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Orange Paper 001: Stop Meeting. Start Collaborating.
Orange Paper 001: Stop Meeting. Start Collaborating. challenges the culture of endless meetings and replaces it with a disciplined approach to collaboration by design. Grounded in research and real-world practice, the paper shows how intentional collaboration improves decisions, builds adaptive teams, and restores focus in complex environments. If your calendar is full but clarity is missing, start here.
Our Evolving Culture
At Intelligent Futures, culture is not a poster on the wall, it’s the engine behind how we work together, partner with clients, and create impact. Grounded in clear values and the productive tensions we navigate every day, our culture helps us stay aligned through complexity and focused on action that lasts.
Navigating the Polycrisis
When climate, housing, infrastructure, and public trust collide, planners need new ways to make sense of complexity and act with confidence. This publication brings together insights from nearly 50 planners across Canada, offering practical tools, key forces shaping the profession, and clear principles to guide more future-ready planning.
The Future (and Present) of Engagement is Hybrid
In-person engagement still matters, but “in-person only” shuts out too many voices and weakens openness, inclusion, and trust. This piece makes the case for a well-designed hybrid approach, one that reduces real barriers to participation, broadens access, and helps public organizations hear from a more representative cross-section of their communities.
Five Tests of the Common Good
The Five Tests of the Common Good turn “doing good” from a vague intention into a practical way to make decisions, set priorities, and measure real impact. This piece explains the five tests, why each matters, and how they help leaders build a more just, resilient, and thriving future for people and planet.
We’re a B Corp. Here’s What That Means.
We’re often asked what B Corp means, and why it matters, in simple terms it’s a rigorous, third-party standard that holds us accountable for our impact on people, communities, and the environment, not just our financial results. For our clients, it’s an added signal that we operate with transparency and integrity, and that our work is built to advance equity, sustainability, and prosperity.