Certified Future Shaping Professional (CFSP)®

Gain new knowledge and skills into how to foresee the plausible futures before us and plan for each oneappropriately.
Develop the knowledge and skills needed to help your organization shape its future preemptively – to becomewhat it desires by influencing the emerging trends and events around it through well-considered new strategies.
Stand out as someone who knows how to scan, analyze, envision, prospect, and strategize for the future – sothat you can ensure the ongoing, long-term resilience and robustness of your organization.
Join the ranks of industry leaders and world-movers around the globe shaping and defining our collective future.

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Overview

GInI’s Certified Future Shaping Professional (CFSP) is GInI’s recognition of leaders and professionals who have demonstrated an advanced knowledge and understanding of the key practices, processes, methods, and structures of Future Shaping, which marries the strategic activities of Strategic Foresight and Strategic Futuring to very specific and explicit organizational goals.

CFSP certification affirms these individuals proficiency in the Future Shaping body of knowledge, which involves: the mindset and philosophy of Future Shaping, its origins in Futures Studies, its direct application of Strategic Foresight and Strategic Futuring practices, all of the core concepts underlying it, the specific processes and practices used to undertake it, the specific roles needed to execute it properly, the large body of methods used to facilitate it, the ultimate strategic outcomes it produces for an organization, and how to properly institutionalize it within an organization.

Benefits

Become a Future Thinker

You will learn to think in terms of the different divergent future scenarios that could play out before you – so that you then can help your organization prepare for each of those preemptively.

Learn How to Identify Signals & Define Signposts

You will become adept at studying trends and events to identify both strong and weak signals in the environment – as well as out along the horizons – and at defining specific future ‘signposts’ to be on the look-out for to know which anticipated scenario is actually unfolding.

Learn How to Understand the Impacts of Trends & Events

You will learn how to think about trends and events in terms of the impacts they will have on the future (as well as on each other) to cause the future to move toward one direction or another, depending on the influence of their respective drivers (the critical uncertainties involved).

Learn to Respond to the Future in Ways That Shape It

You will learn how to cast compelling visions for who your organization aspires to be in the future, collectively identify all the different options it has to for pursuing its ideal and preferred future, and develop robust strategies (with impactful new innovations) that do in fact empower your organization to attain those ideal and preferred futures.

Become a True Future-Shaper

You will learn how to help your organization not only respond to the future, but in fact step out in front of the future to preemptively shape and ‘own’ it – becoming the predominate force in your environment defining that future.

Be Recognized For Your New Skills and Abilities

Your professional certification will demonstrate to the world the unique knowledge and skills you have amassed in this field, and will open up new doors and avenues for you to apply those skills impactfully inside an organization.

Obtaining

Step 1- Meet the exam eligibility requirements:

To be eligible to register for the CFSP exam, an individual must meet ONE of the following criteria:

A minimum of one year of professional experience with a Master’s degree or higher.
A minimum of two years of professional experience with a Bachelor’s degree.
A minimum of four years of professional experience with less than a Bachelor’s degree.

In addition, the individual must show proof of ownership of the GInI Applied Future Shaping Master Book®.

Step 2- Choose your Learning Path:

At GInI, we provide two comprehensive learning options to cater to your preferences:

Self-Study: Upon acquiring your copy of the AFSMB, you can seamlessly prepare for the examination at your own preferred pace.
Instructor-Led Learning: Opt for additional guidance by enrolling in a course delivered by one of our authorized providers in your region.

Step 3- Apply for and pass the CFSP exam:

The CFSP is a 120-minute exam with 120 multiple-choice questions and a passing score of 65%.

Maintaining

To maintain your CFSP Certification, you must earn 45 Innovation Development Units (IDUs) every three years, or retake the CFSP® exam. Detailed information can be found under Maintain Your Certificate.