All that Matters.
Systemic Foresight Expertise and Resilience Leadership for the public and private sectors
Mission
We provide resilience by combining foresight and imagination with materiality and culture. Our mission is to help public organisations, financial institutions, territorial entities and businesses
navigate the complexities of the future with confidence and anticipation and
identify new ways to create lasting value with planetary boundaries.
Those who adapt will thrive.
Manufacturing Corporate Resilience
Convinced that physical, domestic production and infrastructure are essential for economic resilience, we advise on robust strategies to ensure your industry and your investment can thrive amidst current constraints.
Foraging in History and Geography to Forge the Future
By learning from the past and from other places and cultures, we create innovative, adaptive and robust solutions for a tomorrow in a changed climate.
Anticipating Institutional and Managerial Change
Delivering effective policies amidst climate change, technological and geopolitical disruptions, demographic and behavioural shifts, and pandemics is hard. Contrary to perception, a hidden majority of business leaders want to contribute to improving wellbeing and the environment.
Through megatrends analysis, scenario planning and strategic foresight, we help leaders, managers and planners to challenge conventional governance, bridge the perception and knowledge gaps and become future-ready.
Imagining Futures within Planetary and Human Boundaries
Beyond mere optimisation of the existing, we envision alternative futures that are possible within the material situation we have.
The times of unlimited material possibilities are over. Repricing assets based on biophysical reality has begun. However, human imagination, intuition and ingenuity are unlimited. Those who decode these signals and transform will capture returns.
Rethinking Risk Radically
In a world where 50% of GDP are at risk from climate change, we help to preempt exposure and develop a risk culture that can act as a catalyst for innovation and regeneration.
- Business, Resources and Political Consulting
- Change Management
- Strategic Planning
- Content Strategy
- Executive Sparring
- Leadership Development
- Public Speaking
- Training
Pascale Junker
Uncompromised thinking, truly ahead of the crowd
360°
View, a combination of science-based economic, biophysical, territorial, historical, sociological and ethical perspectives and insights
30
Years of international, practical and theoretical experience, in industry, development cooperation, research, public administration, going beyond sectoral silos and conventional views
5
Languages spoken and
cultures apprehended
4
Sight method looking beyond the obvious, applying systems thinking and historical view points with originality, curiousity and clarity.
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Pioneer in setting up foresight in the Luxembourg public administration. Natural mediator and curator of winning teams.
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Algorithm-free ideas, taking pride in and cultivating human strategic imagineering* and intuition, making sense of human and natural systems beyond what data and predictive models can reveal.
*Itai Talmi, 2025
Business proposition
How Pascale Junker Foresight works
Systemic Foresight
From horizon scanning to trends observation, over sense making of weak signals, scenario planning or industry-specific technology forecasting.
Narrated, quantified or mapped scenarios.
Strategic Advise
Turning scenarios into strategies and action plans, budgets and deadlines.
Anticipating cumulative risks in times of uncertainty and existential threats.
Anticipative Planning
Co-planning for transformation, resilience and robustness, embedded in the relevant bio-geo-physical and socio-economic context.
Advanced preparedness in the event of disaster and infrastructure failure.
Providing Answers
The questions we answer for our clients
What is the cost for your company of ignoring foresight?
Not preparing for the futures, or preparing for the wrong future comes at a cost. Investments are inherently based on anticipating future risks. Anticipatory mindset and advanced state of preparedness are therefore competitive advantages.
As shown in the figure below, if firms anticipate an ambitious carbon price in their NPV assessment and adjust their investment decisions from high to low-carbon activities, an earlier and cheaper energy transition can occur, promoting economic decarbonisation.
Foresight therefore acts as a bridge-builder for leaders which are hard-pressed between
- their fiduciary duty to make profitable business for their shareholders,
- the material risks of asset financial devaluation or physical destruction and of amplifying climate change through inadequate investment choices
- the reality of a resource-constrained world
- and the exposure to machine-dependency,
- along with customers, regulators, suppliers and employees changing behaviours.
“Future prepared firms enjoy on average a 33% higher profitability and a 200% higher growth rate in market capitalisation than their less prepared peers.”
