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Start date	End date	Location	Fee	Registration
12 Oct 2026	16 Oct 2026	Paris - France	€2,250 + VAT	→
9 Nov 2026	13 Nov 2026	Munich - Germany	€2,125 + VAT	→
14 Dec 2026	18 Dec 2026	Barcelona - Spain	€2,125 + VAT	→
18 Jan 2027	22 Jan 2027	London - United Kingdom	€2,100 + VAT	→
15 Feb 2027	19 Feb 2027	Geneva - Switzerland	€2,625 + VAT	→
15 Mar 2027	19 Mar 2027	Vienna - Austria	€2,125 + VAT	→
19 Apr 2027	23 Apr 2027	Barcelona - Spain	€1,925 + VAT	→
17 May 2027	21 May 2027	Paris - France	€2,250 + VAT	→

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Why Attend

Strategic foresight helps organizations anticipate change, identify emerging opportunities, manage uncertainty, and prepare for future challenges. In a rapidly changing environment, leaders need practical tools to think ahead and make informed long-term decisions. This course equips participants with proven methods to scan trends, explore scenarios, and build future-ready strategies.

Course Objectives

Understand the principles of strategic foresight
Identify trends, risks, and future opportunities
Apply environmental scanning techniques
Use scenario planning for decision-making
Analyze uncertainty and possible futures
Build future-focused strategies
Improve strategic thinking and innovation
Develop a practical foresight action plan

Designed for

This program is intended for professionals involved in Planning and Strategy Management.

Strategy Professionals
Senior Managers
Business Leaders
Planning Managers
Innovation Teams
Government and Public Sector Professionals
Anyone involved in long-term planning and decision-making

Course Methodology

This course uses an interactive and practical approach through presentations, case studies, group discussions, scenario exercises, trend analysis workshops, foresight tools, and real workplace examples.

Course content

Day1

Foundations of Futures Studies

Foundations of futures studies
History of future studies
The discipline of futurology
How companies and governments can use futurology
Actors in the field
Current theories and applications
Introduction to futures thinking

Day2

Futures Thinking and Alternative Futures

Characteristics of a futurist perspective
Change as the norm
The acceleration of change
Seeing events as interrelated
Taking a holistic perspective in viewing change
Accepting alternative futures
Distinguishing between possible, probable, and preferable futures
Importance of short, medium, and long-range planning
Danger of leaving the future to chance
Creating the future proactively

Day3

Scenario Thinking and Foresight Tools

Scenario thinking concepts
Scenario approach methods
Environmental scanning techniques
Futures wheel applications
Futures table methods
Weak signals identification
Black swans and wild cards
Applying foresight tools in practice

Day4

Systems Thinking and Leadership for the Future

Systems thinking and strategic foresight
Understanding complexity
Systemic structure of dynamic and complex wholes
Methodologies of systems thinking
Visionary leadership and corporate foresight
Connection between foresight and strategy process
Governmental and regional foresight initiatives

Day5

Managing Change and Sustainable Futures

Managing for change
Link between strategic management and futures research
Using futures studies to effect change and transformation
Role of leadership in planning for the future
Using futures studies to manage and mitigate risk
Changing futures through action
Global challenges and sustainable futures
Studying effects of globalization
Concept of sustainability

The certificate

SPARK Training Certificate of Completion is awarded to participants who attend and complete the full training course.