American Workforce Futures - a new Foresight Playbook from VFS
- VFS Team
- 17 hours ago
- 2 min read
Featuring the ALL NEW Scenario Supplement, a tool to enhance your team's strategic thinking.
In today’s volatile business environment, executive teams are under increasing pressure to anticipate disruption, manage strategic risk, and position their organizations to seize emerging opportunities. To support this work, Vision Foresight Strategy is proud to release Foresight Playbook #2503 - American Workforce Futures - now accompanied by a powerful new tool: the Scenario Supplement.
Why This Matters for Executive Teams
The American workplace is undergoing profound transformation. From generative AI and skills-based hiring to shifting employee expectations and decentralized work models, the next five years will challenge even the most resilient organizations. The Foresight Playbook equips leadership teams with a structured, time-efficient process to explore multiple plausible futures. It’s designed to help executives:
Identify and assess key drivers of change
Facilitate strategic conversations across the C-suite
Stress-test current strategies against a range of future conditions
Align leadership around shared foresight and action
What’s New: The Scenario Supplement
The Scenario Supplement is a new, optional companion to the Playbook, created specifically for executive teams that want to accelerate their foresight work or deepen their scenario thinking. Whether you choose to use our scenario forecasts or as a reference for building your own, the Scenario Supplement enables deeper insights into the futures of the American workforce.
The Scenario Supplement includes:
Four VFS-developed scenario forecasts for the American workplace, each grounded in rigorous foresight methodology and designed to reflect divergent outcomes across two critical uncertainties: the evolution of the social contract and the pace of technological decentralization.
Executive-ready summaries and detailed narratives that explore themes such as AI-human teaming, micro-entrepreneurship, regional inequality, and contested workplace norms.
A structured facilitation guide for using the scenarios in leadership workshops, board retreats, or strategic planning sessions.
Discussion prompts to help teams identify blind spots, surface assumptions, and uncover new areas of opportunity or exposure.
Who Should Use These Tools
These resources are designed for:
Executive teams preparing for strategic planning cycles
Boards of directors seeking to understand long-term workforce risks
HR and talent leaders navigating organizational transformation
Strategy, innovation, and risk officers building resilient plans
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