FuturePod

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A reinterview with Andy Hines discussing his upcoming book - After Capitalism Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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

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

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