Futurework
New Ways of Thinking, Leading and Working
WATCH: Futurework Leadership (3 min)
Our world has changed.
The environment we operate in has become more complex and uncertain. As a result this more changeable operating environment requires leaders who are more change able.
Leaders who are naturally collaborative, inclusive and adaptive. Knowing that uncertainty creates new possibilities.
The days of leaders having all the answers are past.
Modern leadership involves co-creating solutions to complex challenges with diverse teams and communities. This workplace adaptation depends on a fundamental shift in thinking – from a fixed mindset to a growth Mindleap.
Why? We can only work in new ways if we can also lead in new ways. Leading in new ways requires thinking in new ways. By developing new thought patterns. New leadership habits.
Resulting in a modern set of skills ready for the future of work.
Ready for today.
Welcome to Futurework.
Futurework is a leadership development programme, where you learn and apply leading-edge Future of Work skills.
The group format equips you with a modern workplace Leadership Toolkit and expert coaching with Futurist Dave Wild – combined with the support and insight of other future-focused leaders across a diverse community of organisations taking part.
As a foundational skill you’ll learn how to shift perspectives from a fixed mindset to a growth Mindleap. Discovering that digital leadership doesn’t require being a technology expert. Shifting from having all the answers, to knowing how to inclusively inspire and guide diverse teams forward.
Creating meaningful change doesn’t happen through thought alone. So you’ll then develop and apply within your organisation a set of eight critical Futurework skills…
Progressing forward with Visionary and Strategic frameworks
Leveraging resources with Inclusive and Digital capabilities
Expanding opportunities with Collaborative and Innovative methods
Actioning change with Adaptive and Impactful outcomes
By the conclusion of the Futurework programme you will have developed a leading-edge set of leadership skills needed in the modern workplace. Inspiring others with new possibilities. Shifting teams and projects forward. Upskilling your own capabilities and others around you.
Creating a greater future today.
Participant Impact
CEO, National Local Government Organisation:
“I came into this session trying to only change me, but realised it is about changing or working through others that would have a greater benefit (as well as me). If everyone did this course what a different world of possibilities would open up.”
Executive Director, Research Organisation:
“I have been involved with workshops/programmes before where you learn lots on the course but don't truly have tangible take-aways to action and help put to use the skills learnt. This programme does and the learnings are facilitated in an interactive, 'help to create your learnings' way. The break-out groups were really great to hear diverse experiences and also challenge our own way of facilitating future thinking.”
Cybersecurity Executive Manager, Global Charitable Organisation:
The programme “encourages and teaches you how to expand your thinking to help build a future thinking strategy that benefits the business. It forced me out of my day-to-day grind and made me think differently and then to present the results to the rest of the team was at times uncomfortable but was personal growth enabling.”
CEO, National Health Organisation:
“In the current work and life environs we are experiencing, the skills and habits Dave teaches can help people raise their head above the parapet and actually start to see the future and its possibilities. To be able to look at yourself, your colleagues or team and your organisation and understand why you/they operate as they do and how you can change your mindset and help your organisation do the same. Two key habits that really hit home for me, hold strong ideas lightly and realise your experience is bias. These have been key for me over the past few weeks as I begin working with a group of CEOs on a project that could shape care in NZ for the future.”
The Futurework Leadership programme
is supported by the Futurework Guidebook
AI Leadership
The Futurework programme incorporates critical insights and capabilities from our AI Leadership masterclasses.
Advance beyond AI’s typical definition of Artificial Intelligence, to leverage the power of your own leadership AI – Adaptive Intelligence. Explore leading-edge developments within AI, using approachable and easily understood language and examples.
A critical focus is on the leadership skills needed to navigate and guide the successful application of Artificial Intelligence within organisations.
The Futurework Leadership programme equips you with:
Futurework brings together cohorts of future-focused leaders to work together in person, supported by a comprehensive series of short video lessons with online group coaching sessions over six weeks.
By applying your learnings to actual work activities during the programme, you learn and develop a critical set of eight Futurework skills for leading in the changed work environment…
SENSE
Visionary Leadership
Vision means to see. Develop your visionary ability to create clarity from complexity with Futures Thinking and Scenario Planning. Elevate your thinking to comprehend the big picture, while inspiring others to achieve greater outcomes.
Strategic Leadership
Strategy is a plan of action to achieve major aims. Learn how to develop Strategic Foresight that energises and inspires in times of change. Identifying growth opportunities through Systems Thinking while mitigating risks, to leap ahead of fast-changing conditions.
UNDERSTAND
Inclusive Leadership
Future-focused leaders engage diversely to energise themselves and their organisation, shifting and adapting to the changes all around us. Develop new skills for collaborating with diverse communities for greater understanding and impact.
