FuturePod

EP 242: Authorship through Participation - Eva Oloumi

FuturePod — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:28:30 +0000

In episode 242 Peter speaks to Eva Oloumi who is the founder and practice lead of Paradiegma and is known for guiding organisations through transformative change

EP 241: SuperShifts - Steve Fisher

FuturePod — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 07:40:59 +0000

In episode 241 Peter speaks to Steve Fisher who with Ja-Nae Duane co-authored SuperShifts - Transforming How we Live, Learn and Work in the Age of Intelligence.

EP 240: The Business of Foresight - Jo Lepore

FuturePod — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 06:42:13 +0000

In episode 240 Peter speaks to Jo Lepore who practiced corporate foresight within McDonald's and Mars Wrigley, leads the insights company Dig, is the founder of FIG, is a partner at Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies (CIFS) and a podcaster at Looking Outside.

EP 239: Navigating the Age of Chaos - Jamais Cascio

FuturePod — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:32:26 +0000

In episode 239 Peter speaks to Jamais Cascio who with Bob Johansen and Angela Williams co-authored Navigating the Age of Chaos - A sense making guide to a BANI world.

EP 238: Growth through Friction - Juli Rush

FuturePod — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:09:16 +0000

In episode 238 we meet Juli Rush who is an Educator, Foresight Strategist and a Death Doula with a focus on partnering futures + death and grief processing.

EP 237: APF IF Awards Winner - Reanna Browne and James Allen

FuturePod — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:59:27 +0000

In episode 237 we meet two of the Winners from the Association of Professional Futurists IF awards, Reanna Browne and James Allen.

EP 236: Oceania Futures and Foresight Symposium 2026 - Elissa Farrow and Friends

FuturePod — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 22:00:15 +0000

In episode 236 Elissa Farrow returns to the Pod, and brings some friends, to talk about the second iteration of the Oceania Futures and Foresight Symposium on the 26th and 27th of March

EP 235: Decision-making under uncertainty - Ewa Lombard

FuturePod — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:22:20 +0000

In episode 235 our guest is Dr Ewa Lombard who is a senior researcher the University of Geneva converging the realms of affective sciences and collective intelligence, focusing on sustainable decision-making that withstands the uncertainties of the future.

EP 234: Mindstock. Fictional Futures and Present Realities - Richard Yonck

FuturePod — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 05:55:00 +0000

In episode 234 Peter is speaking to Richard Yonck who returns for his third podcast. This time Richard is here to discuss his first fiction book, Mindstock.

EP 233: From Occupy to Design Economics - Vinny Tafuro

FuturePod — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 21:47:02 +0000

In episode 233 Peter shares an economics and futures journey with Vinny Tafuro including from Adam Smith to Kate Raworth and from the Theory of Moral Sentiments to Design Economics. Vinny is a founder of the Institute for Economic Evolution and is a pioneering advocate for the twenty-first-century economy that is disrupting society’s rigid institutions and beliefs.

EP 232: Crafting Stories about the Future - Betty Sue Flowers

FuturePod — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 07:35:28 +0000

In episode 232 Peter chats to Betty Sue Flowers, Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus and a writer, editor, and international foresight consultant, with publications ranging from poetry therapy to sustainability.

EP 231: From Armchair to Asteroids - Fernando Gutierrez Olaizola

FuturePod — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 07:46:51 +0000

In episode 231 Peter meets Fernando Gutiérrez Olaizola who is a Uruguayan-born futurist based in the United States with a passion for space and science fiction, a focus on Latin America, and a drive to identify opportunities for emerging and developing nations to participate in space-based commerce and exploration.

EP 230 - WFSF World Conference 2025 - Doris Viljoen

FuturePod — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 03:46:52 +0000

A conversation with Doris Viljoen about the upcoming WFSF World Conference in South Africa 29 to 31 October 2025

EP 229: Remembering Johan Galtung - Sohail Inayatullah & Otto Scharmer

FuturePod — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 15:20:17 +0000

A conversation with Sohail Inayatullah and Otto Scharmer remembering Johan Galtung, a Norwegian sociologist and the principal founder of the discipline of peace and conflict studies exploring who he was and what he meant to them on their work.

