Our Mission
To forge links between corporations and stakeholders to advance global citizenship.
Our Structure
The Future 500 is a not-for-profit (501(c)(3)) providing products and services to partner organizations.
Our Method
Through years of practical engagement, Future 500 has refined its Stakeholder Methodology – Tools, strategies and processes to advance constructive engagement.
Harnessing Feedback to Build the Triple Bottom Line
We have learned that companies that most effectively harness stakeholder feedback grow more adaptive, resilient, and sustainable. Such companies deliver higher triple bottom-line returns to both shareholders and stakeholders.
How? The power of FEEDBACK. In business and every complex living system, FEEDBACK is the powerful catalyst that drives innovation and improvement.
The tools and services of The Future 500 harness the power of feedback from all major stakeholder groups vital to a company's health: investors, employees, customers, communities, activists and others, from across a "Triple Bottom Line" of economic, social, and environmental objectives.
Our methods are documented in What We Learned in the Rainforest - Business Lessons from Nature, by our Chairman and President, Tachi Kiuchi and Bill Shireman.
In the rainforest, feedback is the principle that drives a complex pattern of change, which transforms a simple monoculture into a rich forest that serves as home to two-thirds of the planet's biodiversity. In business, the same principle of feedback drives innovation, adaptation, and the creation of value - but only if the feedback is drawn from throughout the company's marketplace. Not just its investors. Not just its customers. But all its stakeholders.
Stakeholder Engagement means gaining feedback...
...from every stakeholder category in a company's marketplace.
The Future 500 System delivers key feedback from every stakeholder category in the company's marketplace: shareholders, employees, customers, communities, lawmakers, regulators, media, activist groups and others.
Our system provides early notice of opinions, trends, and actions, giving companies the knowledge, resources, and support to reduce risk and seize opportunities.
By harnessing this feedback, and driving innovation and positive change, we are proud that Future 500 companies have launched new products, sited new facilities, increased market share, protected millions of acres of forest, recycled millions of tons of materials, and saved more than 3.25 billion.
To learn more about Future 500's methodology, review the synopsis of our book, What We Learned in the Rainforest - Business Lessons from Nature
