FuturePod
FuturePod explores the world of futures and foresight, featuring conversations with a diverse community of practitioners from academia, business, and social sectors. Each episode highlights how individuals and organizations think about and prepare for the future. The podcast aims to share insights and approaches from across the field of futures studies. It serves as a platform for connecting experts and enthusiasts interested in shaping what comes next.
Episodes
EP 253: Bridging, Becoming and Foresight - Stephen Dupont
In episode 253, Stephen Dupont describes bridging in foresight as bringing people and communities together through communication to work toward a better, higher-quality future that benefits everyone.
EP 252: Future Consciousness - Tom Lombardo
In episode 252, Tom Lombardo discusses his view that the world's problems stem from failings in human consciousness, and that deliberately evolving it would transform life on Earth for the better consciousness.
EP 251: Speculative Storytelling - Alicia Richins
In episode 251, Peter Hayward meets Alicia Richins. Alicia (she/they) is a climate justice advocate, sustainable impact strategist, and writer passionate about imagining beyond the plausible.
EP 250: Intergenerational Responsibility - Adam Sharpe
In episode 250, Adam Sharpe joins Amanda to discuss how we can create meaningful opportunities for young people to be active participants in shaping the future.
EP 249: Coming Home - Richard Slaughter & JP Jakonen
Peter speaks to Ruth Lewis who is a trained foresight professional and professional engineer with a passion to assist people make wise and informed decisions in technology investments to enable preferred futures.
EP 248: Ethical Technology - Ruth Lewis
Peter speaks to Ruth Lewis who is a trained foresight professional and professional engineer with a passion to assist people make wise and informed decisions in technology investments to enable preferred futures.
EP 247: The Midwives of Transition - Lavonne Leong
In episode 246, Peter speaks to Richard Hames who returns to FuturePod to discuss his new book, Teaching Silicon How to Feel.
EP 246: Teaching Silicon How to Feel - Richard Hames
In episode 246, Peter speaks to Richard Hames who returns to FuturePod to discuss his new book, Teaching Silicon How to Feel.
EP 245: Developmental Arbitrage & Face Tentacles - Tim Mansfield
In episode 245, Peter speaks to Dr Tim Mansfield Futures Researcher and a culture consultant at the Interaction Consortium.
EP 244: Inside the Wire - David Geye
In episode 244, Peter speaks to David Geye who is an organisational futurist in the aerospace sector committed to leveraging his previous military and corporate experiences to anticipate future challenges and empower people and organisations.
EP 243: The Learning Future - Louka Parry
In episode 243 Peter speaks to Louka Parry who is the CEO and Founder of The Learning Future which believes in human-centred education and views education as an ecosystem, nurturing thriving ‘humans’ to grow and connect in a healthy environment.
EP 242: Authorship through Participation - Eva Oloumi
In episode 242 Peter speaks to Eva Oloumi who is the founder and practice lead of Paradiegma and is known for guiding organisations through transformative change
EP 241: SuperShifts - Steve Fisher
In episode 241 Peter speaks to Steve Fisher who with Ja-Nae Duane co-authored SuperShifts - Transforming How we Live, Learn and Work in the Age of Intelligence.
EP 240: The Business of Foresight - Jo Lepore
In episode 240 Peter speaks to Jo Lepore who practiced corporate foresight within McDonald's and Mars Wrigley, leads the insights company Dig, is the founder of FIG, is a partner at Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies (CIFS) and a podcaster at Looking Outside.
EP 239: Navigating the Age of Chaos - Jamais Cascio
In episode 239 Peter speaks to Jamais Cascio who with Bob Johansen and Angela Williams co-authored Navigating the Age of Chaos - A sense making guide to a BANI world.
EP 238: Growth through Friction - Juli Rush
In episode 238 we meet Juli Rush who is an Educator, Foresight Strategist and a Death Doula with a focus on partnering futures + death and grief processing.
EP 237: APF IF Awards Winner - Reanna Browne and James Allen
In episode 237 we meet two of the Winners from the Association of Professional Futurists IF awards, Reanna Browne and James Allen.