EP 228: Imagining After Capitalism - Andy Hines

FuturePod — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 07:34:44 +0000

A return conversation with Andy Hines about his book, Imagining After Capitalism.

EP 227: Education Futures for School Leadership - Riel Miller, Stephen Murgatroyd & JC Couture

FuturePod — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 13:43:56 +0000

Riel Miller returns for a conversation about where education systems need to go and he brings with him some friends who have conducted research on this very question, Stephen Murgatroyd and JC Couture - the authors of Evidence Education Futures for School Leadership
Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

EP 226: The Great Transition Game - Fabienne Goux-Baudiment and Tamas Gaspar

FuturePod — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 10:09:45 +0000

A conversation with Fabienne Goux-Baudiment and Tamas Gaspar about their Great Transition Game and the experiences they have had with developing a serious game that is engaging to a variety of audiences and cultures.

EP 225: Remembering Willis Harman - Oliver Markley and Ruben Nelson

FuturePod — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 23:45:21 +0000

A conversation with Oliver Markley and Ruben Nelson remembering Willis Harman, author of Global Mind Change and An Incomplete guide to the Future exploring who he was and what he meant to them.

EP 224: FuturePod - The Future Loves You - Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston

FuturePod — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 22:59:08 +0000

Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston is a neuroscientist and a Research Fellow at Monash University in Australia and is the author of The Future Loves You: How and Why We Should Abolish Death.

EP 223: FuturePod - Longing for Normal while Standing at the Cusp - Donna Dupont

FuturePod — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 07:28:36 +0000

Donna Dupont who is a former policy advisor and emergency manager who now applies foresight to strengthen decision-making and she returns to the Pod for a catchup chat.

EP 222: FuturePodX - Letters to the Future - Maya van Leemput

FuturePod — Tue, 20 May 2025 00:06:33 +0000

The next instalment in our Letters to the Future Series. Our guest is Maya van Leemput.

EP 221: FuturePod - The Augmented Learner - Derek Woodgate

FuturePod — Tue, 13 May 2025 00:32:54 +0000

Dr Derek Woodgate returns to the Pod after 3 plus years to talk about his new book, The Augmented Learner

EP 220: FuturePod - Foresightful Engineering - Samista Jugwanth

FuturePod — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 02:26:31 +0000

A conversation with Samista Jugwanth who is an engineer and technical director at Zutari in South Africa

EP 219: FuturePod - Moving Beyond the Natural and Artificial - Erik Overland

FuturePod — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 01:27:13 +0000

A conversation with Erik Overland about his paper, Sustainability and Futures, Moving Beyond the Natural and Artificial

EP 218: FuturePodX - Letters to the Future - Rowena Morrow

FuturePod — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:45:39 +0000

The next instalment in our Letters to the Future Series. Our guest is Rowena Morrow

EP 217: FuturePod - The Possibility Wheel - Patricia Lustig & Gill Ringland

FuturePod — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 06:38:51 +0000

A conversation with Patricia Lustig and Gill Ringland about their new book, The Possibility Wheel

EP 216: FuturePod - Global South Futures - Shermon Cruz and Katindi Sivi

FuturePod — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 04:20:28 +0000

A conversation with Shermon Cruz and Katindi Sivi about a new futures community being established, the Global South Futures Community.

EP 215: FuturePodX - Letters to the Future - Bhavana Nissama

FuturePod — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 13:17:47 +0000

The next instalment in our Letters to the Future Series. Our guest is Bhavana Nissima

EP 214: FuturePodX - Letters to the Future - Sonja Blignaut

FuturePod — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 04:20:04 +0000

The next instalment in our Letters to the Future Series. Our guest is Sonja Blignaut.

