A strategy firm and research institute that cultivates the capacity to understand, embrace, and prepare for the future.

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Through Dot Connector Consultancy and The Institute for Restoration and Imagination, we build the strength, passion, and clarity needed to move from crisis to imagination and realize a more just and healthy tomorrow.

Dot Connector Consultancy

Grown from years of mapping how stories move and systems shift, our work develops personal and organizational learning.

  • Foresight builds futures preparedness—the capacity to steel ourselves for a range of possible futures and the scenarios that will unfold in them.

  • Imagination hones future visioningour skillfulness and boldness to dream and to imagine, especially in times of disruption, burnout, stress, trauma, and grief.

  • Restoration grows futures embodimenttending to grief as we transform ourselves, our stories, our organizations, and our systems so that we can live into our values.

We want to be the people we need when the future comes.

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The Institute for Restoration and Imagination

We are creating a home for those seeking to recover and to reimagine what it means to be human in the twenty-first century and beyond. We must tend to the loss, failures, and exhaustion that dull our collective imagination and reawaken to the dignity, wholeness, and connectedness of all beings.

To move from extractive futures to regenerative futures, we must know how to practice deep personal and collective healing, truth, reconciliation, transformation. We must imagine new ways—and recover ancient ones—to belong to one another.

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CLIENTS & PARTNERS

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