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Transformative Scenario Planning

An Interactive 5-Day Training Course

Transformative Scenario Planning

Preparing for and Changing the Future

NASBA
Classroom Schedule
Date Venue Fees
10 - 14 Aug 2026 Dubai $ 5,950
30 Nov - 04 Dec 2026 Barcelona $ 5,950

Course Summary

Organisations today face unprecedented complexity from economic, political, and social changes that traditional planning methods cannot adequately address. The Transformative Scenario Planning training course equips professionals with a robust approach that goes beyond prediction to actively shape the future by influencing systems, structures, and processes. Participants will learn how to anticipate a range of possible futures, assemble strategic planning teams, and craft detailed, believable scenarios that serve as a foundation for adaptive and transformative action. By mastering scenario planning, delegates will gain the capability to enhance strategic thinking, improve organisational resilience, and support sustainable competitive advantage.

Over five days, participants explore the five key phases of transformative scenario planning, learning to design actionable strategies that address uncertainty and complexity. The course emphasises collaboration, holistic analysis, and the application of practical tools to anticipate risks and opportunities that traditional forecasting overlooks. Through imaginative yet evidence-based methods, the Transformative Scenario Planning training course prepares leaders and strategic professionals to navigate turbulent environments with confidence and clarity.

Skills & Competencies

From this Transformative Scenario Planning training course, participants will develop the following key skills and competencies:

  • Strategic future forecasting and planning
  • System-wide thinking and holistic analysis
  • Scenario design and storytelling capability
  • Risk anticipation and opportunity identification
  • Collaborative strategic team facilitation
  • Adaptive and transformative leadership mindset

Key Learning Outcomes

At the end of Transformative Scenario Planning training course, you will learn to:

  • Distinguish scenario planning from traditional planning methods.
  • Structure and implement each phase of the scenario planning process.
  • Design and communicate detailed, consequential future scenarios.
  • Identify actionable insights to adapt or influence organisational systems.
  • Apply scenario planning outputs to drive innovation and strategic success.

How You Will Learn

Participants will learn through a structured combination of conceptual background, analytical frameworks, imagination-driven methods, and practical scenario planning tools. The training course emphasises collaboration, reflection, and hands-on application of robust strategic processes that support decision-making under uncertainty and complexity.

Who should Attend?

This training course is designed for professionals involved in strategic planning, leadership, and future thinking who seek powerful tools to anticipate and influence change.

This Transformative Scenario Planning training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

  • Strategic planning teams
  • Board-level members and senior managers
  • Policy developers and government leaders
  • Private sector executives and organisational strategists
  • Professionals in public service, NGOs, academia, and emergency services
Course Outline
Day 1

The Origins and Nature of Scenario Planning

This day introduces the foundations of scenario planning and explains its distinct role in strategic thinking. Participants explore why traditional planning approaches fall short and how scenario planning can provide deeper insights for organisational strategy. The topics covered will include:

  • Origins of Scenario Planning
  • What Scenario Planning is and When to use it
  • The Shortcomings of Traditional Strategic Management Approaches
  • How Scenario Planning Works
  • An Overview of the Phases of the Process and the Timescales Involved

Assembling a Team that Represents the Whole System

  • Choosing a ‘Convening Team’
  • Assembling a ‘Plausible Future’ vs. a ‘Delphi’ Panel that both Represent the Whole System
  • Selecting Key Members / Actors for the Panel
  • Allowing Time for the Panel to (a) transform their understandings, relationships, and intentions (Phases 1 to 4) and (b) adapt to and transform the system (Phase 5)
  • Understanding Your Own and Other’s biases in Thinking, Planning and Communicating
Day 2

Becoming Aware of and Observing What is Happening

This day introduces the foundations of scenario planning and explains its distinct role in strategic thinking. Participants explore why traditional planning approaches fall short and how scenario planning can provide deeper insights for organisational strategy. The topics covered will include:

  • Enabling the Panel to Examine the Current Reality in and Around the Overall System
  • Determining the Driving Forces of the System: Events, Patterns, Trends and Structures / Processes
  • Creating a Space that Enables Trust, Safety, Autonomy, Re-perceiving and Dialogue
  • Using Facilitation to Exploit Divergent, Emergent and Convergent Thinking
  • Deciding on ‘Learning Journeys’ / Field Visits, White Papers, Researchers and ‘Remarkable Persons’
  • Listing ‘Certainties’ and ‘Uncertainties’ in and Around the System
Day 3