Digital Leadership
Artificial Intelligence depends on machine learning – giving computers the ability to make themselves “smarter.” Increasing our human intelligence depends on our own ability to recode. Developing new thought patterns, shifting out-dated behaviour patterns. Learn how to adaptively rewire your own thinking and accelerate digital leadership skills.
Developing Futurework skills builds the organisational capabilities
needed to adapt in fast-changing uncertain environments
SOLVE
Collaborative Leadership
Collaboration doesn’t simply mean teamwork. Collaboration involves pushing beyond your typical day-to-day interactions – which is why collaborators cross established boundaries. Learn how to align complex systems by co-creating outcomes with others – from ethnically-diverse customers to generationally-diverse colleagues.
Innovative Leadership
Innovative, high-impact thinking goes beyond the predictable to create greater possibilities. Learn how to detect new trends and signals of the future that are all around us. Developing new innovation skills to lead forward in ever-changing conditions.
TRANSFORM
Adaptive Leadership
Adapting to changing conditions requires being comfortable with new ideas that don’t make sense at first. Learn how to lean into the discomfort to discover new ways forward. Adapting perspectives and associated decisions to shift with agility in uncertain environments.
Impactful Leadership
Ideas are powerful. Sometimes. All too often they have little impact. Why? Because they remain as just ideas. Lost in a haze of meetings, discussions and reports. Develop your ability to create clarity and accelerate progress by making the intangible tangible. Making the leap from idea to impact.
Download one of the Futurework programme worksheets
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Programme Format
The Futurework Leadership programme gives you an inspiring new perspective on the world, by developing your ability to strategically Mindleap forward.
In 2025 you can join a cohort beginning in May.
You’ll be expertly coached across the full set of Futurework skills using the programme content and toolkit. The interactive and inspiring hybrid format begins with two days of in-person Futurework coaching. Followed by three further 90-minute online masterclass sessions – which provide inspiring and energising community interaction, group application and shared learnings.
As well as developing your own skills, the Futurework format and resources enable you to develop the capabilities of your own team. Learning how to move others forward from states of being resistant and reactive, to becoming future ready.
Even going a step further and becoming truly Futuready.
Futurework – May 2025
The 2025 Futurework Leadership programme runs over six weeks, designed to support your work and key priorities
Begins with two in-person Futurework development days
in Auckland, Aotearoa New ZealandTue 13 May 10am–4:30pm
Wed 14 May 9am–3:30pm
Followed by three recommended online group coaching sessions (90 min)
Mon 26 May 2pm NZT
Mon 9 Jun 2pm NZT
Mon 23 Jun 2pm NZT
Between each coaching session you apply Futurework leadership skills during your workday, sharing learnings across the group in an online community space
Concludes with an open-book multi-choice assessment and Futurework Leadership Certificate of Completion
Supported by six months’ access to an extensive Futurework toolkit including coaching videos, worksheets and the Futurework Guidebook
Our Futurework venue at Generator in Auckland is designed to inspire and energise with a light-filled creative environment
Investment
To join the Futurework Leadership programme and gain everything outlined here, your investment is $2,800+gst per person.
Earlybird bookings are available until 31 March 2025 at $2,400+gst per person.
We find when colleagues attend together they benefit from deeper shared learnings, so you’re welcome to book additional places. To secure your place we recommend booking as soon as possible – the 2025 Futurework programme is limited to a cohort of just 18 forward-thinking leaders with 7 places now available.
The programme’s unique 1:1 design means that every paid booking also enables a leader from a charitable organisation to take part at no charge. Charities supported have included Heart Kids, Hospice, Tokona te Raki, World Wildlife Fund, Pasifika Futures, Cancer Society, TupuToa, Starship, Neurological Foundation.
Futurework
Inhouse Development Programme
Futurework can also be delivered as a tailored inhouse programme
Suitable for:
- Leadership development
- Talent programmes
- Executive retreats
Possible formats include:
- Group sizes from 9 to 36
- Programmes from 3 to 12 months
For more details see Futurework Inhouse Programme
or get in touch to explore further
Futurework Toolkit
The Futurework Leadership programme gives you access to a full suite of resources to equip you for the future of work.
Your Futurework Toolkit includes:
The Futurework Guidebook
Strategy Map
Futurework Worksheets
Programme Presentations
Futurework Online Community
Futurist Email Updates
Six months access to our library of Futurework coaching videos
WATCH: Futurework Visionary Skill (2 min)
WATCH: Futurework Collaborative Skill (2 min)
Our Futurework programmes and events have been attended by leaders from across society including…
WATCH: Futurist Dave Wild Showreel (4 min)
Visioning with the Digital Government Leaders of the United Kingdom, South Korea, Estonia and New Zealand
Coaching Digital and Innovation Leadership Labs across sectors including Finance, Environment and Technology
Facilitating the NZ Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Council to explore the Future of Work
Delivering Futurist keynote presentations on stages and screens across the world from South Auckland to Sydney to San Francisco
Internationally renowned Futurist Dave Wild is a world-leading expert in developing Futurework skills.
