FuturePod

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tracey Follows is back to put the big questions of identity to FuturePod. Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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

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?

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

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.

A conversation with Maggie Greyson, John Sweeney and Lisa Guiliani about the upcoming APF IF Awards   Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 complexi...

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,...

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...

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 “Visio...

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