EP 236: Oceania Futures and Foresight Symposium 2026 - Elissa Farrow and Friends
In episode 236 Elissa Farrow returns to the Pod, and brings some friends, to talk about the second iteration of the Oceania Futures and Foresight Symposium on the 26th and 27th of March
EP 235: Decision-making under uncertainty - Ewa Lombard
In episode 235 our guest is Dr Ewa Lombard who is a senior researcher the University of Geneva converging the realms of affective sciences and collective intelligence, focusing on sustainable decision-making that withstands the uncertainties of the future.
EP 234: Mindstock. Fictional Futures and Present Realities - Richard Yonck
In episode 234 Peter is speaking to Richard Yonck who returns for his third podcast. This time Richard is here to discuss his first fiction book, Mindstock.
EP 233: From Occupy to Design Economics - Vinny Tafuro
In episode 233 Peter shares an economics and futures journey with Vinny Tafuro including from Adam Smith to Kate Raworth and from the Theory of Moral Sentiments to Design Economics. Vinny is a founder of the Institute for Economic Evolution and is a pioneering advocate for the twenty-first-century economy that is disrupting society’s rigid institutions and beliefs.
EP 232: Crafting Stories about the Future - Betty Sue Flowers
In episode 232 Peter chats to Betty Sue Flowers, Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus and a writer, editor, and international foresight consultant, with publications ranging from poetry therapy to sustainability.
EP 231: From Armchair to Asteroids - Fernando Gutierrez Olaizola
In episode 231 Peter meets Fernando Gutiérrez Olaizola who is a Uruguayan-born futurist based in the United States with a passion for space and science fiction, a focus on Latin America, and a drive to identify opportunities for emerging and developing nations to participate in space-based commerce and exploration.
EP 230 - WFSF World Conference 2025 - Doris Viljoen
A conversation with Doris Viljoen about the upcoming WFSF World Conference in South Africa 29 to 31 October 2025
EP 229: Remembering Johan Galtung - Sohail Inayatullah & Otto Scharmer
A conversation with Sohail Inayatullah and Otto Scharmer remembering Johan Galtung, a Norwegian sociologist and the principal founder of the discipline of peace and conflict studies exploring who he was and what he meant to them on their work.
EP 228: Imagining After Capitalism - Andy Hines
A return conversation with Andy Hines about his book, Imagining After Capitalism.
EP 227: Education Futures for School Leadership - Riel Miller, Stephen Murgatroyd & JC Couture
Riel Miller returns for a conversation about where education systems need to go and he brings with him some friends who have conducted research on this very question, Stephen Murgatroyd and JC Couture - the authors of Evidence Education Futures for School Leadership Interviewed by: Peter Hayward
EP 226: The Great Transition Game - Fabienne Goux-Baudiment and Tamas Gaspar
A conversation with Fabienne Goux-Baudiment and Tamas Gaspar about their Great Transition Game and the experiences they have had with developing a serious game that is engaging to a variety of audiences and cultures.
EP 225: Remembering Willis Harman - Oliver Markley and Ruben Nelson
A conversation with Oliver Markley and Ruben Nelson remembering Willis Harman, author of Global Mind Change and An Incomplete guide to the Future exploring who he was and what he meant to them.
EP 224: FuturePod - The Future Loves You - Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston
Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston is a neuroscientist and a Research Fellow at Monash University in Australia and is the author of The Future Loves You: How and Why We Should Abolish Death.
EP 223: FuturePod - Longing for Normal while Standing at the Cusp - Donna Dupont
Donna Dupont who is a former policy advisor and emergency manager who now applies foresight to strengthen decision-making and she returns to the Pod for a catchup chat.
EP 222: FuturePodX - Letters to the Future - Maya van Leemput
The next instalment in our Letters to the Future Series. Our guest is Maya van Leemput.
