FuturePod: Recent Episodes

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FuturePod gathers voices from the international field of Futures and Foresight. Through a series of interviews, the founders of the field and emerging leaders share their stories, tools and experiences.

Created in Melbourne, Australia. Interviewing guests from across the globe.

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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.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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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.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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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.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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This year’s World Conference for the World Futures Studies Federation is coming up in Cape Town, South Africa on 29-31 October 2025 and Peter is discussing it with Doris Viljoen from the Stellenbosch Business School who are hosting it.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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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.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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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 Education Futures for School Leadership

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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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.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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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.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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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

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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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

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward & Frank Spencer

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

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward & Frank Spencer

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

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward & Frank Spencer

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

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward & Frank Spencer

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

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward and Frank Spencer

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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

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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Riel Miller returns for his 6th FuturePod appearance and another deep dive into matters Futures and Foresight related

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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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)

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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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.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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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.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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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.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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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.

Interviewed by: Amanda Reeves

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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.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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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

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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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.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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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.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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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.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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To mark our 200th episode of FuturePod we have assembled the whole Pod team and we also have a special guest host.

Interviewed by: Stuart Candy

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Patrick Hoverstadt is a Director and Consultant at Fractal Consulting and the author of The Fractal Organisation and Patterns of Strategy. Plus he is a VSM nerd and I delighted in going deep into his views on systems thinking.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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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.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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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.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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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

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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A guests conversation between Kristin Alford, Maggie Greyson and Elizabeth Merritt that 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

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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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.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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We have reached the end of our podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Radical Norms and their “Signs of Change” processes through which participants imagine climate change effects through public signage and Ben Holt from Solferino Academy and the project envisioning future humanitarian aid.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward with Maggie Greyson and John Sweeney

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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 Ministry of the Future hypothetical.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward with Maggie Greyson and John Sweeney

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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.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward with Maggie Greyson and John Sweeney

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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.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward with Maggie Greyson and John Sweeney

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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.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward with Maggie Greyson and John Sweeney

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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

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward with Maggie Greyson and John Sweeney

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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.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward with Maggie Greyson and John Sweeney

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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 explores future time, memory and decolonisation.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward with Maggie Greyson and John Sweeney

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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 her 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

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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 on the Plantiverse and Bronwyn Williams and the Gen Z Innovations Tour for corporate leaders developed by the team from Flux Trends in South Africa.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward with Maggie Greyson and John Sweeney

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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.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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

Interviewed by: Amanda Reeves

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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.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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Randy Lubin is an award-winning foresight games designer. In this episode, he describes how be brings these two disciplines together, and gives advice for other games-curious futures practitioners looking to bring games into their practice.

Interviewed by: Amanda Reeves

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Adam Drake is the founder of Balanced Choice, which works with movement, theater, and sharing stories to encourage positive behavioral change.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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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 Transnormal Institute

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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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.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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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?

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

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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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.

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

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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A conversation with Kelly Kornet Weber who is the Senior Strategic Foresight Specialist at Autodesk 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.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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Alex Quicho joins us 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.

Interviewed by: Amanda Reeves

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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.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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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

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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An interview with Norbert Kołos. Nobert 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.

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

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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Our guests today are Helga Veigl and Martin Calnan to talk about the upcoming 50th Anniversary conference for the World Futures Studies Federation which is being held in Paris on 25 & 26 October 2023

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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Our guest is Zan Chandler who is an Adjunct Professor at OCAD University in Toronto, Canada and is also Foresight Analyst and 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?

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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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.

He has spent 30+ years working with leadership at over 300 leading organizations at the frontline of foresight, strategy and disruption - including NASA, United Nations, Google, Microsoft, Intel, WM, HSBC, TD Bank, DISCOVER, American Express, Bank of Canada, Rolls Royce, Procter & Gamble, US Department of State, UK Home Office and many more.

Nikolas’ #1 best selling book ‘Facing Our Futures’ - released internationally on Bloomsbury Business - helps executives ignite curiosity and embrace futures thinking. The result is future preparedness, better strategic planning, more profit and growth.
Nikolas’ essential research has been featured by the BBC, VICE, The Atlantic, Fast Company, Business Insider, Forbes, Sunday Telegraph and many others. He appears on SIRIUSXM and CTV regularly, was a key advisor to the ‘Age of AI’ series with Robert Downey Jr, and appears in the Franklin Institute's series ‘2050’.

