WORKSHOPS & TRAININGS
Break free from surface trend cycles to master strategic foresight serving long term innovation and regenerative futures
EDUCATION PARTNERS
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Ongoing guest lecturer catalysing futures thinking for the next generation of students in fashion business and innovation, leading trend presentation and workshops since 2016
Find out more at London College of Fashion
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Led 1 hour interactive workshop / discussion hybrid “Designing tomorrow: is speculative thinking the key to fashion retail's future?”
Through a guided activity and interactive session, participants were introduced to speculative design thinking – being encouraged to imagine and prepare for potential futures, and think expansively about the future.
Find out more at Source Fashion
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Developed corporate training session ‘The Trend Explorer Blueprint’ for Redken artists on bridging future foresight fundamentals with maintaining originality and creativity
Find out more at Redken Artists
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Led a seminar on fashion design in an era of transformation. What are the new challenges and opportunities arising for the fashion industry, in light of changes in the society. What are some of the most urgent topics arising that design will need to address? The population ageing, environmental and sustainability issues and democratic platforms are a few examples.
Find out more at Tallinn Business Inkubaator
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Led educational session for Europe’s leading fashion tradeshow Who’s Next
Attendees learnt “How to understand trends and maintain creative originality”
Find out more at Who’s Next
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Recurring visiting summer lecturer since 2017 on the future trend forecasting summer course. Speculative Design 3-day training for the Fashion Business and Creative Direction Masters students since 2024.
Find out more at IED Barcelona
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Led a presentation and lecture hybrid to RCA students on my far futures research to inform their 180 years project exploring the future of design and society.
Find out more at the Royal College of Art
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Professional Practice talk as part of the Spring Term on the BA Textile Design program to share my Trend Forecasting practice with the students, with a focus on sustainability and responsible design embedded in my work.
Find out more at Central Saint Martins
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Led the Introduction to Fashion Trend Forecasting short course
Find out more at CASS Art
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‘What is Future Trend Forecasting’ lecture teaching the fundamental steps to future forecasting for the creative industries: the skills, the mindset and the workflow required to identify patterns of behaviour and shifts in culture.
Find out more at Daisie
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Led workshop for Clothes Futures in collaboration with Fashion Act Now, exploring alternative shapes, life cycles, trends and cultural dynamics of what we, maybe, used to call “clothes”. What are the functions of clothes? What relation do clothes have with the body? What do we express through clothing? In which systems are clothes embedded? How are clothes statements? How are trends determined?
Created the “Future Fashion Triggers” role playing scenario for the workshop that
took place on November 26, 2022The activity was then featured in U+Zine 7 ‘Clothes’
Find out More at Plurality University
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Lead a masterclass for Fashion Scout on Market Research & Trends
Guest expert on Trend Forecasting for Business accelerator Programmes leading a session on The Future of Fashion Forecasting
British Council led Kenya Fashion initiative supporting about 10-15 of their local designers, leading a session on "How to understand trends and maintain creative originality"
Find out more at Fashion Scout
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Recurring visiting lecturer leading trend presentation and workshops since 2016
I WORK CLOSELY WITH PARTNERS TO DELIVER A TRANSFORMATIONAL LEARNING JOURNEY.
COMBINING FUTURES LEADERSHIP, CUTTING-EDGE INSIGHTS AND SYSTEMS THINKING IS THE TACTICAL SUPERPOWER LEARNERS OF ALL AGES AND PROFESSIONAL LEVELS NEED.
THE CURRENT APPROACH TO FUTURE FORECASTING IS OUTDATED. FUTURES THINKING FIT FOR 21ST CENTURY IMPERATIVES HAS NEVER BEEN SO CRITICAL.
FUTURING JOURNEYS
FUTURING JOURNEYS
NOT JUST ANOTHER FORECASTING TRAINING
Strategic foresight is radical change in action, a UN-recognized skill critical to charting the path ahead for our societies and industries.
My trainings ignite strategic, creative and regenerative foresight by teaching how to decode weak signals, challenge assumptions, envision possible futures and take transformative action.
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Training programs that teach the foundations of future foresight, from research to strategy to speculative futures, to delivering forecasts
Workshops designed to unlock the design of systemic transformation and regenerative futures for a world in transition
Programs that equip teams & next-generation leaders with anti-disciplinary futures thinking
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Alongside my clients and university partners, I founded the Trend Atelier online school and its online flagship mastercourse ‘Forecast Like a Futurist’ in 2019
Since then we have trained hundreds of professionals ranging from designers, strategists, innovators, academics, researchers, forecasters, creative directors working for companies ranging from LVMH, Nike to Mintel.
Find out more at The Trend Atelier
Geraldine has made a significant impact to the students’ learning at Condé Nast College of Fashion & Design. Geraldine has delivered sessions on Fashion Futures for us regularly. These are thought provoking and challenge our students to take a radical approach for a more ethical future for fashion. Geraldine brings a unique perspective - one that encourages students to consider the impact of mega trends and societal shifts affecting the world of fashion.
CONDÉ NAST COLLEGE OF FASHION & DESIGN - Harriet Posner, Director of Undergraduate Programmes
I BELIEVE WE WILL ALL BE FUTURISTS SOMEDAY
I BELIEVE WE WILL ALL BE FUTURISTS SOMEDAY
Thank you so much for the wonderful workshop today! I really enjoyed it and I know our community learned a lot from your advice and experience.
The Daisie team