 In 2016, after three appointed studies over nine years, APF released a Foresight Competency Model, a product of 23 members from 4 continents that mapped the personal, academic, workplace, and technical competencies that futurists draw upon to support their work as consulting, organizational or academic futurists.The Foresight Competency Model addresses the basic question of what one ought to be capable of doing as a professional futurist.At the center of the model is a circle of six foresight competencies