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Applied Foresight for Policy Makers

Strengthen your organisation by bringing strategic foresight into your practice. Build the future-focused mindset you need to identify coming challenges and make better decisions.

Overview

Applied Foresight for Policy Makers

Price: $2,500 inc. GST (indicative pricing only)

  • Online
  • Estimated Q1/Q2 2027
  • 4 weeks

Equip your team to think beyond the immediate and lead with futurefocused confidence. 

Change is accelerating in an increasingly complex environment and now, more than ever, government needs to deliver policy that is adaptive and that meets the needs of society into the future.  

Applied Foresight for Policy Makers delivers the functional skills, tools and mindsets needed for policy makers and leaders to embed futures thinking into their policy design and management processes. The program is anchored to strategic foresight in the context of government decision making and structures.  

Participants learn directly from experts in strategic foresight and public servants who apply futures thinking in real-world contexts.  

Through shared learning and practical exploration, the program creates the confidence, insight and clarity needed to lead with purpose in times of change.  

Your Learning

Use foresight in practice

Apply strategic foresight and futures thinking tools to explore different ways a policy challenge could unfold.

Horizon scanning

Identify emerging risks and opportunities earlier, enabling a more proactive approach to policy advice and decision‑making.

Embed foresight into policy work

Integrate a futures‑focused mindset and practical foresight tools into policy design and strategic planning processes.

Build a futures-oriented culture

Champion forward‑looking thinking within your organisation to help build more resilient and adaptable governance systems.

Who It's For

Bring futures-thinking into policy development for more effective long-term impact. 

This program is designed for mid-level to executive public servants who are responsible for the development or oversight of policy generation and distribution.  

It is well suited to Senior Policy Analysts, Policy Advisors, Program Managers, Strategic Planners. 


Look beyond the immediate policy cycle

Applied Foresight for Policy Makers supports mid‑level public servants working in policy, strategy and planning roles, who are responsible for policy development and strategic planning, and who want to build practical futures‑thinking and foresight skills to move beyond reactive, short‑term planning and support more resilient, forward‑looking policy and governance. 

Program  highlights


Program Structure

Learning that shapes better government. 

Program Format

The program is delivered online through live sessions, supported by self-directed learning. 

Learning sessions

Sessions focus on current best practice and public sector contextualised challenges, risks and governance frameworks. 

Peer engagement

Participants engage in facilitated discussion with peers and receive real-time feedback from experts. 


Program duration

This program runs over approximately four weeks.

Learning Approach

Trusted learning. Practical insights. Public value. 

Peer learning

Learn alongside public sector colleagues facing similar policy challenges. 

Facilitated dialogue

Expert-led sessions encourage discussion, questioning and applied thinking. 

Reflective practice

Short reflective tasks support application of learning to participants’ own roles. 

Contextual application

Learning is grounded in real public sector challenges and contexts.

How to Register

More information  coming soon. 

This proposed program is currently under development. Delivery in 2027 is pursuant to multiple factors and is not guaranteed.

To stay up to date, express your interest and we’ll provide additional details as they’re confirmed.

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