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She proposes that a good model for foresight competency assessment may be a variation of the quantitative Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice (KAP) survey model for assessing professional competency based on the way the professional affects behavior change capacity in one’s clients. How do we assess client impact in our foresight practice? Consider public health futurist Annette Gardner’s suggested foresight practice competency scale. A future-thinker without a paying client is an amateur, a lover of the field, but not yet a professional.
Definition of foresight pro#
Some of us may do mostly pro bono work, but as in professional sports, once even a small part of our income and job description can be tied to future thinking, and once we serve a particular client, we belong in a different category. Pioneering futurist Joe Coates (1929-2014), offered us a simple, starter definition: a foresight professional is anyone who takes money for looking to and analyzing the future, for a client. Foresight Professional – A Simple Definition