Future Readiness Institute (FRI)
Why does future readiness matter now?
Because the rules of value creation are being rewritten in real time. AI, data, and exponential technologies are reshaping how we learn, work, lead, and grow. The Future Readiness Institute is your partner in turning uncertainty into advantage and ambition into impact.Launched in January 2024, FRI is a global hub and catalyst for future readiness with a Massive Transformative Purpose to unleash human potential for the future. Our vision is to build an adaptable world. Our mission is to empower a billion people by 2030.
What FRI is:
FRI blends strategy, technology, foresight, and leadership into practical learning pathways. We help people and organizations anticipate change, design resilient strategies, and build future-ready capabilities that compound over time.
- Institute-led pathways that stack from essentials to mastery.
- Executive cohorts and on-site immersions tailored to your sector and context.
- Applied toolkits, diagnostics, and canvases that translate insight into action.
- Hybrid and self-paced formats on a modern LMS with continuous refresh.
Flagship Topics and Speakers:
We focus where leaders need the most leverage:
- AI & Strategic Digital Excellence | Prof. Henrik von Scheel
- Big Data & AI | Dr. Usama Fayyad and Faizan Chaudhary
- Data Monetization | Faizan Chaudhary
- Future Readiness | Tariq Qureishy
- Foresight & Scenario Building | Dr. Jerome Glenn
- Law of the Future | Dr. Abir Haddad
- Future Talent | Ayşe Öztuna
- Exponential Innovation | Vivek Wadhwa
- Quantum Marketing | Dr. Taylan Yildiz
- Moonshot Leadership | Prof. Ivan Bofarull
Research partners include MIT CSAIL, Stanford HAI, ETH Zurich AI Center, Cambridge Leverhulme Centre, and Carnegie Mellon Robotics. Cohorts and programs run in the UAE, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and more.
Specialization Programs:
- The Global Pioneer Program | Industry 4.0 applied at scale with proof of concepts delivered in weeks.
- Global Lighthouse Network | Peer playbooks and use cases from organizations delivering 2–5x ROI through digital and AI.
- Advanced Management Program (AMP) | A 3-day executive intensive on thriving in uncertainty.
- Applied Strategic Foresight | Think, plan, and act like a futurist with scenarios and decision design.
- Future-critical fluency in AI, data, foresight, and innovation.
- Career resilience with portable skills and credible certification.
- Decision confidence using proven frameworks and tools.
- Execution at speed with AI-first ways of working and measurable ROI.
- Readiness by design through culture, governance, and capability building.
- A trusted network of global experts, research partners, and peer leaders.
- Institute-level rigor with market-level outcomes.
- Global experts with local relevance for your operating context.
- End-to-end journey from awareness to action to scale.
Outcomes and Impact:
For Individuals
For Organizations
Why FRI?
75% of current S&P 500 companies are projected to disappear by 2027. What worked yesterday will not secure tomorrow. The Future Readiness Institute ensures you do not just withstand disruption. You thrive in it.
Certified pathways | Customized content | Practical toolkits | Executive impact
Ready to build durable advantage in a world that refuses to stand still?
Our Previous FRI Cohorts:
Why TariQ?
TariQ is a Harvard alumni who started his career back in 1987 as a lowly customer support executive. He grew through the ranks and worked his way up and built an an illustrious background working with top organizations like Dow Jones Markets, The Times & Sunday Times and more recently Bloomberg Media. He has helped organizations go from half a million a year to $100 million a year and lead organizations with revenues of greater than $350 million, working across global markets. He’s a focused business leader, a disruptive thinker and has this unique ability to create breakthroughs in organizations. Some of his achievements are:
- Regional Director for a $350/year business with 1000+ employees for Dow Jones Markets. Worked across Europe, Middle East, Africa, with strong links with US.
- Brought The Times & Sunday Times into the Middle East in 2007, as Publisher and launch CEO & against all odds got the business to break –even within 24 months. Had to disrupt the traditional business model to achieve this.
- He leads the content curation and events mandate at Harvard Business Schools Club in GCC
- Is a regular speaker at KPMG Global & Asia Pacific, Roland Berger Consultants as a “Future expert” and many others.
- Has worked with top brands like Petrochem, Emirates, DP World, Telenor, BAYT, HSBC, Emaaar, ENBD, and many others.
