
FuturePod
The Futures and Foresight community comprises a remarkable and diverse group of individuals who span, academic, commercial and social interests.
Latest episodes

Oct 14, 2024 • 53min
EP 204 - Disrupt with Impact - Roger Spitz
Roger Spitz returns for a chat about his new book Disrupt with Impact. Roger is a Foresight advisor, venture capitalist, an expert advisor to the World Economic Forum's Global Foresight Network, the President of Techistential and he also chairs the Disruptive Futures Institute

Oct 9, 2024 • 45min
EP 203 - From Living a Life Wrong to Mind Time - Gareth Priday
A chat with Gareth Priday who is lead Foresight practitioner at Action Foresight and a director at Living Labs Innovation Network and Ethical Fields. His interests are many but his passion is how people think about the future and how, as professionals, we can best work with that.

Sep 30, 2024 • 48min
EP 202 - Amplifying Cognition - Ross Dawson
A chat with Ross Dawson who is a futurist, keynote speaker, podcaster, strategy advisor, author, and entrepreneur about his journey into the field, how he supports organisations trying to use Foresight and his optimism about our ability to amplify cognition.

Sep 23, 2024 • 44min
EP 201 - The Hard Graft Policy Craft - James Balzer
James Balzer is a policy analyst in the New South Wales Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. He was recently admitted into the Next Generation Foresight Practitioners Fellowship supported by the School of International Futures.

Sep 16, 2024 • 1h 17min
EP 200 - A Milestone Episode
To mark our 200th episode of FuturePod we have assembled the whole FuturePod team, who are interviewed by a special guest host, Dr Stuart Candy.

Aug 26, 2024 • 47min
EP 199 - Patterns of Strategy - Patrick Hoverstadt
Patrick Hoverstadt is a Director and Consultant at Fractal Consulting and the author of The Fractal Organisation and Patterns of Strategy. Patrick is a viable system model (VSM) expert and we cover his deep views on systems thinking.

Aug 18, 2024 • 47min
EP 198 - Natural Foresight - Frank Spencer
A return conversation with Frank Spencer that covers a lot and specifically the new book Natural Foresight

Jul 29, 2024 • 37min
EP 197 - Untying Cows, Changing Lives - Aminata Mansaray
A conversation with Aminata Mansaray, a Strategic Foresight practitioner in Sierra Leone about how she is changing communities and lives using Strategic Foresight.

Jul 14, 2024 • 44min
EP 196 - Polycrisis - Michael Lawrence and Megan Shipman
A conversation with Michael Lawrence and Megan Shipman who are from the Cascade Institute which is a Canadian research centre at Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia about Polycrisis and the community they are supporting to understanding, mitigating and managing it.

Jul 7, 2024 • 44min
EP 195 - Unlocking Change The Bookcast - Rob Roe
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.