Trip to the Future · For teams and boards
An immersive team game that brings your future into such sharp detail that tomorrow you will be passing it on to the rest of the organisation.
Ask your team today where your organisation will be in two years' time. Four different answers, three shades of certainty, one shared awkward silence. Your strategy may well be sound. The picture simply has not yet landed with everyone in the same way, which makes it hard to pass on.
The Trip to the Future solves that in half a day. At your own office, with your own team, facilitated by someone who has been doing this for more than ten years.
A Trip is an immersive team game in which you experience your future together. Here are three scenes to help you picture what happens.
Your own meeting room has been transformed into a launch room. A personal travel case awaits every team member, ready for departure. In the centre stands the space shuttle you are about to board. We count down, and together you launch into the year you have chosen: your future.
Someone presses the red button, and you watch your most sceptical colleague burst out laughing. Points for the fastest group, points for the most creative. Hilarious effects. This is a part of the brain you have never explored together before. It is where the ideas emerge that later lead to the most valuable discoveries.
In the final hour you work in smaller groups on the route maps. Each route map holds three things: the picture of the future you saw together, the steps you planned backwards to get there, and the concrete action each team member will take tomorrow. Energetic, sometimes pointed, always moving. What emerges is a working tool that every team member can pick up and pass on to the rest of the organisation.
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The figures speak for themselves. McKinsey, Gallup and Axios HQ have been researching this for twenty years. All three point in the same direction.
70%
of strategic initiatives fail in execution. The plans are often well conceived; people simply never truly saw them.
McKinsey, change-execution research
29%
Trust in managers. Down from 46% in 2022. Where strategic intent and daily experience drift apart, trust is the first thing to go.
Gallup 2024
89% vs 25%
Job satisfaction when the leader communicates the organisation's vision "very clearly", compared with 25% when communication is unclear. Three and a half times higher.
Axios HQ, internal communications 2025
Before you think oh no, another strategy day: this is deliberately something else entirely. No brown-paper walls. No quadrant models. No outsider scribbling over a document with a marker pen. We work differently.
The destination you choose shapes the Trip. A strategy. A new policy plan. A culture change. A team plan. The Trip adapts to what you need and delivers the same thing every time: a shared picture of the future that you can pass on to the rest of the organisation and, as a bonus, a team-building effect that an ordinary strategy day never gives you.
Stay at your own office, choose a location that fits the picture, or deliberately step out of the organisation and come to our HQ. All three work. All three deliver a picture of the future that every team member takes away and passes on to the rest of the organisation.
Your own location
Most Trips take place where you work every day. No travel time, no diary juggling. The picture of the future takes root straight away in the place where it has to live from tomorrow, which makes it easier to pass on to the rest of the organisation. Would you rather escape the familiar four walls for a while? Then choose a location of your own: a venue, a country estate, a place that fits the future you want to build. I will travel there with you.
Sometimes it helps to step outside the organisation for a while. At our headquarters in Velden (North Limburg, the Netherlands), with space and fresh air all around you. The same Trip, with the baggage of the office quite literally left behind.
The Trip takes four hours. What you take away is more than a memory: a shared picture of the future that every team member can pass on, a route map that works and personal travel cases that hold the picture in place. Plus a team-building effect that no stand-alone session ever delivers.
At your own office, at a location you choose yourselves, or at our HQ in Velden (North Limburg, the Netherlands). With your team or board (4 to 12 people). Led by Corné himself, as with more than a thousand participants before you.
Every participant receives a personal travel case with the materials we use during the Trip. Anchors, rather than throwaway worksheets, that hold the picture in place long after the Trip is over.
A visual document that holds your shared picture of the future. No lengthy report, no slide summary. A map you can take in at a glance and use within the team as a conversation starter.
Corné has been taking teams and boards on this Trip since 2008. Strategic connector and imagineer. A tour guide who helps you bring out your own future, while you stay at the helm.
Before the Trip we talk through the tone, the goals and any sensitivities. Corné then puts together a tailored programme for your team. On the day itself, all you have to do is get your team into a room.
I have been working with leaders and organisations for twenty-nine years, and for the last seventeen of those with the Trip to the Future. More than a thousand participants, dozens of teams and boards, from leading brands to public organisations to family businesses.
What surprises me every time is that the very people flagged beforehand as "they won't join in" turn out to be the keenest of all by the halfway point. Something in this immersive team game gets even the most stubborn participant going, in a way you never see on an ordinary strategy day.
Most of the teams I guide have their house in order. The strategy is there, people are on the move, the numbers add up. What the Trip often adds is an extra layer: the same picture of the future in everyone's head, and with it a story that is far easier to pass on to the rest of the organisation. In larger organisations, that last part is often the real challenge.
The Trip grew over seventeen years: it is everything I have learned about what a team really needs, built on The Law of Connection. An adventure rather than a workshop. A guide rather than a consultant.
Corné van Mechelen, founder of Holland Future Center
In the weeks that followed I heard people using my own words on the shop floor.
An immersive team game in which even the most sceptical colleagues were joining in wholeheartedly by the halfway point.
29 years
Corné working with leaders
17 years
Trip to the Future
1000+
participants, dozens of teams and boards
You notice that the strategy is there, but that it does not live in the same way for everyone. Instead of yet another session where the numbers get fought over, you want something that makes the direction truly land. You are a team of 4 to 12 people, with serious responsibilities and little room in your diaries for experiments with uncertain outcomes.
You believe that an organisation innovates first in its people, then in its products. And you are ready to invest four hours in it, not three days.
You are looking for an external consultant to work out where you should be heading. Or you are hoping a good facilitator will quickly resolve tension within the team: for that, we have a different route.
Nor if you think that a more detailed plan will create buy-in on its own. That is precisely the assumption McKinsey has been debunking for twenty years.
The travel report is the vivid, visual record of your day: images from the Trip, combined with the route maps you created together. A reference piece that holds the picture in place and that you can show to the rest of the organisation. Book by 1 December and you receive it free of charge: a value of €495.
Compare it with the cost of a lost quarter, or of a team that spends three months failing to settle on the right direction. This is the price of seeing the same future together again.
Trip to the Future
The travel report is free of charge when you book by 1 December.
Four hours, at your own office, with your own team. Afterwards, you are all working towards the same future again. Starting tomorrow.
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