Interviewed by: Reanna Browne

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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.

Her first profession was in the theatre, where she spent a decade in the US, UK, and Canada winning awards for her set, lighting, and costume designs on stages like the Shakespeare’s International Globe in London. She learned that creating a relationship with the audience is fundamental if a story is to have meaning. She continues to use design, scenarios, and fiction to transform lives.

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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.

Her first profession was in the theatre, where she spent a decade in the US, UK, and Canada winning awards for her set, lighting, and costume designs on stages like the Shakespeare’s International Globe in London. She learned that creating a relationship with the audience is fundamental if a story is to have meaning. She continues to use design, scenarios, and fiction to transform lives.

Experience with Fortune 100 companies in tech innovation and digital media helps her to understand what future-thinking mavericks need to be leaders in the 21st century. In addition, she supports the people who want to make a social impact through their work in the cultural sector, governments, universities, healthcare, tech, and non-profit organizations.

Maggie is recognized as a leading futurist, on the Board of the Association of Professional Futurists, and a Fellow of the School of International Futures. In addition, she leads workshops on How to Think Like a Futurist.

Her side hustle is walking her two happy and healthy husky rescues.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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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. Van Leemput earned a PhD from the University of Westminster for research on “Visions of the Future on Television.” In partnership with photographer Bram Goots, she runs a long-term independent project for exploring images of the future, combining conversation-based approaches and visual ethnography with multi-media co-creation. Her critical, forward-looking work on media, culture, arts, cross-cultural communication, development, and science and technology in society, uses experimental, creative and participatory approaches. Van Leemput is a Fellow of the World Futures Studies Federation and the Centre of Postnormal Policy and Futures Studies, a member of the board of the Association of Professional Futurists, and a founding member of the interdisciplinary visual arts collective OST and the Plurality University. 

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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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?

Venkatesh Rao is a prolific writer, consultant, sparring partner, Yak Herder, and our guest for episode 155.

Interviewed by: Amanda Reeves

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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.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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A conversation with Sohail Inayatullah and Dada Shambushivananda remembering Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar (Baba). They discuss who he was, what he meant to each of them and what his legacy is and hope was for an exploitation free future for the world. And they also go a bit deeper into the Sarkar Game.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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A conversation with Associate Professor Jawn Lim. A design futurist at the Singapore Institute of Technology. He holds an Advance Certificate in Management, Innovation and Technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Doctor of Design from Harvard University.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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A returning chat with Victor Motti, Director of the WFSF, and founder of a new Think Tank in Washington DC, the Alternative Planetary Futures Institute

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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What role does work play at this point in human evolution?

How do we create more humane workplaces?

How can we move past what our systems and structures allow to find the new way that better serves us?

Dr Ciela Hartanov is an explorer of the future of leadership and adaptable organisation. She brings together foresight and organisational development to break down barriers and invent the next practices for humane, kind, and responsive workplaces.

Interviewed by: Amanda Reeves

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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. 

She believes that the state of flow is accessible by everyone and that a fundamental requirement of entering the state of flow is foresight or vision. In order to move towards that vision one has to have a sense of direction, knowledge of the system you are in and a navigation plan. Her life’s work is to equip and motivate others to search, locate and become what is possible.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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Loes Damhof was elected as Lecturer of the Year of all higher education in The Netherlands in 2016, and decided to spend the attached prestigious Comenis Award on developing Futures Literacy pilots. In 2018, she received the UNESCO Chair on Futures Literacy in Higher Education for her work on researching the impact of Futures Literacy and the design principles of Futures Literacy interventions.

Interviewed by: Reanna Browne

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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.

Interviewed by: Amanda Reeves

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Leah Zaidi is an award-winning strategic foresight practitioner and worldbuilding expert, with over 15 years of corporate experience. She has worked with prestigious organizations such as the United Nations, Stanford University, and various Fortune 100 companies.

Her articles and research papers have over 75K+ reads, and her reports have been downloaded by 1000+ organizations. She has an MDes in Strategic Foresight and Innovation from OCAD University.

