Welcome to the course, course overview, get to know other participants and the platform. Prior to this you will have a welcome packet to fill out and an on-boarding call to make sure you get the most out of the course. 

Forecasting for the future is an opportunity for you to think about where you think the world is going and use it to focus your efforts for the most reward.

Finding True North is about taking time to reflect on your values and priorities. We’ll talk about frameworks for success and the importance of reflecting to gain clarity both in advance of new decisions and along the way.

Defining the Narrative is about finding your story. It is about developing your personal brand to be able to talk about what you have done, but more importantly who you are, what you stand for and what you want to do. 

Telling Your Story involves thinking about how that message changes in different environments and for different audiences. We also include an optional Life Map exercise to help you generate a through line to combine different stories and pull examples from the past that you can incorporate.

Collaborate is about increasing the skills of working across people and projects by gaining a greater sense of awareness about your own style and creating a “personal user manual” to help speed up your ability to work with others individually or in teams.

Building and maintaining a strategic network includes the results and the audience and channels you can use to achieve them. It is about how you develop a network of people to make your desires reality. That can mean key people within your company, influencers or contacts outside of it and also the people in your life that you need to make it a balanced, satisfying one.

Focus covers how you can structure your day for better clarity, balancing what you need to do with time to build for future success and happiness.

Taking it forward. What are your outstanding questions that you wished we had covered? We'll try to cover these here and find some time to wrap up to set you on the road with some fuel in your tank and some clarity around direction. But this isn't goodbye because we will continue to provide discussion prompts and guest visitors in the Facebook group.

This is where we will have a library of past masterclasses from all courses, reading list for further study, goals mapping and other exercises that can set you on the path of perpetual upgrading and lifelong learning.

You can pace yourself and don’t need to finish the course in ten weeks if other things get in the way. In fact, you can pick and choose which elements work best for you and skip the others if that works better. The coursework and videos will be available to you for as long as the course is up.

We'll have a huge finishers party at the end of 10 weeks to celebrate for those who have completed more than 75% of the coursework and posted their personal brand statement.

You will have lifetime access to our Facebook group to continue the support, feedback and community that many participants find helpful. This also gives you access to the monthly calls and Ask Me Anything calls. You will also get early notice of discounts to new events, retreats, and strategy sessions as a part of the Future Proof Tribe.

You can do the basics of the course in an hour a week, though you may find yourself wanting to go deeper for some sections. Each week you will receive an email introducing the topic and a link to pre-work of an article or video reference that will take 10-15 minutes. Then you have short videos in the course + worksheets + homework. The homework will be something like, "draft your personal brand statement (1-2 sentences) and pop it into the Facebook group for feedback".

The more time you spend interacting with the community and with the materials, the more you can get out of it but you have access for life so can always go back to them when you have more time or the topic becomes more relevant.

In addition, we do a one-hour video call to introduce everyone at the beginning of the class, an optional check-in midway and a finisher’s party. 

You will leave the course with a way to assess future growth areas in your business, an understanding of the values that can help you filter decisions, a personal brand statement that reflects how you want people to see you, a personal user manual that lets people know the best way to work with you, a focus for your strategic network building and a path forward at the end to pull things together and take it forward. 

In addition to this, you have a community of people that can provide you with accountability, feedback, ideas and support during the course and beyond.

This course is ideal for people who are considering how to reinvent themselves for new opportunities (including as an entrepreneur or portfolio careerist) or in career transition. 

To be future proof is to be adaptable. Being able to look for new ways to apply your unique combinations of skills, qualities and quirks in viable ways is a huge part of that. We will think through growth areas to consider for new work, your values and how to express them in your work and the story and network that can support the new way you would like to present yourself. 

If you have more question, please contact me at [email protected].