What our clients say
"This was the best session (of the four-week programme). Simply amazing! Very useful."
London Business School, Senior Executive Programme, February 2009
"Breathtaking presentation. Great insight into future and how you can try and shape it. The future is nearby and we have to deal with that. We must spend at least 10% of our time understanding the future!"
London Business School, Senior Executive Programme, February 2009
"The conference was moving and inspirational - it made me feel like I was flying, without any accessories!"
Carolina Cárdenas – UnderSecretary of Tourism Planning, Mexican Ministry of Tourism
"Wow! That was great! I loved listening to your ideas! That was the most important set of concepts that I've heard anyone talk about in a long time."
Greg Homan, Director, Emerging Technologies, Nextel Communications
"Wolfgang has given some of the most memorable and highly-rated presentations in YPO history."
Young Presidents' Organization - USA, Asia and Europe
"At the Online Publishers Association London Forum they left the best for last, with Wolfgang Grulke - futurist, author and adviser to the world's top firms through FutureWorld International - ending the day with an inspiring but frightening look into the future, asking one important question for your business - is your product at the end of its life-cycle?"
Paul Lomax, former Head of New Media for the Guardian Media Group
"Brilliant stuff. Very thought provoking and truly forward looking. Implications are more far-reaching than I thought and have made me question the sustainability of my business."
London Business School, Senior Executive Programme, February 2009
"This was the most powerful presentation I have ever seen. You have absolutely shaken us out of complacency. We must 'think future' everyday, not just at annual retreats. There is no yesterday, only tomorrow."
Kitty Choi, Head, Efficiency Unit, Hong Kong Government
"Your workshop at the London Business School last year was a milestone in my life. I would like to thank you for that. I have just visited New York with my family and we saw some of the innovations you spoke about happening. It was a great experience, and now they can be convinced that what I told them after your session was true!"
Jaron Wiedmaier, General Director, Continental Tires Russia
"Wolfgang. I applaud you!! You're doing incredible things. Thank God you left IBM - you are now truly of service to the world."
Elaine Bylos, Atlanta
"Wolfgang is one of the few thinkers able to shake up the intellectual trajectories of the world's leading executives. He expands the range of thought by challenging you to imagine and consider the possible. His insights are a 'must' for those responsible for creating vision."
JoEllyn Prouty McLaren: Director, Executive Education, London Business School
"Fantastic way of presenting strategies for coping and excelling in the future. Scary in an inspiring way! A perfect performance."
London Business School Senior Executive Programme
"Your presentation was great, very thought provoking!"
Frank Leong, Li & Fung Trading Group, Hong Kong
"It was so inspirational that you could not but be excited! Wolfgang was saying it is great to think big and be emotionally excited by taking on challenging opportunities. It was against this backdrop that the acquisition of Laing took place. We looked at the risks - and the opportunities. Although incremental improvements are OK, you do need a step change."
Ray O'Rourke, CEO of Laing O'Rourke
"Fantastic and insightful; extremely relevant in our context."
Peter Sands, Group CEO, Standard Chartered Bank
"A mind-blowing presentation on change and the future of financial services."
Sohana Maharaj, Chief Operating Officer, ABSA Brokers
"In previous consulting relationships there has always been an obsession with driving costs down. Our partnership with FutureWorld goes way beyond that, to a constant drive towards new ideas and new revenue opportunities. It's amazing how much we have learnt from the future. That's unique in my experience, and great fun."
Bernard Swanepoel, CEO Harmony Gold Limited
"This was the best, most provocative summary ever about (the future of) China."
William Kistler, President, Urban Land Institute, Europe
"One of the most insightful presentations I've ever heard."
Javier Roza, Managing Director, Unilever Portugal
"Close your eyes, listen to Wolfgang, and you will be reminded of the story-telling genius of Robin Williams."
Charles Stilley, President, AMC Theatres
"Grulke's thinking is original and frame-breaking."
John Stopford, Professor of International Business, London Business School
"Wolfgang's thinking is constantly challenging the norms and dares you to go out of the box. Supercharged by his passion, this is a unique and powerful skill."
Martin George, Commercial Director, British Airways
"One of the best speakers I have ever heard - gave one of the most thought-provoking and exciting presentations I have ever experienced."
Ajay Choudhury, IDG Ventures Europe at GSM Congress at Cannes
"I haven't seen the challenges and opportunities of future business, communities and people so powerfully presented before. Wolfgang's life cycles reminded me exactly of what went right and wrong in our business."
Dame Anita Roddick, Founder of The Body Shop
"Wolfgang's scenarios on the future of business and technology inspired me to change our traditional business focus and develop our global internet strategy. Our success has been dramatic since then, culminating in recently being awarded the largest hospitality contract in the world, supplying more than 4,500 major hotels in the USA, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean with our Chef Works hospitality clothing brand."
Alan J. Gross - CEO Gross & Co www.chefworks.com
"The cutting edge of what's coming in the future."
Kate Bulkley, media journalist
"Practical and inspirational. Highly relevant if you don't want someone else eating your cheese."
Radames Soto, CEO Wall Street Journal.com