Strategic Foresight Training Workshops
Join our Strategic Foresight Training Workshop to unlock your organization's potential.
Gain essential skills to anticipate trends, navigate uncertainties, and make informed decisions. Collaborate with and practical tools to enhance your strategic planning.
Future-proof your organization and lead confidently in a changing landscape.
REGISTER FOR THE NEXT WORKSHOP:
Spring 2026 Workshop Schedule
Activity | Date | Leader | Location | Time |
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One Full Day Seminar | Friday, March 13 | Garry Golden | STEM Center, UWGB | 8:00 - 12:00 Noon & 1:00 - 4:00 PM |
Video Session Seminar #1 | Friday, March 27 | Garry Golden | ZOOM | 8:00 to 10:00 AM |
Video Session Seminar #2 | Friday, April 17 | Garry Golden | ZOOM | 8:00 to 10:00 AM |
Video Session Seminar #3 | Friday, May 1 | Garry Golden | ZOOM | 8:00 to 10:00 AM |
Presentations by Participants | Friday, May 15 | Foresight Workshop Group | STEM Center, UWGB | 8:00 - 12:00 Noon |
Reasoning
To anticipate disruptors and prepare
for forces poised to impact your organization’s future
To infuse Strategic Foresight
into your strategic planning
The pace of change is picking up dramatically.
We must act – not just react – in the face of impending disruptors.
We apply Strategic Foresight systematically to identify risks
and opportunities community wide.
Our goal?
To enhance the quality of life in the Greater Green Bay area by training leaders in business, government, education, and nonprofits.
Impacts
When you learn
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to follow signals and trends
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picture the most probable futures
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identify their likely impact
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and find the key drivers of the most likely futures
You can
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plan to influence your organization’s future
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Be proactive, not just react to problems.
Participants
If you need a clearer look into the future, send a team of two or more to Strategic Foresight training. Successful participants are forward looking, open minded, creative, and strong communicators. Be ready to view of your organization in 5-15 years. Be committed to your organization and our community.
Is Northeast Wisconsin fully prepared to deal with the risks of accelerated change? Will we make the right decisions, move in the right direction? Can we adapt? We proudly compete across the nation and around the globe. As the pace of change increases, through technological breakthroughs and globalization, we must understand our alternatives and make wise choices quickly to remain competitive.
Local organizations need tools that provide broad insight into these trends and helps decision makers evaluate alternatives for action and respond with innovation. Even better if it’s a team-based or community-wide approach. Both individuals and teams benefit from this training, offered partly in-person and partly virtual. The cohort will develop community-wide awareness by exploring probable futures that will impact the future of their own organizations and other entities. Join us if you want to learn how to drive toward a preferred future for your organization and your community.
Trainer
After extensive research and vetting, Envision engaged nationally recognized Futurist Garry Golden to teach, lead and coach our strategic foresight workshops. Educated at UW-Madison and trained and certified by the University of Houston, Garry has worked across a wide range of industry sectors and projects related to the future of energy and transportation infrastructure, financial services, talent development, civic and cultural institutions, and global demographic changes. His clients have included American Express, Accenture, Disney, Microsoft, Verizon, Harvard, Standard & Poor’s, Pepsico, Aetna, and CVS. He is co-author of Designing Your Future, and author of The Age of Adaptive Experiences.
Golden has been facilitating our workshops in Green Bay since 2017.
Process
Begin with an online survey followed by a full-day seminar offered on-site in Green Bay. Over the next six weeks, attend three virtual sessions, each two hours in length. Approximately two months after your course began, convene again for an in-person session and present something of what you’ve learned to your classmates and the Envision Board of Directors.
Then, you join our Foresight Network with opportunities to engage with your own classmates and those of previous and following classes. We will ask you, from time to time, to share with us your application of Strategic Foresight in your organization and the results and challenges you’re realizing.
Outcomes
Learn how to apply key questions that assess assumptions toward change, transitions, uncertainty, and the role of leadership. Master Strategic Foresight techniques, tools and frameworks, and apply them to organizational, personal, and community futures thinking, including:
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Scanning for Signals of Change – Learn to scan for signals of change and then synthesize stories that imagine disruptive implications of change for your organization.
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Futures Wheel – Take “mental leaps of change” by creating provocative and plausible future headlines
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Era-based Change – Break down key dynamics and drivers of change across eras of transition.
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Framework Forecasting – Learn to quickly explore the future of a domain’s baseline and alternative futures.
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Four Futures – Construct your organization’s four likely futures.
Upcoming Workshop
The five sessions include the following components:
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Online survey
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Full-day seminar
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Three video sessions
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Coaching with Garry Golden: individual, virtual, ongoing
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Presentations by participants.
Spring 2026 Workshop Schedule
Activity | Date | Leader | Location | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
One Full Day Seminar | Friday, March 13 | Garry Golden | STEM Center, UWGB | 8:00 - 12:00 Noon & 1:00 - 4:00 PM |
Video Session Seminar #1 | Friday, March 27 | Garry Golden | ZOOM | 8:00 to 10:00 AM |
Video Session Seminar #2 | Friday, April 17 | Garry Golden | ZOOM | 8:00 to 10:00 AM |
Video Session Seminar #3 | Friday, May 1 | Garry Golden | ZOOM | 8:00 to 10:00 AM |
Presentations by Participants | Friday, May 15 | Foresight Workshop Group | STEM Center, UWGB | 8:00 - 12:00 Noon |