About Sarah Harrison-Lever

Futurist • Trend Analysis Consultant • Design & Innovation Strategist

I am a futurist and strategic design consultant helping organisations anticipate change, design future-ready products, and unlock new ways of thinking.

With over 25 years of international experience across interior design, workplace strategy, hospitality, retail, and product-led environments, I bring a rare combination of deep industry expertise, strategic foresight, and neuroscience-informed innovation.

I work with leadership teams, directors, and design-led businesses who want to move beyond incremental improvement and instead shape what’s next, in how they work, what they create, and how they stay relevant in a rapidly changing world.

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Strategic Foresight Grounded in Design Experience

My background spans award-winning projects for global brands including St. Regis, Hilton, Crown, Channel 4, EA Games, WeWork, and National Australia Bank, delivered across Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Middle East.

This experience gives me a strong commercial lens: I understand how strategy, design, operations, and human behaviour intersect in real organisations.

Today, I apply that knowledge to:

  • Trend analysis and horizon scanning

  • Future of work and workplace strategy

  • Product and experience innovation

  • Design futures and scenario planning

  • Creative leadership and decision-making

My role is to translate emerging signals into clear, actionable insight, so leaders can make confident long-term decisions.

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  • A Different Kind of Innovation Consultant

    What sets my work apart is the integration of neuroscience, subconscious thinking, and flow-state creativity into strategic work.

    Alongside my design career, I am trained in:

    • Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy

    • Neuroscience-informed coaching

    • Meditation, focus, and nervous system regulation

    • Creativity and cognitive performance

    I design and facilitate director-level innovation workshops that combine:

    • trend intelligence

    • strategic design thinking

    • guided focus, meditation, and light hypnosis

    This approach helps teams:

    • access deeper creativity and intuition

    • move beyond habitual thinking

    • solve complex problems with clarity

    • align faster around future opportunities

    These sessions are non-therapeutic, practical, and designed specifically for corporate and leadership environments.

  • I am a creative navigator and strategic disruptor, someone who questions assumptions, “undesigned” legacy thinking, and rebuilds from first principles.

    My process blends:

    • analytical rigour

    • pattern recognition

    • imagination and speculative thinking

    • collaborative design methods

    I often assemble bespoke black-book teams of specialists, designers, researchers, technologists, and creatives, to support complex projects and innovation programmes.

    Whether advising on future products, new ways of working, or long-term design strategy, my focus is always the same:

  • work with:

    • CEOs, founders, and directors

    • Design and innovation leaders

    • Architecture and design practices

    • Product and lifestyle brands

    • Workplace and experience-led organisations

    Clients engage me as:

    • a futurist consultant

    • a trend analysis partner

    • a strategic design advisor

    • a facilitator of high-impact innovation workshops

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Possible futures

Designing What’s Next

The future is not something to react to, it’s something to design.

I help organisations see further, think differently, and focus more deeply so they can create products, environments, and strategies that remain meaningful in the years ahead.

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