Strategic Foresight & Future Strategy Course 01
Strategic Foresight for Leaders
Develop the ability to look beyond immediate pressures, explore plausible futures, recognise emerging change and strengthen strategic decision-making under uncertainty.
Audience People making decisions in changing environments
Next cohort Dates to be announced
Course Overview
Prepare for change before it becomes disruption.
Strategic foresight helps leaders move from reacting to uncertainty towards systematically exploring what may be changing, what could happen next, and what strategic choices those possibilities create.
The course introduces practical ways of thinking about uncertainty, signals, trends, drivers of change, scenarios and strategic implications.
Foresight is not about predicting the future. It is about developing the capacity to explore alternative possibilities and make better-informed strategic decisions.
Why This Course
From uncertainty to strategic preparedness.
Organisations increasingly operate in environments shaped by rapid technological, political, economic and social change. Foresight provides a structured way to engage with that uncertainty without pretending that the future can be predicted.
See Emerging Change
Identify signals, patterns and drivers that can reveal important changes before they become obvious.
Think Beyond One Future
Explore multiple plausible futures rather than relying on a single forecast or assumed trajectory.
Strengthen Decisions
Translate alternative futures into strategic questions, options and actions that can improve preparedness.
Who It Is For
For people making decisions in changing environments.
Leaders & Executives
For leaders responsible for strategy, organisational direction and long-term decisions.
Policy & Public Institutions
For professionals working with complex policy environments, public value and institutional change.
Strategists & Analysts
For professionals who need structured approaches to uncertainty, emerging trends and strategic risk.
Innovation & Transformation Teams
For teams navigating technological, organisational and societal transformation.
Researchers & Knowledge Professionals
For professionals translating evidence and expertise into strategic insight.
Professionals in Complex Environments
For those working where uncertainty, interconnected risks and rapid change shape everyday decisions.
Trainers
Trainer profiles for this course will be announced soon.
Learning Objectives
Build a practical foresight mindset.
Understand
Understand core concepts and principles of strategic foresight and futures thinking.
Scan
Recognise signals, trends, drivers and uncertainties that can shape future conditions.
Explore
Use alternative futures to challenge assumptions and widen strategic thinking.
Interpret
Connect possible futures to organisational priorities, risks and opportunities.
Decide
Translate foresight insights into strategic questions, options and preparedness.
Apply
Begin integrating foresight into ongoing strategy, planning and organisational learning.
Three Themes
Three connected dimensions of foresight.
The course connects ways of seeing change with ways of interpreting uncertainty and acting strategically.
- Theme 01
Reading Change
Signals, trends, drivers, weak signals and the wider forces that may influence future conditions.
- Theme 02
Exploring Futures
Plausible futures, uncertainty, assumptions and scenarios as tools for widening strategic imagination.
- Theme 03
Acting Strategically
Strategic implications, options, preparedness and ways of embedding foresight into organisational practice.
Course Structure
Designed to connect concepts with strategic practice.
Course structure: To be announced
The detailed structure will be developed and confirmed according to the final programme format and participant needs.
Delivery & Next Cohort
Developed around your organisational context.
Delivery arrangements and the next cohort will be confirmed as the programme is developed.
Flexible programme design
- Delivery format to be agreed.
- Programme structure can be developed around participant needs.
- Organisational and professional contexts can inform application activities.
Details to be announced
- Dates: To be announced.
- Enrolment arrangements: To be announced.
- Contact us to discuss programme requirements and delivery options.
Application & Enquiry
Turn uncertainty into a more informed strategic conversation.
Discuss how Strategic Foresight for Leaders could be developed for your organisation, team or professional development needs. Enrolment runs through a short application form, and programme discussions go through the Academy's existing contact route.