EP 213: FuturePodX - Letters to the Future - Marcus Bussey

FuturePod — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 05:17:43 +0000

Our first episode in a different style of podcast that we are calling ‘Letters to the Future’, with our inaugural guest, Marcus Bussey.

EP 212: Whales, Psychology and Futures - Trish Lavery

FuturePod — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 08:53:57 +0000

Peter’s guest today is Trish Lavery who is an academic and policy expert working with the School of Cybernetics, Australian National University. Her work places human behaviour at the centre of strategy, futures, and strategic foresight.

EP 211: Love, Ephemerality and the Future - Riel Miller

FuturePod — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 01:50:15 +0000

Riel Miller returns for his sixth FuturePod appearance and another deep dive into matters Futures and Foresight related.

EP 210: Oceania Futures and Foresight Symposium - Elissa Farrow & Jeanne Hoffman

FuturePod — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 05:28:44 +0000

Peter chats with Elissa Farrow and Jeanne Hoffman about the Oceania Futures and Foresight Symposium 3-4 April 2025 they are organising in Meanjin (Brisbane).

EP 209: Embracing AI's disruption to Foresight - Paulo Carvalho

FuturePod — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 08:46:56 +0000

Paulo Carvalho is an Educator, Innovator and Entrepreneur who has thought deeply about the disruptions and opportunities provided by Generative AI and who has just published a report on how he believes Generative AI will disrupt Foresight.

EP 208 - Doing Good Work - Doris Viljoen

FuturePod — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 00:35:00 +0000

Doris Viljoen is the Director of the Institute of Futures Research at the Stellenbosch Business School in South Africa and she explains why she has the coolest job in the world and about our responsibility to do good work that grows our field

EP 207 - Colouring the Future - Alexis Tennent

FuturePod — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 22:57:14 +0000

Alexis is a Design and Foresight Strategist in Toronto and Peter chats to her about the psychology of meeting our future self and how we can build a better relationship with that self plus also make the future more vivid by colouring the future in with thoughts and experiences. Like the experience of engaging with Nature.

EP 206 - Ethical AI - Rose Genele

FuturePod — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 22:42:44 +0000

In this episode, Amanda speaks with Rose Genele about how we can navigate the ethics of using Artificial Intelligence. Rose is a transformative leader and AI ethics advocate committed to creating ethical, resilient companies and technologies, and the host of the What Are We Going To Do With All This Future podcast.

WAWGTDWATF podcast: https://rosegenele.com/wawgtdwatf-podcast/

Contact Rose: https://rosegenele.com/contact/

EP 205 - Rewilding the Imagination - Dana Klisanin

FuturePod — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 22:59:29 +0000

Peter talks to Dana Klisanin who is a psychologist, and futurist. She is the founder of ReWilding: Lab and pioneer of ReWilding Leadership™, an innovative approach that reconnects leaders with the wisdom of the natural world to foster creativity, resilience, and sustainability.

EP 204 - Disrupt with Impact - Roger Spitz

FuturePod — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 08:36:39 +0000

Roger Spitz returns for a chat about his new book Disrupt with Impact. Roger is a Foresight advisor, venture capitalist, an expert advisor to the World Economic Forum's Global Foresight Network, the President of Techistential and he also chairs the Disruptive Futures Institute

EP 203 - From Living a Life Wrong to Mind Time - Gareth Priday

FuturePod — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 06:20:35 +0000

A chat with Gareth Priday who is lead Foresight practitioner at Action Foresight and a director at Living Labs Innovation Network and Ethical Fields. His interests are many but his passion is how people think about the future and how, as professionals, we can best work with that.

EP 202 - Amplifying Cognition - Ross Dawson

FuturePod — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 07:09:31 +0000

A chat with Ross Dawson who is a futurist, keynote speaker, podcaster, strategy advisor, author, and entrepreneur about his journey into the field, how he supports organisations trying to use Foresight and his optimism about our ability to amplify cognition.

