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This programme equips leaders to identify emerging signals, interpret long-term trends, explore alternative futures and understand how change could affect organisational strategy.
Download Course BrochureFlexible delivery options to suit your leadership team and organisational needs.
Duration
5 Days
Certificate
LOCEPX
Level
Executive / Senior Leader
Format
Instructor-led workshops, discussions, case studies and simulation
Delivery Mode
The course combines executive facilitation, foresight frameworks, horizon scanning, scenario analysis, strategic discussion and application to contemporary organisational challenges. Participants will examine emerging developments from multiple perspectives and explore their potential implications for strategy. Structured analysis and peer dialogue will encourage leaders to challenge assumptions and consider alternative futures. The methodology emphasises practical foresight that can be incorporated into ongoing leadership and strategy processes.
Online
Date: 30th – 4th Nov 2026
Location: Virtual
Fee: £3,495
Online
Date: 2nd – 6th Nov 2026
Location: Virtual
Fee: £3,495
Online
Date: 9th – 13th Nov 2026
Location: Virtual
Fee: £3,495
In Person
Date: 9th – 13th Nov 2026
Location: London
Fee: £4,495
In Person
Date: 16th – 20th Nov 2026
Location: London
Fee: £4,495
In Person
Date: 23rd – 27th Nov 2026
Location: Madrid
Fee: £4,495
In Person
Date: 30th – 4th Nov 2026
Location: Paris
Fee: £4,495
Online
Date: 7th – 11th Dec 2026
Location: Virtual
Fee: £3,495
Online
Date: 14th – 18th Dec 2026
Location: Virtual
Fee: £3,495
Online
Date: 21st – 25th Dec 2026
Location: Virtual
Fee: £3,495
Introduction
This LOCEPX Training course equips leaders to look beyond immediate business pressures, identify emerging change and prepare their organisations for multiple possible futures. This LOCEPX Training course develops the strategic foresight capability required to recognise early signals, interpret long-term trends, challenge assumptions and make better decisions about where the organisation needs to position itself next.
The future cannot be predicted with certainty, but organisations can become significantly better prepared for it. Seeing Ahead™ provides leaders with practical approaches for exploring how technological, economic, social, regulatory, environmental and competitive forces could reshape their organisation and sector. Participants will learn how to scan the horizon, distinguish meaningful signals from noise, identify emerging opportunities and threats, explore alternative futures and assess whether current strategies remain resilient. Rather than treating foresight as prediction, the programme positions it as an essential leadership discipline that strengthens strategic preparedness, expands the range of possibilities considered and enables organisations to make informed choices today while retaining the flexibility to respond to tomorrow.
Strategy and corporate planning professionals
Innovation and transformation leaders
Functional and business unit leaders
Risk and organisational development professionals
High-potential leaders with strategic responsibilities
Senior Leaders Strategy Leaders Innovation Leaders Transformation Leaders
Participants will leave the Programme with stronger strategic capability and practical approaches that can be immediately applied within their organisations.
A structured strategic foresight approach
Stronger horizon-scanning capability
Improved identification of weak signals and trends
Practical scenario-thinking techniques
Greater ability to challenge future assumptions
Stronger understanding of future uncertainty
Improved strategy stress-testing capability
A practical approach for embedding foresight into leadership
Analyse forces shaping future environments
Identify emerging signals and trends
Explore plausible alternative future scenarios
Evaluate strategies against future conditions
Apply foresight to strategic decisions
Improved awareness of emerging strategic developments
Earlier identification of opportunities and threats
Stronger organisational preparedness for future disruption
More resilient long- term strategic decision-making
Greater consideration of alternative future scenarios
Core Areas
Understanding strategic foresight and its organisational value
Foresight versus forecasting and prediction
Understanding uncertainty and alternative futures
Developing future-focused leadership thinking
Recognising assumptions about how the future may unfold
Understanding different time horizons in strategic planning
Connecting foresight with strategy and decision-making
Building organisational curiosity about what comes next
Understanding the principles of horizon scanning
Identifying technological, economic and social developments
Exploring political, regulatory and environmental forces
Recognising emerging customer and workforce shifts
Distinguishing trends, weak signals and strategic noise
Assessing the potential significance of emerging developments
Understanding interactions between different drivers of change
Building systematic environmental intelligence
Understanding drivers of future uncertainty
Identifying critical uncertainties affecting organisations
Developing plausible alternative futures
Principles and application of scenario thinking
Exploring interactions between trends and uncertainties
Examining organisational implications across different scenarios
Challenging conventional assumptions about future conditions
Expanding strategic options through alternative perspectives
Connecting future scenarios with current strategy
Stress-testing strategic assumptions
Identifying strategic vulnerabilities and dependencies
Assessing organisational resilience across alternative futures
Identifying opportunities created by emerging change
Evaluating strategic options under different conditions
Understanding no-regret and flexible strategic choices
Building adaptability into longer-term strategy
Translating foresight into strategic priorities
Connecting future insights with present-day decisions
Determining what organisations should monitor now
Developing strategic indicators and early-warning signals
Integrating foresight into leadership conversations
Embedding foresight into strategy review processes
Building organisational capability for continuous future thinking
Developing a future-readiness leadership agenda
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