When you get better at thinking about the future, you get better at changing the future. This course will help you take all of the foresight skills you’ve developed so far and apply them to making real positive change in your life, in your work, and in the world around you. You’ll learn how to create and share “preferred futures”, which are highly persuasive, compelling visions of the changes you want to make real. You’ll use your preferred future to identify obstacles, recruit allies, collect resources, and plan action to make your vision real. You’ll also practice making “artifacts” from the future, which are creative representations of how everyday life might be different in the future. Artifacts can inspire others to join you in your quest to make a preferred future real. Leading futurists from the Institute for the Future will share with you their favorite future artifacts – and walk you through the entire creative process it took to make them. Every action we take today changes the future. This course will help you identify and take the actions that make the BIGGEST, most strategic impacts on the most urgent challenges you and society face. Many thanks to the Enlight Foundation and the Enlight Collaborative, which provided a grant to support the creation of this course.
ZC
I found it really useful and interesting. A lot of practical tools and tips for my current work
NK
Incredibly important class if you want to be a futurist or an entrepreneur, or even if you want to understand the future. 100% recommend this, you are not wasting time, rather you will be gaining it.
JC
Worth taking it. Applicable skills in other fields; transferrable soft skills in any job.
DK
Brought all the previous learnings together and learned lots of tools to carry the concepts forward.
PM
I loved this courese and learnt so much. The tools are practical, well explained and demonstrated and I can't wait to put them to use in my work
SM
The whole specialisation is a necessary foundation step to get into critical thinking about what the future might bring and how we can start to influence it. Lots of food for thoughts, and ACTION!
YQ
Very good course that teaches different ways to spark actions from ideas
RG
It´s interesting, the professor gives useful tools, i think they could make it shorter, there's repeating parts that could be avoid, also I haven't got my diploma.
KG
Excellent case studies presented. The skills taught and tools used are relevant to bringing changes and identifying futures
BB
Great Course by all standards. Prepares one for what is yet to come
MC
Fantastic Course! Filled with tools to help you make the world a better place!
DM
Really enjoyed this capstone to the specialisation, brings the threads together and builds on the concepts throughout the courses. Some useful tools to help you put it into practice.
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Incredibly important class if you want to be a futurist or an entrepreneur, or even if you want to understand the future. 100% recommend this, you are not wasting time, rather you will be gaining it.
The whole specialisation is a necessary foundation step to get into critical thinking about what the future might bring and how we can start to influence it. Lots of food for thoughts, and ACTION!
A fantastic opportunity to delve deep into the future with frameworks and tools that bring the future to life and make a practical key addition to Strategy design in any organization. I would definitely recommend this course to anyone interested in the concrete SO WHAT to all data and trends. This course shows you how to tie it into the strategic plan looking 10-20 years ahead.
Wow! This specialization promised to help improve creativity, mental flexibility, foresight, empathy, practical skepticism, strategy and hope and it delivered. It is packed with information, discussions, and tools that keep you hooked. Jane is a phenomenal, multi-talented person and a natural teacher. I have totally enjoyed this journey - thank you.
This course was the cherry on top, the glue to put it all together and an opportunity to take your knowledge for a spin. Loved it. Thanks to Jane and team behind the scenes for empowering me to follow my dream of uniting people who want or need a change for the good in life for all.
Best luck to everyone here, the future is ours.
Good experience. I have been with this course like real classroom experience and felt proud to be alumni of this Institutions. Optimistic learning for each course and this made me a confident design thinker for future till my life.
I have taken over fifty on line courses and this is the Best. I love the inclusive nature of the course lecturers and because of this course I have started a new business that incorporates Future thinking. Thank you very much
This course is interesting because it makes you reflect and at the same time how to take positive actions in life and how we can contribute to change in the future for the well-being of the whole society.
Really enjoyed this capstone to the specialisation, brings the threads together and builds on the concepts throughout the courses. Some useful tools to help you put it into practice.
Thank you! I learned a lot, and thanks to all the helpful tools and templates, I can apply the learnings to my daily business and enhance my design thinking expertise.
This course inspires to actually do things. It helped me to figure out what I want to do. I recommend it and all other courses of this specialization.
I loved this courese and learnt so much. The tools are practical, well explained and demonstrated and I can't wait to put them to use in my work
This course is the best of the conclusions in this specialization. I would never regret taking this course
Muito bom o assunto assim como os topicos tambem. Sempre estarei proximo de assuntos como future thinkers
Brought all the previous learnings together and learned lots of tools to carry the concepts forward.
Muchas gracias. Toda la especialización hasta aqui dio buena información para hacer nuestro futuro
I found it really useful and interesting. A lot of practical tools and tips for my current work
Terrific - practical, interesting, well structured, and highly engaging. Definitely recommend!
Worth taking it. Applicable skills in other fields; transferrable soft skills in any job.
Fantastic Course! Filled with tools to help you make the world a better place!