EP 201 - The Hard Graft Policy Craft - James Balzer

FuturePod — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 01:35:31 +0000

James Balzer is a policy analyst in the New South Wales Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. He was recently admitted into the Next Generation Foresight Practitioners Fellowship supported by the School of International Futures.

EP 200 - A Milestone Episode

FuturePod — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 04:49:04 +0000

To mark our 200th episode of FuturePod we have assembled the whole FuturePod team, who are interviewed by a special guest host, Dr Stuart Candy.

EP 199 - Patterns of Strategy - Patrick Hoverstadt

FuturePod — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 01:38:49 +0000

Patrick Hoverstadt is a Director and Consultant at Fractal Consulting and the author of The Fractal Organisation and Patterns of Strategy. Patrick is a viable system model (VSM) expert and we cover his deep views on systems thinking.

EP 198 - Natural Foresight - Frank Spencer

FuturePod — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 02:15:30 +0000

A return conversation with Frank Spencer that covers a lot and specifically the new book Natural Foresight

EP 197 - Untying Cows, Changing Lives - Aminata Mansaray

FuturePod — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 07:32:18 +0000

A conversation with Aminata Mansaray, a Strategic Foresight practitioner in Sierra Leone about how she is changing communities and lives using Strategic Foresight.

EP 196 - Polycrisis - Michael Lawrence and Megan Shipman

FuturePod — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 23:09:37 +0000

A conversation with Michael Lawrence and Megan Shipman who are from the Cascade Institute which is a Canadian research centre at Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia about Polycrisis and the community they are supporting to understanding, mitigating and managing it.

EP 195 - Unlocking Change The Bookcast - Rob Roe

FuturePod — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 21:21:20 +0000

Rob Roe returns to FuturePod to discuss his latest venture in the world of managing change. A bookcast that distils the best of the books on change that Rob has found through his extensive reading.

EP 194 - Why Foresight Matters! - John Smart

FuturePod — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 00:58:17 +0000

John Smart, the CEO of Foresight U, joins us to chat about his book ‘An Introduction to Foresight’. Among many things he expands on his three mottos for investing in foresight and doing good work sustainably.

EP 193 - Complex Mess - Meredith Bowden & Dave Godden

FuturePod — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 23:49:49 +0000

Meredith Bowden and Dave Godden host a community called Complex Mess that supports people who are looking for new and different ways to engage with complex messes. They explain how to Coddiwomple is to travel purposefully toward an as-yet-unknown destination.

EP 192 - An Honest Exploration of Uncertainty - Kristin Alford, Maggie Greyson & Elizabeth Merritt

FuturePod — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 00:29:39 +0000

A guest conversation between Kristin Alford, Maggie Greyson and Elizabeth Merritt starts from the question about how Museums of the Future create agency and Hope and what can be gleaned from that for general Foresight application

EP 191 - The Inner Dimensions of the Future - Jay Gary

FuturePod — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 22:10:02 +0000

Jay Gary returns for a chat and we discuss leadership development, institutional support, practice development and how his faith is foundational to his work and purpose

EP 190 - Somatic Futures: Speculations of Embodiment - Rodney Frederickson

FuturePod — Mon, 27 May 2024 01:50:28 +0000

A conversation with Rodney Frederickson who is a design futurist, abstract artist, storyteller, philosopher, game designer, martial artist and an occasional poet about his case for somatic futures.

EP 189 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Signs of Change & Envisioning Future Humanitarian Aid

FuturePod — Sun, 19 May 2024 23:46:24 +0000

We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Petranka Malcheva about their double award for the project embedding long-term thinking in Welsh government and Laurie Smith and the work of NESTA and Prospect magazine around a Minister for the Future hypothetical.

