Hi, I’m Suzanne.
Futurer by chance. Hopeful by choice.
I stumbled into futuring—exploring possible futures—entirely by chance.
As a communicator, workshop facilitator, and storyteller in science, sustainability, and climate change, I was curious about how to help individuals and groups co-create hopeful, sustainable futures more effectively. I started wondering: What if we could transport people into the future? Could they use those insights to shape the present and create the futures we want?
So, I researched, explored, played, and experimented! Here’s what I’ve discovered: we can use the future to create a better world.
Today, I run workshops, speak about and conduct research into the power of possible futures, showing others how to use the future as a tool for building resilience and hope.
I run futures & foresight agency, Futures Fit where I offer Futures Literacy Labs, design participatory futures workshops and facilitate strategies for forward-thinking individuals, communities, and organisations.
I am also an active sustainability communicator and the founder of SciComm Success, an award-winning communication training company that helps scientists share their science. Why? Because science matters if we’re serious about sustainability.
My mission is simple: to share the power of possible futures and offer practical tools from my interdisciplinary background to empower individuals, communities and businesses to co-create hopeful, sustainable and resilience futures.
My rational is that I can’t change the world on my own, but perhaps I can encourage more people to “do good stuff”. If I manage to do that, then that’s a life well-lived.
One woman, many hats
Aside from running Futures Fit and SciComm Success, I do a few other things that are connected to my interest in co-creating hopeful, sustainable futures.
In Austria, I run an initiative called klimafit (Climate Ready) where I make climate change training accessible to everyone. I also organise events in Austria and across Europe to normalise the conversation about climate change, sustainability and hope at People. Planet. Prosecco.
I am am interdisciplinary researcher at VU Amsterdam, where I explore new ways to encourage climate action with multi-sensory, place-based stories of the future. I created the senstoryscapes approach to explore how to encourage shifts in attitudes and behaviour.
I am an occasional mentor and coach, mainly to women in business and to aspiring or practicing green/sustainability business owners. From 2024-2025, I was an inter-generational mentor at The Resilience Project.
Occasionally, I am invited to speak about my work, research, and hopeful, sustainable futures.
Skills and experience
I have a weird and wonderful mix of skills that I have honed over the last 20+ years whilst living in 6 countries on 4 continents, and working across the globe.
+ futures & foresight
+ facilitation
+ workshop design & delivery
+ communication
+ writing and content creation
+ training
+ storytelling
+ research
+ experience design
+ event creation
+ a few other bits and bobs
Official Bio: Suzanne Whitby
Suzanne Whitby: Co-creating hopeful, sustainable futures through foresight, facilitation, communication, and storytelling
Suzanne Whitby is a pragmatic optimist dedicated to co-creating hopeful, sustainable futures. A futurer, facilitator, communicator and storyteller, she leads Futures Fit, empowering businesses and communities to leverage the future to drive tangible change today. She is also the founder of SciComm Success where she helps scientists and researchers communicate research results and impact, shining a light on the innovation and creativity essential for building better futures.
Driven by her passion for sustainability and the importance of individuals in transformative change, Suzanne delivers talks, workshops, and events on sustainability, climate change, climate action, and futures literacy to envision and create a better world. She created the klimafit initiative in Austria, and the increasingly popular People. Planet. Prosecco. (or Nosecco!) event format that is gaining recognition across Europe. She is an inter-generational mentor at The Resilience Project.
Suzanne is an interdisciplinary researcher at VU Amsterdam, and she explores how place-based, multi-sensory stories of the future can encourage pro-environmental thinking and climate action in the senstoryscapes project.
Suzanne is a proud South African and long-time resident of beautiful Innsbruck, Austria. She lives with her rather marvellous husband and an impressive collection of books. She is an aspiring mindful person who does her best to tread lightly and intentionally on the earth.
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