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, learner, and organization.

Our trainings are completely customized to your specific challenges, timeframe, content, and needs. From 90-minute to multi-month learning offerings, we teach you the fundamentals: strategic foresight as a practice, a mindset, and a set of practical tools.

Learn the tools, frameworks, and language of strategic foresight. IFTF Foresight Essentials offers live-online or in-person training options with a range of pricing structures, at a pace that makes sense for your organizational needs and goals. Train-the-Trainer options are also available.

IFTF Custom training is right for my team

Trainings include:

  • Thoughtful instructional design that curates our most relevant methodologies and tools and matches them to your learning goals
  • Live-online or in-person instruction from skilled IFTF foresight practitioners
  • Customized IFTF Foresight Essentials toolkits, videos, worksheets, and other materials
  • Facilitated reflection on how to apply foresight to your current work needs, flows, and structures
  • Support to develop your own future-making experiments that lead to actionable insights
  • IFTF Certificate

Learning outcomes can include:

  • A common, future-oriented vocabulary and mindset within your team or organization
  • Understanding of the purpose, value, and uses of strategic foresight
  • Ability to collect and analyze evidence of change from today—signals and drivers of change—and to use it to develop foresight and insight
  • Increased confidence in futures storytelling and communication
  • Growth in cognitive flexibility, strategic thinking, and imagination
Participants are saying...
...the rigorous, structured, yet streamlined and easy-to-use toolkit helps tackle challenging strategic problems that seem impossible to crack. IFTF’s approach provided credibility and simplicity to the process.
The planning meetings, revision of products…everything was so valuable! The training far exceeded my expectations.
We intend to use what we learned to keep our team thinking about the future as we innovate.