A Celebration of 10 Years of Swinburne Foresight

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Over the past few months, I have helped organise a celebration of 10 years of the Masters of Strategic Foresight course at Swinburne University of Technology here in Melbourne. Last Saturday (31 July), a group of about 40 alumni, current students,  present and past teaching staff gathered to celebrate those 10 years. This course was [...]

Climate Change and the Need to Act

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I’ve been watching, pondering and musing of late about the debate on whether climate change is real or not.  Here in Australia, we have just witnessed the extraordinary spectacle of a political party (the Liberal Party) imploding around this issue – driven by disagreement about approaches to climate change, and strong resistance to an opposition [...]

Announcing Thinking Futures

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Today I have launched my new business - Thinking Futures – a futures practice that will work with people in education and non-profit organisations to think long and to use that thinking to build stronger strategy. I call Thinking Futures an futures practice, rather than a consultancy. Having worked with many consultants over my career in [...]