Summary
In 2009, Frank founded Kedge – a global foresight, innovation, and strategic design firm which pioneered TFSX. Throughout his career, Frank has worked as a leadership coach and developer with entrepreneurs, social communities, networking initiatives, and SMEs, helping them in areas such as development, innovation, and networking.
He holds a Master of Arts in Strategic Foresight from Regent University. With a strong background in both business and academic foresight, Frank was the creator and lead instructor of The Futures Institute: Shaping The Future Now at Duke University’s Talent identification Program Institute, teaching students to use Futures Thinking and foresight to develop transformative solutions to grand challenges (2010, 2011).
He has worked on Strategic Foresight projects for companies such as Kraft, Mars, Marriott, and The Walt Disney Company. He is a prolific speaker, having delivered presentations to groups and conferences around the globe for over the last 20 years. Frank holds memberships in World Futures Society (WFS) and Association for Professional Futurists (APF).
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Who we are
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Our mission is to democratize the future.
TFSX offers comprehensive advisory services, developmental programs, certification and credentialing, asynchronous courses, experiential events, communities of practices, dynamic networking, and opportunity-laden dream building.
We bring you a universe of foresight focused on elevating the futures mindset as a common operating system of care, empathy, and love — not only for the world around us, but for the world(s) yet to come.
Why we do what we do
We believe that the future is being created every day.
In our world of growing volatility and uncertainty, making decisions is overwhelming.
You and I are living in a “new normal.” However, our businesses, institutions, and systems are operating with the mindset of a bygone era.
In reality, you are already creating the future. Each and every one of us live in the reality created by our decisions.
Most decisions are made on “autopilot.” However, even when we walk into the future unintentionally, our actions determine our outcomes.
So, when it’s time to plan for the future, we most often make spreadsheets that leverage historical data.
We copy + paste financial projections. Our 10 year strategic plans look a lot like the ones we created last year.
It’s time for you and me to wake up! Our world is unprecedentedly complex, and we need to adopt a radically different approach to the future.
We embrace a new approach.
A new approach to making decisions. A new approach to building our organizations and communities. A new approach to life.
The truth is that we all have an ethical and moral obligation to design a better future.
We owe it to future generations, but we also owe it to ourselves.
When you think of it that way, Futures Thinking and Foresight is the most radical form of self-care.
Your best future is awaiting you, you just need to have the courage to map it.
How we map the future
Solve every challenge through Futures Thinking
You are probably someone who likes to solve problems.
You’ve tried so many approaches. You’ve gone through the steps. You got to the end and patted yourself on the back.
But then something unexpected happens. A pandemic, an acquisition, a re-org, or a stressful personal event.
So, you solve this new problem like you have all the others – from the standpoint of the problem.
However Futures Thinking breaks free from the limitations of the present, and begins with the future in mind.
This allows us to pull ourselves into possibilities and opportunities in ways that processes grounded in the present cannot!
Futures Thinking can even help us pull the future into the present, elevating our potential far beyond the confines of today’s most impactful ideas.
When we map rigorous and robust alternative futures, we break-free from a mechanistic and unnatural perspective.
