EP 50: Dancing with Complexity - Frank Spencer

Frank Spencer calls himself a complexity geek and in this interview he brings an enthusiasm and an urgency for everyone to become more comfortable with working with complexity. Embracing complexity along with democratising the future and democratising foresight are the foundations upon which his businesses (Kedge and The Futures School) operate.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

More about Frank

Contact

• LinkedIn - Frank Spencer

• Kedge Futures

• The Futures School
  

References

Question 1: 

• How Sci Fi cultivated a passion in my heart at an early age to design the future

• Dr. Jay Gary, Dr. Jay Gary, Chair, Association of Professional Futurists

• Futurist Tanja Schindler

• University of Houston Master of Science in Foresight

• University of Hawaii Manoa School of Futures Studies

• World Future Society

• Association of Professional Futurists

• Kedge Futures: Global Foresight, Innovation and Strategic Design

• Futurist Yvette Montero Salvatico, Principal and Managing Director, Kedge

• Disney’s Workforce of the Future: From HR Initiative to Organizational Culture (Chapter 17)

• The Futures School

• Professional Foresight Certification
   

Question 2: 

• “It’s Time To Democratize The Future”

• Dance With Complexity

• Futures Thinking Goes Mainstream

• A Superhero Named Complexity (complexity as an feature of evolutionary emergence and human development)

• Complex Adaptive Systems

• An Introduction to Complex Responsive Process

• Complex Potential States

• Turning Wicked Problems Into Wicked Opportunities

• Wicked Opportunities Intro
  

Question 3: 

• A Transformationalist’s Guide To Saving The Future

• Holoptic Foresight Dynamics

• Integral Futures/Richard Slaughter

• Sohail Inayatullah

• Causal Layered Analysis (CLA)

• Presencing Institute (Otto Scharmer/Theory U)

• Fritjof Capra

• Daniel Christian Wahl

• Rilke on How Great Sadnesses Transform Us and Bring Us Closer To Ourselves - a very important piece for the times we presently find ourselves in. Rilke elucidates how “the future” is first an internal experience - often born out of unassuming stillness or sadness - that will “transform itself in us long before it happens.”

Question 4: 

• Futures Thinking Enters The Mainstream

Question 5: 

• The Futures School Applied Foresight Activator (6-month live, online foresight training program)

• Foresight: The Most Important Leadership Skill of the 21st Century

• Participatory Leadership for Strategic Transformation: A Case Study

• Holoptic Foresight Dynamics as a decentralized and transformative leadership model (see images below).

• Complex Adaptive Systems, Complex Responsive Processes and Complex Potential States are the core ideas of creative complexity that are the foundation of the Natural Foresight® Framework. You can download The Guide To The Natural Foresight Framework at no cost.