EP 221: FuturePod - The Augmented Learner - Derek Woodgate
Dr Derek Woodgate returns to the Pod after 3 plus years to talk about his new book, The Augmented Learner
EP 220: FuturePod - Foresightful Engineering - Samista Jugwanth
A conversation with Samista Jugwanth who is an engineer and technical director at Zutari in South Africa
EP 219: FuturePod - Moving Beyond the Natural and Artificial - Erik Overland
A conversation with Erik Overland about his paper, Sustainability and Futures, Moving Beyond the Natural and Artificial
EP 218: FuturePodX - Letters to the Future - Rowena Morrow
The next instalment in our Letters to the Future Series. Our guest is Rowena Morrow
EP 217: FuturePod - The Possibility Wheel - Patricia Lustig & Gill Ringland
A conversation with Patricia Lustig and Gill Ringland about their new book, The Possibility Wheel
EP 216: FuturePod - Global South Futures - Shermon Cruz and Katindi Sivi
A conversation with Shermon Cruz and Katindi Sivi about a new futures community being established, the Global South Futures Community.
EP 215: FuturePodX - Letters to the Future - Bhavana Nissama
The next instalment in our Letters to the Future Series. Our guest is Bhavana Nissima
EP 214: FuturePodX - Letters to the Future - Sonja Blignaut
The next instalment in our Letters to the Future Series. Our guest is Sonja Blignaut.
EP 213: FuturePodX - Letters to the Future - Marcus Bussey
Our first episode in a different style of podcast that we are calling ‘Letters to the Future’, with our inaugural guest, Marcus Bussey.
EP 212: Whales, Psychology and Futures - Trish Lavery
Peter’s guest today is Trish Lavery who is an academic and policy expert working with the School of Cybernetics, Australian National University. Her work places human behaviour at the centre of strategy, futures, and strategic foresight.
EP 211: Love, Ephemerality and the Future - Riel Miller
Riel Miller returns for his sixth FuturePod appearance and another deep dive into matters Futures and Foresight related.
EP 210: Oceania Futures and Foresight Symposium - Elissa Farrow & Jeanne Hoffman
Peter chats with Elissa Farrow and Jeanne Hoffman about the Oceania Futures and Foresight Symposium 3-4 April 2025 they are organising in Meanjin (Brisbane).
EP 209: Embracing AI's disruption to Foresight - Paulo Carvalho
Paulo Carvalho is an Educator, Innovator and Entrepreneur who has thought deeply about the disruptions and opportunities provided by Generative AI and who has just published a report on how he believes Generative AI will disrupt Foresight.
EP 208 - Doing Good Work - Doris Viljoen
Doris Viljoen is the Director of the Institute of Futures Research at the Stellenbosch Business School in South Africa and she explains why she has the coolest job in the world and about our responsibility to do good work that grows our field
EP 207 - Colouring the Future - Alexis Tennent
Alexis is a Design and Foresight Strategist in Toronto and Peter chats to her about the psychology of meeting our future self and how we can build a better relationship with that self plus also make the future more vivid by colouring the future in with thoughts and experiences. Like the experience of engaging with Nature.
EP 206 - Ethical AI - Rose Genele
In this episode, Amanda speaks with Rose Genele about how we can navigate the ethics of using Artificial Intelligence. Rose is a transformative leader and AI ethics advocate committed to creating ethical, resilient companies and technologies, and the host of the What Are We Going To Do With All This Future podcast. WAWGTDWATF podcast: https://rosegenele.com/wawgtdwatf-podcast/Contact Rose: https:/
EP 205 - Rewilding the Imagination - Dana Klisanin
Peter talks to Dana Klisanin who is a psychologist, and futurist. She is the founder of ReWilding: Lab and pioneer of ReWilding Leadership™, an innovative approach that reconnects leaders with the wisdom of the natural world to foster creativity, resilience, and sustainability.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
EP 198 - Natural Foresight - Frank Spencer
A return conversation with Frank Spencer that covers a lot and specifically the new book Natural Foresight
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
EP 189 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Signs of Change & Envisioning Future Humanitarian Aid
We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Petranka Malcheva about their double award for the project embedding long-term thinking in Welsh government and Laurie Smith and the work of NESTA and Prospect magazine around a Minister for the Future hypothetical.