EP 188 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Embedding Long-Term Thinking & Minister for the Future

FuturePod — Sun, 12 May 2024 23:22:53 +0000

EP 187 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Dreams and Disruptions & Young Voices

FuturePod — Mon, 06 May 2024 10:56:51 +0000

We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from the team from the Center for Engaged Foresight in the Philippines and their game, Dreams and Disruptions and the Teach the Future gang and their incredible project - World Futures Day, Young Voices.

EP 186 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Fashion Futuring & Healing Past Trauma

FuturePod — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:01:06 +0000

We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Clarice Garcia and her toolkit called values Driven Transitions for Fashion’s Imagined Futures and Steven Lichty and his work in Kenya breaking the cycle of Intergenerational trauma.

EP 185 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Expanding Imaginations and Intergenerational Wellbeing

FuturePod — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 22:55:51 +0000

We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Mikko Dufva from the amazing SITRA and their work with Weak Signals and how they make them ‘real’ and Valery Wichman and their work in the Cook Islands to shape a hundred year vision anchored in collective wellbeing.

EP 184 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Navigating Community Change & AI Enabled Foresight

FuturePod — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 23:40:45 +0000

We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Petra Hurtado and her work integrating Foresight into the planning field and Mike Jackson and his venture, Preempt, an AI Foresight platform

EP 183 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Transformative Food & Museum Repatriation

FuturePod — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 23:01:44 +0000

We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Estefania Simon-Sasyk and the folks at Transform and their work with the Mycelium network to transform food systems and Elizabeth Merritt and her work assisting Museums use futures tools to help the repatriation of cultural artifacts.

EP 182 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Democracy Games & PAN

FuturePod — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 04:20:42 +0000

We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Randy Lubin and Mike Masnick and their award winning game, Futurecast, developed for the UN Global Pulse to help fragile democracies and Alex de las Heras whose documentary essay set in different locations in the Andean region exploring future time, memory and decolonisation.

EP 181 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Interspecies Surrogacy & Utopia

FuturePod — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 22:47:27 +0000

We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Luna Mrozik Gawler, an artist, writer and scholar based in Melbourne, Australia and their award-winning work on Interspecies Surrogacy and Jennifer Williams and Matjaz Vidmar and their Utopia Labs experimental futures process.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward with Maggie Greyson and John Sweeney

EP 180 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - The Plantiverse & Gen Z Innovations Tour

FuturePod — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 00:30:01 +0000

We are delighted to start a new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Cecilia Tham , from Futurity Systems in Barcelona, Spain and their award winning work onthe Plantiverse and Bronwyn Williams and the Gen Z Innovations Tour for corporate leaders developed by the team from Flux Trends in South Africa.

EP 179 - Eleven Tomorrows : A Futures Film - David Lindsay-Wright

FuturePod — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 22:50:08 +0000

A return conversation with Dr David Lindsay-Wright who is a Futurist, Educator and Filmmaker about his latest venture. A communities view of their preferred futures(s) for Brisbane, Australia and that approach to futures work as compared to expert or decision-makers driven futures work.

EP 178 - What Government Could Be - Thea Snow

FuturePod — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 01:12:22 +0000

A conversation with Thea Snow, Director of the Centre for Public Impact Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Thea works in exploring ways to engage government and other changemakers to reimagine what government could be.

EP 177 - Foresight & Innovation - Patrick van der Duin

FuturePod — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 03:22:29 +0000

A conversation with Patrick van der Duin who is a researcher, consultant and educator in Foresight and Innovation Management about how Foresight drives Innovation and Innovation drives Foresight, and that they are two sides of the same coin.

EP 176: Exploring the Future Through Games - Randy Lubin

FuturePod — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 09:48:28 +0000

Randy Lubin is an award-winning foresight games designer, discussing how he brings these two disciplines together and how other games-curious futures practitioners can learn to bring games into their practice.

EP 175: None of us are OK until all of us are OK - Adam Drake

FuturePod — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 21:47:02 +0000

Adam Drake is the founder of Balanced Choice, which works with movement, theater, and sharing stories to encourage positive behavioral change. Adam’s work is grounded in foresight tools and principles.

