Managing the Future

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offline, Kyiv

10, Dobrovolchykh Batalioniv St.

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Valeriy Pekar’s two-day course aimed at developing key aspects of understanding the future and the ability to make long-term plans. Participants will master the basic concepts of future studies, theories and methodologies of anticipating change, including scenario analysis, future trends analysis and development of forecasting skills.
The course focuses on the study of trends, including their impact on the social, economic and technological aspects of the development of the modern world in the context of transformational change.
The course covers the study of trends and their impact on the world, as well as mastering other principles and techniques of working with the future.
Participants will gain the skills and tools to independently analyse future scenarios and make informed, effective decisions.

The course develops a comprehensive understanding of global transformation and long-term trends, broadens the planning horizon, overcomes future shock, and builds readiness for the unknown.

A RELEVANT ASPECT OF THE COURSE IS THE ANALYSIS OF KEY CHALLENGES AND SCENARIOS FOR UKRAINE AND CONSIDERATION OF DEVELOPMENT SCENARIOS IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBAL TRENDS.

The practical component includes learning how to model the future for the public and private sectors, which will allow participants to use the knowledge gained to design their own solutions that affect sustainability and progress.

THIS COURSE IS FOR

  1. Representatives of the corporate sector
  2. Medium/large business owners and top managers
  3. Economists
  4. Civil servants
  5. Analysts and strategists
  6. Representatives of the public sector
  7. Anyone who wants to define themselves in the new coordinate system

MENTOR

VALERII
PEKAR

Managing the Future

Entrepreneur, publicist, educator, and civic activist. Lecturer at the Kyiv-Mohyla Business School and the UCU Business School, as well as at the Ukrainian Leadership Academy and the Maidan Open University. Author of four books on management and strategy.

WE RECOMMEND THIS COURSE IF YOU SEEK TO

  • Gain a deep and comprehensive understanding of global transformations in the world and long-term trends
  • Expand your planning horizon, learn strategies to overcome futuroshock and gain readiness for the unknown
  • Gain practical tools for analysing and forecasting changes, skills necessary for effective management in conditions of uncertainty and rapid technological changes

COURSE TOPICS

  1. DEVELOP AND EVALUATE DIFFERENT FUTURE SCENARIOS TO MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS
  2. IDENTIFY STRENGTHS, WEAKNESSES, OPPORTUNITIES AND THREATS IN THE CONTEXT OF FUTURE TRENDS
  3. FORECAST ACROSS MULTIPLE SECTORS AND INDUSTRIES
  4. ANTICIPATE POTENTIAL CHALLENGES AND DESIGN SOLUTIONS FOR THE REALITIES OF THE UKRAINIAN CONTEXT
  5. MANAGING CRISIS SITUATIONS AND RESPONDING TO THEM IN A SUSTAINABLE WAY
  6. USE OF DATA TO CREATE A HUMAN DEVELOPMENT MAP AND IDENTIFY KEY TRENDS
  7. ENABLE YOU TO FIND STRENGTH IN YOUR OWN RESOURCES TO SUCCEED IN THE FACE OF UNCERTAINTY

YOU WILL DEVELOP SKILLS IN

  1. BASIC CONCEPTS OF FUTURE STUDIES
  2. METHODS OF FUTURE RESEARCH
  3. TREND RESEARCH
  4. UKRAINE: KEY CHALLENGES AND SCENARIOS
  5. PRACTICE: EDUCATIONAL FORESIGHT
  6. THREE MODELS OF THE CRISIS OF OUR TIME
  7. MAP OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
  8. WHERE INEVITABLE TRENDS LEAD: THE WORLD IN 2040
  9. PRACTICE: MODELLING ASPECTS OF THE FUTURE
  10. WHERE TO GET THE STRENGTH?

YOU WILL GAIN KNOWLEDGE OF

  1. How to recognize the key factors influencing the global transformation of the world
  2. What methodology should be used to predict long-term trends and their consequences for various spheres of society and business industries
  3. Tools for developing strategic thinking and readiness to adapt in the face of transformation and chaos
  4. How to effectively learn to work in conditions of uncertainty and instability

Feedback

Managing the Future

A very useful course, both for developing skills in preparing and conducting foresight, analysing trends and long-term planning, and for understanding geopolitics in Ukraine and the world, as well as countries’ development strategies.
And most importantly, it was very pleasant to meet intelligent, interesting and thoughtful people who care about Ukraine’s well-being and sustainable future.

