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.

Riel Miller returns for his sixth FuturePod appearance and another deep dive into matters Futures and Foresight related.

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).

Paulo Carvalho is an Educator, Innovator and Entrepreneur who has thought deeply about the disruptions and opportunities provided by Generative AI.

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.

Alexis is a Design and Foresight Strategist in Toronto and Peter chats to her about the psychology of meeting our future self, and also making the future more vivid by ‘colouring the future in’ with thoughts and experiences.

Rose Genele 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.

Peter talks to Dana Klisanin who is a psychologist, and futurist. She is the founder of ReWilding: Lab and pioneer of ReWilding Leadership™.

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.

A chat with Gareth Priday who is lead Foresight practitioner at Action Foresight and a Director at Living Labs Innovation Network and Ethical Fields.

A chat with Ross Dawson on how he supports organisations trying to use Foresight and his optimism about our ability to amplify cognition.

James Balzer is a policy analyst in the New South Wales Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.

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.

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.

A return conversation with Frank Spencer that covers a lot and specifically the new book Natural Foresight.

A conversation with Aminata Mansaray, a Strategic Foresight practitioner in Sierra Leone about how she is changing communities and lives using Strategic Foresight.

A conversation with Michael Lawrence and Megan Shipman from the Cascade Institute, about Polycrisis and the community they are supporting to understanding, mitigating and managing it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Today we hear from Radical Norms and their ‘Signs of Change’ processes through which participants imagine climate change effects through public signage and Ben Holt from Solferino Academy and the project envisioning future humanitarian aid.

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.

Today we hear from the team from the Center for Engaged Foresight and their game, Dreams and Disruptions, and from the Teach the Future gang about their World Futures Day, Young Voices.

We hear from Mikko Dufva from the amazing SITRA and their work with Weak Signals and Valery Wichman about work in the Cook Islands to shape a hundred year vision.

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.

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.

Today we hear from Randy Lubin and Mike Masnick and their award-winning game, FutureCast, and Alex de las Heras whose documentary essay set in the Andean region explores future time, memory and decolonisation.