Shows
FuturePodEP 224: FuturePod - The Future Loves You - Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston 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
2025-06-2937 min
FuturePodEP 223: FuturePod - Longing for Normal while Standing at the Cusp - Donna Dupont EP 223: FuturePod - Longing for Normal while Standing at the Cusp - Donna DupontDonna 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.
2025-06-1739 min
FuturePodEP 223: FuturePod - Longing for Normal while Standing at the Cusp - Donna Dupont 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
2025-06-1639 min
FuturePodEP 221: FuturePod - The Augmented Learner - Derek WoodgateDr Derek Woodgate returns to the Pod after 3 plus years to talk about his new book, The Augmented Learner
Interviewed by: Peter Hayward
2025-05-1247 min
FuturePodEP 220: FuturePod - Foresightful Engineering - Samista JugwanthA conversation with Samista Jugwanth who is an engineer and technical director at Zutari in South Africa
Interviewed by: Peter Hayward
2025-04-2147 min
FuturePodEP 219: FuturePod - Moving Beyond the Natural and Artificial - Erik OverlandA conversation with Erik Overland about his paper, Sustainability and Futures, Moving Beyond the Natural and Artificial
Interviewed by: Peter Hayward
2025-03-1242 min
FuturePodEP 217: FuturePod- The Possibility Wheel - Patricia Lustig & Gill RinglandA conversation with Patricia Lustig and Gill Ringland about their new book, The Possibility Wheel
Interviewed by: Peter Hayward
2025-02-2443 min
FuturePodEP 216: FuturePod- Global South Futures Community - Shermon Cruz & Katindi SivA conversation with Shermon Cruz and Katindi Sivi about a new futures community being established, the Global South Futures Community
Interviewed by: Peter Hayward
2025-02-1948 min
FuturePodEP 211: Love, Ephemerality and the Future - Riel MillerRiel Miller returns for his 6th FuturePod appearance and another deep dive into matters Futures and Foresight related
Interviewed by: Peter Hayward
2024-12-1337 min
FuturePodEP 200 - A Milestone EpisodeTo mark our 200th episode of FuturePod we have assembled the whole FuturePod team, who are interviewed by a special guest host, Dr Stuart Candy.
2024-09-161h 16
FuturePodEP 200 - A Milestone EpisodeTo 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
2024-09-151h 16
FuturePodEP 195 - Unlocking Change The Bookcast - Rob RoeRob 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
2024-07-0744 min
FuturePodEP 172: The Future of You - Tracey FollowsTracey Follows is back to put the big questions of identity to FuturePod.
Interviewed by: Peter Hayward
2023-11-2144 min
FuturePodEP 170: Futurepod Conversations - Riel Miller and Maree ConwayRiel 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?
2023-10-2442 min
FuturePodEP 156: Polylogue Futures - Maya Van LeemputMaya 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 medi...
2023-03-0547 min
FuturePodEP 155: Herding Yaks - Venkatesh RaoHow 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...
2023-02-1643 min
FuturePodEP 155: Herding Yaks - Venkatesh RaoHow 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
2023-02-1443 min
FuturePodEP 154: Open to Variety - Stefan BergheimA 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
2023-02-0257 min
FuturePodEP 153: Remembering P.R. Sarkar - Building an Exploitation Free FutureA 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
2023-01-0833 min
FuturePodEP 152: Jawn Lim - Leaving no one behindA 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
2022-12-2643 min
FuturePodEP 151: Victor Motti - Alternative Planetary FuturesA 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
2022-12-1342 min
FuturePodEP 150: Colin Russo - Weaving the FutureColin 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
2022-12-0449 min
FuturePodEP 149: Andy Hines - After CapitalismA reinterview with Andy Hines discussing his upcoming book - After Capitalism
Interviewed by: Peter Hayward
2022-11-2843 min
FuturePodEP 148: Ciela Hartanov - Where Work is PlacedDr. 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...
