Strategic Public Leadership: Planning Amidst Uncertainty

Click here to sign up to receive a notification when registration is available for this course
Notify Me When Registration Is Available
Use the form below to receive a notification when this course has registration available.
E-mail Address
Enter an email address to receive a notification by email.

Text Message Number
Enter a phone number to receive a notification by text.

Allow the School of Government to save your information?

The School of Government will keep your information in order to contact you about courses you may be interested in. We will never give or sell your information to an outside source.

This is an online class, offered via Zoom from 8:30 am-4 pm.

You had a plan...but now what? When you have no clear idea what the future holds, how can you plan responsibly? Futurist Rebecca Ryan will facilitate this interactive, remote workshop where you will:

Complete a 6-step process to get clear on the most challenging, most expectable, and most visionary plausible futures for your community;

Learn techniques to sharpen your foresight skills and to anticipate disruptions before they happen;
“Stress test” your current budget and strategic plan - and determine what to keep, what to re-prioritize, and what to postpone;
Know how to strengthen your plans through Red Teaming, a technique that gets your team out of the echo chamber and helps you challenge assumptions.

This session will be interactive and enable you to practice the same foresight skills used by the US Military, NATO, Fortune 500 companies, the World Bank, and others to navigate disruption.

This workshop is taught by Rebecca Ryan. Described as a "human spark plug,” Rebecca Ryan is the founder and owner of NEXT Generation Consulting, Inc. Ryan is also the founder of Futurist Camp, Resident Futurist at the Alliance for Innovation, and the chairperson and a faculty member for the Institute for Zen Leadership. She is author of The Next Big Things: The Next 20 Years in Local Government (2015); ReGENERATION: A Manifesto for America’s Future Leaders (2013); and Live First, Work Second: Getting Inside the Head of the Next Generation (2007). Rebecca has degrees in Economics and International Relations from Drake University and a Professional Certificate in Strategic Foresight from the University of Houston.

Scholarship Information

Local Government Federal Credit Union ( Not Currently Offered DO NOT USE )

Local Government Federal Credit Union offers scholarships to local government employees to apply toward tuition for conferences, classes, and seminars offered by the School of Government. There are four deadlines to submit applications: