
Futures Thinking Specialization
Updated: Feb 21
Ready Yourself for a Changing World. Learn the skills and mindsets of the world’s top futurists, so you can forecast what’s coming, imagine new possibilities, and seize control of your own future.

There are 5 Courses in this Specialization
Collaborative Foresight: How to Game the Future.
Simulation Skills: This is Your Brain on the Future.
Urgent Optimism: How to Turn Foresight into Action.
Forecasting Skills: See the Future Before it Happens.
Ready, Set, Future! Introduction to Futures Thinking.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
Build your future forecasting skills.
Learn how to use Institute for the Future’s most powerful foresight tools, designed to help you spot new opportunities for innovation and invention.
Gain insight into the most important new technologies, global events and big ideas that are already shaping the future.
Think more creatively and optimistically about what’s possible in the future.
SKILLS YOU WILL GAIN
Strategic Foresight
Simulation
Scenario Design
Future Forecasting
Foresight
Creativity
Strategic Thinking
Innovation
Leadership
Scenario Development
Strategic Planning
Gaming
Beginner Level This specialization is for everyone. No prior experience required.
Approximately 6 months to complete Suggested pace of 3 hours/week
English Subtitles: English, Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, Spanish