ICA Tomorrow-Ready Skills: The 5 Areas and 21 Skills Explained

What Tomorrow-Ready means

Tomorrow-Ready is ICA's name for the skills people need as work keeps changing. ICA explains the choice of words simply: nobody can predict every future, but readiness is a set of skills you can build on purpose. That is why it says "Tomorrow-Ready" rather than "future proof" (ICA FAQ).

ICA also explains why it widened its focus. Work is changing fast, so people need to adapt, collaborate, solve complex problems, lead through change and work alongside technology such as AI. Agility stays the foundation, and the new catalogue makes room for these other skills (Announcing ICA, ICA Help Center).

ICA calls the catalogue SkillPrint, a name it also uses for each learner's verified picture of their skills. Tomorrow-Ready and SkillPrint are trademarks of ICA.

New to the names? Our glossary explains ICA and ICAgile, and our article on why ICAgile became ICA tells the story of the name change.

How Tomorrow-Ready certifications work

A Tomorrow-Ready certification is built from smaller pieces called credentials. To earn one, you need 1 core credential for the skill plus at least 2 specialized credentials related to it. You can earn them in any order (About Tomorrow-Ready Certifications & Credentials, ICA Help Center).

ICA points out that this is new: unlike the agile certifications, the Tomorrow-Ready catalogue is made of credentials. Five things are worth knowing:

• Each credential stands on its own. It counts as a verified skill even if you never finish the full certification.
• One credential can count more than once. A specialized credential can count toward several certifications. ICA's example is Stakeholder Progress Communication, which counts for both Communication and Product Management.
• One course can award several credentials. A single course can award more than one credential at once.
• Every credential has its own badge. Each one you earn gives you a verified digital badge.
• Nothing expires. There is no renewal fee and no continuing education requirement, for new credentials or for existing ICAgile certifications.

Sources: About Specialized Credentials, the SkillPrint catalogue and the ICA FAQ.

The catalogue in numbers

ICA's SkillPrint page lists 5 disciplines, 21 skills, 24 certifications and 128 credentials. That is 24 core credentials, one for each certification, and 104 specialized credentials.

There are more certifications than skills because three skills have two certifications each:

• Coaching and Mentoring: Coaching (ICP-COA) and Mentoring (ICP-MTR)
• Critical Thinking: Analytical Thinking (ICP-ALT) and Systems Thinking (ICP-SYT)
• Risk & Governance: Risk Management (ICP-RSK) and Governance & Accountability (ICP-GOV)

How to read the codes

All certifications, old and new, use the ICP prefix: Facilitation is ICP-FAC. Single credentials use IC: Facilitation Core is IC-FACT. Expert designations keep the ICE prefix.

The 5 disciplines and 21 skills

ICA groups the 21 skills into 5 disciplines, the 5 areas in our title. The one-line summaries below paraphrase ICA's own descriptions, and each skill shows its Tomorrow-Ready certification and code.

1. Agility & Readiness

Builds agile skills, technology literacy and foundational mindsets (ICA: Agility & Readiness).

• Agile: Agile Delivery certification (ICP-AGD)
• AI & Technology Literacy: AI & Technology Literacy certification (ICP-ATL)
• Foundational Mindsets: Foundational Mindsets certification (ICP-FDM)

2. Value Creation

Builds strategy, customer, product and delivery skills (ICA: Value Creation).

• Project Management: Project Management certification (ICP-PJM)
• Product Management: Product Management certification (ICP-PRD)
• Business Strategy: Business Strategy certification (ICP-STR)
• Customer-Centricity: Customer-Centricity certification (ICP-CEN)

3. People Development

Builds coaching, mentoring, teaching, people management and emotional intelligence (ICA: People Development).

• Coaching and Mentoring: Coaching (ICP-COA) and Mentoring (ICP-MTR) certifications
• Teaching Excellence: Teaching Excellence certification (ICP-TXL)
• People Management: People Management certification (ICP-PMT)
• Emotional Intelligence (EQ): Emotional Intelligence certification (ICP-EQI)

4. Complexity & Change

Builds analytical, decision, change, risk and organisational design skills (ICA: Complexity & Change).

• Critical Thinking: Analytical Thinking (ICP-ALT) and Systems Thinking (ICP-SYT) certifications
• Decision Making: Decision Making certification (ICP-DEM)
• Change Management: Change Management certification (ICP-CMT)
• Risk & Governance: Risk Management (ICP-RSK) and Governance & Accountability (ICP-GOV) certifications
• Organizational Design: Organizational Design certification (ICP-ORD)

5. Influence & Interpersonal Dynamics

Builds communication, collaboration, conflict, facilitation and responsible influence skills (ICA: Influence & Interpersonal Dynamics).

• Facilitation: Facilitation certification (ICP-FAC)
• Power & Responsibility: Power & Responsibility certification (ICP-PWR)
• Collaboration: Collaboration certification (ICP-COL)
• Communication: Communication certification (ICP-COM)
• Conflict Navigation: Conflict Navigation certification (ICP-CON)

Two names that look alike

Two agile certifications share a name with parts of the new catalogue: Product Management (ICP-PDM) and People Development (ICP-PDV). Both continue in ICA's Agile catalogue, and Agile Visa teaches both. They are different from the Tomorrow-Ready Product Management certification (ICP-PRD) and from the People Development discipline above.

Which Agile Visa courses build each skill today

We compared what our courses teach with ICA's 21 skills, using the curriculum, outcomes and FAQs on each course page. Use the table to pick a course for the skill you want to build.

Not sure where to start? Book a discovery call, or browse all our ICAgile courses and the ICAgile certification guide.

ICA's official mapping for the AI micro-credentials

ICA publishes one official mapping from older ICAgile offerings to the new credentials, and it covers the micro-credentials. Each of the six AI micro-credentials matches a new specialized credential with the same name (About Micro-Credentials & Mapping, ICA Help Center). ICA lists all six new credentials under the AI & Technology Literacy skill.

The same Help Center page also maps three more micro-credentials: Authentic Leadership, Impactful Feedback and Leadership Styles. We run all six AI micro-credentials as live 3-hour classes.

Can you earn a Tomorrow-Ready credential at Agile Visa?

Not yet. Agile Visa is an ICA Member Organization (formerly an ICAgile Member Training Organization) that delivers accredited ICAgile certification courses. We are not one of ICA's 10 Launch Partners, and we do not yet offer Tomorrow-Ready credentials.

Our accredited ICAgile certification courses continue unchanged under ICA. ICA has confirmed that existing accredited courses stay accredited and can keep running as they do today. When you finish one, you earn the same agile certification as before, valid for life with no renewal fee (About the Transition to ICA, ICA Help Center). Already certified? Read is my ICAgile certificate still valid?

ICA announced its 10 Launch Partners on 7 October 2026 and says new Tomorrow-Ready classes are on the way. ICA's class finder already lets you filter by all 24 Tomorrow-Ready certifications. We will update this page if our position changes.

Tomorrow-Ready DNA is a different thing

You may also see the name Tomorrow-Ready DNA. It comes from the Business Agility Institute (BAI), which works alongside ICA and X2A as one team. Tomorrow-Ready DNA is a model of how an organisation works, with 5 core domains, 18 essential capabilities and 85 catalytic behaviours. ICA's Tomorrow-Ready skills are different: they describe what an individual person can do.