About us
David Patrick Bickham founded Bickham MetaFutures, focusing on asset-based growth and positive disruption. Other enterprises include Bickham MetaIdeas and Bickham MetaVentures supporting technology startups and social innovation. His Prophetic Innovation framework aims to reshape policies and practices for impact. Operating in Mississippi, France, and Georgia, with plans to expand globally by 2024-2025. Bickham MetaFutures oversees futurism initiatives, including roles at Jackson Medical Mall Foundation.
Company Profile
After 30 years of community, economic, philanthropic and human development, David Patrick Bickham, established Bickham MetaFutures, LLC, a comprehensive boutique consultancy with exceptional services and vision committed to building from an asset-based and positive disruption model. Emerging related businesses include Bickham MetaIdeas, LLC, which is dedicated to groundbreaking intellectual properties, and Bickham MetaVentures, LLC, which is dedicated to identifying financing for ideation level and start-up technological, futurism and social innovation that require support in their most nascent stages. Dedicated to breakthrough and equitable solutions and foresight, David partners with small to large organizations, businesses, the public sector, and other institutions and leaders to promote his framework, Prophetic Innovation: A Futurism of Being and the Prophetic Innovation Consortium (PIC), and other tools that advance immediate and long- term reimagining of policies, practices, people, and habits of thinking. PIC seeks to articulate a fundamentally new and provocative vocabulary and pathway to build people, institutions, systems, and communities and advance what could be as we challenge and reform what is. With operations in Mississippi, France, and Georgia, he recognizes the creative genius and investment of a broad ecosystem of stakeholders and builds consensus across many divisions without compromising the core values of equity, future-leaning advancement, innovation, and cultural responsibility. Bickham MetaFutures, LLC, will expand its services to Asia, Africa, other parts of Europe and seven hubs, including national organizations, in 2024-2025. Currently, Bickham MetaFutures LLC has 20 plus initiatives in futurism, including the consulting Futurist-in-Residence and former Chief Innovation Officer and Senior Strategist at the pioneering Jackson Medical Mall Foundation. This position is the only one in the state of Mississippi and only a handful in the nation and world.
50M+
Secured Funding
50 +
Organizations Served
30
Years of Experience
Service Areas
Bickham MetaFutures. LLC specializes in the following services and major elements offered discretely and most often as a combined suite of selective features:
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Culturally Informed Foresight
Culturally and indigenously informed foresight that builds and imagines preferred futures of organizations, companies, leaders, communities, and others by honoring the best of their values and story sharing
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Strategic Foresight & Other Planning
Strategic, business, succession, and feasibility planning for the future, including comprehensive assessment and implementation plans for operations and leadership development
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Grant Writing & Business Development
Fund development and grant writing, including maximizing existing funding and procuring new funding, as well as crafting new business models
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Coaching, Talent & Capacity Building
Creating specialized talent teams for organizational and community needs, including foresight, planning, fund development, evaluation, technology, communications, innovation, and youth engagement. Providing coaching in Quantum Leadership and 21st Century Leadership for philanthropy and institutions
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Research & Policy Development
We offer thought leadership, advocacy, and partnership immersions, charettes, and participatory research to capture new ideas and impacts
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Program & Futures/Innovation Lab Design
Offering program, project, futurism/innovation lab and curriculum design; Advisement and curation of national and global tours and contacts to explore futurism and innovation