Svitlana Kerner, Head of Human Resources

Managing the Future

Lifelong learning is the key to development. Adult education takes on special meaning when it takes place within the walls of the Kyiv School of Public Administration named after Serhiy Nyzhnyy, under the mentorship of an outstanding Ukrainian figure.

The future is not only projected — it is created. Valery Pekar’s author’s course provides practical tools for this. Insight: the future depends on us — our actions and thoughts determine it.

Yevheniia Savitska, State Border Service of Ukraine

Managing the Future

It was a powerful intellectual boost. The lectures are full of examples that provoke you to think more broadly and see systemic connections. Valeriy Pekar knows how to combine philosophy, history, business, and futurology into a single picture that inspires and at the same time makes you question your own patterns. After this course, I look at the future differently — as a space that can be managed, rather than simply waited for.

Liudmyla Kozhukhova, HR Concept Oil LLC

Managing the Future

For me, it was a real reboot. I learned to look at ordinary things (daily work tasks, reading the news, making current decisions) from a different angle through the prism of how it can affect the future and what changes are possible right now. I am grateful to the lecturer for the high-quality content. KSPA for the organisation.

Hanna Shevchenko, Oschadbank, Head of Retail Business, Odesa Branch

Managing the Future

In my opinion, the course is meaningful and helps to systematise the variability of scenarios, choose the best vector for each one, based on goals and taking trends into account. The tools obtained are relevant and practical for decision-making in both business and life.
It was also interesting to understand current geopolitical trends. Mr Valeriy clearly and thoroughly explained what is happening and where we are headed.
Wonderful participants with whom it is interesting to communicate and exchange insights. Excellent organisation. And the School itself is a very atmospheric place that you want to return to. Thank you!

Natalia Prykhodko, Head of Training and Development, Nemiroff

Managing the Future

I am very happy to have taken this course. The first thing I must note is the absolute clarity and comprehensibility of the information and its presentation by Mr. Valeriy. The second is the informative content itself. This training pulls you out of your bubble. Its added value is a vaccine against the potential risks of disappointment and low mood. I really love, appreciate and share the approach of a realistic, critical view of life, but with a place for light along the way and at the end of the road. It is wonderful when a measurement contains breadth of thought, practicality of character, and love, which is a noun measured by its verb. A cool head and a warm heart is an expression that runs through my life. In this course, I felt this manifestation, which brings me back to the words with which it all began about happiness. How can I not add to this happiness the happiness of meeting people who strive for change and development? It is so gratifying to see and feel this movement around me.
I must note the generally wonderful, warm welcome, the cosiness of the space, the atmosphere, the food — all of this was delightful and contributed to leaps in the depth of thought and its action. It is valuable when people care so much.
Thank you very much, and I will definitely recommend the course.

Oleksandra Ashrapova, Self-employed person/expert, consultant, mentor/strategist for sustainable development and partnership building

Managing the Future

About the course
A course that significantly broadens your worldview.
As a skills course, it introduces you to the Forsight model for scenario modelling of the future, including for business. The introduction is reinforced by group practice, which is extremely useful in understanding the specifics of applying the model.
As a lecture course, it offers an extremely broad view of geopolitics, drawing on both a comprehensive historical context and plausible scenarios for the future of countries, regions and the world. It provides an extremely large amount of useful and structured information as ‘food for thought,’ which, I suppose, stays with the listener for quite a long time. It also forms the basis for self-adequacy in the rapid and colourful flow of daily information.
The course exceeded all my wildest expectations.

About the lecturer
Clear and structured process management.
Keeping the attention of the audience, who listened to the lecturer with enthusiasm.
Providing comprehensive answers to all questions from the audience.
Skillful moderation of complex communication.
Mr Valery is extremely charismatic, winning people over with his openness and structured presentation of complex, multi-layered information.

About the organisation
Training that is all for you and all about you.
Both the training process and the coffee breaks and lunch breaks were planned with care and attention to the audience.

Ira Schmidt, Member of the Supervisory Board of the NGO ‘Institute ’Republic"

PRICE FOR THE STUDY

10, DOBROVOLCHYKH BATALYONIV STR., KYIV

COURSE FEE INCLUDES: LECTURES, CERTIFICATES, COFFEE BREAKS

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