Designing and Telling Stories about What could Happen

This day teaches how to transform analytical insights into compelling scenario narratives. Participants explore methods for constructing logical, consequential stories that capture multiple potential futures. The topics covered will include:   

  • Determining Two Major Uncertainties / Dimensional Axes
  • Designing Four Scenarios around the Two Uncertainties using both Deductive and Inductive Thinking
  • Conceiving Non-obvious Scenarios using Inductive Thinking
  • Transforming the Final Four Scenarios into Logical, Consequential Stories
  • Finding Metaphors, Images and Titles for each Scenario
  • Documenting the Scenarios to Facilitate Compelling Communication using Different Media
Day 4

Identifying What Can and Must be Done

This day focuses on translating scenario outcomes into direction and action. Participants examine how to differentiate adaptive responses from transformative action and set priorities for organisational strategies. The topics covered will include:

  • Looking at the Scenarios to Provide Direction: Adapting to and Influencing / Transforming the System
  • Appreciating What can be done alone and also through Partnerships
  • Discovering What can and must be done based upon What could happen
  • Pausing, Reflecting and Making meaning of both Adaptive and Transformative Meanings and Implications
  • Using a ‘Reverse SWOT’ in Adaptive Stance, using Roles, Responsibilities and Obligations in Transformative Stance
  • Describing Future ‘Contexts’ and Defining their ‘Triggers’, ‘Early Warning Indicators’ and Appropriate ‘Planned Responses’
Day 5

Planning and Acting to Adapt to and Transform the System

This day emphasises turning scenarios into actions that influence organisational systems. Participants explore how to frame initiatives, partnerships, and communication strategies that shape desirable futures. The topics covered will include:   

  • Transforming the Scenarios to Actions: Goals / Policies, Objectives, Programs, Initiatives / Projects, Structures / Processes, Legislation, etc.
  • Using the Insights into Possible Opportunities, Risks and Choices to Frame your Service Provision and Activities
  • Leveraging Alliances and Partnerships to Work in New Ways
  • Engaging with the World as a Collective Panel or Independently with more Aligned, Understandings, Insights, Relationships, Intentions and Wisdom
  • Using Meetings, Briefings, Workshops, the Media (broadcast and social) and Spinoff Initiatives
  • Utilising the Difference between Simply Distributing vs. Disseminating the Panel’s Outputs using Inspired Actors
Certificates
  • On successful completion of this training course, GLOMACS Certificate will be awarded to the delegates.
  • Continuing Professional Education credits (CPE): In accordance with the standards of the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, one CPE credit is granted per 50 minutes of attendance.
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Customisation & In-House Delivery

Delivering this training course in-house enables organisations to tailor scenario planning methodologies to their unique strategic challenges and organisational contexts. Customisation supports real-case applications, collaborative foresight development, and alignment of planning practices with organisational priorities.

Why Choose Saudi GLOMACS?

Saudi GLOMACS is the official Saudi Arabian division of GLOMACS International (glomacs.com), delivering internationally recognised training courses both within Saudi Arabia and across international locations. Our training courses are aligned with the highest professional and institutional standards, supported by a strong understanding of the professional landscape in Saudi Arabia and access to global expertise.

Saudi GLOMACS enables professionals and organisations to strengthen leadership, capability, and long-term excellence through consistently high-quality learning experiences.

Official Saudi Presence

Official Saudi Arabian division of GLOMACS with established global credibility.

International Benchmarks

Internationally benchmarked training courses aligned with professional best practices.

Trusted Across Sectors

Trusted by professionals and institutions across public and private sectors.

Flexible Delivery

Training courses delivered within Saudi Arabia and across international locations.

Additional Benefits of this course for Organisations and Professionals in Saudi Arabia

Organisations & Professionals in KSA will have the following additional benefits from this Transformative Scenario Planning training course:

  • Enhanced capacity for strategic foresight
  • Improved ability to anticipate and respond to change
  • Stronger systems thinking and analysis
  • Greater organisational resilience and readiness
  • Increased stakeholder alignment and collaboration
  • Practical scenario-based decision-making capability
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