Living on the edge of the world in Aotearoa New Zealand, he works with leaders and teams across the globe – creating a greater future for their organisations, customers and society at large including:
Through this work with a diverse range of leaders across all levels, Dave has built deep expertise in the future-focused skills needed to confidently lead into the future.
“Dave challenged us to move our modes of thinking towards longer-term future possibilities and away from just the obvious and immediate. Dave’s impact on our organisation has been profound. We have aimed to develop a more free-thinking, creative approach to problem-solving and really try to continuously imagine what the future could look like and determine how Bluelab will evolve and thrive in that future state.”
“What I love most about Dave is his flexibility in adapting to the requirements of the culture of the organisation and the desired outcomes. He offers fresh perspectives and exposes you to global trends and innovations. Dave brings a huge array of tools and I have seen him take people through a journey where even people who don’t consider themselves to be creative or innovative start making connections and generating new ways of thinking to start doing things differently for their business.”
“My experience of Dave is that he inspires and delivers. One of his key strengths is his flexibility – he can work with a wide range of people and organisations and at different scales, timeframes and on disparate problem spaces. Nothing scares him, nothing bores him. Dave couples a high energy, hands-on and inclusive style with a sharp strategic brain. I have always had fantastic feedback about the impact that Dave has made.”
“Dave Wild is a genius. A futurist, strategist and provocateur. One of the things I love about his style is his ability to project thinking into the future in a pragmatic, relatable way – he connects the information to the audience, making the future relatable and relevant to their world. He is generous with his knowledge and keen to help other people navigate their path to better thinking. He’s one of those people that you can relax and let loose on a group knowing it will go well and deliver outstanding results.”
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is the Futurework Leadership programme designed for?
This leadership programme is ideal for Senior and High-potential Leaders along with others who need to collaboratively lead into an inspiring future. Participants have included a diverse range of future-focused leaders ranging from next-generation managers to Chief Executives.
When does the programme start and finish?
The 2025 programme commences with a two-day in-person workshop experience on Tue 13 + Wed 14 May 2025. Over the following six weeks you can also participate in three online group coaching sessions (2pm NZT on Mon 26 May, Mon 9 Jun and Mon 23 Jun) and an open-book multi-choice assessment for a Futurework Leadership Certificate of Completion. All sessions are personally facilitated by Futurist Dave Wild.
How long is the programme? Will I have time for this?
The Futurework Leadership programme combines two development days with short on-demand videos and three online group coaching sessions (90 mins) over six weeks. Rather than having to complete additional projects, you will apply the new tools and techniques learnt as part of your everyday work – advancing your leadership capabilities while building Futurework skills.
When do I need to be available?
Tue 13 + Wed 14 May 2025 for the two-day in-person workshop. Mon 26 May, Mon 9 Jun and Mon 23 Jun are the dates for the recommended 90-min online group coaching sessions. You are able to undertake the assessment at your leisure.
Do I have to take part in the group coaching?
The support of a group coaching environment facilitated by Futurist Dave Wild extends your development. You will benefit from ideas and learnings from other leaders across different industries within the group coaching. The online group coaching sessions are highly recommended but not mandatory.
Can I get personal 1:1 mentoring?
Yes – you can broaden your programme with Mentoring, which extends your learning with online personal 1:1 Futurist mentoring sessions.
How do I access the programme materials?
Ahead of the first workshop you’ll be able to access the programme materials, including the Futurework Toolkit resources. The Futurework Guidebook will be available at the first in-person workshop.
How long do I have access to the programme materials?
Your programme access gives you six months access to all Futurework coaching videos so you can re-watch at any time. This also includes access to private community discussions and support. In addition printable Futurework Toolkit resources can be downloaded for lifetime access. The Futurework Guidebook is yours to keep and refer to for life!
How much does the programme cost?
To join the Futurework Leadership programme and gain everything outlined here your investment is $2,800+gst. Earlybird bookings are available until 31 March 2025 at $2,400+gst per person. There are 18 places available for booking in May 2025.
What if I register but can’t attend all the sessions?
Attending all the sessions is optional, as you’ll still have full access to the toolkit, videos and support of the group.
Cancellations received by 31 January 2025 will be refunded in full, or by 31 March 2025 refunded 50%. Beyond that no refund can be made, however someone else from your organisation is welcome to attend.
Other questions?
If you’d like to know anything else please contact us