape meaningful change.

 

As creator of the Future Skills Navigator, and initiator of the Hybrid Thinking approach, Arndt works with multinationals, corporates, ministries, and NGOs alike. His mission: empowering people and organizations to stay ahead of the curve in a volatile and fast-changing world and shaping a just, sustainable, and desirable future for humans and the planet.

 

He supports this mission through keynote talks, strategic consulting, and innovative learning journeys that develop essential future skills like growth mindset, adaptability, and systems thinking. Arndt is a inspiring keynote and serial TEDx speaker, known for engaging and thought-provoking talks. He teaches Future Studies, Responsible Innovation, and Enterprise Agility at leading European universities. He has authored several books on Future Skills in the age of AI and how to navigate transformation in times of uncertainty, offering practical tools and insights to leaders and teams. As a multi-award-winning entrepreneur his transformative work is applied across all sectors.

Arndt is a black belt in various martial arts, passionate breakdancer, climber, outdoor enthusiast, and inventor of the 8-day week. His Credo is: "Don't just be successful, be significant!".

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Expertise

EXPERTISE.

AGILE
DESIGN
THINKING
ExO
EXPONENTIAL
ORGANIZATIONS
BIOMIMICRY
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FUTURE
SKILLS
PhD in Neuroscience
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DESIGN THINKING COACH

ExO Certified

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Biomimicry Specialist

SERVICES.

keynotes
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- inspiration -
keynotes

TED-like keynotes, talks, trend radar & moderation for your executive or customer events to the point, engaging, inspiring and interactive

Learn about:

  • Future Technologies

  • Exponential Mindset

  • Case Studies

  • Sustainability

  • Bioinspiration

  • Future Visions & Scenarios

workshops
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Executive, leadership and team training, mentoring, strategic guidance & support

  • Learn about implementation of agile, crisis management, resilience strategies, self-organizing teams, agile project management and more

  • Upskill yourself and empower your people with our Future Classes, Innovation & Business Culture Workshops and Agility Trainings

  • Get moderation & support for stakeholder events and your critical management meetings for high efficiency, interest mediation and focused value delivery and decisiveness

  • Make use of a facilitated workshop to create, test and validate strategic and implementable business responses and opportunities

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design sprints
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The fastest way to solve the hardest problems, to transform your organization, and to empower teams

  • Create new business models, disrupting markets and industries through innovative products and services

  • Boost future-readiness, exponential and 10x-thinking

  • Our sprints are a unique combination of Google Venture and Exponential Organization (ExO) Design Sprints

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Consultancy
- transformation -

Transformation is fuzzy, we de-risk it and make it tangible & successful

  • Diagnostics: Assess your needs, potential and focus areas with our Exponential Readiness Check to start where it matters and creates value & impact

  • Quick-wins & long-term support for your Digital and Agile Transformation, Business Model Generation and Cultural Change

  • Driving digitalization and organizational culture

  • Future-proofing your organization by applying principles of exponential organizations and living systems for scaling and new growth

  • Agile coaching, workflow optimization (KanBan), strategic coherence (OK) and systemic organizational development

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Consultancy
Services
Projects

Projects.

Media

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"I have met Dr. Pechstein in several formats - both as a coach and moderator - and I am very convinced of his style, the content of his keynotes and his ability to adapt to new topics. He is one of the leading coaches. He is inspiring, motivating, demanding and appreciative. Really good."

Dörte Gehring
Head of Corporate Mobility 

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Information Technology

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Ulf Schubert
Senior Head of UX &

Touchpoint Experience

"Great, inspiring, eye-opening... I just can't think of anything else regarding yesterday's UX innovation roundtable. Dr. Arndt Pechstein inspired our participants at the DATEV IT-Campus with a brilliant keynote on Hybrid Thinking."

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Contact

Your contact is appreciated! I will get back asap. In the meanwhile, you can follow my journey on social media

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CONTACT.

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