Future F.I.T. Workshop
Develop your Thinking FIT for the Future
💫 Develop future fit and relevant skills without time-consuming and expensive interventions.
💫 Connect futures thinking skills to the work on your desktop right now.
The Problem
- Your people are highly skilled, for a world that no longer exists.
- The future is arriving faster than your skills development plan can respond.
- Loud trends and noisy headlines obscure the real issues you need to respond to in order to remain relevant and in business in the future.
The Challenge
- PACE: Markets are shifting faster than strategic plans.
- COMPLEXITY: Industries are being reshaped by technologies, demographics, regulation and new business models.
- DRIVERS OF CHANGE: AI and other tech is changing how work gets done. Customer expectations continue to evolve.
The Solution
Future F.I.T. Thinking is a practical workshop that equips teams with the mental tools needed to navigate uncertainty with greater confidence.
Rather than attempting to predict the future, participants learn how to think more effectively about change, recognise emerging opportunities earlier, challenge assumptions, and make better strategic decisions.
The workshop introduces simple but powerful futures-thinking tools that can immediately be applied to projects, customers, innovation, strategy and everyday decision making.
Future F.I.T. Framework
Foresight
Learn to identify change before it becomes obvious.
Develop the habit of scanning for trends, weak signals and emerging opportunities.
Insight
Move beyond collecting information to discovering meaningful patterns.
Learn how better questions lead to better decisions.
Transformation
Convert insight into action.
Develop practical approaches that help individuals and teams respond proactively rather than reactively.
Participants will learn
Participants develop the thinking capabilities used by today’s most adaptive organisations to navigate uncertainty with confidence. Using the Future F.I.T. Framework, they learn to identify emerging change before competitors, recognise patterns hidden within complexity, challenge assumptions that limit innovation, explore multiple possible futures, and turn insight into practical decisions that improve strategy, innovation and organisational performance.
The Curriculum covers ...
- Why today’s thinking is no longer enough
- The changing landscape of work and business
- Why our brains simplify complexity and how that creates blind spots
- Different thinking styles for different futures
- Understanding trends, drivers and weak signals
- Systems thinking without the jargon
- Challenging assumptions
- Practical foresight tools anyone can use
- Turning uncertainty into opportunity
- Creating a Future F.I.T. action plan
You leave with ...
- A set of practical tools and reusable templates for your next team meeting or strategy session.
- A journal to guide you beyond the workshop to develop your futures thinking skills. This includes scanning and interpreting exercises as well as optional thinking prompts.
- An editable action plan and a decision framework for immediate use in the workplace.
Real companies
Learn how …
- One organisation used a futures workshop to connect their company strategy to their personal work stream, and become more invested in the outcomes.
- One association used a futures tool to identify and reframe their brand, message and culture.
- One company used a futures workshop to identify the real reasons their strategy was failing, and how they rebuilt it afterwards.
Testimonials
See these and more on Charlotte Kemp’s LinkedIn profileÂ
Brigadier Sushil Bhasin, India
It is an absolute pleasure to recommend Charlotte Kemp, a visionary leader and a remarkable individual. As the past President of the Global Speakers Federation (GSF), Charlotte’s strategic approach to exploring career development stands as a testament to her foresight and ability to navigate the complexities of the professional speaking world.
Derek Bbanga, Global Chamber, Kenya
As our world was being upended, her talk on understanding change and how to respond to it was most illuminating. She always brings a level of engagement with any audience. Charlotte provides helpful models to make it easy to understand (futures thinking) from the get go. She has a knack of connecting with audiences no matter what part of the world they’re from. If you’re looking for someone to break down strategic foresight or Futures Literacy to help you or your business I would definitely reach out to Charlotte. As she says, this is the professional development skill you might be missing.
Lindsay Adams, OAM, Australia, Past President GSF
I’ve just seen Charlotte present at a virtual conference and she was brilliant. It’s always hard to keep the attention of an audience on Zoom and Charlotte had such an interesting presentation that people could not tune out for even a minute. As a futurist, she got me thinking about my business and what my next steps would be for me. If you are looking for an engaging speaker, Charlotte Kemp is the one for you.
Umar Sheraz, Futures Researcher, Pakistan
I have attended webinars hosted by Charlotte and I have found them to be detailed, insightful, and useful for both professionals as well as people who are just beginning their futures journey. The sessions are moderated in a way that participants also get to put forward their viewpoints. I strongly recommend working with her and look forward to more learning events with her in the near future.
Claudia Coetzer, Business, USA
Charlotte created a methodology revolution in my brain.
This is for ...
- Leadership Teams & Boards
- Management Teams
- Innovation Teams, Marketing
- HR & L&D
- Strategy, Cross-functional project teams
- Organisations preparing for transformation or strategic change
Workshop details
This is offered as a personalised, in-house workshop for your team.
- Duration: 3½ hours or a short version of 1 ½ hours
- Delivery: In person or virtual
- Style: Highly interactive with practical exercises and discussion.
- Take aways: Participants leave with practical tools they can begin using immediately as well as a journal-style set of notes and post course activities
- Fees: Depending on length and delivery type, between Euro 2,650 to Euro 1,550 (ZAR49,000 to ZAR28,500)
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