Strategic Foresight and Scenario Planning

Strategic Foresight and Scenario Planning is an intensive, workshop-driven program that helps you actively build, test, and refine strategies for real-world conditions. Through peer discussion, live exercises, and case studies, you will practice applying strategic frameworks to complex situations, stress-test your thinking against different scenarios, and refine your ability to lead strategic conversations within your organization.

This program focuses on working in real-time. You’ll bring live strategic challenges into the room, refine your ideas with peers and Ivey faculty, and develop a customized strategic framework that fits your organization’s goals and realities. Along the way, you’ll build skills in sensemaking, foresight, prioritization, and decision-making under complexity.

By the end of Strategic Foresight and Scenario Planning, you will be ready to lead strategic planning with greater clarity, resilience, and impact. Here’s what you can expect:

This program is built for professionals at all levels of their organizations who are shaping strategy in environments of growth, disruption, or change. Participants may lead projects, teams, business units, or organizations where setting direction, prioritizing resources, and navigating complexity are daily responsibilities.

You’ll get the most from this program if you're actively working on strategic challenges and want to sharpen how you build, stress-test, and apply strategy across your organization.