FuturePod

EP 164 : The Wild West of AI Futures - Richard Yonck

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

EP 163 : Scaffolding Collective Resilience - Rowena Morrow

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

EP 162 : Reducing Avoidable Surprises - Norbert Kolos

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.

EP 161 : Together and Unique - Fabienne Goux-Baudiment

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

EP 160: Exploring Liminality (WFSF 50th Anniversary Conference) - Helga Veigl & Martin Calnan

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

EP 159: Decolonial Inclusive Futures - Zan Chandler

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

EP 158: Facing Our Futures - Nikolas Badminton

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

 

EP 157: Future Thinking Maverick- Maggie Greyson

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.

EP 156: Polylogue Futures - Maya Van Leemput

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

EP 155: Herding Yaks - Venkatesh Rao

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