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FUTURES MASTERCLASS: FORESIGHT TO POLICY
BROCHURE DOWNLOAD
APPLICATION
Date
22 APR 2025
to
13 MAY 2025
Duration
4 WEEKS,
Every Tuesday
02:00PM – 06:00PM
SGT (GMT+8)
Price
SGD$2,700,
Early Bird
$2,160
PROGRAMME OVERVIEW
Futures Thinking provides decision-makers with capabilities to develop strategies that explore multiple future scenarios and prepare for diverse options. It aims to improve your decision-making capabilities so you can contribute more fully to your organization.
Participants will be taken through fundamental Futures Thinking frameworks and methodologies before a practice-oriented experience which allows you to tackle real-life problems with a Futures Thinking lens. Participants are encouraged to attend the programme in teams to collaborate on your organization’s Futures challenges.
Understand the philosophical underpinnings of Futures Thinking and their importance in the policy cycle and/or organizational strategic planning.
Methods, Tools & Frameworks
Learn about the Scenario Planning method, and the futures tools and frameworks that augment it.
Identifying Trends
Analyze and anticipate past and future trends, uncover hidden biases and assumptions to enable thinking about the future more creatively.
Overcoming Challenges
Work on your own real-world challenges with the guidance of local and international experts.
Personal Practice
Develop personal practice as a futures practitioner.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Policy analysts, researchers, managers and domain specialists who have responsibilities for long-term strategic and policy formulation for their organizations.
Middle and senior level managers who might be commissioners and end-users of futures products such as scenarios and horizon-scanning reports.
PROGRAMME INFORMATION
Programme Dates
Lecture Dates:
22, 29 April, 6, 13 May 2025 (Tuesdays)
Programme Fees
Early bird: $2,160.00 + 9% GST (till 28/02/2025)
Standard: $2,700.00 + 9% GST
Group package: One complimentary for every 3 participants paying the standard fee.
40 Participants
Maximum class size of 40 participants.
Programme Format
A combination of online live sessions, pre-recorded lectures, fieldwork and coaching sessions.
Pre-recorded lectures and pre-readings will be released one week before the live session and you may complete them at your own flexibility.
Fieldwork and coaching sessions will be arranged separately between your assigned facilitator and team. There will be a one-hour onboarding coaching session in the week before the first live lecture (i.e. week of 15 April 2024).
10 Hours
You may expect a total maximum commitment of 10 hours a week.
As His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum said, “The future belongs to those who can imagine it, design it, and execute it. It isn’t something you await, but rather create.” The Futures Masterclass: Foresight to Policy exemplifies the eponymous quote. It is a delightful experience that balanced theory and practice.
Ms. Cheryl Chung is a brilliant facilitator who sharpened the participants’ Futures Thinking. The rich dialogue between participants added to the insightful conversations. The futures project during the masterclass was an exhilarating time of creating.
Sandra Lim, Kantar Public
The Futures Masterclass is great for those who are keen to strengthen their Futures Thinking expertise. The multi-stage processes are intuitive and easy to follow with hands-on exercises to bring the learning to life.
The trainers are very experienced and with regular coaching sessions to ensure we are progressing well. The on-demand videos are informative and integrated with live online lectures making it interactive and deepening our learning.
Sow Zheng Kwok, SingHealth
Colin Powell once said, “Effective leaders are made, not born”. The skillets taught in the training are highly transferable across sectors and disciplines. The training empowers leaders to become effective leaders by equipping you with the ability to empower people and the community towards a unified future.
The rigour in the training provided makes one walk out of the course an effective leader. A quick tip for future participants – walk into the course with an open-mind and trust the instructors, trust the process. And you will walk out feeling an enlightened leader.
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OUR FACULTY
Cheryl Chung
A seasoned public sector futurist, Cheryl has two decades of experience working with senior decision makers in Singapore and the region to identify trends, understand policy implications, create alternative scenarios and develop strategies to prepare for the future. She is an experienced and sought-after practitioner, educator, coach and speaker across the public, private and academic sectors. Her main focus is the intersection of technology, economic and regulatory policy.
Cheryl is an Executive Education Senior Fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and concurrently the Senior DIrector (Insights and Strategy) at The Majurity Trust. Previously, she was the Head of Singapore for Kantar Public, a world-leading independent specialist research, evidence and advisory business focussed on the public realm. She joined Kantar Public from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy where she led strategic planning and government relations, and then as the Programme Director for Executive Education Singapore Futures, overseeing the Singapore and Open Enrolment markets, as well as establishing the School’s Futures training and consulting practice.
She spent the majority of her career in the Singapore Government, working across policy, strategy, and futurist roles in various economic and infrastructure agencies, including the Ministry of Trade and Industry, the Centre for Strategic Futures (under the Prime Minister’s Office), and the Ministry of Transport.
Cheryl is currently on sabbatical, leaning into the possibility of multiple alternative futures.
FAQ
Can individuals apply or do I need to form a team to apply?
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Yes, individuals can apply but we highly encourage you to form a team. Joining as a team allows you to maximize what this programme offers as you will be able to work with your teammates on an organization-specific futures project. You will also get to enjoy the group package which offers 1 complimentary place for every 3 participants paying the standard fee.
If I apply as an individual, would I still be able to work on a futures project during this programme?
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Yes, you will be grouped with 2 to 4 other participants. Together as a team, you can decide the futures project that your team would like to work on.
What are the coaching calls for?
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In total, there will be 3 online coaching calls via Zoom with our faculty during this programme. These coaching calls offer you and your team the opportunity to consult our faculty on the futures project that you will be working on. It also offers you the opportunity to ask our faculty any questions that you may have.
What is the schedule for the coaching calls?
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Once you have been selected for the programme, you will be invited to select the timing of your coaching calls with our faculty via email. The Onboarding Coaching Call will be scheduled in the week before Lecture 1 (i.e. Week of 14 April 2025). Coaching Calls 2 and 3 will be scheduled in the weeks of Lectures 2 to 4. Please note that these coaching calls are offered in addition to the 4 lectures for this programme.
