Nicolas Arroyo
I believe that the future can be used as a source of hope and inspiration for the present.
- Based in
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- Interests
- Services
- Strategic foresight
Nicolas is Co-Founder & Foresight Director at Bespoke, a Futures Studies and Experience Design firm. Nicolas uses the power of foresight and design to help family businesses gain insight into the future of their strategic landscape, map their new spaces of opportunity and unfold the potential within them.
Using the tensions laying in the intersection between business, design, culture, technology and art, Nicolas works with Simple to inspire organisations to imagine and design better futures for people and the planet. His background is in architecture and visual arts and he also holds a degree in Change Leadership & Business Design from Kaospilots University.
Articles & Insights
Looking Ahead to 2026: Key Themes for Family Offices
This year’s analysis reflects a deeper shift across the sector, moving away from short-term noise toward the capabilities that matter most: human judgment, long-termism, foresight, optionality, and identity-driven leadership. It outlines the eight themes shaping the year ahead and offers leaders a clearer way to understand what is changing, why it matters, and how to prepare.
Looking Ahead to 2025: Signals and Themes Shaping the Family Office Industry
This piece explores transformative themes shaping 2025, from AI and sustainable investing to generational wealth shifts and global talent dynamics. Built to guide family offices and stakeholders, it highlights opportunities amidst change, emphasising adaptability, innovation, and long-term impact as essential tools to thrive in an increasingly complex and volatile world.
Looking Ahead to 2024: An Outlook For Family Offices
By examining a few early signals, we’re starting to gain some idea of what the next year might look like. In this review, we’ve earmarked some of the relevant global trends and assessed what they could mean for family offices in 2024.
Looking Ahead to 2023: Signals Through a Family Office Lens
By examining a few early signals, we’re starting to gain some idea of what the next year might look like. In this review, we’ve earmarked some of the relevant global trends and assessed what they could mean for family offices in 2023.
Looking ahead to 2022: Global trends examined through a family office lens
By examining a few early signals, we’re starting to gain some idea of what the next year might look like. In this review, we’ve earmarked some of the relevant global trends and assessed what they could mean for family offices in 2022.
Looking ahead to 2021: Family office trends
2020 has been a year of monumental change, as everything from daily routines and long term ambitions have been disrupted beyond recognition. As people around the globe strive to press on in an uncertain future, we explore the top 10 trends that family offices and privately-owned businesses should be aware of as they move into 2021 and beyond.
Looking forward to 2020: Family office trends
Family offices, like most organizations, are facing some interesting times. How can Family Offices be resilient and ever more relevant in this changing landscape? Here are our top ten trends which we believe will define the next decade of family offices.
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