I'm looking for a few good men--and women! You might be one of them, or know someone who is ready for a unique professional opportunity.

I have spent more than two decades investigating how leaders turn from the past and focus on the future. In the process, I have taken these concepts of faith & foresight and used them in my consulting practice to help turn-around organizations and communities.

Rather than take 13 years to discover these futures tools, you can learn them from me in 13 weeks.

Each semester I am teaching a "Survey of Futures Studies" via Regent University's online Blackboard course system. If you are looking for how to turn your organization from a past-driven into a future-focused effort, this might be your ticket.

Through online-streaming lectures, readings, discussion, feedback and customized projects you will explore the changing 21st century world. Through this investment, you will learn five key competencies, that will give you a leadership edge:

• FUTURES: Define key terms, concepts and milestones of futures studies as a theoretical field and a professional practice.
  
• CHANGE: Document new and emerging trends relevant to their organization, and explore the nature of these driving forces, in terms of system dynamics, social change or alternative images of the future.
  
• SCENARIOS: Create stories of possible change and describe the organizational visioning process.
  
• PLANNING: Explain the role of leadership in creating the future through strategic thinking, planning and implementing the change process.

The class sizes are small. That enables me to spend more time with you, ensuring you master the field of foresight, whether in a non-profit or business context.

You will get this and more in this three credit course for under $800, at the audit price. Textbooks are another 20% on top of that.

I realize that's not lunch money, but I assure you it will be an investment of time and money well spent.

In this class you will learn how to:

• Build a dynamic "Mental Model 2" that can lead your organization out of the wilderness into tomorrow.
• Both critique and profit from technologies and social changes emerging from now till 2025.
• Master a trend-scanning process I used to help organizations stay head and heels above their collaborators and competitors.
• Learn the craft of spinning scenarios--how to think the unthinkable, and prepare your organization for paradigm shifting change.

I encourage you to join me via Regent University for this unique course in strategic foresight. You will join other mid-career professionals at the cutting edge of their fields.

If you are interested in enrolling in LMSF602: Survey of Futures Studies, contact me directly and I'll forward you a non-degree student course application. Invest in your future today.

Also: if you are interested in this field, Regent launched an 11-course M.A. in Strategic Foresight three years ago. See our program page at http://www.regent.edu/global/msf
and learn more about the School of Global Leadership & Entrepreneurship. Applications are accepted April 1st, July 1st and Nov. 1st 2006. Master the art of foresight and take your leadership to a higher level.