Future Skills Farming
For leaders and organisations who want to make the future visible, turn uncertainty into movement and lead from what is possible.
Back from summer? Turn fresh perspectives into clear priorities and purposeful next steps.
- New thinking. Future skills. Practical leadership.
- Keynotes, Future Labs, Storytelling, Sparring and Community.
- Bold. Wise. Brave.
Lead with Clarity. Shape the Future.
Back from summer? Feeling clear – or is there something that needs sharpening? Make space for the decisions, conversations and ideas that will shape the months ahead.
Choose personal sparring, a focused readiness check, reflection with others or a fresh perspective from Grandma. Four ways to lead from what’s possible this autumn.

Leadership Sparring
A protected thinking space to clarify a decision, sharpen your direction and turn insight into action.
- 3 × 75-minute sessions
- Online or in Graz; concrete next steps after each session
890 €
Includes Grandma’s Summer Letters: all seven audio letters as a bonus.
Explore Leadership SparringFuture Readiness Check
See where you stand and where clarity, trust, language or action need attention.
- 15-minute Future Readiness Check
- 3 × 45 minutes for evaluation, next steps and a check-in
750 € per person
Includes Grandma’s Summer Letters: all seven audio letters as a bonus.
Explore the Readiness CheckWise Autumn Circle
A thoughtfully facilitated online circle for fresh perspectives, future-oriented questions and space to think.
- 3 live online sessions
- Workbook prompts and small reflection tasks
290 € · Premium with 3 sparring sessions: 990 €
Explore the CircleGrandma’s Summer Letters
Grandma spent the summer writing to us from the future – from a world where so much is working out well. The same seven audio letters offer warmth, wisdom and questions for your autumn.
- 7 audio letters with questions from the future
- Listen at your own pace; also a thoughtful gift
29 € (previously 79 €)
Also included with both Leadership Sparring and the Future Readiness Check.
Explore the Audio LettersLeadership that strengthens people and makes the future speakable.
Karola Sakotnik stands for leadership that strengthens people, creates orientation and takes responsibility - especially where change, crisis and uncertainty become tangible.
Future Skills Farming connects communication, Visions work, storytelling, theatre creation, leadership, crisis experience and the smart use of technology into a living ecosystem for organisations that want success and understand that business and work are forces for a healthy society.
- Think regeneratively.
- Decide boldly.
- Tell the future in a way that creates trust and impact.
- Use AI as a reliable partner for the right tasks.
Founder of Future Skills Farming. Speaker, facilitator and sparring partner for future-ready leadership.
An ecosystem for organisations that sense: strategy alone is no longer enough.
Future Skills Farming is modular. Some organisations need a keynote that opens a field. Others need a Strategy Day, Future Lab, Executive Sparring or Storytelling Roll-out. The red thread stays the same: make the future visible, clarify language and enable action.
Make the future visible
Translate uncertainty into direction, images and language. Organic approaches people can work with.
Bring people with you
Create meaningful participation, not decorative involvement. Future grows through good questions.
Move from vision to practice
Turn vision into meetings, rituals, decisions, leadership stories and next steps.
Choose the right beginning, not the biggest package.
The offer architecture is clear and flexible: from a single impulse to a guided future process.
Facilitated Keynote
90 minutes of keynote impulse plus mini-workshop to start a real thinking process.
Learn MoreFuture Labs
Large-group co-creation spaces for future images, tensions, stories and action.
Explore Future LabsStrategic Storytelling
Clarify and practise the leadership narrative that turns strategy into meaning.
Learn MoreExecutive Sparring
A protected thinking space for decisions, ambiguity and leadership stance.
Request SparringBold Leaders Laboratory
A three-month development space for leaders who want to cultivate bold, wise leadership.
Enquire About the LabBold Leaders Community
Peer learning and honest exchange for leaders who do not want to be brave alone.
Join the CommunityLeadership & Clarity
Our autumn offers: Leadership Sparring, Future Readiness Check, Wise Autumn Circle and Grandma’s Summer Letters.
Explore Autumn OffersStart with a good question. Then find the right path.
You do not need the perfect plan. You need an honest starting point.
Take the Check
Use the Future Readiness Check to see where clarity, language, trust or action need attention.
Download the Freebie
Use the Starter Guide to reflect on your leadership system, the book impulses and the ecosystem offers.
Book a Readiness Call
Bring your results and questions. We clarify what makes sense: keynote, lab, sparring, storytelling or community.
Future Skills Farming Starter Guide
Your free first map into the ecosystem.
The freebie brings together the spirit of Karola's book MUTIG MenschSEIN, the Future Readiness Check and the concrete offers of Future Skills Farming.
It helps you identify where your organisation needs more vision, language, participation, storytelling, sparring or community.
- 15 reflection impulses before the Check.
- A simple overview of the ecosystem offers.
- Questions for your Readiness Call.
- A bridge into the Future Readiness Check.
Lead from what is possible.
Curious to join the ecosystem?
Begin with the Future Readiness Check. Download the free Starter Guide. Then let us find the first step that is big enough to matter and small enough to start.
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Become a Future Skills Farmer: face the future - bold.wise.brave - equipped with future skills for successful future leaders.
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