Our futures thinking services equip organizations with the mindset and strategies to anticipate trends, adapt proactively, and shape the future of learning. Leveraging research-backed foresight methods, we enable teams to build actionable plans that address change and uncertainty.
For on-site work, the client will cover travel expenses and per diem. Before workshops, a client pre-needs assessment and intake survey of topics of interest will be used to inform the sessions. We highly recommend taking the intro to futures thinking 1-hour training as a pre-workshop session.
This session provides a novice overview of futures thinking practices, including the definition of terms, principles, identifying signals and drivers (aka horizon scanning), combinatorial mashups of signals and drivers, and recommended resources (e.g., associations, professional futurists, relevant information sources).
This session provides thought-provoking activities to realize rapid transformation from past to present for self, process, or product. Learn how to get unstuck from current time-bound, place-based, situational thinking.
Practice various futures thinking strategies that facilitate long-range planning and innovative decision-making. The facilitator will define the strategies and share exemplars for each. Groups can work together on a given topic or splinter into subtopics.
This session includes guided group exercises to surface emerging trends, their drivers, and subsequent ripple effects to foster collective intelligence to inform scenarios on a given subject.
Translate future scenarios and insights into practical strategies, roadmaps, and project plans. Prioritize actions based on current departmental goals and campus mission statements. This workshop is reserved for groups already involved in future thinking or who have completed the Collaborative Foresight Activities session.
Participate in experiential activities designed to strengthen collaboration, adaptability, and resilience by simulating future challenges and solutions. First, learn about simulation options and experience one ready-made. Then, with your teams' input and our workshop leader's guidance, co-create one that you can use and share with your departmental teams.