EP 174: Trans Normal Futures - Christopher Jones

FuturePod — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 23:17:13 +0000

Christopher Jones returns for a chat on all things Post Normal and Trans Normal. Chris is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Post Normal Policy and Future Studies and Executive Director at the Trans Normal Institute.

EP 173: The Future of Sex and Intimacy - 2023 APF Masters Group Winners

FuturePod — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 00:01:16 +0000

The Shameless Collective won the award for the Best Masters group work in 2023. They discuss their work on the Future of Sex and Intimacy.

EP 172: The Future of You - Tracey Follows

FuturePod — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 01:43:41 +0000

Tracey Follows is back to put the big questions of identity to FuturePod.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

EP 171: The Playbook of Careless Non Legal Innovation - Richard Slaughter

FuturePod — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 02:59:48 +0000

Richard Slaughter is back for a chat to discuss the latest target of his forensic critical thinking skills, the careless innovation of Big IT.

EP 170: FuturePod Conversations - Riel Miller and Maree Conway

FuturePod — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 00:27:58 +0000

Riel Miller and Maree Conway discuss how we find and promote the crack in thinking so that people can open towards complexity and uncertainty and help them think differently to find emerging futures?

EP 169: APF Best Masters Student 2023 - Trish Mwenda

FuturePod — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 02:13:43 +0000

A conversation with Trish Mwenda who was recognized as the best Masters Student work 2023 by the Association of Professional Futurists

EP 168: Futures Brought to Life - Tina Auer and Tim Boykett

FuturePod — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 22:37:13 +0000

A conversation with Tina Auer and Tim Boykett from the art collective, Times Up. We discuss what they learned and wrote about in their book called Futures Brought to Life - we are not futurists. Our discussion ranges over ideas like the Art of Hosting, Imagination as a muscle, Caring for the Future Futures is a Verb.

EP 167: APF IF Awards - Maggie Greyson, John Sweeney and Lisa Guiliani

FuturePod — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 00:26:53 +0000

A conversation with Maggie Greyson, John Sweeney and Lisa Guiliani about the upcoming APF IF Awards.

EP 166: Preparing for Possibility- Kelly Kornet Weber

FuturePod — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 05:30:43 +0000

A conversation with Kelly Kornet Weber who is a member of the Strategic Foresight team at Autodesk, based in Canada. We discuss her journey into the field, the differences working as an external consultant compared to being an in-house futurist. And we delve into what collaboration really means.

EP 165: Breaking Free of Fate - Alex Quicho

FuturePod — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 02:47:20 +0000

Alex Quicho joins Amanda Reeves to discuss the value of arts and poetics in futures work, viewing the world through the lens of tropical futures, and finding windows into the future that invite action and movement.

EP 164 : The Wild West of AI Futures - Richard Yonck

FuturePod — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 06:51:14 +0000

A return interview with Richard Yonck where he surveys what he calls the Wild West of AI Futures including digital assistants, job losses, human hybrid working, ethics and social media.

EP 163 : Scaffolding Collective Resilience - Rowena Morrow

FuturePod — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 09:35:15 +0000

A return interview with Rowena Morrow to hear about her work with Adaptive Cultures and the challenge of assisting organisations evolving their culture to better match their environmental complexity.

EP 162 : Reducing Avoidable Surprises - Norbert Kolos

FuturePod — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 11:46:11 +0000

An interview with Norbert Kołos is the managing partner and co-founder of 4CF, a strategic foresight consultancy with nearly two decades of experience in complex foresight projects, that is based in Poland.

EP 161 : Together and Unique - Fabienne Goux-Baudiment

FuturePod — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 18:56:35 +0000

A return interview with the French Futurist, Fabienne Goux-Baudiment which covers our emerging social evolution, Meritory Foresight, the new VUCA, artificial intelligence and gaming.

