In my 50-plus years as a distinguished Futurist I have glimpsed tomorrow’s promise. Now as we move from the Economic Now to the Evolutionary Next an increasing number of people, of all ages and stages, are showing up demanding to create a future that is humane, sustainable, and conscious. At this 11th hour we are called forth to create Futures by Design™ which demand that each of us learns the skills of an Everyday Futurist™.
EVERYDAY FUTURISTS ARE TRUE LEADERS
Visionary Leaders in any sector or field know that change is the only constant…and with that knowledge, they study the future with diligence and care.
But everything has been changing so quickly, and we are so swamped by details that it’s hard to even think about the future…besides just worrying about it.
Yet you can better your life, and ensure the future of work, by anticipating the needs and trends of tomorrow and prepare for them with new products, services, wisdom-design models, approaches or life choices. As an Everyday Futurist, you transform problems of today into innovations for tomorrow.
MASTER THE TOOLS OF THE FUTURIST TO MAKE THE FUTURE WORK FOR YOU AND YOUR ENTERPRISE
An Everyday Futurist™ uses knowledge, knowing, and know-how to identify, track, and respond to future trends, and create alternative futures with insight, hindsight and foresight, innovation, and measurable results — personally, professionally, and planetarily. By learning the skills of an Everyday Futurist, you can anticipate the changes of tomorrow and prepare for them with new products, services, approaches, and life choices that make your everyday life more meaningful, successful, and satisfying — from head to Soul.
Using a blend of scientific and analytical tools and consciousness principles, Everyday Futurists evaluate, measure, and track trends and conditions. They ask the right questions and learn how to apply the answers with wisdom, foresight, and down-to-earth strategies that transform their future and the futures of everyone they touch.
What is the difference between a psychic, fortune teller or astrologer, and a professional futurist? A professional futurist is not a psychic, fortune teller, or an astrologer. Futuring (aka Foresight, Future Studies, etc.) involves a set of strategic, scientific, and intuitive skills and models that anyone can learn. These skills and models can be wielded to forecast the future, by spotting trends and critical shifts in your own life, as well as in the world.
Being a futurist does not require having a gift to predict certain future events; rather, a futurist uses analytical tools and intuition to track, evaluate, and respond to change in measurable ways, creating alternative futures—so that you can use your gifts to meet change at the leading edge.
You can stop reacting to what has happened and start acting on what will. You can make every day matter by applying the wisdom of tomorrow. Want to know more? Click here.
And now I want to prepare you and your enterprise: equipping you for the trends of tomorrow that will affect you personally and professionally.
As a leading-edge futurist, gerontologist, strategic partner, and certified Master Coach, I turn lives around. How doI do this? By offering up the tools, exercises, and strategies, so you can evaluate, measure and track the trends and conditions of life, visionary leadership, and work, ask the “right” questions, and then make the decisions that will put you in charge of, rather than at the effect of, constant discontinuous change. Or what we now refer to as the vagaries of VUCA times.
But I do not rely only on classically scientific thinking and analytical tools. I have also cultivated a range of resources that bring the most analytical of ideas down to earth, so that we blend intuitive knowhow and insight with critical analysis.
Because, let’s face it: change is inevitable, and most of us don’t like it.
However, it is our ability to identify, track and respond to change that turns the uncertainties of life and work into rock solid insights as well as new innovations!
Wouldn’t you like to see beyond today with greater focus and clearer understanding?
In these times, what worked in the past isn’t working now. For many of us, this is true in our personal as well as our professional lives. This is a great opportunity for you to take command and apply the skills and consciousness principles of an Everyday Futurist.
…It’s about time we begin it, to turn the world around.
It’s about time we start to make it, the
dream we’ve always known.
John Denver
What does your greater future look like?
This is the very question I have been asking clients for 50+ years. Those who take the steps to radically reinvent their lives, to transform their enterprise cultures into adult wisdom learning communities, and manifest more success and significance, answer in the same way: A greater future is rich financially, spiritually and emotionally –– and is not only profitable but purposeful. It is based on the premise of the Triple Bottom-Line of People, Planet, and Profits.
Do you know what a greater future means for you?
Don’t be surprised if your answer is “no.” In fact, most of us would probably struggle to define “a greater future,” and many would hesitate to put themselves in the same category as the extraordinary leaders and visionaries of past and present. However, each of us has the opportunity to create a life of greatness, leaving legacies that better the world, ensure the future of work, and inspire others.
Begin to envision the trajectory of your life and legacy as one of greatness. What does it look like?
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