Interviewed by: Reanna Browne

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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.

Claire is an experiential futurist. Her award-winning Museum of Futures project was created with the City of Sydney. The Future of Work exhibition in 2019 explored our different work futures under climate change. Pandemic Pivots exhibition of 2020 explored how Sydney might pivot for the better due to the pandemic. Her other work includes an audio tour of the future for the World Wildlife Fund and the Human Robot Friendship Ball for the Vivid festival.

Interviewed by: Amanda Reeves

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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

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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.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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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

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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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

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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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?

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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.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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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.

Interviewed by: Amanda Reeves

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In this latest podcast Sohail Inayatullah and Robert Burke are in conversation discussing their 20 years of experience co-presenting Futures Thinking and Strategy development to senior executives

Conversation Question “How was the experience of working together for twenty years and trying to open up the heads and hearts of senior executives to futures thinking?“

Guests: Sohail Inayatullah and Robert Burke Host: Peter Hayward

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Eric Meade is a facilitator who assists groups adopt a forward-looking perspective to accelerate the shift to a better world. He is the author of Whole Mind Facilitation: How to Lead Workshops That Change People, Organizations, and the World.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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As a Trend Analyst, Bronwyn shares her insights on the dilemmas we face in society and how we need to hold on to choice in an increasingly homogenous world.

Interviewed by: Reanna Browne

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A reinterview with Rebecca Ryan discussing doing the next right thing and Future generations

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A reinterview with Peter Bishop and a chance to meet some of Teach the Futures Young Voices winners, Amna Habiba and Alice Machado

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In this latest podcast, Alex Fergnani invites Luke van der Laan into a conversation

Conversation Question “Does Futures and Foresight need to be taught and researched at Universities? What could be gained if it was not?“

Guests: Alex Fergnani and Luke van der Laan Host: Peter Hayward

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Robert is a former CEO with a deep appreciation of the challenges faced by senior leaders. His focus is challenging managers to think outside the known and consider alternative perspectives. For many years he was the Program Director for the ‘Futures Thinking and Strategy Development Program’ at Melbourne Business School.

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A re-interview with Frank Spencer discussing Democratizing Foresight, The Year of Free and Natural Foresight

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A re-interview with Rene Rohrbeck where we discuss his latest thoughts on the Corporate Foresight Maturity Model, utilizing generational futures thinking to raise organizational foresight capability and discussing what is responsible corporate foresight?

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Oliver Markley is a member Emeritus of the Association of Professional Futurists, a Fellow Emeritus of the World Futures Study Federation, and Professor Emeritus and former chair of the graduate program in the Studies of the Future, which was at the University of Houston Clear Lake, and is the program now that has subsequently moved and is located at the University of Houston's current Futures Program.

Oliver tells his story of intertwining with Willis Harmon and the Human potential movement and his eventual becoming a humanistic social engineer. He also explains the use of Visionary Time Travel

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Cindy is an architect, urban futurist, an adjunct professor for the Graduate Program in Strategic Foresight at the University of Houston, and a writer. Listen to Cindy explain that part of a foresight practioner's job is helping people to become comfortable with change, and helping them to think about what kind of legacy they are leaving for the next generation. 

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A re-interview with Patricia Lustig and Gill Ringland who have just published their fourth book, New Shoots: people making fresh choices in a changing world.

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A Reinterview with Tanja Schindler when we check in on her inspirational and exhausting journey to spread the ‘Joy for the Future”

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Social Scientist, consultant and facilitator, Elissa Farrow is the founder of About Your Transition a business specialising in portfolio, program, project and change management consulting and facilitation. Her doctoral research explored organisational adaptation scenarios and implications as a result of Artificial Intelligence

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A ReInterview with Sohail Inayatullah ranging over Covid, conspiracies, Macrohistory, from Weird to Wise and the cultivation of Safety

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Ana Tiquia creates spaces to embody diverse futures. She uses performance and participatory art, futures research and strategy; produces and curates exhibitions, installations, and immersive performances.

She has worked at the intersections of art, design, and technology with major cultural organisations and design practices in the UK and Australia, and is Founder and Director of All Tomorrow’s Futures – a cultural and strategic consultancy that helps clients develop artistic interventions that contribute to equitable and just futures.  

