FuturePod

EP 94: Future Stalker - Tracey Follows

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.

EP 95: The ReInterviews - Paul Higgins

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.

EP 96: The ReInterviews - Michael McAllum

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.

EP 97: Ecologies of Support - Susanna Carman

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.

EP 98: The Thirst for Knowing - Sylvia Gallusser

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.

EP 99: The Universal Perspective - Erik Overland

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

EP 100: Science & Money - Jim Lee

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

EP 102: Beyond Knowledge - William Halal

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.

EP 103: Steering Towards Providential Futures - Luke van der Laan

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.

EP 104: Existential Hope - Allison Duettmann

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