2022-11-2441 min
FuturePodEP 148: Ciela Hartanov - Where Work is PlacedWhat 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
2022-11-2141 min
FuturePodEP 147: Mina McBride - Lifestyle ForesightMina 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...
2022-11-1751 min
FuturePodEP 146: Roger Spitz - Disruptive FuturesA reinterview with Roger Spitz discussing the Disruptive Futures Institute, their new guidebook, existentialism and all points in between.
Interviewed by: Peter Hayward
2022-11-1152 min
FuturePodEP 145: Loes Damhof - Nurturing Futures CapabilityLoes 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
2022-11-0739 min
FuturePodEP 144: Sabine Winters - Scientific ImaginationSabine 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
2022-09-1737 min
FuturePodEP 143 : Leah Zaidi - Building Brave New WorldsLeah 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
2022-09-0140 min
FuturePodEP 142 : Claire Marshall - Getting Capitalism Out of Our BrainsClaire 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...
2022-08-1250 min
FuturePodEP 141: FuturePod Conversations: Uzbekistan Futures - John Sweeney and Pete MalviciniIn this latest podcast John Sweeney and Pete Malvicini are in conversation discussing a new UNSECO Chair in Anticipatory Governance and Sustainable Policy Making in UzbekistanGuests: John Sweeney and Pete MalviciniHost: Peter Hayward
2022-08-0137 min
FuturePodEP 141: FuturePod Conversations: Uzbekistan Futures - John Sweeney and Pete MalviciniIn 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
2022-07-3037 min
FuturePodEP 140 : Yvette Salvatico - Pulling the Future towards usYvette 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
2022-07-1747 min
FuturePodEP 139 : Changing Minds - Epaminondas ChristophilopoulosEpaminondas 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
2022-06-2640 min
FuturePodEP 138 - Using Scenarios - Thomas ChermackThomas 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
2022-05-1350 min
FuturePodEP 137 - Transdisciplinary Synthesis - Richard EckersleyRichard 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?
2022-05-0847 min
FuturePodEP 136 - Futures Weaver - Cat TullyCat 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
2022-05-0155 min
FuturePodEP 135 - Working in the Space of Anticipation - Cheryl DoigDr 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
2022-04-2131 min
FuturePodEP 134: FuturePod Conversations: Executive Education Masterclass - Sohail Inayatullah and Robert Burke
2022-04-1442 min
FuturePodEP 134: FuturePod Conversations: Executive Education Masterclass - Sohail Inayatullah and Robert BurkeIn 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
2022-04-1442 min
FuturePodEP 133: Reframing in the House of our Mind - Eric MeadeEric 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
2022-04-0946 min
FuturePodEP 132: On foresight as agency - Bronwyn WilliamsAs 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
2022-04-0244 min
FuturePodEP 131: The ReInterviews - Rebecca RyanA reinterview with Rebecca Ryan discussing doing the next right thing and Future generations
2022-03-3032 min
FuturePodEP 130: The ReInterviews - Peter Bishop and the Young VoicesA reinterview with Peter Bishop and a chance to meet some of Teach the Futures Young Voices winners, Amna Habiba and Alice Machado
2022-03-3047 min
FuturePodEP 129: FuturePod Conversations - Alex Fergnani and Luke van der LaanIn 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
2022-03-3042 min
FuturePodEP 128: The Inner World of Leadership - Robert BurkeRobert 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.
2022-02-1641 min
FuturePodEP 127: The ReInterviews - Frank SpencerA re-interview with Frank Spencer discussing Democratizing Foresight, The Year of Free and Natural Foresight
2022-02-1541 min
FuturePodEP 126: The ReInterviews - Rene RohrbeckA 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?
2022-02-1542 min
FuturePodEP 125: Exploring Higher Consciousness - Oliver MarkleyOliver 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
2022-02-1542 min
FuturePodEP 20: Leaving a Legacy - Cindy FrewenCindy 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.
2022-01-3039 min
FuturePodEP 122: The ReInterviews - Patricia Lustig and Gill RinglandA 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.
