FuturePod
FuturePod
The Futures and Foresight community comprises a remarkable and diverse group of individuals who span, academic, commercial and social interests.
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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.
Jun 24, 2024 • 1h 1min
EP 194 - Why Foresight Matters! - John Smart
John Smart, the CEO of Foresight U, joins us to chat about his book ‘An Introduction to Foresight’. Among many things he expands on his three mottos for investing in foresight and doing good work sustainably.
Jun 16, 2024 • 43min
EP 193 - Complex Mess - Meredith Bowden & Dave Godden
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.
Jun 10, 2024 • 46min
EP 192 - An Honest Exploration of Uncertainty - Kristin Alford, Maggie Greyson & Elizabeth Merritt
A guest conversation between Kristin Alford, Maggie Greyson and Elizabeth Merritt 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
Jun 2, 2024 • 42min
EP 191 - The Inner Dimensions of the Future - Jay Gary
Jay Gary returns for a chat and we discuss leadership development, institutional support, practice development and how his faith is foundational to his work and purpose
May 27, 2024 • 48min
EP 190 - Somatic Futures: Speculations of Embodiment - Rodney Frederickson
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.
