Certified Foresight Practitioners lead transformation.
So, do you want to keep waiting for leadership to change?
Or do you seek to lead change yourself?
The world is evolving rapidly.
That much is obvious.
Well, it’s obvious to those of us paying attention, like you.
You’re a curious learner who observes signals and formulates patterns.
Do you ever talk with your colleagues about how your field will be impacted in the next decade? Maybe some of them agree that you’re already behind.
More likely, it’s taboo in your organization to discuss disruption.
You might be wondering how to track, analyze, and ultimately strategize in this environment.
Change is obvious to you, but not to everyone else.
Certified Foresight Practitioners help make the future feel tangible.
Natural Foresight® certification provides support as you…
Facilitate trust as a thought leader and futures storyteller in your industry.
Gain consensus to unlock resources for forward-thinking initiatives.
Guide teams to pave tactical pathways toward preferable futures.
… build futures thinking capacity in organizations.
What is Natural Foresight Certification?
A credible skillset that shifts mindsets to identify novel opportunities, risks, and partnerships.
The “future of [your industry]” is not a Google search away.
Leaders who assume they can cure their strategic woes by buying an expensive PowerPoint from a business consultant (or an AI foresight software) miss the bigger picture.
Despite how it may seem, the future is not about technology. It’s too complex to boil down to a trend report, and it’s impossible to capture in a series of steps.
Longevity depends on new approaches to strategy. And those that build capacity to break the conventional mold.
A practical way to imagine and act toward aspirations.
You need tools that work in the background to make every decision more systematic, strategic, and proof-laden. A common language that you can pass along to any colleague, client, or stakeholder to get them excited about the future.
You’re looking for an approach for bridging the future to today that works in the “real-world” as you consult individuals and communities.
Natural Foresight certification provides recognition for forward-thinking talent and ROI for companies.
Natural Foresight® is the way you lead with compassion and logic.
A certification in Natural Foresight® makes tough decisions clear. It provides confidence in charting an ambitious path to a more equitable and sustainable future. Stay true to clients that align with your mission — or transform skeptics into futures advocates.
Integrate core values into strategic decisions for long-term sustainability.
Make coworkers say “can you please facilitate a cool workshop?”
The Natural Foresight® toolkit provided with the Certified Foresight Practitioner designation makes foresight easy to use every day through frameworks, templates, case studies, and a dynamic online platform.
A study by Deloitte reveals that organizations with access to foresight toolkits and resources are 57% more likely to successfully capitalize on future opportunities and emerging trends, contributing to long-term business growth and resilience.
Natural Foresight® is designed to support your unique application of foresight principles, helping you anticipate and plan for future scenarios in diverse personal and professional contexts.
As a Certified Foresight Practitioner, you will
Streamline decision-making,
Solve complex problems,
Continuously challenge mindsets, and
Become a champion of the future.
How to become a champion of the future
Start sharing natural Foresight today
Do a deep-dive of the Guide to the Natural Foresight Framework. You might have already begun thinking of who you want to share this with— coworkers, students, clients, or leaders.
You are likely familiar with most of the tools as a seasoned futures thinker (some tools like Scenario Fields, designed to transform the scenario planning process into a participatory, transparent exercise, are original to Natural Foresight). Natural Foresight’s novelty for you is its specialty in democratizing futures thinking—tools that simplify futures literacy education through capacity building exercises.
This knowledge is how you will become a champion of the future, and uplevel your career.
Solidify your learnings by passing the Certified Foresight Practitioner assessment. Ahead of test day you might wish to enroll in the optional Certification Exam Prep Course.
The exam is open book, but there are 50 questions and you will have an hour to complete it. The questions are meant to test your knowledge and application of Natural Foresight®.
Study hard to ace it with flying colors!
Pass the exam
After clicking “Submit”, you’ll see “Congratulations! You passed the Certification Foresight Practitioner Exam!”.
Our team will send a personal email with your unique badge number and a digital certificate with your name.
You can proudly show off your big achievement on LinkedIn, but that isn’t the point, of course. The Certified Foresight Practitioner designation will finally ignite real change, and add that caliber of practicality and confidence you’ve been searching for. You will forever be known in your sphere as THE “future thinker.”
Relish in a universal feeling that gets recounted each and every certification window.
Year-round, we celebrate a holiday that we call “Cert-Mas.”
Emails and social media posts pour in showcasing what this credential means to the futurists who earn it.
Add Certified Foresight Practitioner to your resume along with all the transferable skills bundled in the credential, like
- pattern and sensemaking,
- trend identification,
- horizon scanning,
- critical and systems thinking,
- scenario planning,
- DEI collaboration,
- resilience management,
- strategic storytelling,
- and so much more…
You decide where to go from here
Earning the credential was just the beginning. As you apply these skills and break-out from conformity, you’ll harvest the fruits of your labor.
There’s joy each time you introduce someone new to foresight. Students, clients, colleagues, co-workers, board members, stakeholders, and even family members all now see the future differently because of you. You co-create the future among friends.
