Learn the 7 Competencies of Futures Thinking

13 Mar 2026 · 2 min

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In this brief promotional monologue, futurist Charlotte Kemp introduces a 21‑day microlearning program designed to help participants develop seven core competencies essential for thriving in the future. She explains that these competencies are transferable lenses rather than narrow skills, framing them as enduring ways of viewing the world that can be applied across professional roles. The program delivers a daily video of roughly two minutes, using microlearning to prime the brain without overwhelming it, thereby addressing the complexity and data‑richness of modern life. Kemp positions the series as a starting point—not a definitive guide—and invites viewers to join, experiment with the competencies in their own work and personal contexts, and provide feedback on how the concepts manifest in their experiences.

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Hi, I'm Charlotte Kemp, futurist, keynote speaker, executive coach, and author, and I'd like to invite you to join me on 21 days of learning, exploring, developing the 7 competencies we need to develop to be fit for the future. These 7 competencies underlie all of the various skills that we need to, to learn and be capable of doing in the future, and a competency is something that develops in your professional world that you can take from one position to another. So it's not a skill that might become redundant, it is a lens, a frame, a way of looking at the world. The program will feature one video a day. Those videos will be less than about 2 minutes long, and it's just enough to prime our brains to start to identify the competencies, to understand them, to consider how our lives would work if we have them or if we don't have them, and then to start the journey of developing these competencies for ourselves. One of the ways we respond to the complexity and pace of the world and the huge, vast amount of data that there is, is to find new ways of learning. And microlearning is a really impactful way to kind of just slip some of that information in so that we can start to explore it. Our brains can can look for it and be primed to understand that content without adding additional burden to our lives of having to learn something new. So this is not the ultimate word in these competencies, but the starting point for you to develop them in your own professional and personal lives. I invite you to join me and to give me feedback on how you see those competencies playing out in your own work life or experience.