2021-12-2020 min
FuturePodEP 121: The ReInterviews - Tanja SchindlerA Reinterview with Tanja Schindler when we check in on her inspirational and exhausting journey to spread the ‘Joy for the Future”
2021-12-1932 min
FuturePodEP 123: AI as an Integral part of Paradise - Elissa FarrowSocial 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
2021-12-1948 min
FuturePodEP 124: The ReInterviews - Sohail InayatullahA ReInterview with Sohail Inayatullah ranging over Covid, conspiracies, Macrohistory, from Weird to Wise and the cultivation of Safety
2021-12-1935 min
FuturePodEP 120: Shapeshifting with the Hard Times Handbook - Ana TiquiaAna 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.
2021-12-0152 min
FuturePodEP 11: Alternative Thinking About Today and Tomorrow - Richard HamesAs 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.
2021-11-3040 min
FuturePodEP 1: Re-thinking Business and Education - Simon DehneSimon has successfully developed a professional business, presenting and applying foresight practice and principles.
2021-11-3039 min
FuturePodEP 2: Deep Inquiry and Dealing with Complexity - Peter HaywardPeter speaks about solving problems through deep enquiry, and the power of scenarios as a conversation tool for discussing and exploring futures.
2021-11-3047 min
FuturePodEP 3: Preaching to the Choir - Paul HigginsPaul explains his pragmatic approach to working with the people and organisations that want to make a difference.
2021-11-3043 min
FuturePodEP 4: Experimentation and Mutant Futures - Jose RamosJose 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.
2021-11-3049 min
FuturePodEP 5: Limits to Growth - Josh FloydJosh 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.
2021-11-3057 min
FuturePodEP 6: The Foresight Switch - Maree ConwayMaree 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.
2021-11-3042 min
FuturePodEP 7: A Macrohistorian‘s Design for Better Futures - Michael McAllumAs 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.
2021-11-3049 min
FuturePodEP 8: Better Decision-Making Through Creative Conversations - Susan Oliver AMSusan 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.
2021-11-3049 min
FuturePodEP 9: A Life of Teaching the Future - Peter BishopPeter 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.
2021-11-3053 min
FuturePodEP 10: Hope, Agency and Being a Pathway Agnostic - Rowena MorrowRowena taught foresight for many years and so listen to her teach you about Hope Theory, consultancy and performing organisational roles.
2021-11-3058 min
FuturePodEP 12a: Waking Up and My Inquiry into Depth - Richard SlaughterIn 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.
2021-11-3044 min
FuturePodEP 12b: Against the Global Narrative and Rediscovering our Options - Richard SlaughterIn 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.
2021-11-3023 min
FuturePodEP 13: The Intersection of Strategic Design and Strategic Foresight - Bridgette EngelerBridgette 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.
2021-11-3043 min
FuturePodEP 14: Hindsight, Foresight and Insight - Jay GaryJay 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.
2021-11-3047 min
FuturePodEP 15: Confidence: A Vital Element - Cath SmithFutures principles and tools have been instrumental in helping Cath build an impressive consultancy career, supporting organisations to maximize social cause and impact.
2021-11-3046 min
FuturePodEP 16: Disturber of the Peace - Marcus BusseyMarcus is a futurist, academic and poet. Hear him explain the anticipatory aesthetic and how he thinks it is very necessary to disturb the peace.
2021-11-3049 min
FuturePodEP 17: Getting Ahead of Trends - Steve TigheSteve 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.
2021-11-3042 min
FuturePodEP 18: Big History and Civilisational Foresight - Joseph VorosDr 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.
2021-11-301h 03
FuturePodEP 19: Investing in Work as a Learning Lab - Kieran MurrihyAppreciating 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.
2021-11-3053 min
FuturePodEP 21: A Hybrid Futurist - Tanja SchindlerTanja 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.
2021-11-3042 min
FuturePodEP 22: From Metaphor to Mantra - Sohail InayatullahSohail 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.
2021-11-3059 min
FuturePodEP 110: Moving Forward Together - Adam KahaneAdam 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.
