The Questions Most Frequently Asked
about Future Works

What is FutureWorksInstitute.com?

Future Works Institute is a coaching and business advisory resource and educational forum for those who seek a life of significance as well as success. I am Karen Sands, Master Certified Coach, Professional Futurist, Strategist, and founder of FutureWorksInstitute.com. For over thirty years, I have mentored extraordinary change in clients seeking more meaningful, profitable, and satisfying lives and businesses or careers that rock.

I coach busy professionals who are conscious movers and shakers, leaders, and superstars, committed to living their full potential and bringing the best of their gifts to the planet. They are enlightened professionals who seek to leverage life’s transitions to reinvent themselves and revolutionize their world. They seek to join their free spirits with free enterprise for greater profits and purpose in life.

What is Greatness?

Waking up every morning knowing your day is going to rock . . .
Leading others to achieve a common vision while encouraging their personal dreams, creativity, and innovation . . .
Reaching beyond success to fulfill your passions, to profit with purpose, to transform yourself in ways that transform the world . . .

That is Greatness.

That little voice inside telling you there’s something more for you; that it’s never too late to achieve your full potential—personally, professionally, spiritually; that your every action can have lasting impact on your life, the lives of the people you love, the lives of everyone on Earth—that’s your Greatness calling out to you.
Answer the call to Greatness and leave your mark on (y)our future with every step you take in the present.

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What is an Everyday FuturistSM?

An Everyday FuturistSM uses knowledge, knowing, and knowhow to identify, track, and respond to future trends and alternative futures with insight, innovation, and measurable results—personally, professionally, and planetarily. By learning the skills of an Everyday FuturistSM, you can anticipate the changes of tomorrow and prepare for them with new products, services, approaches, and life choices that make your everyday life more meaningful, successful, and satisfying—from head to soul.

Using a blend of scientific and analytical tools and consciousness principles, Everyday FuturistsSM evaluate, measure, and track trends and conditions, asking the right questions and learning how to apply the answers with wisdom, foresight, and down-to-earth strategies that transform their future and the futures of everyone they touch.

You can stop reacting to what has happened and start acting on what will. You can make every day matter by applying the wisdom of tomorrow.

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What qualifies you to create greater futures?

For over three decades, I have masterfully coached professionals to find greater soul satisfaction, have more impact, and enjoy more free time and increased wealth. One of 620 Master Certified Coaches worldwide, I mentor individuals, partnerships, and teams to extraordinary results whatever the agenda.

I am as comfortable leading a start-up or turn-around company as I am fostering paradigm shifts in my clients’ lives or businesses. My unique background as a business advisor, futurist, midlife specialist, and MCC qualifies me to work effectively with clients at the cutting edge who seek streamlined strategies and breakthrough results, especially in midlife.

You are doing pretty well in your life, but you are asking new questions, looking for deeper answers and new choices. Work with me to reach a new level of achievement, satisfaction, and financial freedom.

Whether you opt for one-on-one or group coaching, you will get a personalized plan that you can apply to your life, business, or career right away.

My customized and integrated approach includes expert business strategies, visioning exercises, course-correction assessments and tools, and empowering approaches for all of life. Together, we discover how you can best live so that you manifest a life that is prosperous as well as meaningful . . . and enjoy a business or career that makes a money-making difference.

Typical Future Works® clients want not only success but also true fulfillment, hoping to offer enlightened leadership and elite performance to better their lives, their clients, and the Earth.

It Is Time to Hire a Coach if You…

My clients tell me their return on investment is
20 times the cost of coaching.

Why did you choose to be a coach, futurist, and business strategist?

Throughout my career—from educator to entrepreneur, executive back to entrepreneur—I mastered the tools for catalyzing colleagues and clients to greater and greater levels of excellence.

As a Master Certified Coach and business adviser, there is no bigger joy for me than to watch another professional realize higher levels of achievement and reap the rewards of a great life and livelihood. I take pride and joy in the hundreds of clients and thousands of readers who have attained their goals, combining passion, purpose, and profit. The potential for human excellence is limitless, and most of us live only a fraction of our greatness. Here’s to unleashing yours!

What are the logistics of working with you?

Flexibility, convenience, and privacy are all wrapped into one money-making, meaningful results program. Schedule your appointments on an as-needed basis or pre-book at set times with the monthly retainer packages to ensure steady progress towards realizing your greater tomorrow . . . today.

How?

I offer customized life, mid-career, retirement, and business coaching in a number of different formats, so you can choose what’s best and most appropriate for you. No matter which option you choose, together we will design your blueprint for success, balance, and longevity.

My retainer fee packages offer the freedom to allocate session time as it best suits your immediate needs throughout the month. I also offer group coaching formats and customized coaching programs on- and off-site.

Please review my packages and offerings and select the one that works for you. If you would like to explore other customized options, please give me a call at 203-266-1100, or email me at KarenSands@FutureWorksInstitute.com.

Where?

I work virtually with the majority of my clients. Telecoaching with email support provides the best of all worlds: convenience, accessibility, and privacy from your home office or executive suite or from the road . . . and flexible packages to match your work and lifestyle.

Some clients prefer a mix of both virtual and face-to-face time together. Your choice.

In addition, I offer you options for change of place. Meet in my convenient urban office in Manhattan, at my relaxing country venue in Connecticut, or on-site at your office. I also provide off-site customized coaching: individual and group formats available. To determine the customized program for your needs, please give me a call at 203-266-1100, or email me, KarenSands@FutureWorksInstitute.com.

Do you offer short-term workshops or teleseminars, so I can become acquainted with your work before committing to one-on-one coaching?

Yes, I do.
Please don’t walk away without reserving your spot in the FREE open-mic Awaken the Visionary Within, a guided Conversation that Matters for people like you who are committed to reinventing themselves and revolutionizing their world.

Additionally, I offer seminars, Masterminds, and workshops: Mid-Career in the Fast Lane™; Stay Rock Solid™; Arriving Where You Are Headed™; Midlife Crisis? Bring It On!™; Meet You At the Top™; Future Works: Retiring Retirement™; Crossing the Canyon: Women’s Midlife Journey to Greatness™ and more.

Join my email list to receive information about future teleseminars and workshops that give you the critical information you need to create a greater tomorrow.

What other complimentary resources does Future Works provide?

Through our website, you can subscribe or download a number of complimentary resources that build your skills and increase insight into how you can make a better future for yourself and the world.

Future Works® Gazette, a free monthly eletter, offers resources that both inspire and inform. Future Works Institute’s free ebooks, The New ’60s: Reinventing Our Millennium and Crossing the Canyon: Women’s Midlife Journey into Greatness include essays focusing on turning life’s personal and global transitions into innovative new futures. Look for our special reports and ebook bonuses for website visitors and Future Works® Network members.

I continuously create more free materials for my loyal subscribers and members, and I hope you will take advantage of the wisdom and techniques I have gathered over three decades of coaching, futuring, and business advising.

Can you guarantee positive results from our work together?

I only guarantee what you are willing to work for. If you complete all written assignments and take all action steps, and meet with me on consistently, you will achieve results that you cannot even imagine. I guide you with my expertise, but it is your willingness to get into gear and stay focused on the path ahead that gets you to your greater future.