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As an international powerhouse, hear a small sliver of Richard's wisdom in this podcast, and how alternative thinking about today and tomorrow is at the core of his practice.

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Simon has successfully developed a professional business, presenting and applying foresight practice and principles.

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Peter speaks about solving problems through deep enquiry, and the power of scenarios as a conversation tool for discussing and exploring futures.

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Paul explains his pragmatic approach to working with the people and organisations that want to make a difference.

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Jose is the living example of a mutant futurist who believes we live as communities of faith around our shared and emerging futures and who practices experimental futures.

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Josh speaks about his early appreciation of the bio-physical context of the world and his 20 year journey of enquiry into discovering new thinking tools and new habits to look at and make sense of the world.

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Maree explains how the 'Foresight Switch' is turned on in people through doing foresight processes and how to be open to the future and to look for diversity of perspectives.

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As a macrohistorian, Mike works at many levels, from local through to Global to support much-needed radical new thinking and new systems in an emerging networked and collaborative society.

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Susan is a leader amongst Australia's futures community. An innovator and champion of diversity hear how Susan practiced her craft and how she worked on company boards to make them thought leaders and to make better decisions.

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Peter shows how he starts with how people have learned faulty thinking about the future through science and history and shows them how contingent thinking is a better way to think about the future.

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Rowena taught foresight for many years and so listen to her teach you about Hope Theory, consultancy and performing organisational roles.

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In part 1 of his interview Richard discusses his beginnings, his inspirations, his mentors and his journey into the foresight community. He also discusses his favourite methods and concepts.

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In part 2 of his interview Richard discusses the emerging futures, how he explains foresight to people and closes with his advice on how to live in a world that is on the edge of disaster.  

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Bridgette is a skilled and experienced contributor to the Futures space and has built her career as a feminist pracademic, successfully combining both her design principles and strategic foresight in her teaching work at Swinburne and her consulting work.

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Jay has had a long career as a consultant and educator. Hear about his twin passions of promoting leadership and assisting communities build powerful visions of their desired future.

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Futures principles and tools have been instrumental in helping Cath build an impressive consultancy career, supporting organisations to maximize social cause and impact.

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Marcus is a futurist, academic and poet. Hear him explain the anticipatory aesthetic and how he thinks it is very necessary to disturb the peace.

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Steve was the Foresight Manager at global brewer Fosters who first thought Foresight could help him predict the future and now he believes that Foresight can empower people to create the futures they want.

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Dr Joseph Voros speaks about his emergence into becoming a foresight educator, the development of the award-winning Generic Foresight Process (GFP) framework, and his abiding focus on the possible futures of humanity and human civilisation, informed by using Big History as the framing perspective.

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Appreciating the gifts of traditional systems allows Kieran to support individuals and conventional institutions and see what needs to endure, even as change occurs, and new visions of ‘a good life’ are imagined. 

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Tanja is an emerging futurist who has merged the best of the German and Australian approach to Futures. Coming from a corporate background she is now a freelancer who is creating a network of freelancers with a platform that has global ambition.

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Sohail is a global futurist whose work reaches from Australia into Asia. A prolific writer, seasoned academic and experienced consultant. He is the complete package. Come hear how he does his magic.

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Adam tells the story of the Mont Fleur Scenario Project, how he uses scenarios to create a space to act together to transform a system, and why power, love, and justice are central to his impactful facilitation practice.

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In quite an amazing career trajectory, studying strategic foresight provided new tools for Rob in his quest to find ways to introduce new ways of working.

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Rene Rohrbeck explains his maturity model for organisational foresight, describes how corporate foresight moves beyond just trend analysis and also gives some interesting advice on parenting children too.

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Jim Dator is a Futurist who in some ways did not have a past. Raised without significant men in his life his approach to Futures is both unique and so valuable for all of us.

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As one of the few women working in the fields of foreign affairs, international security and defense, Kate Delaney’s career has morphed into a successful business in Australia applying her own brand of Futures and Foresight in Government and Not For Profit organisations.

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John Sweeney is blazing a new path for Futures in Central Asia, namely Kazakhstan. John's passions are Futures Gaming, and working with diverse communities. He is an experienced consultant and educator who is also a very entertaining interviewee.

