Future Worlds is a collection of fiction-led learning experiences designed to help people explore what comes next.
Through believable roles, emerging technologies, evolving workplaces, and richly imagined worlds.
Set in the 2040s and beyond, the stories invite readers to explore future skills, professional identity, lifelong learning, and the many ways work and life may continue to evolve.
The books stand on their own as fiction.
The learning emerges through reflection, conversation, and lived experience, not instruction.
Where Experience meets Imagination
Future Worlds brings together two disciplines rarely seen side by side.
Years spent working inside complex organisations. Across major programmes, mergers and acquisitions, organisational change, learning, and emerging technologies.
And time dedicated to researching possible futures, exploring how work, identity, leadership, creativity, and human capability may continue to evolve.
Together, they create worlds designed not to feel futuristic. But to feel possible.
Ways to Explore
Future Worlds can be experienced in different ways:
Built Around Human Stories
Each series begins with a role people can recognise.
A designer. A maker. A baker. A creator. And worlds still to come.
From there, each story opens into something wider.
Unexpected careers. Emerging technologies. Quiet specialists. Complex organisations. And the many people who make ambitious work possible.
Skills are never introduced as labels.
They are discovered through work. Through mistakes. Through collaboration. Through place. Through time.
That’s where learning begins.
From Reading to Reflection
The books function independently as works of fiction.
But for those who want to go further, the worlds can become something more.
A catalyst for reflection. A spark for conversation. A fresh lens on roles, careers, leadership, technology, and what may come next.
Read independently. Shared through book circles. Explored through guided conversations.
Or simply returned to, again and again, as new questions emerge.
From Story to Practice
Future Worlds can also sit alongside existing learning.
Classes. Courses. Workshops. Leadership programmes. Capability journeys. University learning. Organisational development.
Not replacing what already exists.
Expanding what people can see, question, and grow towards.
Fictional futures of craft, work, and becoming.
Stories set in richly imagined worlds where people learn, practise, and grow through emerging forms of work, helping readers explore future skills, identities, and possibilities without prescribing pathways.
Readers don’t learn about these skills, they recognise themselves in them.
Who these books are for
These books are for people who want to imagine the future in a human way, through places, routines, relationships, and work that feels real.
They suit readers exploring where they might fit in a world of evolving roles: people considering a new direction, seeking inspiration to upskill, curious about future job landscapes, or simply drawn to richly described lived experience, be it travel, living arrangements, social life, hobbies, side projects, and the many kinds of work that don’t fit into neat labels.
The books don’t prescribe a pathway. They widen the horizon and help readers notice the skills and identities they’re drawn to.
Future Worlds uses fiction to help people imagine themselves into the future not to change who they are, but to expand what they can see and grow towards.