Guest: Paul Higgins
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Interview Date: Tuesday 31 March, 2020
Interviewed By: Peter Hayward in Melbourne, Australia.
Paul Higgins is an experienced foresight consultant whose business is geared towards identifying those organisations that want to get on with doing things that will accelerate our path to our 100 year future.
Paul speaks about the fast moving and fluid environment we all are existing in, and offers COVID-19 scenarios for organisational strategy, and talks through this offering he has made to whoever would like to refer to these. He also speaks about some of the impacts and potential changes for working visas to Australia, from skilled migrants, to partner visas to permanent residency.
Foresight in a Time of Coronavirus Series
The COVID-19 pandemic is moving rapidly around the world. Extinguishing our expected futures and opening up the possibilities of different ones.
At FuturePod we have decided to speak to our previous guests, to ask them what this particular moment in time means to them, and more importantly, to us all.
Resources from Paul
As I am a futurist and a veterinarian with experience in exotic disease preparedness and disease outbreaks in animal populations, I have used that experience to prepare a scenario set on the future of the COVID-19 outbreak that you might find useful. You can download it at: http://www.emergentfutures.com/frontpage-article/covid-19-scenarios/