Houston Foresight Virtual Boot Camp Starts October 1st

The University of Houston Foresight Program is kicking off another 5-day virtual boot camp on October 1st that will run on Wednesday mornings from 9am-12:30pm CST and conclude on October 29. We do require participants to do a minimum of 1-3 hours of homework in between the weekly sessions. The course is limited to 30-35 students, which allows for optimal class time, small group work, and networking opportunities.

August 2025 Certificate Boot Camp Class Photo (in-person)

The course is designed for those who need to quickly get immersed in the basics of how to do a foresight project. We also find that more experience practitioners benefit from seeing how we do it at UH.

You’ll take a sample project through our Framework Foresight process, with theory, exercises, and discussions salted in. You’ll receive the digital textbook, Thinking about the Future, accompanying worksheets, and a Professional Certificate in Foresight for attending. You can also obtain a separate departmental Certificate of Achievement if you complete a foresight project after program delivery, which qualifies as one criterion for full membership to the Association of Professional Futurists (APF).

More info: https://www.hdcs.uh.edu/programs/certificates/foresight/seminar — Andy Hines

About Andy Hines

Dr. Andy Hines is Program Coordinator at the University of Houston’s Graduate Program in Foresight, bringing together the experience he earned as an organizational, consulting, and academic futurist. He is also speaking, workshopping, and consulting through his firm Hinesight.

Before that, he was Managing Director of Social Technologies/Innovaro, and served as an Adjunct Professor with the university since 2004. Hines enjoyed earlier careers as a consulting and organizational futurist. He was a partner with Coates & Jarratt, Inc., a think tank and consulting firm that specialized in the study of the future. He was also Futurist & Senior Ideation Leader at Dow Chemical with a mission of using futures tools and knowledge to turn ideas into new business opportunities. Before that, Hines established and ran the Global Trends Program for the Kellogg Company.

Hines is motivated by a professional hunger to make foresight practical and useful, and he believes that foresight can help deliver the insight that is so needed in today’s organizations and the world. His goal, he says, is to infect as many change agents as possible with this message. Thus, he has honed a skill set designed to make foresight more actionable in organizations.

In this pursuit, he has authored five books: Teaching about the Future: The Basics of Foresight Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012); ConsumerShift: How Changing Values Are Reshaping the Consumer Landscape (No Limits Publishing, 2011); Thinking About the Future: Guidelines for Strategic Foresight (Social Technologies, 2007); 2025: Science and Technology Reshapes US and Global Society (Oak Hill, 1997); and Managing Your Future as an Association (ASAE, 1994) and has another in the hands of publishers: Teaching about the Future: The Basics of Foresight Education. He has also authored dozens of articles, speeches, and workshops, including the 2003 Emerald Literati Awards’ Outstanding Paper accolade for best article published in Foresight for “An Audit for Organizational Futurists” and the 2008 award for “Scenarios: The State of the Art.” He has appeared on several radio and television programs, PBS Houston, KRIV-26 News, and the CBS “Early Show.” He also co-founded and is former Chair of the Association of Professional Futurists.

About Andy Hines

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