Build strategies. Shape futures.
How to thrive in uncertain, complex and liminal times shaped by multiple transformations.
We support organisations in designing future-ready strategies, structures, and cultures. We combine strategic foresight, organisational development, and innovation methodologies to help leaders thrive in a fast-changing, complex world.
By integrating systems thinking, design thinking, and AI-informed knowledge practices, we enable robust transformation—from strategy creation to implementation and beyond.
Areas of expertise
Strategic Planning
We craft agile, adaptive strategies using a mix of classic and emerging frameworks—always context-sensitive, intuitive, and evidence-informed. Each strategy is stress-tested against plausible futures to ensure long-term relevance and resilience.
Organisational Design
We shape organisations to be both structured and flexible—supporting autonomy, learning, collaboration, and clarity of purpose. OKRs and networked architectures align daily work with strategic foresight and long-term vision.
Leadership Development
In a volatile world, leadership must evolve. We cultivate leadership mindsets grounded in self-awareness, systems intelligence, and futures thinking—empowering leaders to act with foresight, empathy, and confidence in complexity.
Knowledge Management
We turn tacit know-how into shared intellectual capital. Our approach blends corporate learning, sensemaking, and AI-enhanced knowledge ecosystems to future-proof organisations and fuel strategic foresight.
Human-Centered Innovation
We guide innovation pipelines using design thinking, service design, and Jobs-To-Be-Done approaches—focusing on deep user needs while aligning innovation efforts with strategic intent and foresight insights.
Technology & AI
We help organisations understand and leverage emerging technologies and AI—from defining opportunity spaces to creating practical roadmaps and responsible implementation strategies shaped by ethical foresight.
Systems Thinking & Complexity Science
We apply systems and complexity thinking to reveal interdependencies, design adaptive interventions, and support transformation strategies that are realistic, resilient, and scalable across time horizons.
Transition design
We help organisations navigate complex change with clarity and coherence. Grounded in systems thinking and strategic foresight, our approach addresses both structural and cultural dimensions of transformation. From stakeholder alignment to behavioural shifts, we design and facilitate change journeys that are adaptive, participatory, and anchored in a shared vision of the future.
Strategic Foresight
The connective tissue across all domains. Strategic foresight helps organisations anticipate change, explore alternative futures, and make informed decisions today for a better tomorrow. It is the meta-discipline enabling all the rest.
We also run a dedicated boutique advisory for Strategic Foresight & Futures Thinking:
Training & Capacity Building
We also offer tailored training programmes across all our areas of expertise.
Whether through workshops, masterclasses, AI enabled learning environments or long-term learning journeys, our focus is on building future-ready capabilities within organisations. Trainings are interactive, context-sensitive, and designed to empower teams to think systemically, act strategically, and lead with confidence in complexity.
Our 4 main training modules, which we deliver on demand, include:
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Strategic Foresight & Futures Thinking
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Data and AI strategy
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AI skills by task, activity and sector
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Future skills: softs skills, analytical thinking, systems thinking, critical thinking, creative thinking
We can design additional modules covering our different areas of expertise on demand, as mentioned above.
StrategyBuilders is a certified training institute (“organisme de formation homologué”) in Luxembourg.
Shared Process Across All Areas
As-is Analysis – Understand the present system through diagnostics and audits
Maturity Assessments – Evaluate current capabilities across critical domains
Futures Scenarios – Build plausible and desirable futures to stress-test assumptions
Strategic Roadmaps – Design actionable strategies aligned with long-term vision
Implementation Support – Guide and adjust during execution
Impact Evaluation – Monitor and learn continuously
ABOUT
Putting expertise and experience into practice
StrategyBuilders was founded in 2019 by Sylvain Cottong, an economist, futurist, and seasoned advisor in strategy, foresight, and transformation.
Based in Luxembourg and with almost 30 years of experience advising national and international organisations and companies across public, non-profit, and private sectors in various areas of expertise, we operate globally in English, French, and German, serving clients across sectors and geographies.
We collaborate with a trusted international network of experts, allowing us to scale and adapt our capabilities to each unique project.
Our work is grounded in a strong commitment to ethics, transparency, and sustainability, guiding every partnership and engagement toward meaningful and future-conscious outcomes.
Get in Touch
Contact Us Today
Feel free to reach out to us for any inquiries, collaborations, or advisory services.
We are here to listen, assist, and collaborate on your organsations journey.