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This page lists the organisations with which I have worked since establishing Thinking Futures in 2007 and includes futures work undertaken while working at Swinburne University of Technology and Victoria University in Melbourne.

Government Departments, Agencies & Statutory Authorities

Australian Universities Quality Forum
  • So you think you can plan workshop, pre-conference workshop (1 day), Australian Universities Quality Forum, 2010
  • Planning Workshop, 2009
Australian Tax Office
  • Cross-Agency Environmental Scanning Workshop, 2011
  • Workshop on Environmental Scanning and Strategic Thinking (2 days), 2010
Central Highlands Water (Lead Consultant: Looking Up Feeling Good)
  • Scenario Planning Project (5 months), 2009-2010
Centrelink
  • Scenario Planning Workshop, 2003
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry
  • Environmental Scan and Scenario Planning Project on the Future of Animal Health in Australia (5 months), 2010
Department of Education, Science & Training (Transitions Branch)
  • Scenario Planning Workshop, 2004
Department of Human Services, Victoria
  • Strategic Thinking Presentation, 2008
Department of Education, Training & the Arts, Queensland
  • Strategic Thinking Workshop, 2009
Gold Coast Water
  • Scenario Planning Project, 2005
National Transport Commission
  • Mentoring partnership to support the establishment of an in-house environmental scanning framework and capacity, 2010-2011
Phillip Island Nature Parks
  • Planning workshop to develop concept map of research, past, present and future


Non-Profit Organisations

Arthritis Victoria
  • Environmental Scanning  Project to establish an in-house scanning framework and train staff to do environmental scanning, 2010

 

Professional Associations

Association of Professional Futurists
  • Managed the process for the development of Strategic Plan for the Association, 2010/2011 (pro bono)
Association for Tertiary Education Management
  • Strategic Thinking in Tertiary Education, ATEM Tropical Region, 2010
  • Futures, Focus and Influence: ATEM/LH Martin Leadership Masterclass: Leadership Literacies for the Knowledge Era, 2009
  • Strategic Thinking in Tertiary Education, ATEM NSW/ACT and ATEM Tropical Regions, 2009
  • Building a Strategic Foresight Capacity Workshop, ATEM Aotearoa, 2008
  • Strategy Review Workshop, ATEM Council, 2008
  • Building a Strategic Foresight Capacity, ATEM Tropical Region, 2008
Australian Society for Parasitology
  • Strategy Project (environmental scan and planning workshop), 2010
Australasian Association for Institutional Research
  • Strategic Planning Workshop, 2007
  • Building a Strategic Foresight Capacity Workshop at Annual AAIR Forum, 2007
APS College of Organisational Psychologists
  • The Future of Organisations,  2009
The Australian Strategic Planning Institute
  • Advanced Strategic Planning Workshops, 2007-2008
Victorian Association of TAFE Libraries
  • Strategic Planning Workshop, 2007

 

Research Projects

Foresight International
  • Led by Professor Richard Slaughter, this project investigated and mapped the characteristics of the global futures field in 2007.  The project was funded by the US based Foundation for the Future.

 

Universities and TAFE Institutes

Australian Maritime College
  • Board Planning Workshop, 2010
Deakin University
  • Workshop on The Impact of Trends in Teaching and Research on IT (three sessions), 2010
  • Sessional Teaching, Futures and Organisational Change, 2008-2009
Kangan Batman Institute of TAFE
La Trobe University
  • Review of University Planning Framework, 2009
Monash University
  • Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching, Evaluation of Leading Excellence Program (Stage 2),
  • & Promoting Excellence Program, 2010
  • The Characteristics of Excellent Business Schools (a review scan), College of Business, 2010
  • Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching, Evaluation of Leading Excellence Program, 2008
RMIT University
  • Scan of Characteristics of Excellent Business Schools, College of Business, 2010
  • Causal Layered Analysis Workshop, Student Services Group, 2007
Sunraysia Institute of TAFE
  • Presentation on Environmental Scanning to Senior Management Group, 2010
Swinburne University of Technology
  • ‘Blue Sky Workshop’, Student Central, 2010
  • Visioning Workshop, Student Operations, 2008
  • The Student System of the Future (PLATO group) workshop, 2003
  • Swinburne Scenario Project, 2002
  • Environmental Scanning System implemented, including scanning framework, email newsletter (Foresight Snippets) and monthly report (prospect), 2001-2004
  • Introduction to Futures Workshops for internal departments, 2000-2003
  • Horizon 2020, Draft Scenarios for Swinburne’s Future, 2000
University of Newcastle
  • Thinking Futures in Higher Education Workshop, University of Newcastle, 2008
University of New South Wales
  • Strategy Project and Visioning Workshops, 2008-2009
University of the Sunshine Coast
  • Presentation at Student Administration Planning Day on Reinventing the Service Paradigm, 2011
University of Western Sydney
  • Strategy Project (5 months), Student Support Services, 2008 - read testimonial
University of Wollongong
  • Strategic Thinking Workshop, 2009
University of Melbourne
  • Presentation on Higher Education Futures, Faculty of Commerce and Economics, 2010
  • Facilitation of Planning Workshop, Knowledge Partnerships Office, 2010
Victoria University, Melbourne
  • VU Futures Project (environmental Scanning), Making VU Program Office, 2009
  • Trends and Drivers of Change, Victoria University, Information Technology Services, 2008
  • Finalising the University’s Statement of Purpose 2016 and associated KPI framework. 2008
  • Making VU Program Futures Project – environmental scanning and scenario planning, 2008
  • Making VU Commitment 1: Industry and Community Roundtables, 2008-2009
  • Strategic Planning Workshops for internal departments, 2005-2007
  • Library Scenario Planning Workshop, 2006 (see feedback)
  • VU Futures Project, 2007 (Trends and Drivers of Change, and modified Scenario Planning process)