In a few years, you’ll reflect and feel immense pride at all the change you initiated.
Certified Foresight Practitioners span an international network of multi-disciplinary foresight professionals. We work to design and strategize preferred futures into becoming reality.
We are unified by a people-centered approach that is designed to be more practical and versatile than idealistic, one-size-fits-all methods.
Get certified to…
Launch your big idea.
Write your book.
Build your initiative.
Spread your knowledge.
Solidify your vision.
See the bigger picture.
Spot future signals.
See beyond horizons.
Analyze big data.
Project current trends.
Map multiple scenarios.
Solve future problems.
Design tactical roadmaps.
Share tangible practices.
Bridge to new realities.
Bring foresight into action.
Become a Certified Foresight Practitioner and be the change you wish to see in the world.
Register to take your Certified Foresight Practitioner exam today.
*Review qualified pre-requisite options for foresight experience
Natural Foresight is guaranteed to change your work.
Will it also change your life?
Amidst constant change, here is what we know will remain the same:
You will always stay on top of trends, follow thought leaders, and understand a breadth of topics.
You will remain a member of many professional communities that connect you with like-minded individuals.
LinkedIn micro-learning, YouTube University, and Coursera courses will always pique your interest in your lifelong learning journey.
But here’s what we guarantee will change when you start applying Natural Foresight as a practitioner:
You will experience media, relationships, and career development in a whole new way.
You will teach others how to be comfortable with volatility, complexity, ambiguity and uncertainty.
You will read articles and scroll social media with renewed perspective. Your research will become more strategic and organized.
Your industry will transform because of your contributions.
How do we know you will lead change armed with this designation?
Meet Kylee,
Who led the first IBM foresight team.
“Earning the Certified Foresight Practitioner designation gave me leverage to facilitate the creation of IBM’s first Natural Foresight® team. It allows me to establish and instill trust and respect in my ability to lead with stakeholders and collaborators! I feel as if this guiding philosophy has always been in my blood, but now I’m empowered with a framework and new measurements to create the future and impact business results. So grateful to have this mindset as my immune system.”
Kylee Bernard Certified Foresight Practitioner, Foundations Alumni
Meet Sarah,
Who started her own change management business.
“I’m starting my own consulting firm focusing on change management for arts institutions, and being certified in Natural Foresight is not only a differentiator for my business, but the designation provides needed value to my clients.”
Sarah Palm Certified Foresight Practitioner, Foundations Alumni
Meet Kiran,
Who puts people at the center of innovation.
“Life: I really enjoy futures. It brings a lot of hope to the world and I would like to use it to help people see further into the future and to make changes in the present to help guide the future in a more thoughtful and equitable way.
Career: I would eventually like to resign from my current role and to work on futures full time. In particular working on the future of health security, human health, agriculture, water, etc. There is a lot of work to be done and honestly, we are running out of time. This is why I became a Certified Foresight Practitioner.”
Kiran Carpenter Certified Foresight Practitioner, Activations Alumni
meet jason
Who marries foresight and user experience to design for uncertainty.
Jason C. Napolitano Certified Foresight Practitioner, Foundations Alumni
Wanna hear A bold statement?
Check out what former Digital Designer at Walt Disney International said when we first introduced Natural Foresight to Disney…
“Natural Foresight is one of the most engaging frameworks and concrete self-empowerment tools that I’ve experienced in my whole career.
Antonio DeMauro
I’m firmly convinced it could become more than just a training experience in Disney.
And I’m not the only one to have this feeling in the team!”
Yeah, Natural Foresight did become “more than just a training experience in Disney”.
After this session Antonio participated in, we launched a series of workshops to develop the first international futurist workforce at Walt Disney International, and to this day, Natural Foresight powers the global futurist team at one of the biggest companies in the world, Walt Disney International.
This method has changed countless lives for over a decade. Natural Foresight is uncomplicated, built on complexity, and helps to simplify the future.
We landed on a universally accessible framework that makes foresight feel natural to anyone.
Companies and communities alike need Certified Foresight Practitioners to guide them through the changing landscape.
Certification provides the confidence to navigate skeptics or executive who say “I just don’t get it”.
Even better, skeptics will actually convert to love foresight.
Change originates in hearts and minds. Certified Foresight Practitioners have the skills and tools to spark something new in all the lives they touch.
If you’re tired of lacking the authority to speak about the future,
If you need credibility when strategizing, planning, or innovating,
If nothing seems to convince leadership that the industry is changing, then
You should earn this credential and help the world design better futures.
Never fear another reorganization, because you’ll naturally think three horizons into the future.
Don’t shell-out for an expensive forecasting tool that won’t launch your career and strengthen the workforce.
No more information overload — turn everything you read and watch into strategic action.
Your learning is worth it. Don’t settle for anything less than an all-encompassing certification that is future-guaranteed to continually open doors.
