Our guests today are Helga Veigl and Martin Calnan talk about the upcoming 50th Anniversary conference for the World Futures Studies Federation which is being held in Paris on 25 & 26 October 2023
Our guest is Zan Chandler who is an Adjunct Professor at OCAD University in Toronto, Canada and is also Foresight analyst & educator. She is a Board Member at the Association of Professional Futurists. A member of Global Foresight Advisory Council for TFSX. Zan helps clients, learners and mentees to understand the nature and implications of change and discover ways thrive in the face of complexity and he/she is preoccupied by many questions: how do we do this work in ways that centre the mar...
Nikolas Badminton FRSA is a global futurist speaker that mentors top executives and the highest levels of government to explore desirable futures, anticipate unforeseen risks, and strengthen strategic planning.
Maggie Greyson MDes is an award-winning professional futurist and the CEO of Futures Present. This boutique agency helps people make decisions in times of extreme uncertainty using design and futures thinking practices.
Maya Van Leemput is Senior Researcher for the Research Center Open Time | Applied Futures Research at Erasmus Brussels University of Applied Sciences and the Arts, where she also teaches Strategic Futures Orientation. Van Leemput is the UNESCO Chairholder Images of the Futures and Co-creation for the Open Time team.
How can newly minted futures and foresight folk make their mark and attract the right work? What does it take to assemble an informal group of independent thinkers to collaborate at the frontier of change? Today’s guest is Venkatesh Rao - writer, consultant, and Yak Herder at the Yak Collective. To go further into Venkat's back catalogue, I have 3 book recommendations: - Tempo explores timing, tactics, and strategy in narrative-driven decision-making - The Gervais Principle is a internet cult cl...
A conversation with Dr. Stefan Bergheim. Stefan strengthens Futures Literacy in politics, business, academia, and civil society with events and processes on topics ranging from innovation via mobility and democracy to quality of life. He was an advisor to the German government’s national wellbeing strategy and led the processes “Positive Futures - Forum for Frankfurt” and “Quality of life in the digital age” and is a member of the UNESCO Futures Literacy Network....
A conversation with Sohail Inayatullah and Dada Shambushivananda remembering Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar (Baba). They discuss who he was, what he meant to them each and what his legacy is and hope was for an exploitation free future. And they go a bit deeper into the Sarkar Game.
A conversation with Associate Professor Jawn Lim. A design futurist at the Singapore Institute of Technology. He holds an Advance Certificate in Management, Innovation & Technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Doctor of Design from Harvard University.
A returning chat with Victor Motti, Director of the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF), and founder of a new Think Tank in Washington DC, the Alternative Planetary Futures Institute. WFSF is a UNESCO and UN consultative partner and global NGO with members in over 60 countries.
Colin Russo is the Managing Director of Engaging Futures and he has extensive experience in running Community consultation in a range of organisations.
A reinterview with Andy Hines discussing his upcoming book After Capitalism.
Dr. Ciela Hartanov joins us to talk about work - what it means, how we do it, and how we create a more humane futures of work. Dr. Ciela Hartanov was part of the founding team of The Google School for Leaders and Head of Next Practice Innovation and Strategy at Google, where she developed projects designed to shape the future of leadership and work. She currently runs humcollective, a boutique strategy and innovation firm that helps companies, executives, and teams make sense of the forces shapi...
Mina works as a futurist for a Fortune 500 corporation in Central Florida, USA. She previously worked at the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard’s T.H. Chan Public School of Health on a team that produced executive education programs in sustainability innovation for senior leadership. Mina holds a master’s degree in Strategic Foresight from the University of Houston....
A reinterview with Roger Spitz discussing the Disruptive Futures Institute, their new guidebook, existentialism and all points in between.
Loes is a an award-winning educator, futures consultant, UNESCO Chair on futures literacy and higher education and futures lab designer.
Sabine Winters is a philosopher working at the intersection of science and art with an interest in the 'how and why' behind theory and process. She is the initiator of Future Based, an interdisciplinary philosophy platform exploring themes of expansion of consciousness, scientific imagination, scale, time, and things that are.
Award-winning futurist Leah Zaidi shares her top three trends that matter and her ideas on how we can build brave new worlds in anxious times.
Claire Marshall has a love for stories, technology and social good. An award-winning creative her work melds story-telling, futures thinking and experience design to hack the way our brains think about the future, so that we can take action on climate change.
In this latest podcast John Sweeney and Pete Malvicini are in conversation discussing a new UNSECO Chair in Anticipatory Governance and Sustainable Policy Making in Uzbekistan Guests : John Sweeney and Pete Malvicini Host : Peter Hayward...
Yvette is the Managing Director of Kedge Futures. She comes from a finance and leadership background and discusses how foresight work must be used to promote more equitable futures for those who lack power and influence in the present. Leaders need both a foresight mindset and the courage to deploy it.
Epaminondas is the UNESCO Chair on Futures Research Hellas and the Chief Scientific Advisor to the Special Secretariat for Foresight at the Presidency of the Greek government
Thomas is Founder and Principal of Chermack Scenarios which offers customised scenario planning and consulting. He develops systems to provoke new insights and connect decision maker mental models to complex and uncertain environments.
Richard Eckersley is an independent researcher and writer on progress, sustainability, culture, health and wellbeing. He ranges across many fields of knowledge to develop new, common frameworks of understanding. In essence, he explores the question: Is life getting better or worse?
Cat Tully is the founder of SOIF, the School of International Futures, celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2022 . Before setting up SOIF, Cat worked as a strategy and policy adviser to the UK government under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. She is motivated by a focus on social justice and the importance of multi-stakeholder approaches to the challenges of the 21st-century world.
Dr Cheryl Doig combines a background in education with wide experience in leadership, governance, and futures thinking. She is the Director of Think Beyond, Chair of Ako Ōtautahi Learning City Christchurch, and founder of the Ōtautahi Futures Collective.
A reinterview with Rebecca Ryan, discussing ‘doing the next right thing’ and Future generations.
