Courses & Masterclass
Prepare yourself and your organization to be inspired for our changing times.
Our courses have energized thousands of changemakers and entrepreneurs around the world.
The Disruptive Futures Institute exclusively confers six certificates with the following unique designations upon successful completion of the respective Certified Disruptive Futures program:
Disruptive Futurist Certificate: Disruptive Futures & Foresight Fundamentals
Disruptive Entrepreneurship Certificate: Create Your Personal Future & Monetize Your Ideas
Disruptive Technologies & Innovation Certificate: Invent the Future
Disruptive Futures Leadership Certificate: Reinventing Leadership, Decision-Making & Governance
Disruptive Investors & Sustainability Certificate: Disruption as a Driver to Impact Investing & Sustainable Value Creation
Disruptive Education Certificate: Prepare Educators & Learners for Disruptive Futures
The Disruptive Futures Institute offers customizable courses and executive education which can be tailored to your unique requirements. To inquire, please get in touch at:
Sample Program - Invent The Future
Disruption creates more choice and opportunities for agency. Maintaining relevance then requires constant redefinition, reframing, ideating, reinventing, prototyping, and testing of our choices.
Invent the Future is an exclusive course offered by the Disruptive Futures Institute, covering the following key themes as five modules:
Understand the Future: Deconstructing & Reframing Disruption
Prepare for the disruptive futures ahead
Understand the constants and drivers of disruption
Use disruption as a springboard to value creation
Navigate the Future: Anticipate Inflection Points
Evaluate signals of emerging change and next-order implications
Learn to think in different time horizons
Navigate disruption by scanning, mapping & anticipating inflection points
Imagine the Future: Foresight Strategy & Futures Thinking
Develop a futurist mindset through futures studies methods and foresight foundations
Imagine new possibilities to with the practitioner tools used by professional futurists
Build futures intelligence capabilities with our proprietary AAA Framework (Antifragile, Anticipatory & Agility)
Invent the Future: Innovation & Technology
Drive the futures we want using strategic & technological foresight
Invent visions of possible futures with our 6 i’s Toolkit (Intuition, Inspiration, Imagination, Improvisation, Invention, Impossible)
Unleash inspiration to imagine “What If?”
Prototype the Future: Design Fiction & Science Fiction
Practical tools to create the future: Design Thinking, Science Fiction & Foresight
Create discontinuous innovation: Science Fiction as a sandbox to apply our 6 i’s
Backcasting to explore “How Might We?”: Bring the created prototype back to the present
“...Science fiction is all about speculation and creativity, two qualities that could allow both companies and professionals to remain - or become - relevant in the face of our rapidly changing world.”
– Roger Spitz & Lidia Zuin, INC. Magazine, How Science Fiction Can Help Chart Your Company's Path Forward
Courses: Key Learning Outcomes
The Disruptive Futures Institute’s programs provide accessible methodologies, principles, and guidance on key topics related to disruptive strategies, anticipatory leadership, and decision-making for deeply uncertain environments:
Every module focuses on key insights and practical applications while offering resources: Benefit from relatable tools and workbooks with valuable frameworks, models, case studies, templates, checklists, and references for continued experiential learning on each topic
Learn the language of disruption and uncertainty: Develop a practical understanding of the drivers of disruption and the degrees of (un)predictability. Become proficient in responding to constant disruption and the impacts of change.
Discover our unique frameworks to drive and thrive on disruption: Glean insights from our AAA Framework & the 6 i’s. All programs also integrate our proprietary Disruptive Thinking CanvasTM as a roadmap to develop new mindsets for becoming a change agent. Own your business and career on your terms.
Futures thinking, foresight strategy, and decision-making in uncertainty: Master key concepts to build foresight competencies by investigating and creating the futures. Develop anticipatory skills by understanding the different levels of uncertainty and corresponding responses.
Emerging and converging technologies: Discover how exponential technologies shape the future and strategies available for impactful value creation. Use technology foresight to anticipate, evaluate, monitor, and mitigate the unintended consequences of technological innovations.
Greenaissance - Seize the climate opportunity: Learn why sustainability is the new digital as every company and industry needs to radically transform to lead sustainable strategies.