IFTF’s seasoned faculty and inspiring frameworks and tools build your foresight capacity, resilience, and confidence amid today’s rapidly changing landscape.
Like design thinking and systems thinking, futures thinking can be flexibly applied in a wide range of contexts, roles, and application areas including strategic visioning and analysis, thought leadership, staff engagement, consumer and user insight, relationship and network building, and innovation.
IFTF offerings empower every learner to develop a point of view on where and how they will apply foresight—whether they are strategic decisionmakers, innovators, client-facing sales leaders, communications specialists, or others.
Common learning objectives include:
Gain a clear understanding of strategic foresight's purpose and value, differentiating it from traditional planning and trends analysis.
Build a shared futures vocabulary and mindset across a cohort or organization
Develop practical skills in gathering “futures data” to create plausible, provocative forecasts (not predictions)
More confidently articulate bold, long-term strategic visions (10+ years out) beyond typical planning cycles.
Develop capacity to convene strategic futures-oriented conversations with colleagues, boards, clients, and partners
Identify immediate, actionable ways to apply foresight at individual, team, and organizational levels.
Understand how to use foresight techniques to develop strategic thought leadership and storytelling
All IFTF programs are led by seasoned IFTF instructors. Each course includes a fully customizable, strategic “Future of X” topic with signals and drivers of change and uses tools from IFTF’s proprietary, time-tested Foresight Essentials toolkit. Courses can be delivered flexibly online or in-person, are fast-paced, hands-on, and engaging without being overwhelming. We tailor intersession work to align with your team's schedule and learning pace, ensuring practical application without overburdening daily responsibilities. All programs are structured around IFTF's proven Foresight Cycle, a practical framework for developing evidence-based alternative futures (not rigid predictions) that directly inform and connect to your current strategic initiatives.
Courses designed for teams:
Foresight Awareness
Introduce strategic foresight to a large open-enrollment group, gauge interest, and mobilize appetite for futures thinking.
This is a great entry point or pilot program for creating a foundational understanding across various departments; identifies potential foresight champions.
$9,500 per session
Foresight Micro-Credential
Empower individual managers and project teams to apply beginning-level foresight for specific projects and stakeholders.
Develop practical foresight skills leading to forecast-driven insights for ongoing projects or stakeholders.
$45,000
Custom Foresight Essentials
Are you and your team equipped to navigate—and lead—in the midst of change? IFTF's world-class futures researchers are ready to design and deliver online or in-person learning experiences for every kind of context and organization.
Our trainings are completely customized to your specific challenges, timeframe, content, and needs. From 90-minute to multi-month to Train-the-Trainer learning offerings, we teach you the fundamentals: strategic foresight as a practice, a mindset, and a set of practical tools.
Future Skills with GenAI
Equip senior leaders to effectively leverage generative AI for strategic insights while building futures leadership competencies.
Prepare your leadership to ethically and strategically integrate AI, enhancing decision-making and fostering future-ready leadership.
$25,000 per session
Three Horizons of AI
Provide emerging/mid-level managers with a targeted understanding of AI's future impact within specific domains.
Ensures functional teams know how to apply core foresight tools and methods to anticipate AI's evolving role, fostering foresight, innovation, and readiness.
$45,000
Foresight Leadership Accelerator
Immerse emerging or senior leaders in foresight for high-stakes strategic initiatives, foster deep strategic thinking, and cultivate internal foresight champions.
Cultivate a cohort of leaders capable of driving long-term strategic vision, culminates in actionable plans, develops individual and org-wide intelligence, connects foresight with high-level decision-making.
$130,000+
(depends on sessions, coaching, learners)