Reach a New World
NewGeo is a community of inquiry for people committed to finding new ways.
We convene and support diverse cohorts that challenge assumptions, accelerate discoveries, and translate new insights into meaningful action.
Making progress now is not simply a matter of more or faster, but differently. Join a global community of original thinkers expanding the world’s perspectives through brave conversations, published insights, and transformative events.
How We Work
NewGeo builds flexible learning environments for inquiry-driven cohorts to explore with experts and peers. Across custom programs and public experiments, we guide individuals and teams to be led by curiosity: from question to discovery to insight to action.
NewGeo Discovery Ecosystem
Community of Inquiry
Our global community of original thinkers coalesce into inquiry-driven cohorts spanning diverse sectors and industries. Together they explore bold questions, foster deep insights, and make transformative discoveries.
NewGeo Facilitators
Our Guides shape and support your inquiry, helping you to navigate its complexity and translate your insights into meaningful action.
Expert Networks
We attract external academics, thought leaders, and specialists to enrich your inquiry with rigorous expertise, fresh perspectives, and the latest research.
Basecamp
We supply the analogue and digital spaces & infrastructure that connect you, facilitators, and experts, to accelerate and strengthen your new thinking together.
Our Story
Publication of Age of Discovery
Navigating the Storms of Our Second Renaissance, by Chris Kutarna and his co-author Ian Goldin, becomes an international bestseller.
Basecamp: Toronto
NewGeo convenes 125 original thinkers from 35 countries to launch the search for better ways of thinking and working together.
TED Talk
Chris’s TED Talk, Truth in the Social Media Age, flips conventional thinking on how to save democratic discourse.
Basecamp: London
NewGeo convenes a follow-up gathering of 125 original thinkers to capture and share lessons learned. The first version of How to Basecamp is published.
NewGeo Launches 'Expeditions'
NewGeo introduces custom programmes of strategic learning, shared discovery, and adaptive leadership for private- and public-sector teams and ecosystems. Our first two clients are: an iconic global goods company and the public safety stakeholders of a G7 country.
How to See the Future hits 100
Chris delivers his post-COVID keynote & “Call to Basecamp”, How to See the Future, to its 100th audience.
Reaching for Global Perspective
A New Worldview for the Future at the Ōhanga Āmiomio Pacific Summit fuses Western and indigenous worldviews on sustainability.
Basecamp@HOME
NewGeo adapts Basecamp Methodology to virtual formats. Throughout COVID, NewGeo hosts over 25 virtual Basecamps, convening over 1,000 participants from 74 countries.
NewGeo Launches its Intelligence Unit
In a fast-changing world, every decision is a ticking time bomb. NewGeo's foresight unit helps senior leaders surface key environmental assumptions that ground their big decisions and then monitor the external landscape for evidence that the future may turn out differently. Our first client is a global asset management company.
NewGeo Publishes How to Basecamp
This new field guide makes Basecamp methodologies available to inquiring minds in every team, city, and context.
How to Basecamp: Your Power to Convene
How to Basecamp is NewGeo's guidebook for unlocking the collective intelligence of your team, company, or community. It distills lessons learned by thousands of people across hundreds of endeavours into one collection of proven practices.
Age of Discovery
Age Of Discovery: Navigating The Storms Of Our Second Renaissance is Chris's international best-selling guide to the 21st century.
Now is humanity’s best moment. And our most fragile. The same forces that make big gains possible for some of us deliver big losses to others. And they tangle us together in ways that make everyone vulnerable.
In the face of all our crises, we can flourish. Age of Discovery shows us how.
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We regularly convene brave people to do new thinking. Get notified about upcoming chances to notice more, together.