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Tanja, raised into Nelson Mandela's revolution in South Africa works all around the world trying to support a good Anthropocene.

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Fabienne takes you through her meta-methodology that frames how she does foresight work and she also discusses how to approach wicked futures like handling a ball of wool.

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Bia explains how she integrates Agile Design, Futures and Wellbeing to create thriving workplaces and successful change initiatives.

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Riel explains how he transforms the future by designing processes that help people think about the future. He explains his key concepts of Anticipatory Assumptions and the Futures Literacy Laboratory.

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Zia explains his ideas of the Familiar Future and the Unspoken Future and he challenges those who work in our field to actually make a contribution to ensure that the Future is open and is not 'colonised' by those currently holding power and privilege.

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Verne explains the contribution that Futures has made to society and the power of the Futures Wheel. He exemplifies that it’s never too late to learn something new about yourself and the world.

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Debra (Deb) Bateman has great breadth and depth in learning and teaching, infusing her curriculum with futures thinking in both schools and higher education. She shares her eclectic futures tools; a must listen for those in the Education sphere.

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Andrew takes us into the genesis and elaboration of the “real” Three Horizons method and how it can be used for a lot more by practitioners, and shares other Futures gems.

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Meet Pupul, a storyteller, and let her help you open the doors in your own thinking to find your own "different way" to practice foresight.

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Listen to Andy as he explains the Houston Framework, his work on Beyond Market Capitalism, how you 'find the fringe', and how you work with Futures 'learners'.

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Clem Bezold takes you through the use of scenarios and visioning and discusses equity rising and abundance advances.

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Jorge brings his nerdiness to help people and organisations understand what is changing around them and how to use that to help decision-making. He believes that the work of people like him in Mexico and others elsewhere is re-enchanting our field.

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Richard speaks about COVID-19 as not just being a threat, it is also a gift. He explains there is an opportunity to understand more deeply what are we doing that works in our favour and what in fact works against us in society. It is also an opportunity for nature to re-establish itself.

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Riel provides us with positive perspectives during this time of shock. Discussing how this pandemic is a powerful opportunity to make a fundamental change in how humans make choices, and the immense power of a capability we all hold, imagination.

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John reminds us that futures are still plural, and the importance of holding the space for possibilities. One of the most immediate things each of us can do, is pay careful attention to the language we use to navigate this time.

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Peter Bishop speaks about how a new era is possible, though not guaranteed; this historical moment breaks the frame, opening up the possibility for innovation, or we might snap back to how we were before.

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Bridgette speaks about her interest in the unintended consequences of the pandemic, including to her pet projects such as the ‘future of work’, and her day to day existence as a Senior Lecturer at a University who has moved completely online.

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Paul talks through his publicly available COVID-19 scenarios for organisational strategy. He also speaks about some of potential changes for working visas to Australia, from skilled migrants, to partner visas to permanent residency.

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Kieran speaks about the importance of making sure reinvention is still part of our stories, and his use of Jim Dator’s ‘Four Archetypes’ to help clients make sense of, and respond well and capitalise on opportunities from the disruption.

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Stuart Candy is another of the new generation of hybrid futures practitioners who works with thinking, imagery, narrative and experience to create powerful and personal experiences in both academic, policy and life spaces.

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Donna is passionate about how Emergency Management and how foresight can help them. She sees herself as a bridge between the two professional domains. The evolutionary paradigm of resilience gives her hope that we can manage the current and future emergency challenges we all face.

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Peter has some important reflections on how we have come on-board an outdated old vessel and the difference between snapping back to spend more and more money in keeping her afloat or taking only what we need to re-set the future.

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Listen to Frank get jazzed up about complexity, and discuss how Foresight is our destiny. He explains that we need Holoptic Foresight, and that leadership needs to be a collective and cooperative process.

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Victor introduces you to the twin brothers of the Wise and Ignorant mind as part of how he seeks integral futures. He also discusses the Pandamic (China’s general influence) and also the Pandemic (COVID-19).

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Deb talks about this as the perfect time to use futures thinking in all levels of education. She also discusses the new language and identification that is arising and their impacts, from ‘essential’, to ‘global citizen’.

