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Leading change inside organisations: How to rock the boat and stay in it
Becoming an in-house change agent involves learning to create and work with discomfort. If you avoid uncomfortable situations, you will barely be effective. If you are too disruptive and insistent, you'll struggle to get anyone on board. Create the right amount of...
FuturePod first-time listeners: 3 episodes for futures-curious game designers
As a co-host of a podcast with over 130 episodes, I'm often asked by new listeners where they should start. Of course, I answer: "It depends." It depends on their interests, their familiarity with futures and foresight, their backgrounds. And so I curate a mix tape of...
3 ways learning game design sharpens your facilitation skills
As soon as I saw Amble Studios Game design for facilitators, I knew it was for me. I'm a facilitator who loves to bring games and play into workshops, and buys board games faster than I can play them. I arrived expecting to learn game design principles that I could...
I quit my job to run my own business. Twice.
It takes a lot of guts to quit a secure job to become self-employed. It takes even more guts to do it after you have already tried and failed. You have more reasons to doubt yourself, and it feels you've got more riding on it. Here's what helped me get across the line...
The ideas about the future that convinced me to be a futurist
When I signed up for the Masters in Strategic Foresight, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. The course was jam-packed with brain-curling ideas that changed who I am, the way I work, and how I understand the future. These are the ideas that first got me...
Make the preposterous probable
As someone who studies the future you might be surprised to hear me tell you: 'the future' does not exist. The future is not fixed or singular, but a space of potential. There are many potential futures that extend out from the present moment. Some are probable, some...
Top 3 FuturePod episodes for foresight first-timers
FuturePod has now grown to 135 conversations with futures and foresight practitioners from around the world. The number of options can be overwhelming for new listeners. Here's the 3 episodes I recommend to people who've just discovered foresight that are rich in...
What I learned embedding telehealth into specialist clinics
Telehealth is more than cameras and software. To reliably use telehealth, you need to design it into your model of care. Before the days of WFH in your pajama pants, I spent a year with the Royal Children's Hospital developing a method to integrate telehealth as a...
Looking back to look ahead
Before describing a future, we first need to look back at what came before it. Useful images of the future are rooted in the momentum and arcs of the time they emerge from. They are anchored in the past, but do not just extend the same logic and trends forward into a...
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Wabi Sabi Futures
Wabi Sabi Futures facilitates exploration at the edge of where futures, foresight, change leadership, and arts practice intersect.
I live and work on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung who form part of the Kulin nation, in Naarm (modern-day Melbourne).
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