“While futures thinking should be leveraged across the organisation, firms that dedicate a seat on their executive team to foresight – a Chief Foresight Officer – are sending a clear message about the priority they place on long-term value creation.”
Corporate foresight and its impact on firm performance,
René Rohrbeck & Menes Etingue Kum, 2018
Impact of firms’ climate foresight on economic decarbonisation.
The figure shows the change in euro area GHG emissions for selected years (as a % deviation from the 2020 level) as a result of firms’ anticipation of orderly carbon tax introduction.
The double materiality of climate physical and transition risks
Gourdel et al., 2022
What does successful foresight look like?
- Foresight and planning for the future, are acts of optimism. Successful foresight is not one which terrifies: it is one which promotes action. Great futures work unravels your underlying assumptions and helps you change your mind.
- Foresight generates strategies which are robust whatever the scenario that plays out.
- Truth before tribe mindset, foresight is not afraid to face hard realities, dedicated to constructing middle ground solutions between professional practical experience and activism for immediate extreme measures. Bold ideas about future benefits create trust in thought leadership.
- Foresight is more important now than ever because it can:
- Challenge the way we see the world, our assumptions and certainties
- Sow doubts, think the unthinkable,
- Give a more complete understanding of the biophysical world and cultural and behavioural context
- Distinguish hypes and noise from emerging trends and inflated expectations, from what the real major issues are.
- Overcome divisions by imagining and enacting a common preferable future
- Give realistic hope and raise from lethargy
“La prospective est une discipline de liberté et de refus du fatalisme. L’avenir est à choisir, construire, débattre. Méthode hétérodoxe, elle tire sa puissance du croisement de tendances lourdes, signaux faibles et ruptures possibles. Sciences humaines et sciences dures. Sociologie et géopolitique. Economie et écologie … Exploratoire, normative, stratégique ou participative, elle poursuit toujours les mêmes ambitions: redonner la capacité de penser au-delà du présent, choisir une destination, trouver les moyens de l’atteindre, décider en connaissance, arbitrer en conscience, concilier l’imparfait et le future. Atteler ensemble les générations. Pour atteindre ses objectifs, la prospective pose deux conditions: que sa méthode soit pleinement intégrée dans la pratique, et ses résultats dans les décisions.”
Virginie Raisson-Victor, Prospectiviste et Géopolitologue, 2025
“Beauty will save the world”
Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1869
Trusted by
Institutions, companies, municipalities
"Madame Pascale Junker nous a livré une brillante présentation du travail d’analyse prospective réalisée au Grand-Duché du Luxembourg, démarche essentielle en ces temps de transformation rapide."
Sébastien Brunet, Administrateur général - Chef Statisticien
"The Learning and Development Unit of the European Parliament Secretariat invited Pascale Junker to deliver a workshop to EP managers in the context of the EP Senior Leadership Lounge. 15 managers took part in the session and learned more about the Global Trends 2040 and how Foresight can assist them in their leadership role. Pascale's session was highly effective, showcasing her broad knowledge of Foresight and Megatrends. She skillfully tailored her insights to the institution's context, engaging the audience with her clear and relevant content. Pascale is a reliable, inspiring and professional speaker who delivered a thought-provoking session that resonated well with the audience."
Directorate-General for Personnel Directorate for HR Development Learning and Development Unit
"We at the European School of Administration invited Pascale Junker to deliver a keynote speech at a Leadership Circle event where 60 EU senior managers gathered to learn more and reflect about the Global Trends 2040. Her stimulating presentation and questions set the scene for a lively session of systemic thinking facilitated by the European Commission's Policy Lab at the JRC."
"Pascale Junker contributed to the EU-Brazil Foresight Dialogue in May 2025 in Brasilia, invited by Forward Global on behalf of the European External Action Service. Pascale brilliantly took part in a panel discussion on foresight in support of better decision-making to an audience of some 350 senior participants from government, academia and civil society from Brazil, presented a foresight methodology (scenario planning), and moderated a foresight exercise. Her participation to the event was instrumental to the quality of its outcomes, greatly raising awareness of foresight among Brazilian officials and supporting the creation of a network in Brasilia with her expertise and interpersonal skills."
Pauline Massart, Partner, Strategic Intelligence