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Become a Future Entrepreneur

Join a live cohort and learn how your organization can effectively face the polycrisis while serving a future worth living in.

Join October Cohort

  • Duration

    6 weeks

  • Content

    3 phases, 25 modules

  • Price

    € 249

  • Time

    3 hours / week

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Business as Usual is broken

In our current economy, entrepreneurship still often means: profit maximization, growth, shareholder value, and efficiency.

This 'Business as Usual' script produces companies that increase inequality, deplete the planet, put pressure on democratic institutions, and stimulate consumption at the expense of mental and physical health.

Concepts like 'impact,' 'circularity,' and 'sustainability' are often added within the same system, without changing the underlying logic.

This means we now find ourselves in an all-encompassing, global polycrisis.

Flip the script as a Future Entrepreneur, who..

At the end of this course..

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You are able to explain the root causes of our polycrisis to others and what it is that needs to change.

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You now have a group of people with whom you can reflect, learn, grieve and move forward in serving a future worth living in.

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You learned from existing Future Entrepreneurs and self-assessed and planned for action within your own organization.

Let's go on the journey together

Go through three phases in six weeks.

Each week new online modules are released in the Future Entrepreneur online learning environment. It will take you about 1,5 hours each week to go through the online modules.

The modules of each week will be discussed in a weekly interactive online call. The online calls will take place each Tuesday at 3pm-4:30pm CET to accomodate different timezones.

  • Part 1: Where do we stand today?

    Week 1

    Getting to know each other and the course

    Week 2

    The polycrisis: How BAU fills our newsfeed

  • Part 2: What needs to change?

    Week 3

    Narrow goals ➜ Sytems thinking

    Shareholder Value ➜ Wellbeing

    Week 4

    Inifinite growth ➜ Sufficiency

    Efficiency ➜ Resilience

  • Part 3: How do we move forward?

    Week 5

    Self-assessment and playing the Future Entrepreneur Game online

    Week 6

    Finalize action plans and join the Future Entrepreneur Fellowship

Join the Future Entrepreneur Fellowship

As part of the course, you will gain access to the Future Entrepreneur Fellowship: an online platform where you can share, learn and discuss together with other changemakers.

Play the Future Entrepreneur Game together online

In Week 5 we will also play the online version of the Future Entrepreneur Game. The Future Entrepreneur Game is a hands-on card game that challenges you to rethink the script of Business as Usual within your own organization.

Through 32 real-world examples and 16 self-assessment questions, the game helps you reflect on your own organization's governance, finance, operations and marketing and empowers you to take action.

  • Duration

    6 weeks

  • Content

    3 phases, 25 modules

  • Price

    € 249

  • Time

    3 hours / week

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  • "This should be a mandatory course for every prospective entrepreneur, and definitely for every student as well."

    Cor Noltee | Founder | Symbioneers, Bodemkracht and Friends of the Forest
  • "What an incredible resource. Honestly, one of the most clear, well-written, easy to follow courses I have ever done. I love how it breaks down the theory through short, concise, and personable videos, but then always brings it back to case studies and examples. Really incredible!"

    Wallis van Oorschot Grant | Social Impact Delivery Lead | Climate-KIC
  • "A powerful and timely course for anyone serious about becoming a future-focused entrepreneur. It offers a refreshing, systems-driven approach that challenges business-as-usual thinking and invites aspiring founders and overall future-focused individuals to rethink profit and impact."

    Pauline Ambala | Business Consultant
  • "I highly recommend this course to any (social) entrepreneur who is willing to challenge their own mental models, reflect on “business as usual” practices, gain fresh inspiration, and join a community of like-minded individuals and organisations."

    Carla Erber | Entrepreneurship Programme Manager | Climate-KIC
  • "If you're trying to figure out how your business fits into the world's complex systems, and how and why you can make a difference, take Lotte-Marie's course. She will guide you through an evidence-based framework that will move you to act."

    Solange Hai | Senior Case Writer | Rotterdam School of Management
  • "Highly recommended for any business leader, professional and entrepreneur who wants to engage in systems change. The insights and inspiration will equip you on the path of business regeneration: the Business as Unusual the world desperately needs.”

    Bert-Jan ter Hofte | Founder | Ter Hofte Transultancy
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