This one-day futures thinking course equips delegates with the tools and strategies to anticipate trends, handle uncertainty, and innovate in their organisations by analysing potential futures and identifying key drivers of change.

Course overview

Futures thinking is a powerful way of exploring the array of complex issues that we face today. Future thinking has been described as a cross-disciplinary approach to thinking about different ways the future might unfold, based on the exploration of trends and drivers for change. On this course, delegates are urged to evaluate what scenarios are possible and which are probable, as well as those that are preferable.

Dates

TBC – to be the first informed on any programme updates, please register your interest.

Course format

  • Delivered online

Presenter

Professor Sohail Inayatullah

Professor Sohail Inayatullah, UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies

Over the course of his long and distinguished career, futurist Sohail Inayatullah has worked with hundreds of organisations around the world, from the United Nations and national governments to leading corporations and community groups. Through his cutting edge thinking and wealth of experience that he has built over the years, he has helped organisations and more importantly people throughout the world, create real, lasting transformation.

Course goals

  1. Enhance long-range planning
    Utilise futures methodological tools such as the futures triangle, causal layered analysis, macro and micro scenarios, visioning, and backcasting.

  2. Transform organisational capacity
    Foster a futures-orientation within organisations.

  3. Clarify trends and drivers
    Identify changes in societal values and other critical drivers impacting the organisation.

  4. Identify organisational weights
    Determine barriers hindering the creation of desired futures.

  5. Empower leaders
    Enable leaders and managers to shape both their desired futures and those of the broader community

  6. Develop forecasts and scenarios
    Create forecasts, emerging issues, scenarios, preferred visions, and backcasts in response to changing societal values.

  7. Enhance vision delivery
    Improve the capacity to implement institutional and organisational visions.

Course outcomes

  1. Understanding futures methods
    Gain familiarity with methods for developing preferred, probable, and possible futures.

  2. Causal layered analysis
    Understand and utilise causal layered analysis to explore core metaphors behind organizational issues.

  3. Vision and policy developmentDevelop the ability to analyse and formulate preferred visions and policies for institutions and organisations.

  4. Enhanced futures understandingUse futures methods to comprehend probable, possible, and preferred futures better.

Delegates will leave with the tools, mindset and strategies to anticipate future trends, navigate uncertainty and drive innovation in their organisations.

Who should enrol?

  • CEOs, COOs and managing directors looking to future-proof their organisations.
  • Strategy & innovation heads aiming to integrate foresight into corporate planning.
  • Public sector leaders responsible for shaping policies with long-term societal impacts.
  • Sustainability officers working on future cities, climate action and resilience strategies.
  • Management consultants advising on disruption and strategic foresight.
  • Cybersecurity leaders anticipating digital threats and vulnerabilities.

Register your interest today.

Fees

TBC

Futures Thinking and Strategy Development. Take the lead.