Andrés Valencia

Andrés Valencia, MBI. Futuristmx

I resonate with game-changing projects, progressive brands, disruptive initiatives and people with inspiring purposeful leadership.

My principles are future-driven transformative power, instinct, companionship, loyalty, intelligence, wisdom, courage and trust.

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My Expertise

Strategist. Innovator. Futures Thinking Generalist.

Fields of Knowledge

My experience connects foresight, strategy, design and Innovation. A proved multi-perspective, futures-proof DNA to deliver powerful innovation concepts.

Anticipation, the name of my game.

  • Thinking what’s next.

    Time as the greatest value proposition for the challenges of the 21st century.

    Real value, not the typical “the future of…” report.

  • Driven by futures intelligence, the Innovation I deliver holds many strategic components: business models, Intellectual Property and new forms of value (to deliver and capture)

  • A clear pathway, milestones and activities within a futures push/pull meta context.

  • (Strategic) Design. The beauty of connecting the dots in a way people can perceive value propositions.

Engagements

Andrés Valencia, Innovation & Futurist
  • Pharmaceutical, Entertainment, Consumer Goods, Licensing, Tequila, Mezcal, Fashion, Aviation, Logistics, Manufacturing, Foods & Beverages, CBD, Technology, Software, Healthcare, B2B services, Beauty & Wellness,

  • Latam
    Public Policies and Design Latin American Network
    Alianza del Pacífico

    Mexico

    Design and Innovation Council
    Graphic Designers Association
    IIDA
    Reto Zapopan
    Trepcamp México
    Creative Mornings
    Founders Live
    TEDx
    + Others

    USA
    Design Futures Initiative
    Trepcamp

    Spain
    READ (design associations network)
    DiOS (design institute of Spain)

    United Nations
    DPPA Innovation Cell, global
    Creative Cities Network

    Ecuador
    Behance
    CIDAP

    Uruguay
    CDU | Cámara de Diseño

  • Ministries of Industries
    Uruguay
    Cuba

    Oficina Nacional de Diseño Cuba
    Cuba

    Ministries of Culture
    Ecuador
    Argentina

    Ministries of Economy
    México
    Ecuador

    State Governments:
    Jalisco (MX)
    Lombardía (IT)

    Local Governments:
    Guadalajara (MX)
    Zapopan (MX)

  • México:
    CEDIM
    Tec de Monterrey
    ITESO
    UAM
    UAG
    UNIVA
    UP
    CETYS
    UDG

    USA:
    The New School, Parsons
    Carnegie Mellon University, Design School
    Stanford University

    Cuba:
    ISDI (Design School)

    Brazil:
    IESB Brasilia

    Argentina:
    FADU (Design School, Universidad de Buenos Aires)
    Universidad de San Andrés

    Colombia
    PRIME Business School

    Uruguay
    UTU

    Chile
    Bio-Bio

    Ecuador
    La Metro (Instituto Metropolitano de Diseño)

  • Interventions in the following countries:

    México
    USA
    Cuba
    Costa Rica
    Ecuador
    Chile
    Brazil
    Peru
    Uruguay
    Argentina
    Spain
    Italy
    Poland

My companies. Co-founder

A consulting firm. Specialized in corporate foresight and strategic innovation.

The leading IP software in Mexico for trademark watching & brand portfolio management.

Testimonials

Andres has been a colleague, mentor and influencer in my career as a designer and futurist. He's been instrumental in building our global Speculative Futures community and other projects that have helped established the core pillars of bringing Futures Thinking to the masses.

Whether it's collaborating on strategy or fine tuning brand identities and graphic design, this gentleman can do it all..thorough, empathetic, humble, inclusive and visionary no task is too large or small for him to tackle.

Phil Balagtas
Futurist, Design Leader and Professor of Futures Thinking,

Founder of The Design Futures Initiative, Speculative Futures Network, PRIMER conference

Over the past several years, I've had the pleasure of working with Andrés in a few different capacities, and I'm always looking for ways to include him in the work we do at TFSX due to his passion for excellence; his expertise around creative collaboration; his knowledge in the fields of foresight, design, and innovation; and his track record of over-delivering.

Andrés thinks in terms of the "big picture," and knows how to pull others into opportunities beyond what they had originally imagined.

Once you've worked with Andrés, you will have a trusted and invaluable partner for the long-term!

Frank Spencer
Founder and Principal
TFSX

Andrés is a great man. I have known him for more than 10 years and I consider him an honorable person, a very professional and responsible worker.

If anyone needed his services, I would highly recommend him without fear of making a mistake.

I respect and admire him. Great friend, always prepared and willing to help with anything necessary.

Ricardo Rivera
Co-founder & Commercial Director
Marce Celis, Repostería y Alta Cocina

Testimonials

I was honored to meet Andres when he was my master's degree teacher on innovation.

His passion and knowledge about this topic is highly contagious. He’s always open to giving you honest feedback while helping you to improve (if you’re ready to do the work on it).

As a business partner, he’s open to listening to new ideas while trying to implement them as soon as possible.

Javier Guillén
Growth Marketer

Such a pleasure working with Andrés. He is a collaborative facilitator driving a team towards surprising ideas and solutions.

He is a thought partner, well versed in a deep tool box of future and design thinking methods, and he strives for continuous evolution.

Mary Lukanuski

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