In many organizations, some people are focused on keeping the lights on. Others are pushing for change. But what if the future isn’t something out there waiting for us at all? What if it’s shaped by what we do—and don’t do—right now? For Reanna Browne, that shift starts with how we think. Change how we think about the future, and we change how we act in the present. In this revisited episode, Dart and Reanna discuss how the way we think about the future shapes what we do today.

Reanna Browne is a futurist and founder of Work Futures, a strategic foresight consultancy. She works with organizations to rethink the future and translate foresight into action in the present.

In this episode, Dart and Reanna discuss:
- Why the future does not exist as a fixed endpoint
- How thinking about the future changes how we act today
- The difference between futures studies and strategic foresight
- Why prediction is less useful than action
- How action and inaction both shape the future
- Keeping the lights on vs. making change
- What “small bets” look like in everyday decisions
- Why young people are rethinking the meaning of work
- How language reveals deeper shifts in work and culture
- Why there is no single future
- And other topics…

Reanna Browne is the founder of Work Futures, a consultancy specializing in strategic foresight. She has over a decade of experience working with public and private organizations on workforce strategy and change. She holds a Master’s degree in Strategic Foresight from Swinburne University. Her work focuses on helping organizations understand change and act with intention in the present.

Resources Mentioned:
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned, by Kenneth O. Stanley: https://www.amazon.com/Why-Greatness-Cannot-Planned-Objective/dp/3319155237
“The Bitter Lesson,” by Rich Sutton: http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
Enlightenment Now, by Steven Pinker: https://www.amazon.com/Enlightenment-Now-Science-Humanism-Progress/dp/0525427570

Connect with Reanna:
Work Futures: https://workfutures.com.au/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reannabrowne

Work with Dart:
Dart is the CEO and co-founder of the work design firm 11fold. Build work that makes employees feel alive, connected to their work, and focused on what’s most important to the business. Book a call at 11fold.com.

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An 81-year-old woman shows up for work at Home Depot while managing serious health issues. She isn’t there because she loves retail. She’s there because stopping isn’t really an option. That story is one of many Noah Sheidlower encountered while reporting on Americans working into their 80s and 90s.

Together, they point to something that's changing about retirement: for many people, it doesn’t arrive as a clear finish line, but as something delayed, reshaped, or out of reach. In this episode, Dart and Noah discuss what these stories reveal about work, aging, responsibility, and how people navigate a retirement that doesn’t go as planned.

Noah Sheidlower is a senior economy reporter at Business Insider. He covers retirement, aging, and labor, and leads the 80 Over 80 series.

In this episode, Dart and Noah discuss:
- The real lives behind retirement statistics
- Working out of necessity, not choice
- What it actually looks like to work in your 80s
- An 81-year-old working through serious health issues
- How financial shocks reshape retirement
- Divorce and long-term financial consequences
- Aging without a partner or safety net
- The role of health in limiting choices later in life
- How systems and policies shape who can retire
- And other topics…

Noah Sheidlower is a senior economy reporter at Business Insider covering retirement, aging, and labor. He leads the 80 Over 80 series, which explores how Americans continue working into their 80s and 90s. His reporting focuses on individual stories to show how health, family, financial shocks, and broader economic forces shape people’s ability to stop working.

Connect with Noah:
Business Insider author page: https://www.businessinsider.com/author/noah-sheidlower
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-sheidlower-64a789190/
Twitter: https://x.com/NSheidlower

Work with Dart:
Dart is the CEO and co-founder of the work design firm 11fold. Build work that makes employees feel alive, connected to their work, and focused on what’s most important to the business. Book a call at 11fold.com.

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Most organizations approach change as something to manage. A new strategy, a new structure, a new set of goals. But what if real transformation doesn’t come from plans or policies, but from experiences that change how people see themselves and each other? Claus Raasted and Paul Bulencea design those kinds of experiences. Through the College of Extraordinary Experiences, they bring together people from very different worlds and immerse them in something unfamiliar, often uncomfortable, and deeply human. The goal isn’t just learning. It’s transformation.

In this episode, Dart, Claus, and Paul discuss what it means to design for transformation, why difficulty is often a necessary part of growth, and how leaders can create the conditions for meaningful change inside organizations.

Claus Raasted is an experience designer and entrepreneur known for his work in live-action role-play and organizational transformation.

Paul Bulencea is an experience designer, author, and educator focused on creating co-creative, transformational experiences.

In this episode, Dart, Claus, and Paul discuss:
- What makes an experience truly transformative
- Why discomfort is often required for real growth
- How immersive design changes how people think and behave
- Why traditional learning often fails to create lasting change
- What leaders get wrong about driving transformation
- How environment and context shape human behavior
- The difference between entertainment and transformation
- How to design experiences people carry back into work
- Why transformation can’t be forced
- And other topics…

Claus Raasted is a Danish entrepreneur, speaker, and experience designer. He is a pioneer in live-action role-play and has authored more than 40 books. His work focuses on mindset change, leadership, and designing experiences that drive behavioral transformation.

Paul Bulencea is an experience designer, author, and educator working at the intersection of innovation and transformation. He has collaborated with organizations including IKEA and Google to design co-creative experiences, and is co-founder of the College of Extraordinary Experiences. He holds a master’s degree in Innovation in Tourism from Salzburg University of Applied Sciences.

Together, Claus and Paul co-founded the College of Extraordinary Experiences, a five-day immersive program that brings together people from around the world to explore transformation through lived experience.

Resources Mentioned:
World Experience Organization: https://worldxo.org/
London Experience Week: https://londonexperienceweek.com/
College of Extraordinary Experiences: https://www.extraordinary.college/

Connect with Claus and Paul:
https://www.clausraasted.com/
https://de.linkedin.com/in/paulbulencea
https://dk.linkedin.com/in/clausraasted

Work with Dart:
Dart is the CEO and co-founder of the work design firm 11fold. Build work that makes employees feel alive, connected to their work, and focused on what’s most important to the business. Book a call at 11fold.com.