VALUE
Who we are
Leaders of today and tomorrow find what they need at FUTURVIEW. For the leaders, visionaries and entrepreneurs of this world.
By leveraging our network of experts we bring together decades of relevant experience.
Now the focus shifts to the future.
We listen, we inform decisions, we help turn insight into competitive advantage. Because with the right strategy, insight, and level of agility, every business can reset, build back better, and grow.
We apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and a ‘thinking like a customer’ approach to each business challenge. Helping clients to reimagine, reshape and reinvent through actionable solutions.
At FUTURVIEW, we bring together the right people to identify, inform and overcome — driving material change, and initiating long-term value gains.
The future is here. Be brave.
We think about the why. We think big.
Disrupters, strategists, and advisors focused on value engineering for future growth, above all else. Because change isn’t created alone.
Our Network
Looking for transformative ideas? Our way of working gives clients what they really want: access to hand-picked experience across insight, analysis, trends and strategy to help navigate one - or all - of the phases that will bring about greater value and change.
Our network of bespoke experts give you big thinking, the value of specialism, and global capability.
Made up of on-demand independent experts, with no agenda, and no desire to push a single solution, we offer highly specialised, flexible, and scalable support. All designed to give you access to a curated team with precise knowledge and thinking. The combinations are endless, and we never run out of ideas.
Expert minds, as unique as they are open.
Free from established ways of thinking and internal distractions, we give it to you straight. Together, we can improve the speed and quality of insight and strategic advice to resolve your most pressing issues.
Some are experts in strategic thinking, some in trends and insight, some in research, some are senior practitioners who understand the realities of landing change. All have travelled the path you are on and have proven experience of realising growth potential.
Principal
Karl McKeever
Founder
karl.mckeever@futurview.co.uk
In a career spanning over thirty years, Karl has a proven track record of providing senior leadership teams with the intellectual capital to disrupt thinking, see new perspectives, shape understanding of the now, and identify the levers to charge business growth.
Through his work, he has helped to revive the fortunes of notable names keen to put the customer at the heart of their brand experience and commercial decision making.
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Beginning his career with today’s leading retailer Next in the early days of its own remarkable brand story, he went on to join the Burton Group and later to help relaunch Paperchase for WHSmith.
In 1993 Karl founded pioneering agency, Visual Thinking, which made its mark by championing the importance of fully aligned and consistently executed retail brand delivery ⎼ long before it became the essential boardroom level topic in today’s competitive business landscape.
For two decades the company was a trailblazer and forerunner of original thought, ground-breaking instore initiatives and brand innovation programs leading a generation of change.
Karl is an experienced consultant, media commentator, keynote speaker, as well as founder and regular host on the podcast, ‘The Retail Exchange’.
He has appeared on TV series including: 'The Apprentice’ as a judge in Series 12, ‘The Fixer with Alex Polizzi’ and most recently ‘The Trouble with M&S’. He has also featured on the BBC, ITV, Sky, Channel 5, Bloomberg, as well as in The Telegraph, FT, El Pais, China Daily, GQ, Esquire, Monocle and various other print titles.