Executive Education & Corporate Training Programs
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The Disruptive Futures Institute delivers customized executive education programs and corporate training for your business and teams. Unlike many other programs, our unique leadership development journeys are focused on the practical application of foresight and systems methods, designed exclusively for tomorrow’s complex unpredictable times.
Understanding the world depends on our perspectives. The Disruptive Futures Institute’s custom education offerings and keynotes multiply the lenses, widen the aperture, and deepen the exploration to shift mindsets and change the narrative structure around uncertainty.
Design Your Learning Journey
We collaborate with you to design impactful learning experiences that achieve your specific objectives. Our approach blends custom content with hands-on learning to build capacity within your organization.
While we offer three core self-contained themes, we regularly tailor programs to combine these topics, create multi-phase programs, or develop entirely unique bespoke solutions based on your priorities. We’ll work closely with you to determine the ideal content, depth, scope, duration, and format for your needs.
Our experiential programs are delivered virtually, in-person, or through a hybrid model worldwide. We currently offer programs in English, French, and Portuguese (for our flagship DFI Nature & Climate Academy program).
Become Future-Prepared
Thriving on Unpredictability & Disruption. Use anticipatory thinking and strategic foresight to prepare for our unpredictable futures and evolving landscapes.
Drive Transformative Change
Creating Systems Innovation & Inflection Points. Lead with impact and embrace reinvention. Create virtuous inflection points that catalyze transformation, using disruption as a springboard for value creation.
Create Sustainable Futures
Climate Foresight & Decarbonization Strategies. The DFI Nature & Climate Academy’s flagship program, which focuses on climate foresight, the energy transition, and decarbonization strategies.
SAMPLE PROGRAM
Theme 1 - Being Future-Prepared:
Thriving on Unpredictability & Disruption
Prepare for our unpredictable futures and evolving landscapes using anticipatory thinking and strategic foresight.
Gain a valuable edge with our futures studies and foresight certificate. This program reframes disruption, exploring its dual nature of challenges and opportunities. You’ll learn the language of change, adopting new mindsets and frameworks essential for thriving amidst ambient disruption. We’ll investigate practical techniques for navigating change, shaping our preferred futures with strategic foresight, and better preparing for any future scenario ahead.
Being Future-Prepared: Thriving on Unpredictability & Disruption
Our futures studies and foresight program comprises six core modules and two applied activities:
Module 1. Understand the Future: Deconstruct & Reframe Systemic Disruption
Module 2. The AAA Framework: Foresight & Agile Decision-Making in the Age of AI
Module 3. Prepare for the Futures: Build Antifragile Foundations
Module 4. Navigate the Future: Anticipate Inflection Points & Adapt for Constant Change
Module 5. Emerge in the Future: Bridge Short-Term Decision-Making with Longer-Term Visions
Module 6. Invent the Futures: Systems Innovation & Technology Foresight
Like all of the Disruptive Futures Institute’s programs, this course uses real-world examples and interactive tools to help you master key concepts. For instance, the Complex Five Safari Game uses realistic scenarios to help you assess the degrees of uncertainty and make effective decisions in different environments, enhancing your ability to anticipate and respond to complex unpredictable futures.
Key Learning Outcomes: Future-Prepared Program
Master the language of disruption and develop foresight strategies to better sense change, navigate uncertainty, prioritize and execute in our complex unpredictable world.
Evaluate weak signals and underlying drivers of emerging change, to anticipate future challenges and shape tomorrow’s opportunities.
Build futures intelligence by using the tools, concepts, and techniques of professional futurists.
Respond effectively to varying levels of uncertainty with strategies for assessing and addressing different types of unpredictability.
Develop decision-making strategies for deep uncertainty, empowering you to make confident, informed choices in complex situations.
Imagine and prototype new possibilities by envisioning scenarios and shaping innovative futures.
SAMPLE PROGRAM
Theme 2 - Driving Transformative Change:
Creating Systems Innovation & Inflection Points
Lead with impact and embrace reinvention. Create virtuous inflection points that catalyze effective transformation, using disruption as a springboard for value creation.
This executive program explores the power of compelling narratives and informed optimism to shape the futures and drive positive change. We leverage uncertainty as a catalyst for agency, applying systems thinking to identify and create pathways for transformation. You’ll master the Disruptive Thinking Canvas™ - a powerful tool designed to foster systems innovation and unlock fresh solutions. The Canvas empowers you to design disruptive futures and cultivate mindsets for sustainable impact.
