Welcme to
THE INSTITUTE
A training Centre and Research Hub promoting
APPLIED INSIGHT
+ FORESIGHT PRACTICE
HFI IS
Human Futures Institute is devoted to advancing the practice of radically human-centred foresight strategy.
As a research centre, we develop new methods and practices, conduct and apply foresight strategy, and promote the Human Futures approach, an applied research method combining anthropological and foresight perspectives, methods, and approaches.
As a training centre, we teach what we practice. We provide training in fundamental and advanced forms of applied foresight strategy.
We help business leaders who want to incorporate futures oriented mindsets and radically human-centric perspectives into their work, and we train the next generation of insight and foresight practitioners in applied methods.
As the developers of the Human Fututres Approach, we are the only source for truly integrated human-centric foresight.
Training
Events
RESEARCH
OUR MISSION
OUR SERVICES
We are committed to advancing the practice of applied strategic foresight and the application, and amplification, of human-centred foresight as a critical 21st century capacity. This means advancing rigorous and robust research practices, creating opportunities for engagement, experimentation, and speculation helping new practitioners to learn and develop.
As a teaching centre, we teach and upskill people who are new to foresight and those who are looking to advance their practice.
Our courses and certificate programs are designed to help business leaders, innovation practitioners, and other researchers to develop the mindsets and skillsets to shape, engage with, and prepare for the future.
We focus on practical application and exposure to the thinking skills needed to make use of foresight inputs, insights, and methods within organizations.
We help activate organizational cultures, inspire innovation and action, and train next gen leaders to guide and activate org cultures to take action.
Courses in Foresight, Insight, and Building an Anticipatory Culture
We help you anticipate what’s next, shape long-term vision, and build strategies for relevance and resilience.
What We Do
Certification in Applied Foresight and Leading With Foresight
Certification in doing and leading with foresight within a radically human-centric approach that engages and motivates organizations.
What We Do
Workshops, Symposia, and Events
We design and deliver experiential, hands-on, learning experiences that embed foresight and enable action across functions.
What We Do
Research Programs
Long-term research on a number of topics, a large network of experts, and partnerships with researchers and research initiatives.
Research Programs
Certificates
and Courses
Certificate In Applied Foresight
Certificate
Active
Certificate in Leading with Foresight
Certificate
Active
Foundations + Fundamentals
Course
Active
Techniques for Applying Foresight Inputs
Course
Active
Foresight for Innovation Strategy
Course
Active
Advanced Foresight Strategy
Course
Upcoming
FutureTyping + Experience Design
Course
Upcoming
Future Ready Mindsets + Culture
Course
Upcoming
Future-proofed Insights
Course
Active
Radical Human-Centricity: Putting People First
Course
Upcoming
SEMINARS,
Workshops
+ EVENTS
Join us for in-person gatherings that turn foresight into shared experience—through conversation, experimentation, and new ways of seeing what comes next.
Design Thinking is Dead. Long Live Design Thinking!
An evening of dinner and discussion. The topic of this dinner will be why design thinking has declined after a nearly two decade run as one of the most important movements in innovation.
Jeffersonian Dinner
Experiential Storytelling
A seminar held in our hideout in Mont Tremblant. Open to creatives, innovation professionals, and artists, this session will explore the possibilities to tell stories about the future though more experiential means.
Seminar
Time Travel & Reference Points : Navigating Hypermedia, Horizons, & Generational Change
A deep exploration of how we live in an overlapping set of simultaneous timeframes. This enables us to time travel while staying in the present. We will also explore this ability as factor driving many of the experimentations in design, foodways, wellness philosophies, and living patterns that define consumer culture today.
Seminar
Defeating the Turn Away from Horizions
An open workshop where we will collectively build a case for using the idea of a horizon as a foundation for strategic planning and organizational development within companies.
We see this as necessary because the slow erosion of the value of a future horizon within enterprises and start-ups has meant many organizations are no longer able to plan for a future. Without a horizon logic, these organizations are perpetually reacting to local events, working without benefits of a longer-term strategic vision Reactionary organizations are bad at innovation.
This will be a workshop format where we will collectively discuss the problems, develop an approach to solving the issue, and develop a commonly held horizon plan to get participants started down the road to bringing into their orgs.
Workshop
SEMINARS
AND EVENTS
Join us for in-person gatherings that turn foresight into shared experience—through conversation, experimentation, and new ways of seeing what comes next.
Design Thinking is Dead. Long Live Design Thinking!
An evening of dinner and discussion. The topic of this dinner will be why design thinking has declined after a nearly two decade run as one of the most important movements in innovation.
Jeffersonian Dinner
Experiential Storytelling
A seminar held in our hideout in Mont Tremblant. Open to creatives, innovation professionals, and artists, this session will explore the possibilities to tell stories about the future though more experiential means.
Seminar
Time Travel & Reference Points : Navigating Hypermedia, Horizons, & Generational Change
A deep exploration of how we live in an overlapping set of simultaneous timeframes. This enables us to time travel while staying in the present. We will also explore this ability as factor driving many of the experimentations in design, foodways, wellness philosophies, and living patterns that define consumer culture today.
Seminar
Defeating the Turn Away from Horizions
An open workshop where we will collectively build a case for using the idea of a horizon as a foundation for strategic planning and organizational development within companies.
We see this as necessary because the slow erosion of the value of a future horizon within enterprises and start-ups has meant many organizations are no longer able to plan for a future. Without a horizon logic, these organizations are perpetually reacting to local events, working without benefits of a longer-term strategic vision Reactionary organizations are bad at innovation.
This will be a workshop format where we will collectively discuss the problems, develop an approach to solving the issue, and develop a commonly held horizon plan to get participants started down the road to bringing into their orgs.
Workshop