From Multi Award-Winning FORESIGHT ARCHITECT:

Discover how Maria Lorena Lehman uses the power of 100X Innovation to help futureproof your architecture firm, visualization studio, or 3D software company
— all while accelerating its global impact.

Maria Lorena Lehman is recipient of the above featured awards and honors, and has been seen in:

Is your organization at risk?

  • Subpar Experimentation: You do not have an R&D Department or make time for optimal foresight analysis and experimentation to drive groundbreaking research and discovery for your organization.

  • Subpar Innovation: Your innovative ideas are not "sticky". Your ideal innovative vision gets "chiseled away" and does not make it into the your final project, service, or product.

  • Subpar Vision/Mission: You do not have a clear and compelling vision/mission about the ultimate defining impact of your project, service, or product. Your business' design values are not fully integrated.

  • Subpar Tool Advancement: You do not pioneer or invent new and improved design tools or techniques to inform and advance architectural design processes.

  • Not Leveraging Full Creativity: Your organization does not properly leverage creativity when balanced against efficiency.

  • Subpar Brand Identity: Your organization is only stereotyped for its particular "hardened" brand positioning instead of being known for its savvy and evolving design innovation.

  • Subpar Strategic Process: Your organization has trouble advancing beyond its past projects, services, or products. You lack full vision and strategy into how your business can breakthrough to its next level of innovation and mastery.

  • No Foresight Scanning: You do not consistently track or scan emerging trends and innovations that could disrupt the architectural design industry. You miss out on turning potential industry disruptions into leader-positioning opportunities.

An organization that falls behind on innovation and R&D will limit their global impact and they could become "vulnerable to challenges from established competitors and at risk from disruption by startups. Therefore developing and investing in R&D — particularly leaders — should be a focus and competitive advantage for CEOs and Founders".

— Carpe Diem Global

With Advisory toward 100X Innovation You Gain:

  • Market Growth by turning your organization's "hardened" positioning into a growth launchpad that accelerates its impact.

  • Futureproofing by turning the architecture industry's disruption signals into opportunities for innovation and market leadership.

  • Strategic Foresight by replacing silo thinking with expansive ideation that uplevels your organization's mastery with each new project, service, or product.

  • Leadership Positioning by turning outdated or standard design and visualization processes into exciting new ways of working that bring out the genius in your organization's unique strengths.

  • Speed by developing faster design and visualization processes and tools that make better architecture.

  • Less Stress, More Energy by having a sounding board that gets rid of change-overwhelm caused by the increasingly rapid proliferation of AI and other emerging technologies set to radically change the architectural design field.

  • Clarity by knowing where you can leverage your organization's efforts best.

  • Peace of Mind by knowing how to rise above the noise and feel confident about the future of your organization.

  • Hidden Opportunities that eliminate Cost of Inaction (COI) so you do not lose out on major possibilities that emerge in the architectural design industry.

  • A Conscious Organization that creates a better future for our world by yielding more sustainable and socially conscious architectural design solutions.

Your #1 Choice

Maria Lorena Lehman has built a world-class reputation with her award-winning expertise as a Foresight Architect which makes her the only choice for this type of groundbreaking work.

With over 20+ years of experience she:

  • Advises industry leaders and experts across a multitude of channels in fields such as architecture, technology, and urban design sectors.

  • Receives numerous international awards for design and innovation including the Digital Design Prize from Harvard University for "the most creative use of digital media in relation to the design professions", and the THA Award in Design and Innovation for "boutique design firm of the year for North America.

  • Authors a multitude of forward-thinking scholarly publications including award-winning books, book chapters, journal articles, and has appeared in numerous major periodicals worldwide.

  • Holds the degrees of Bachelor of Architecture with Honors from Virginia Tech and Master in Design with Distinction from Harvard University, where she did extensive research to push the growing-edge of environmental design.

With Maria Lorena Lehman's help, you can:

Shift your paradigm to unleash your organization's full potential.

Gain the strategic foresight needed to elevate your organization's global impact.

Think differently to unlock smarter pathways to achieve your organization's dream mission.

Ready to get started?

How it Works

As an Advisory Client, you get direct access to Maria Lorena Lehman who will serve as your Thought Partner, Sounding Board, and Expert Specialist. This means that you can work directly with Maria Lorena Lehman and receive specialized foresight analysis, transformational design thinking expertise, needle-moving answers to your questions, insights to uncover blindspots or unlock growth for accelerating impact, strategic ways to ask even better questions that ultimately futureproof your organization, and visionary thinking into deep futures. With Maria as your Innovation Advisor, you can discuss your most pressing architectural design and visualization questions and ideas, including your organization's goals, progress, challenges, and action plans.

Your Time Commitment: 2-4 hours per week

Financial Investment: $12,000 USD per year

Your investment includes a 30-day money-back satisfaction guarantee.


Additional stakeholders from your organization can join this Advisory journey with you for an added $6,000/year/stakeholder.

As an Advisory Client, you will get:

  • Intake Diagnostic + Firm Robustness Assessment:

    20+ thought-provoking questions from Maria Lorena Lehman's proprietary assessment that tests your organization's current robustness level to create a custom approach for optimizing its positioning and accelerating its impact.

  • Quick Wins:

    Recommendations on changes you can make now that will produce returns quickly.

  • Futureproofing Systems:

    With guidance from Maria Lorena Lehman, you will integrate robust design, innovation, and brand growth systems — the three critical systems necessary to futureproof your organization while accelerating its impact.

  • Virtual MLL:

    Ask any environmental design or innovation question for immediate answers by "Virtual MLL", a proprietary AI chatbot that is trained by hundreds and hundreds of writings and lectures by Maria Lorena Lehman.

  • Email Messaging Support:

    Your questions answered by Maria Lorena Lehman via email within 2 business days. (Clients typically email approximately 4-5X per month)

  • On-Demand Feedback:

    On-demand feedback by Maria Lorena Lehman on key documents you share.

  • Monthly Check-in Emails + Innovation Insights:

    Maria Lorena Lehman will check in every month via email to help you review progress and identify upcoming priorities. You will also receive the monthly Design Innovation Newsletter with tips directly related to architectural design foresight and innovation.

  • 100X Innovation Advisory Portal:

    Created and managed by Maria Lorena Lehman, this is the ultimate horizon scanning trend-tracker and business futureproofing dashboard for the architectural design and visualization industry. This interactive portal will help you strategize innovation and keep you in-the-know regarding important trends, signals, and research findings that your business can leverage to shape the future of our field.

"Maria Lorena Lehman is a visionary and forward-thinking author and designer. Her books and advice are an endless source of inspiration and they truly embody the future and progress of the physical space and people. She has a 360 degree vision and therefore her advice makes you broaden your imagination, and drives you through your design path. Her suggestions have helped me many times to understand the strengths of my ideas as well as its weaknesses, and have given me the means to develop every project in unpredicted ways.”

— Andrea Saliola

CEO at Pixies Urban Lab

Forbes under 30

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