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Rob encourages us to pause and look at this unique opportunity that could never be planned, to think about what the world ‘could’ look like. He personally is looking for examples of leadership and signals of change in our global structures.

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Rowena speaks about how COVID-19 is allowing us to view our cultural and societal cracks. She also observes how the futures tool of scenarios has been quickly and broadly taken up and used by leadership in Australia to help navigate this time.

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Sohail speaks about, science and spirit, the connection between environment and conciousness, slowing down and the symbolic security of the face mask during the time of COVID-19. His guidance is to chose frames wisely when thinking about the future beyond COVID.

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Tom takes you through his journey from being a graduate at university, to hospital psychologist, to educator and finally author. The twin ideas of Futures Consciousness and the centrality of Science Fiction emerged from that journey.

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Patricia is an internationally recognised, self-taught, pragmatic futures practitioner who works in the people-space when the problem is not technical. She believes we should all use our foresight muscle and focus on making it stronger.

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Yvonne's is a story of how we grow up as human beings and also the journey of both inward and outward honesty.

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Charles describes how he finds it easy to have conversations about the future with everyone he meets. He explains the use of his favourite tool, the Futures Cone, and his long-time engagement with Schools and Futures.

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Conversation question: “Should the field abandon preferred futures? Recently, Richard Slaughter even called into question the efficacy of 'alternative futures'...How can (and must) the futures field shift in both theory and practice to deal with this core tension?“

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A futures powerhouse and greatly respected globally, Wendy speaks about art, poetry and music; the tools of culture, to create more evocative, vivid and more densely experiential futures, and much more.

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Bryan discusses scanning as a client service and product, the notion of human identity, the globalisation of culture and the future of Higher Education.

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Hazel saw first hand the evolution of technology and business with its impacts on political power and from that came her life work, tracking and promoting the technologies and mind sets for the Solar Age.

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Conversation question: “What next for the field of foresight? How can we move on from the foundation methods and tools that seem to have us locked in their grip? How can we become more relevant and more practical? How can we approach design from different ontological frameworks.“

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Rebecca explains the importance of effective and powerful communication and she discusses whether generational change is 'a thing' or not.

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Mark talks about the unlikely connection of horse manure and foresight, and explains how ‘pre’ mortems could improve decision-making. He also speaks of his interest in life extension.

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Jordi discusses how change itself is changing, and how we need to up our game to better navigate our lives. He also speaks of how the dignity of younger generations can explain their anger with how post normal times are being managed.

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Conversation question: “What are some of the possible scenarios of the USA post-election period (whoever wins) that sees changes that begin the journey to bring America together rather than to drive it further apart?“

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Shermon chats about history, culture, gross national cool and how the story of Rip Van Winkle is a great way to introduce futures thinking.

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Roger believes that we need to allow the disruptive patterns to emerge to make the wisest choices. He also speaks of embracing the beginners mind to lead ourselves, our organisations and our societies through an increasingly disruptive world.

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Conversation question: “How can we make our individual and collective foresight capacities ‘real’ in futures practice and processes?“

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Listen to Jerry Glenn, Ted Gordon and Paul Saffo from the Millennium Project speak about the newly released set of COVID scenarios for the American Red Cross.

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Anita says that ethics is how we work with our power and support others. She works across corporate clients who wish to operate with sensitivity to their impacts, and also how community resources, like water, are shared.

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Joining us in this special episode are our past guests, Richard Slaughter and Tom Lombardo. They share their memories and experiences of Wendell Bell, a giant in the field of Futures.

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Kimberly discusses both the challenges and rewards of development work in West Africa, and explaining foresight to your mother. She also walks us through the Houston Foresight Framework to exploring the future.

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Thomas teaches his students to be Philosophers-in-action. He believes that there is no learning without emotional shock and he wants us to deepen our conversations to decomplexify our physical reality.

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Roope places Arts at the centre of his futures work. He is seeking a joyful and sustainable transformation of democracy and our institutions.

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In this latest podcast, Maree Conway and Peter Hayward return for a conversation. Five more questions were asked from our FuturePod audience.

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Richard is a pattern finder who is passionate about our relationship to technology. He believes our times are calling for a new mythology in our relationship with technology.

