Strategize like a Futurist
Online Interactive
Better navigate strategically in the world
Strategic foresight isn’t about predicting the future — it’s about preparing for it.
Rooted in the principles of futures thinking, this course equips you with the tools to anticipate change, navigate uncertainty, and make more informed strategic decisions.
Whether you're a business leader, strategist, or innovator, you’ll learn how to challenge assumptions, develop future-ready strategies, and build resilience in an unpredictable world — while staying agile and proactive.
WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR?
- Business Leaders & Strategic Planners – Professionals responsible for setting long-term strategies and navigating uncertainty.
- Innovation & Change Agents – Those driving transformation, managing disruption, and looking to future-proof their organizations.
- Researchers & Designers – Individuals seeking to incorporate futures thinking into product development, research, and user experience.
- Curious Minds – Anyone eager to enhance their ability to anticipate change, challenge assumptions, and make more informed decisions.
KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES
- check Futures Thinking & Strategic Foresight – Understand the key principles of foresight and how to apply them to navigate uncertainty and anticipate change.
- check Identifying Signals & Trends – Learn how to spot early indicators of change, assess megatrends, and separate noise from meaningful patterns.
- check Scenario Planning & Uncertainty Management – Build robust future scenarios, assess strategic uncertainties, and develop adaptable strategies.
- check Foresight-Driven Decision-Making – Discover how to integrate futures thinking into your workflow, ensuring your decisions are forward-looking and resilient.
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About the course
About the course
Join Simon Fuglsang Østergaard, one of the course leaders, as he provides an overview of what you can expect and the course objectives.
What your weeks will look like
Topics, Frameworks, Methods & Tools that will be covered
- Principles for Strategic Foresight.
- Principles for Futures Thinking.
- Examples of Applied Strategic Foresight.
- CIFS Megatrends.
- How and where to look for change.
- Introduction to topical case used in the course.
- Engaging with uncertainty.
- Identifying strategic uncertainties.
- Impact/uncertainty assessment.
- Defining scenario properties.
- Crafting scenario narratives.
- Effective ways of communicating scenarios and foresight work.
- Understanding strategic implications from alternative futures.
- Developing strategic responses.
- Windtunelling strategies.
- Action Learning Projects.
- Bringing your newfound skills ‘home’ to your professional context.
- Role modelling and scaling change.
- Futures & Foresight principles and vocabulary.
- CIFS Megatrends report.
- The Futures Triangle (tool).
- Impact/Uncertainty Matrix (tool).
- Scenario Development (tool).
- Scenario Immersion & Windtunelling (tool).
- CIFS Foresight Toolkit (incl. tools not directly applied in the course).
- Supporting and contextualising cases and content.
- Peer-to-peer learning with other participants.
- Individual reflection track.
Learning Outcomes
By the time you finish this course you should have acquired the following knowledge and skills, which you’ll be able to use right away in your work, or add to your resumé:
Strategic Foresight & Futures Thinking
Scenario Planning & Uncertainty Management
Foresight Tools & Methodologies
Master key foresight frameworks such as the Futures Triangle, Impact/Uncertainty Matrix, and CIFS Megatrends. Apply these tools to structure long-term thinking, challenge assumptions, and build strategic resilience.
Strategic Decision-Making
Driving Change & Embedding Foresight
Meet your Course Leaders
Get to know the experts guiding your journey to success.
Simon Fuglsang Østergaard
Simon has been part of Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies since 2016 and has led and participated in many advisory projects exploring long-term strategic implications through scenario planning, trend analysis, and strategic foresight broadly. He has worked with high-level national and international clients and stakeholders across business and society, helping organizations challenge outdated beliefs and misguided assumptions about the future, to enhance preparedness and strategic decision-making. On a day-to-day basis, Simon works intensively with exploring how shifts in technology, demographics and people’s behavior raise critical uncertainties for societies and businesses across the board. Simon brings his experience with working with strategic foresight and futures-oriented issues to our Applied Strategic Foresight course.
Anastasija Timoseva
Anastasija is a vibrant facilitator and learning program producer at Hyper Island, she thrives in engaging with diverse teams and stakeholders from varied backgrounds embodying a hands-on approach to the facilitation process and design. With a keen interest and experience in the Wind Power industry, showcasing her versatile expertise, she blends her analytical and creative skills beyond her facilitator role, as she is also an adept Project Manager.
You’ll receive a Professional Certificate via the Certifier platform within 1-2 weeks after completing the course.
Certificates are configured for uploading and sharing on LinkedIn or downloading as PDF.
What they say
Discover what our former participants say about their experience.
"I highly recommend the Strategize like a Futurist course. The CIFS know-how and experience connected with the Hyper Island approach was a really informative and pleasant experience.
I would have loved more time with them and our awesome cohort."
Victor Lopes Mascarenhas
Strategic Design & Innovation Consultant
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LEARN BY DOING
Build, create and experiment by creating opportunities to get hands on with the underpinnings of what’s driving change in business.
FEEDBACK & DIALOGUE
Providing the essential communication techniques to realize inclusion and empathy for others through active listening, feedback and effective dialogue.
GROUP DYNAMICS
Experiences rooted in the foundational tools, theory and models around group dynamics and team development such as IMGD (Integrated Model of Group Development).
REFLECTION HABITS
Developing critical reflection habits for individuals and teams provides opportunity to amplify experience and outcomes.
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