Driving Transformative Change: Creating Systems Innovation & Inflection Points
Our transformation program comprises six core modules and interactive activities:
Module 1. Thinking in Different Time Horizons: Lead Disruptive Futures through Visioning
Module 2. Beyond Strategy: Leveraging Drivers for Transformative Change
Module 3. Systems Innovation & BMaaS: Applying Business Models-as-a-System to Solve Complex Challenges
Module 4. Strategic Foresight: Building Adaptive and Resilient Futures
Module 5. Transformation vs. Point Solutions: Avoiding the “Commercialization Valley of Death”
Module 6. From Narratives to Inflection Points: Achieving Critical Mass to Drive Beneficial Tipping Points
Like all of the Disruptive Futures Institute’s programs, this course uses real-world examples and applied tools to help you master key concepts, including our proprietary Disruptive Thinking Canvas™, a unique tool to provide a structured method for identifying future opportunities and transforming the futures in our complex, nonlinear world.
Key Learning Outcomes: Transformative Change Program
Become a systems innovator: Design transformative solutions within complex systems, leading to adaptive and resilient futures.
Unlock the power of systems thinking: Develop a deep understanding of interconnectedness, including stakeholder motivations and potential impacts, to identify high-impact leverage points and drive sustainable change.
Lead with foresight: Anticipate disruptions and navigate uncertainty with strategic foresight, informed optimism, and a future-back approach to drive transformation.
Mobilize change through narrative: Harness the power of compelling narratives to drive critical mass and beneficial tipping points.
Create lasting impact: Go beyond quick fixes to design systemic solutions that address root causes and create sustainable value.
Inspire agency through vision: Craft and communicate compelling visions of the future to inspire action and lead with effectiveness.
SAMPLE PROGRAM
Theme 3 - Creating Sustainable Futures:
Climate Foresight & Decarbonization Strategies
The DFI Nature & Climate Academy’s flagship program, which focuses on climate foresight, the energy transition, and decarbonization strategies.
The Disruptive Futures Institute’s faculty possesses unique transdisciplinary expertise in the energy transition and sustainable futures. This includes experience in climate foresight, forest engineering and science, chemical engineering, and technology entrepreneurship. Our team also boasts climate scientists, risk and climate lawyers, policy experts, venture capitalists, and foresight strategists.
Sustainable Futures: Climate Foresight & Decarbonization Strategies
The DFI Nature & Climate Academy’s flagship certificate program comprises six core modules and two applied learning projects:
Module 1. Climate & Strategic Foresight for Transformative Change
Module 2. Anticipatory Leadership, Governance, Policy & Climate Regulation
Module 3. Responsible AI & Technology for Sustainable Value Creation
Module 4. Decarbonization Strategies: Renewing Energy & Transforming Industrial Systems
Module 5. Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Resilience, Antifragility & Systems Innovation
Module 6. Climate Finance, Investment Strategies & Nature-Related Risk Management
The program includes two Action Learning Projects within our Applied Case Studies & Solution Labs:
Transforming Carbon Markets: Addressing the challenges and exploring climate solutions in voluntary and regulated carbon markets.
Decarbonization & Antifragility: Lessons from Brazil’s Amazon, Biomes, and Industries for the Energy Transition.
Key Learning Outcomes: Sustainable Futures Program
Develop the ability to think systemically when addressing climate challenges.
Integrate foresight, resilience, and long-term transformation in sustainability strategies.
Gain expertise in creating actionable decarbonization roadmaps, leveraging technological advancements to drive sustainable energy systems and industrial transformations.
Cultivate anticipatory leadership and governance to guide policy, regulation, and organizational strategies in response to evolving climate dynamics.
Explore the complexities of voluntary and regulated carbon markets, and gain expertise in nature-based solutions for enhancing climate resilience and antifragility.
Take a proactive, innovation-driven approach to solving climate-related challenges, utilizing frameworks for sustainability and nature risk management.
Build expertise in climate finance, investment strategies, and managing nature-related risks to drive sustainable value creation and responsible economic growth.
“The Disruptive Futures Institute team helped us rewire our perspectives and the assumptions we make about the world and its possibilities.”
– Benedikt Böhm, Executive Board Oberalp, CEO Dynafit & Extreme Ski Mountaineer
“Never before has the world needed such tools, frameworks, and practical applications to inform not only how to survive, but thrive."
– Kara Cunzeman, Director of Strategic Foresight, The Aerospace Corporation
“Integrating tools such as the AAA Framework enables organisations to strengthen under pressure, prepare for uncertainty and build adaptive systems."
– School of International Futures (SOIF), From Disruption to Transformation
“The Disruptive Futures Institute’s renowned AAA Framework will help you bridge short-term realities with a value proposition for macro-view thinking."
– Dr. Jake Sotiriadis, Director, The Center for Futures Intelligence, National Intelligence University
Futurist-in-Residence Program
Atlantic Forest (Mata Atlântica), Brazil. Photo GrupoVex
Don’t have a dedicated in-house foresight function? Our Futurist-in-Residence program can help.
At the Disruptive Futures Institute, we excel at helping organizations build internal capabilities in strategic foresight, giving you the power to integrate futures intelligence into everyday decision-making.
Regardless of your team’s experience level, we will help develop your organization’s core strategic foresight capabilities with our unique methodology and proprietary frameworks.