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Ruben thinks we are between dreams and that we need to escape modernity which has delivered much but now imprisons us by de-emphasising our interdependence with the natural world and each other.

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Dada takes you through his distinctive journey from business and economics, to becoming a yogic monk. He discusses the yoga of restraint and how we need to minimise the disparities in life but simultaneously maximise the diversity too.

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Jerome discusses where the Delphi came from and why is so useful, the invention of the Real-Time Delphi and the self-actualization economy and how it could operate.

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Njeri explains how the Rwanda genocide for her was a turning point where she realised how important agency was rather than just awareness.

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David walks us through his ideas that Futures projects should be seen to do something in the real world and that he believes that now is the time for a FOPP - a Future Orientated Political Party. He believes that we lack high quality images of possible futures.

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Gill discusses a wide range of her experiences using Foresight. She tells us about the European Commission’s decade long engagement with Foresight and how it became comfortable in using it.

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Sara talks about the correlation between fossil fuels and authoritarian governments, how using the empirical futures frame helps her work in very normative spaces and how the distillation of crazy in extremist groups can be a force for reversing their support.

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Cherie believes that people should be allowed to experience timescapes in ways that make sense to them and that ‘Futurity’ speaks better to the indigenous understanding of the future.

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Tyler believes that our values are key in moving forward in the face of uncertainty. That through synchronizing the minds of groups all work, especially foresight, starts from the best place with the best contents of consciousness.

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Alex is passionate about better understanding how to use the methods we employ to assist people. He believes that through collaborating with other disciplines, we can become more influential in the public discourse.

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Lidia believes that our active engagement through death and grief, what she calls Death Consciousness, is a vital and energetic capability, especially helpful in our current times.

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Conversation Question: “Should the field abandon preferred futures?” Riel Miller and John Sweeney return for part 2 of the conversation and are joined by another former guest, Josh Floyd.

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Chris is a synthesizer of culture, and has been influenced by Lovelock's Gaia thesis and ideas of Deep Time. Listen to him speak about dark ecology, global weirding and non-Western Futures.

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Richard has been thinking about narrative management and how it is used to attempt to control society.

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Tracey Follows is a UK-based strategist and futurist, CEO and Founder of Futuremade, a strategic foresight and futures consultancy. Tracey looks for the clues to the future. She argues for the value in talking to a wide range of people about their thoughts and expectations about the future.

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Paul is a foresight consultant based in Melbourne Australia. Paul has been studying how strategy can emerge from structure, relationship and good people doing good work.

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Michael is a Futures Architect and Futures Steward. As radical uncertainty undermines how we make sense of the world, ourselves in that world and what we do, Mike has three principles that help us navigate.

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Susanna Carman is a strategic designer with an eclectic educational background who weaves disparate yet related disciplines together to create something new. From her base in Northern Rivers, Australia she creates learning experiences for design, leadership, and change practitioners to enhance their reflexivity and lean into this time between worlds.

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Sylvia Gallusser is a futures researcher based in Silicon Valley. Her practice is grounded in philosophy, futures and strategy. Her research company studies our human nature and our social future and how technology is helping or hindering that. Her research topics include the future of health, well-aging and social interaction, the future of work and life long learning, as well as transformations in mobility and retail.

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Erik Overland is the President of the World Futures Study Federation and is an academic researcher based in Norway. He lead the Norway 2030 project in which he experienced working across international and knowledge disciplines. He has a strong Philosophical foundation to his futures research, especially Constructivism. He sees scenarios as a powerful aid to developing futures focused policy

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James H. Lee is an award-winning investment strategist with over 30 years of experience. He is also the founder of StratFI, a boutique advisory firm that focuses on “What happens next?”

In his new book, Foresight Investing: A Complete Guide to Finding Your Next Great Trade, Jim finds opportunities in the emerging technologies of tomorrow, including the internet of things (IoT), augmented reality, cryptocurrencies, automation, artificial intelligence, longevity science, and new sources of energy

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William (Bill) Halal is Professor Emeritus of Management, Technology, and Innovation at George Washington University, Washington, D.C. He is an authority on emerging technology, strategic planning, knowledge, innovation, and institutional change.

He is the founder of TechCast, a web-based system that pools the knowledge of experts to forecast breakthroughs in technology, social trends, and wild cards to assist decision makers in managing a changing world.

