Executive Education

Executive Education courses are available. Past executive education courses were taught to private sector, non-profit sector, and government officials in Qatar in 2023 and 2025.

The executive education workshop delivered was about describing one’s story from the past to the present moment, describing core values, assessing current life state, and beginning to think about the next chapter in one’s personal and professional life. This introductory module introduces people to three related areas: personal futures, life design, and ontological design.

  • Personal Futures adapts methods from Futures Studies, typically used by organizations and governments.
  • Life Design applies a Design Thinking approach, typically used to develop products or services, to envision an individual’s career and life choices.
  • Ontological Design, takes a philosophical approach to help designers understand how their design choices shape the world and how the designed world, in turn, goes on to shape them. In other words, our design choices shape us and our surroundings.

The first workshop prepares for other personal futures workshops:

  • Where are you? Personal values and lifestages.
  • Becoming. What is the ideal version that you aspire to become?
  • Alternative futures. What might be 4-5 alternative scenarios for your life?
  • Visioning in the short-term and in the long term. What might your life narratives be?
  • Telling your story.
  • Enacting your plan. Strategic Action Plan and contingency planning.

For executive education with focus on teams and organizations see the relational futures research page.

Please contact Prof. Peter Scupelli to discuss what might be of interest to your executives and organizations.