Hi, I’m Suzanne.
Futurer by chance. Hopeful by choice. Convinced that together, we can co-create hopeful, sustainable futures.
I stumbled into futuring (the practice of exploring possible futures) entirely by chance.
As a communicator, facilitator, and storyteller working at the intersection of science, society, and sustainability, I am always playing with new ways to help people work out what they can do in the face of “wicked” problems like climate change, and move away from the ‘doom and gloom’ messaging that often shuts people down.
For many years, I wondered:
What if we could help people experience the future?
Could that shift how they think, act, and feel today?
Could that help us co-create something better?
What followed was a period of research, exploration, and play.
Here’s what I discovered: we can use the future as a tool for change.
Today, I continue to work with where society, science and sustainability come together. I also speak about, design, and research hopeful, sustainable futures. I run workshops, give talks, and work with communities and organisations to help them navigate uncertainty, imagine possibilities, and build resilience and hope.
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Facilitating strategic foresight workshops, communicating science, & building sustainability awareness.
02. Creative
Oral storytelling, walking urban spaces, exploring experiential futures, creating earthedart, gathering & participation.
03. Research
Using senstoryscapes to explore multi-sensory, place-based stories of possible futures with walking & arts-based methods.
04. Speaking
Lively, thought-provoking keynotes, talks and presentations to share ideas, provoke thought, and offer practical tools.
Official Bio: Suzanne Whitby
Suzanne Whitby:
Co-creating hopeful, sustainable futures through foresight, facilitation, and storytelling
Suzanne Whitby is a pragmatic optimist dedicated to co-creating hopeful, sustainable futures. A futurer, facilitator, and storyteller, she works where science, sustainabilty and society meet.
Suzanne is the founder of foresight consultancy, Futures Fit, and the award-winning science communication training company, SciComm Success. She is also an interdisciplinary researcher exploring how multisensory, place-based stories can inspire agency and support systems change. Her creative work combines storytelling, experience design, participation and presence.
Known for her warm, engaging, and energising style, Suzanne speaks and facilitates across Europe, translating complex ideas into meaningful, actionable insights. She’s the creator of several public initiatives, including Walk the Futures, the European New Commons, the Austrian klimafit programme, and the People. Planet. Prosecco series that ran from 2024-2025.
From 2024–2025, she served as an intergenerational mentor for The Resilience Project, and each year, she mentors emerging and established changemakers in the LaunchHer programme.
She hosts several podcasts, including Hello, Futures; Me, Planet, People; Curious Tirol, Futuring is; SciComm Bites; and Foresight Bites.
A proud South African and long-time resident of beautiful Innsbruck, Austria, Suzanne lives with her rather marvellous husband and an impressive collection of books. She’s an aspiring mindful person and a firm believer in the power of imagination to change the world. She does her best to tread lightly and intentionally on the earth.
