Böcker av Charlotte Kemp

Beth, 24, is a university graduate working in finance. Michael, 31, is an IT super-star with his own successful start-up. Ian, 58, is a corporate HR manager. This unlikely group discover a Map, a Compass and a Guide in the Futures Alchemist who helps them create their own future and find potential meaning and relevance in their careers and businesses. By telling their story Charlotte Kemp, the Futures Alchemist, makes academic futures principles and strategic foresight models easy to understand and demonstrates how they can be applied by anyone for both personal progress as well as business success.

Do you have a futurist on your leadership team?If our leaders are not prepared for the future, then all of our strategies, programs and projections will fail. Being futures focussed means that obstacles can be identified early enough to not undermine our plans and new ideas can be found to provide new resources, markets or opportunities. Futures focus, futures fitness and futures thinking are coachable skills, skills that can be, and really should be developed if our careers and businesses are to survive and thrive. Chief Futures Thinking Officer outlines the types of trends, questions and tools that a leader can use to essentially become their organisation's futurist. We are all natural futurists, but we can become better, more conscious and effective futurists with some insight and tools.

We are all natural futurists. But with a little attention, we can become better at anticipating and preparing for the future. And with a little more intention, we can become more conscious futurists. A conscious futurist makes decisions and influences the future for the benefit of more than their own small interests. A conscious futurist is someone who wants to make a positive change in society, create a sustainable development or leave a valuable legacy. The Conscious Futurist Model moves people from the bottom of a spiral from Survival, through Responsible and Invested stages to Conscious, and beyond. As a model it is useful to help teams see how much more influence they could have in the world and on the future, and see ways to start moving into that space. The results of becoming a Conscious Futurist are: To feel ownership or agency, over our futures, To understand how people have struggled with the events of the global pandemic as well as other crisis and how they can recover, andTo connect our own messages to peoples' expectations of their futures, giving them encouragement to explore their growth.