EP 188 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Embedding Long-Term Thinking & Minister for the Future
We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Petranka Malcheva about their double award for the project embedding long-term thinking in Welsh government and Laurie Smith and the work of NESTA and Prospect magazine around a Minister for the Future hypothetical.
EP 187 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Dreams and Disruptions & Young Voices
We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from the team from the Center for Engaged Foresight in the Philippines and their game, Dreams and Disruptions and the Teach the Future gang and their incredible project - World Futures Day, Young Voices.
EP 186 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Fashion Futuring & Healing Past Trauma
We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Clarice Garcia and her toolkit called values Driven Transitions for Fashion’s Imagined Futures and Steven Lichty and his work in Kenya breaking the cycle of Intergenerational trauma.
EP 185 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Expanding Imaginations and Intergenerational Wellbeing
We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Mikko Dufva from the amazing SITRA and their work with Weak Signals and how they make them ‘real’ and Valery Wichman and their work in the Cook Islands to shape a hundred year vision anchored in collective wellbeing.
EP 184 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Navigating Community Change & AI Enabled Foresight
We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Petra Hurtado and her work integrating Foresight into the planning field and Mike Jackson and his venture, Preempt, an AI Foresight platform
EP 183 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Transformative Food & Museum Repatriation
We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Estefania Simon-Sasyk and the folks at Transform and their work with the Mycelium network to transform food systems and Elizabeth Merritt and her work assisting Museums use futures tools to help the repatriation of cultural artifacts.
EP 182 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Democracy Games & PAN
We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Randy Lubin and Mike Masnick and their award winning game, Futurecast, developed for the UN Global Pulse to help fragile democracies and Alex de las Heras whose documentary essay set in different locations in the Andean region exploring future time, memory
EP 181 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Interspecies Surrogacy & Utopia
We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Luna Mrozik Gawler, an artist, writer and scholar based in Melbourne, Australia and their award-winning work on Interspecies Surrogacy and Jennifer Williams and Matjaz Vidmar and their Utopia Labs experimental futures process.Interviewed by: Peter Hayward
EP 180 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - The Plantiverse & Gen Z Innovations Tour
We are delighted to start a new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Cecilia Tham , from Futurity Systems in Barcelona, Spain and their award winning work onthe Plantiverse and Bronwyn Williams and the Gen Z Innovations Tour for corporate leaders developed by the team from Flux Trends in South Africa.
EP 179 - Eleven Tomorrows : A Futures Film - David Lindsay-Wright
A return conversation with Dr David Lindsay-Wright who is a Futurist, Educator and Filmmaker about his latest venture. A communities view of their preferred futures(s) for Brisbane, Australia and that approach to futures work as compared to expert or decision-makers driven futures work.
EP 178 - What Government Could Be - Thea Snow
A conversation with Thea Snow, Director of the Centre for Public Impact Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Thea works in exploring ways to engage government and other changemakers to reimagine what government could be.
EP 177 - Foresight & Innovation - Patrick van der Duin
A conversation with Patrick van der Duin who is a researcher, consultant and educator in Foresight and Innovation Management about how Foresight drives Innovation and Innovation drives Foresight, and that they are two sides of the same coin.
EP 176: Exploring the Future Through Games - Randy Lubin
Randy Lubin is an award-winning foresight games designer, discussing how he brings these two disciplines together and how other games-curious futures practitioners can learn to bring games into their practice.
EP 175: None of us are OK until all of us are OK - Adam Drake
Adam Drake is the founder of Balanced Choice, which works with movement, theater, and sharing stories to encourage positive behavioral change. Adam’s work is grounded in foresight tools and principles.
EP 174: Trans Normal Futures - Christopher Jones
Christopher Jones returns for a chat on all things Post Normal and Trans Normal. Chris is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Post Normal Policy and Future Studies and Executive Director at the Trans Normal Institute.
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