FuturePod

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Peter has some important reflections on how we have come on-board an outdated old vessel and the difference between snapping back to spend more and more money in keeping her afloat or taking only what we need to re-set the future.

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.

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).

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’.

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.