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After a team day, the daily grind usually takes over again. Except after this one.

Travel to the future, online or on location, on your own or with your team. There you discover groundbreaking ideas that you bring back to the present, ideas you want to get started on straight away.

Ideal for a personal challenge, a team day or next year’s strategic plan.

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Explore the routes below:

With your teamThe Trip · 4 hours · 4 to 12 people Yourself firstThe Mini-Trip · 1 hour · online With other leadersThemed trips · live every quarter With your change or innovation programmeThe Trip as the kick-off · then a guided programme

How did this come about?

Good intentions from a training course, a team day or a strategy session often lose out to the day-to-day rush.

Change and innovation programmes often get stuck on stubborn habits and culture. People are not naturally fond of change, unless you make them long for it. The transformation method of the Trip to the Future sets them on that path:

  • You see it together. Together you see the year in which it has worked out perfectly, with all your senses. What you have seen with your own eyes, you want to achieve: that is what you come to long for.
  • Small steps towards it. Looking back from that year: what was the next step, who took it, what did we leave behind?
  • Buy-in from the start. The team draws the route itself. The buy-in is there before the plan even exists.
  • Focus that lasts. On the wall and in the Monday morning meeting. Because it is your own agreement, and because it is so visual.
Explore the routes

What travellers say

Others have gone before you.

1000+travellers since the first Trip
17 yearsof experience with the Trip in business and government
24 hoursafter the Trip, your team has its route map

"An energetic, fun and refreshing masterclass with plenty of room for personal input and questions!"

Stephanie Morssinkhof · Education Manager, Amsterdam School of Real Estate

"Corné has an enjoyable and genuinely skilful way of making you look afresh at what you do as a company or organisation."

Aldert van Buuren · Director, Branding Friends

"Corné knows how to share his knowledge in a pleasant, warm way!"

Elisabeth Bakker · Manager Marketing and Communications, APG

This is what your route map looks like

A series of small steps, clearly structured and drawn by you or your team.

Discoveryfrom the futureQuick win?yes or noFirst actionwho, whenWhat is holding us back?the snagHow do we bridge that?the agreementROUTE MAP TO THE YEAR IN WHICH IT HAS WORKED OUT

How does this work in a Trip to the Future team session, for example? The top five discoveries from the future, with five questions per discovery. The team draws it themselves, standing around the table. Within 24 hours it is on your wall, and nobody can ignore it any more.

Three ways to get on board

Choose your route.

How do you get that one colleague or your team moving? And how do you design a strategy for next year that responds to the major changes under way? Choose the route that fits your question.

With your team
4 hours · 4 to 12 people · at your location or out in nature

Trip to the Future

Half a day. One picture that stays. A route map your team draws itself.

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Yourself first
1 hour · one-to-one · online

Mini-Trip to the Future

You choose the destination. You come back with one picture and your next step.

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Try it first · free
Masterclass · online · free · 4 or 6 November, 12:30

Strategic Imagining

The technique behind every trip, in one hour. Wednesday 4 or Friday 6 November 2026, 12:30 to 13:30.

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Would you like to take this masterclass in English? Let me know. If there is enough interest, I will run it in English too.

For yourself, your team or your organisation

The Trip is the kick-off. Then the real work begins.

A personal development question. A change programme in your team. Or a large innovation programme or new service in your organisation. It always starts the same way: with the Trip to the Future, you create one shared picture of what you are aiming for. Then comes the programme: first find the right problem, then solve the problem right.

1Kick-off · the TripOne shared picture

In half a day, you travel to the year in which it has worked out and come back with a clear goal on the horizon and the first actions in a route map. This is the kick-off; then the real work begins.

2DiscoverThe right problem

Who is really affected, and how badly? Investigate it with users and customers, or with yourself if it is about your own development. Make no assumptions.

3SolveDeveloping the solution

Prototypes, tests and personal choices, for your organisation, your team or yourself. What works, and what do we leave behind? Inspired by techniques from NLP (neuro-linguistic programming).

4DoBuild, launch or apply

Team, product and first customers. Or putting your personal development plan into practice. With regular check-ins until it can stand on its own.

This approach works at personal, team and strategic level.
Together with others, I am building two innovative services myself, entirely along these lines. For both, I am still looking for partners I want to build with, and who want to build with me.

Looking for partners

Laadpaalvrij

  • Shared on-street charging, without a charging point outside every door
  • Shared picture: 2030, neighbourhoods that share their charging points
  • Wanted: a university or research institute, plus a municipality, grid operator or charge point operator for the pilot
www.laadpaalvrij.nl
Looking for partners

Eerder aan de Beurt

  • In healthcare: turning waiting into moving forward
  • Shared picture: the year in which nobody waits unnecessarily for care
  • Wanted: a healthcare organisation with waiting lists that wants to explore this with us
www.eerderaandebeurt.nl
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With other leaders

Travel with leaders from other organisations. A different theme every time.

Online with leaders from other organisations. Live every quarter, at a place you cannot simply walk into. Running since 2017.

Online · in the making · date to follow

2030: from profit to relevance

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Online · in the making · date to follow

AI and leadership

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Live · on location · in the making · date to follow

Leading under the pressure of disruption

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Do you have a theme of your own that lends itself to exploring the future?

A question your sector is grappling with, or a subject you want to travel to with your peers.

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Corné van Mechelen

Your tour guide

I have carried this picture with me for years.

For twenty-seven years, at Efteling, Sanoma, ING and ABN AMRO among others, I saw time and again how much of a difference it makes when people are truly connected. And how often a good plan runs aground on the Monday after.

The Trip to the Future began 17 years ago as a game and grew into the starting point of Holland Future Center: a place where boards, management teams and other teams explore, experiment and build the organisation of the future together. Starting from yourself, your team and your organisation.

Why do I do this? My mission is first of all to make people long for a positive future, especially in this rapidly changing world, and then to help them take concrete steps towards it. Read more on the mission page.

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Corné van Mechelen

Get on board. The year in which it has worked out is waiting.

With your team, yourself first, or with other leaders. You are very welcome on board.

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