EP 160: Exploring Liminality (WFSF 50th Anniversary Conference) - Helga Veigl & Martin Calnan

FuturePod — Sun, 21 May 2023 10:33:43 +0000

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

EP 159: Decolonial Inclusive Futures - Zan Chandler

FuturePod — Tue, 02 May 2023 22:55:05 +0000

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 marginalized and responds compassionately to those who live with trauma?

EP 158: Facing Our Futures - Nikolas Badminton

FuturePod — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 01:17:20 +0000

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.

EP 157: Future Thinking Maverick- Maggie Greyson

FuturePod — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 23:21:54 +0000

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.

EP 156: Polylogue Futures - Maya Van Leemput

FuturePod — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 07:45:18 +0000

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.

EP 155: Herding Yaks - Venkatesh Rao

FuturePod — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 21:54:26 +0000

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 classic using The Office to explore organisational dynamics, and a fantastically entertaining read

- The Art of Gig - a 2 volume philosophical guide to the modern gig economy for independent consultants.

Links from today's show

Yak Collective: https://www.yakcollective.org/

The Art of Gig: https://artofgig.com/

Tempo: https://amzn.asia/d/77AlQ1x

The Gervais Principle: https://amzn.asia/d/0JDGd54

https://venkateshrao.com/

Support FuturePod: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=12821399

EP 154: Open to Variety - Stefan Bergheim

FuturePod — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 10:00:43 +0000

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.

EP 153: Remembering P.R. Sarkar - Building an Exploitation Free Future

FuturePod — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 09:09:04 +0000

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.

EP 152: Jawn Lim - Leaving No One Behind

FuturePod — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 08:53:25 +0000

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.

EP 151: Victor Motti - Alternative Planetary Futures

FuturePod — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 07:39:49 +0000

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.

EP 150: Colin Russo - Weaving the Future

FuturePod — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 01:02:30 +0000

Colin Russo is the Managing Director of Engaging Futures and he has extensive experience in running Community consultation in a range of organisations.

EP 149: Andy Hines - After Capitalism

FuturePod — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 07:59:12 +0000

A reinterview with Andy Hines discussing his upcoming book After Capitalism.

EP 148: Ciela Hartanov - Where Work is Placed

FuturePod — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 05:47:40 +0000

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 shaping the future and prepare strategically.

Ciela has been a featured speaker at a wide range of conferences from The House of Beautiful Business to the HR Leaders Forum in Australia. She has been quoted in Psychology Today and Forbes and is sought after for her thought leadership on the future of leadership and adaptable organizations. She brings a multidisciplinary view that leverages business foresight and organization development to break barriers and invent the next practices for humane, kind, and responsive workplaces.

Socials:

Insta: [https://www.instagram.com/cielarose](https://www.instagram.com/cielarose)

Linkedin: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/cielahartanov/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cielahartanov/)

Website: [humcollective.co](http://humcollective.co/)

Contact: [ciela@humcollective.co](mailto:ciela@humcollective.co)

Podcast on Identity: [Who am I at work and who decides?](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/01-who-am-i-at-work-and-who-decides/id1551694258?i=1000509753156)

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EP 147: Mina McBride - Lifestyle Foresight

FuturePod — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 10:24:48 +0000

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.

EP 146: Roger Spitz - Disruptive Futures

FuturePod — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 07:17:43 +0000

A reinterview with Roger Spitz discussing the Disruptive Futures Institute, their new guidebook, existentialism and all points in between.

EP 145: Loes Damhof - Nurturing Futures Capability

FuturePod — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 09:39:22 +0000

Loes is a an award-winning educator, futures consultant, UNESCO Chair on futures literacy and higher education and futures lab designer.

EP 144: Sabine Winters - Scientific Imagination

FuturePod — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 05:39:35 +0000

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.

EP 143 : Leah Zaidi - Building Brave New Worlds

FuturePod — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 01:53:48 +0000

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.