iF Quarterly

More than one year after the coronavirus hit U.S. soil, there has been a slow and cautious attempt to “return to normal.” Normalcy aside, many business leaders have realized that life after COVID will never go back to the way things were. From hybrid work to new health and safety regulations to energized initiatives around DEI and social justice, companies are being asked to step forward and radically rethink their purpose, and what it means to be a successful business.

Recognizing this emergent need to reevaluate and reinvent business strategy, we created an internal team to conduct in-depth research to…

Season 1 Episode 1: The new era of stakeholder capitalism with Jon Iwata

From climate change, DEI and social justice, to economic inequality, worker safety and related issues, leaders are looking for guidance in addressing key questions as they lead their businesses into a future propelled by change and opportunity. In conversation with notable business leaders, Michael Dix, CEO of Intentional Futures hunts for the how.

iFsters ruminate on advice given to them by parental figures

May 9th is a day to pay homage not only to the traditional mothers in our lives but to any guardians and caretakers who shaped, inspired and taught us. iF moms and and family have no shortage of clever adages and sage advice they’ve shared with us over the years, and so we’d like to pass along some of this familial wisdom, along with some cute pics:

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Co-written by iFsters Gedney Barclay and Catherine May

One of the perks of working with Intentional Futures is the recurring opportunity to learn. On every project, no matter the sector, our team usually leaves a project with a deeper understanding of a complex problem space, and a few fun facts for parties. But learning for impact is quite different from learning for school. Because we’re doing it all the time, iFsters are conscious of how important it is to have a learning strategy, at a micro and macro-level, so that we help our clients learn in ways that position them…

iF Quarterly

iF prides ourselves as expert learners. We’re often brought in to lead clients on high-stakes learning journeys into new areas of knowledge that are likely to have a big impact on their work streams. But sometimes, we’re also brought into support subject matter experts leverage what they already know. In these situations, the knowledge and information is there, and it’s iF’s job to help organize it, visualize it, or operationalize it. We recently had a couple of different projects where we were asked to create interactive data visualizations in social impact to help large organizations ingest their data, so their…

iF Quarterly

The question “Working hard, or hardly working?” is becoming more than just an ice-breaker: it’s a commentary on the state of our workforce system today. Over the past few months, we’ve had a few clients ask us to think about how COVID-19 is changing work, and, as you may have guessed, the impacts go far beyond spending more hours on Teams, Slack, or Zoom.

Longstanding concerns that people might be less productive working from home have turned out to be wildly overblown — information workers are working harder than ever. …