Futures Summer School
What You'll Learn#9 Futurist in the Global Gurus Top 30 Futurists Worldwide 2026 & 2025
Build the confidence to lead through uncertainty, not just react to it. Learn how to use futures thinking to support clearer judgment, sharper strategy and better decisions.
Lead With Foresight
Most organisations are still planning from yesterday’s logic. This session helps you identify where current thinking may be outdated, overconfident or too narrow for what comes next.
Challenge Your Assumptions
Guest Lecturer at London Business School : Leading Businesses Into The Future
Sage Member Masterclass Series for SMEs: Your Innovative Future in 4 parts
Sage Masterclass Instructor
Sage Futures Summer School
Futures and Foresight for Modern Leadership
The leaders who thrive will not be those who claim to predict the future. They will be those who can read change earlier, challenge assumptions faster and make better decisions under uncertainty.
Futures Summer School is a practical one-day executive course for modern leaders who want to prepare for, and lead through, an AI-shaped and fast-changing world.
It introduces futures and foresight as tools for sharper judgment, better strategy and more adaptive leadership.
Spot the forces reshaping business before they become urgent. You’ll leave with a clearer view of the shifts affecting customers, work, technology, trust and growth.
Adapt To Change Earlier
This is not a trends talk. You’ll work with practical foresight tools, a guided workbook and usable prompts to support better conversations and decisions inside your organisation.
Take Away Practical Tools
The Day At A Glance
11:00am–4:00pm
11:00 — Welcome and opening frame
From predicting the future to using the future. Why foresight matters for leadership now.
11:30 — The forces reshaping business
A curated briefing on the major pressures changing strategy, work, customers, technology and growth.
12:00 — Seeing consequences earlier
A practical group exercise to explore how one major shift could affect markets, customers, teams, operating models and leadership.
1:00 — Lunch / break
1:30 — Challenging hidden assumptions
A structured exercise to identify where current thinking may be overconfident, outdated or underprepared.
2:15 — Rehearsing plausible futures
A scenario-based session to make uncertainty more tangible and useful for leadership and strategy.
3:00 — Break
3:15 — Leading through an AI-shaped world
What should leaders rethink, test, protect or act on now?
3:50 — Closing reflection
Each participant leaves with one assumption to revisit, one conversation to initiate and one action to take back into the organisation.