2021-11-3047 min
FuturePodEP 23: Battling Against Entrenched Thinking - Robinson RoeIn 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.
2021-11-3041 min
FuturePodEP 24: Expanding Corporate Foresight - Rene RohrbeckRene 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.
2021-11-3048 min
FuturePodEP 25: New Beginnings - Jim DatorJim 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.
2021-11-301h 00
FuturePodEP 26: Nerd is Not a Dirty Word - Kate DelaneyAs 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.
2021-11-3046 min
FuturePodEP 27: Making Windows Where There Are Walls - John SweeneyJohn 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.
2021-11-3053 min
FuturePodEP 28: Little Seeds of Good Anthropocene - Tanja HichertTanja, raised into Nelson Mandela's revolution in South Africa works all around the world trying to support a good Anthropocene.
2021-11-3040 min
FuturePodEP 29: Saving the World, But Not Everyday - Fabienne Goux-BaudimentFabienne 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.
2021-11-3055 min
FuturePodEP 30: Change: From Determined Achiever to Release of Control - Bia AffonsoBia explains how she integrates Agile Design, Futures and Wellbeing to create thriving workplaces and successful change initiatives.
2021-11-3041 min
FuturePodEP 31: Finding Purpose in a Birth and Death Universe - Riel MillerRiel 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.
2021-11-3051 min
FuturePodEP 32: Suspended Between No Longer and Not Yet - Zia SardarZia 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.
2021-11-2954 min
FuturePodEP 33: The Future is Flexible - Verne WheelwrightVerne 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.
2021-11-2942 min
FuturePodEP 34: Futures in Light of Identity - Debra BatemanDebra (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.
2021-11-2940 min
FuturePodEP 60: FuturePod Conversations - Riel Miller and John SweeneyConversation 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?“
2021-11-2941 min
FuturePodEP 64: FuturePod Conversations - Zia Sardar and Richard HamesConversation 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.“
2021-11-2940 min
FuturePodEP 68: FuturePod Conversations - Peter Bishop and Peter HaywardConversation 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?“
2021-11-2943 min
FuturePodEP 71: FuturePod Conversations - Maree Conway and Peter HaywardConversation question: “How can we make our individual and collective foresight capacities ‘real’ in futures practice and processes?“
2021-11-2934 min
FuturePodEP 78: FuturePod Conversations - Maree Conway and Peter Hayward Part 2In this latest podcast, Maree Conway and Peter Hayward return for a conversation. Five more questions were asked from our FuturePod audience.
2021-11-2952 min
MOD.CastPresenting FuturePod: How Hard Can It Be? with Kristin AlfordWe're finishing up the MOD.Cast season with an episode of FuturePod, interviewing MOD.'s own Dr Kristin Alford.
Kristin is a futurist and engineer, the Director of Insitu Foresight and the inaugural Director of MOD., the Museum of Discovery at the University of South Australia. The museum's immersive experiences sit at the intersection of art and science. Designed for young adults, they showcase how research and innovation shapes our understanding of the world and informs our futures.
In this episode, Kristin describes how she uses foresight frameworks and methods in the creation of exhibits for young people, using levels...
2021-11-2948 min
FuturePodEP 91: FuturePod Conversations - Riel Miller, John Sweeney & Josh Floyd Part 2Conversation 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.
2021-11-2944 min
FuturePodEP 101: Special Episode - Looking Backwards and ForwardsThe 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
2021-11-2638 min
4Sight ChatsPeter Hayward: "Pracademia", Futures Games, and Futurepod - 4Sight Chats Ep. 1010th episode of the 4Sight Chats Series, with Peter Hayward. Peter is a "pracademic" with two decades of experience in teaching foresight to passionate and skillful people. He is also the co-host of Futurepod, one of the most well regarded and long-lasting podcasts in futures & foresight. Alex is PhD candidate at NUS Business School (Singapore), and Associate Editor of the journal "World Futures Review".
Chat Outline:
- Using foresight to solve clients' problems
- The Sarkar Game in organizational contexts
- The Polak Game in organizational contexts
- Th...
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