His latest book is Beyond Knowledge - How Technology is driving an Age of Consciousness.

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Luke is the Programme Director of the Professional Studies Program at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.

He is passionate about futures studies, foresight as an innate human capability, the criticality of foresight in leadership and the development of social foresight.

Luke’s primary research interests are in the areas of futures research, human futures, systems theory, foresight and the strategic thinking of organisational leaders.

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Allison is the president of Foresight Institute where she leads the Intelligent Cooperation, Molecular Machines, Biotech & Health Extension Groups.

She co-edited the book Superintelligence: Coordination & Strategy, and is collaborating on another book on Intelligent Voluntary Cooperation.

Her futures journey started as a child when she realised that she did not want to die. The pathways she followed after that included Existentialism, Transhumanism, and finally the Foresight Institute. She speaks extensively about the Big Three - Biotech, Nanotech and Computer Science

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Keiran is a foresight practitioner who is working with young people to support them making a difference through the approach of “Head, Hearts and Hands”.

We find out what he has learned since we last spoke to him and what he is working on now.

Find out more about Kieran’s Crazy Ideas College

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Tamás was raised in a family of pedagogues. He grew up wanting to be a music conductor but ended up as Research Director at the Budapest Business School. He is interested in what wants to emerge in the world and what emerged for him after a decade of leading the Strategic Foresight program was a pivot to retraining as a primary school teacher.

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Bridgette is a Strategic Foresight and Design educator.

Bridgette discusses futuring as an act of rebellion and how that tries to coexist with respect. She also shares her latest spice nut “lockdown” recipe.

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Derek is the President and Chief Futurist of The Futures Lab, a foresight consultancy he founded in 1996. In addition he is an assistant Prof in the ICT Dept of the Engineering and Science faculty at the University of Adger in Norway and an Adjunct Professor  in the University of Houston Foresight program.

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Joe’s is revisiting his earlier work as a Futures Intelligence Analyst. He explains how futures intelligence has to be in service of something.

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Dr Karen Newkirk has lived and worked in Brazil, Peru and Indonesia (for 4 years) and on the Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in central Australia (for ten years). Global human development has driven her passion and led to a degree in Adult and Community Education, a Master in Business; Strategic Foresight and a recently completed PhD in Business, on the market for Indigenous Australian knowledge.

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Marcus talks about his futures leadership journey since we last spoke to him; leadership models and institutions, expectations of colleagues and wisdom embodiment. Marcus also speaks of how he follows people dedicated to practising life and reflecting on their own life critically.

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Catching up with Richard Slaughter. He has been wondering why it seems so hard for our societies to change in order to prevent difficult futures for themselves. He has been thinking deeply about what are our ‘skewed narratives’ and how these prevent us from taking the necessary action.

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Dr Thomas Mengel is Professor of Leadership Studies at the University of New Brunswick, Canada. He holds degrees in theology, adult education, history, and computer science. He has worked and consulted in project management and leadership in Europe, Asia, and North America, and is also a professional futurist and writer.

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Sarah Dillon and Claire Craig provide a theory and practice for gathering narrative evidence that will complement and strengthen, not distort, other forms of evidence, including that from science.

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The continuation of the ReInterview started in podcast 113. Richard discusses his new book, Deleting Dystopia: Re-asserting human priorities in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism.

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Kristin describes how she uses foresight frameworks and methods in the creation of exhibits for young people, using levels of adult development to design content that is relevant for both children and young adults.

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Heather Benoit and JT Mudge shared the Association of Professional Futurists Student Recognition Award award for 2021. They are also both studying at the University of Houston. They both found Futures and Foresight, or it found them. They describe their journey to date and what they hope for themselves and the field as a whole 

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Dr Jacqueline Conway is the founder and Managing Director of Waldencroft – a specialist consulting practice working with CEOs and their executive teams. Central to this is facilitating executive teams in strategic foresight and grappling with complexity.

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The FuturePod team get together to look back on the first 100 conversations, look forward to where FuturePod might be going, and farewell one of our founding members.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward, Meredith (Mendy) Urie, Rebecca (Bec) Mijat, Amanda Reeves, Reanna Browne