Build future fitness
Set up or upgrade the foresight capability your strategy and innovation teams rely on.
- Future FITness assessment and benchmark
- Design of foresight units, roles and processes
- Technology intelligence and scouting networks
Strategic foresight for leaders
The future rarely moves in a straight line. Like a river, it branches, bends and reshapes the landscape.
I help organizations understand the forces of change, the risks and opportunities, and the tipping points that can alter their course. Together, we develop strategies that turn these insights into action.
Future-prepared firms are more profitable and grow faster. I measured it across 700+ companies. Read the study ↗
Channels
Book a keynote
Conferences, leadership meetings, board retreats
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Confluence
Work with me
Foresight capability, strategy and investment mandates
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Currents
Explore the research
20+ years on how organizations prepare for the future
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EDHEC Business School
- Professor of StrategyEDHEC Business School; Director of the Chair for Foresight, Innovation and Transformation
- UNESCO ChairOrganizational Anticipation, Resilient Leadership and Educational Innovation
- World Economic ForumAdvisory board, Global Foresight Network
- Thinkers50Top 10 in Future Readiness, 2025
Channels · Keynotes & talks
Complex futures, made clear enough to act on
Ideas have impact when they flow outward. My talks bring two decades of research and 100+ corporate mandates to the stage, with practical insights that help your audience anticipate change and act on it.
- Future-prepared firms outperformWhat 700+ benchmarked companies reveal about foresight, profitability and growth, and how to measure your own Future FITness.
- AI and the future of strategic foresightHow generative AI changes sensing, scenario work and anticipatory governance, from my work with the WEF Global Foresight Network.
- Net positive businessMoving beyond "less harm" to organizations that leave the world better, and the strategic moves that get them there.
- Which technologies will really scale?A three-gate test for judging deployment in the energy transition and other capital-intensive industries.
- Scenarios for your industryTailored futures for your sector, such as building and construction 2040, mobility, energy or food.
Confluence · Advisory mandates
Where research and practice meet
Rivers gain momentum where streams meet. I work with executive teams on three kinds of mandates, always combining academic rigour with what has proven to work in 100+ Fortune 500 companies.
Strategy under uncertainty
Stress-test today's strategy against alternative futures and decide what to do now.
- Scenario-based strategizing with leadership teams
- Business wargaming
- Transformation roadmaps toward net positive
Strategy and investment projects
Bring a foresight lens to decisions where capital is committed for a decade or more.
- Technology deployment and market-timing assessments
- Future-readiness review of investment theses
- Board and investment-committee briefings
Organizations I have worked with
TotalEnergies · Equinor · E.ON · Vattenfall · Siemens · Bosch · ASML · BASF · Merck · Lufthansa · Mercedes-Benz · Tata Motors · Mondelez · Danone · adidas · Deutsche Telekom · Ericsson · Allianz · Swiss Re · Asian Development Bank · International Committee of the Red Cross
How future-fit is your organization? Take the free Organizational Future Fitness self-assessment, developed with the World Economic Forum Global Foresight Network and the Dubai Future Foundation.
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Currents · Research
Evidence on how organizations prepare for the future
My research shows that future-prepared firms grow faster and are more profitable than their peers, and explains which practices make the difference. It is among the most cited work in corporate foresight.
8,500+Google Scholar citations
40h-index
700+firms benchmarked
350+organizations use Future FITness
Selected publications
- Corporate foresight and its impact on firm performance: a longitudinal analysisRohrbeck & Kum · Technological Forecasting and Social Change · 2018
- Corporate foresight: an emerging field with a rich traditionRohrbeck, Battistella & Huizingh · TFSC · 2015
- The value contribution of strategic foresightRohrbeck & Schwarz · TFSC · 2013
- Artificial intelligence in strategic foresight: evidence from a longitudinal case at Siemens Professional EducationRohrbeck, Szuppa & Schmidt · Futures · 2026
- Corporate Foresight: Towards a Maturity Model for the Future Orientation of a FirmRohrbeck · Springer · 2011
Full record
Complete publication lists, citations and working papers are kept up to date on these profiles.
Research homes
The Source · About
Finding pathways in complexity
I am Professor of Strategy at EDHEC Business School, where I direct the Chair for Foresight, Innovation and Transformation and the Centre for Net Positive Business. I hold the UNESCO Chair on Organizational Anticipation, Resilient Leadership and Educational Innovation and serve on the advisory board of the World Economic Forum's Global Foresight Network.
For more than twenty years I have worked with global companies, governments and start-ups on the tools and mindsets needed to anticipate change and act on it. I combine academic rigour with practical insight, and I never lose sight of what is at stake: the next generation, the environment and the societies we are building together.
The purpose behind all of it is simple. I want to help organizations move beyond resilience, toward futures that are net positive.
- Deutsche Telekom LaboratoriesTechnology foresight and R&D strategy
- EIT DigitalInnovation Director and Executive Board member
- Aarhus UniversityAssociate Professor, then Professor; Associate Dean for Corporate Relations
- Rohrbeck HegerFounder of the Berlin strategic foresight consultancy
- EDHEC Business SchoolProfessor of Strategy, FIT Chair, Centre for Net Positive Business
The Delta · Contact
Where new conversations begin
Every river opens outward into new possibilities. Tell me what you have in mind and I will reply within a few working days.
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