Executive Education
“In 2021, StartSe formally partnered with the Disruptive Futures Institute in San Francisco to deliver unique leadership programs for complex, uncertain, and unpredictable times. Using the Disruptive Futures Institute’s resources and frameworks, participants can immediately develop antifragile strategies to imagine aspirational futures and create sustainable value for them and their organizations while building resilience.”
- Junior Borneli, CEO & Founder of StartSe
Understanding the world depends on our perspectives. The Disruptive Futures Institute executive education multiplies the lenses, widens and deepens the aperture to shift mindsets and change the narrative structure around uncertainty.
The Institute’s executive education programs leverage decades of unique strategic insights advising founders & entrepreneurs, CEOs, boards & investors on evaluating their companies, competitiveness, strategic investments and disruptions ahead.
In addition to thousands of global strategic audiences from the most prestigious multinational corporations, leading academic, educational, and professional institutions worldwide have also benefited from Disruptive Futures Institute’s insights, including Association for Professional Futurists, UC Berkeley, Brazilian Institute for Corporate Governance (IBGC), DLD Tel Aviv Innovation Festival, Foresight Institute, FrenchFounders, Global Foresight Summit, Hult International Business School, IEEE, INSEAD, Indian Society of Artificial Intelligence & Law, Institute for Futures Research, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), MIT, NASA, NASDAQ, NYU Stern, Philippine Futures Thinking Society, Singularity University, Space Foundation, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), Stanford University, StartSe University, The Aerospace Corporation, Thomson Reuters, UNESCO, University of Stellenbosch Business School, WIPO and many more.
Stay Relevant Despite - or Because of - Uncertainty
The Disruptive Futures Institute is the only global education platform that teaches you to Thrive on Disruption.
Join the thousands of global audiences throughout the world who have attended our proprietary programs. All the courses, masterclasses, and executive education programs can be tailored to your needs, and even jointly branded.
What Will You Learn
Our Executive Programs are unique because they educate, guide, and empower you to explore the one question that others may not focus on: “So What?”
We cut through the formulaic and oft-hyped “future of” rhetoric to provide practical, tactical strategies for approaching our rapidly changing and uncertain world.
Together we learn to respond to these “So What?” questions:
So what are the next-order implications of our increasingly unpredictable and complex world?
So what do these changes mean? How to make decisions in uncertain and disruptive times? How do these nonlinear changes affect me?
So what should I do to prepare for, leverage, and drive the systemic transformations ahead? How do I develop effective strategies, gain further perspectives and challenge the status quo?
So what are the best curated resources I can use for further guidance and experiential continued learning?
Sample Program: Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation
Illustrative themes below on creating value from nonlinear change:
Reframing Disruption
Systemic disruption needs to be assessed holistically. Technological disruption that drives rapid changes and the reinvention of companies and products is just one narrow manifestation. But the diffuse nature of the radical changes that are taking place in the world is more fundamental, deeper, and broader than the discrete disruptions caused by specific innovations or technologies.
Constants & Drivers of Disruption
Much of our time is spent dealing with disruption. What it means to us, and how to prepare for new threats and opportunities. The single most dangerous mistake made by most decision-makers is looking at disruption as discrete, episodic events. To reduce the surprise and impact of disruption we also examine what’s not changing. As we develop a deeper understanding of the drivers of change, we realize that systemic disruption is a constant.
Anticipating Inflection Points
Evaluating signals helps us anticipate potential new innovations, technologies, or ideas that could evolve into significant developments. Inflection points are moments when major shifts from one stage to another take place. The challenge with inflection points is identifying them in advance, rather than in hindsight. Learn to investigate and contextualize possible future disruptions, and to identify inflection points before they flex.
Driving Systemic Change
Transformational change needs to be addressed systemically, acknowledging the varying degrees of impact and interconnections. Changing mindsets is the strongest lever for change, as mental models sustain our beliefs, values, and assumptions.
Degrees of (Un)Predictability
Relying on arbitrary assumptions does not help quantify the unquantifiable, nor make the unknowable known. Fixed assumptions are like making a singular bet on a specific future, often to the exclusion of all else. It is not new that we all make wrong assumptions about the world. The issue today is that the cost of relying on those incorrect assumptions is increasing.
AAA Decision-Making in Uncertainty
“AAA” represents our “Antifragile, Anticipatory, and Agility” framework that defines what humans should be developing to improve our abilities as the world becomes more complex and unpredictable.
Building antifragile foundations is like building an immune system for our lives and projects. By developing anticipatory capabilities, we seek to imagine next-order implications to better prepare for any futures ahead while creating our preferred futures at the same time. Agility allows us to simultaneously bridge our longer-term strategy with present actions.
Climate Intelligence Is Futures Intelligence
Climate intelligence means understanding, anticipating, measuring, and monitoring climate-related risk. Climate intelligence is a key feature of futures intelligence and sustainability.
Given the existential nature of climate change, this represents the ultimate disruptive risk and opportunity. This can then unlock a new era of “Greenaissance” opportunities.
Leverage Nonlinear Change
Through our renowned board, governance, and investor education programs, your leadership teams can unlearn harmful habits and build the capacity and mindset to become future-savvy.
Make sense of this deeply complex, nonlinear, and unpredictable world with our field-ready anticipatory tools and case studies.
Both in-person and virtual, we tailor our strategic workshops and executive seminars to your team’s specific needs.
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