Required pathway — Executive Leadership Course
Complete all six Method Courses before beginning this Executive Leadership Course.
Required Method Courses: Featured IFM Futures Course, Community Consultation Method, Vinculum Method, TRAM, Futures Thinking Kite and SELECTIONS.
After all six are complete, return here for the applied executive leadership work.
Lead Through Strategic Uncertainty
This course applies the book’s scenario, regional foresight and narrative-tool chapters to executive decisions. Move from signals and uncertainty to multiple plausible futures, test each through IFM and backcast a preferred future into near-term commitments.
Book source: This course draws principally from Part VI, “Turning Insight into Action — Narrative Tools and Real-World Cases,” pp. 282–300 of The Inclusive Futures Method by Dr Colin Russo.
Executive outcomes
- A well-framed strategic uncertainty
- A signal and emerging-issues scan
- A set of multiple plausible scenarios
- An IFM stress test
- A preferred-future backcast
Book: The Inclusive Futures Method by Dr Colin Russo
Optional Professional Certification
A Certificate of Completion will be granted once the course is completed.
If professional certification is required, participants must submit a 3,000-word applied paper. Dr Colin Russo will review the paper and may request editing, revisions or responses to follow-up questions before approval.
The certification assessment fee is AUD $500, separate from the course fee. Upon successful completion, an official Engaging Futures Certificate of Completion will be supplied.
Curriculum
- 1 Section
- 5 Lessons
- 150 Minutes
