FuturePod

Steve Fisher, futurist, author and innovation leader with 30+ years guiding change. He recounts his path into futures and blending design with foresight. He outlines nine systemic SuperShifts and explains using narrative and tools to make futures practical. He discusses AI-augmented foresight, macrohistory cycles, and building frameworks to help organizations act amid rapid change.

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.

Jamais Cascio, a futurist and writer known for foresight and scenario planning, discusses the origin of the BANI framing and its relation to VUCA. He explores positive and negative BANI concepts, emotional burdens of foresight, and practical mindsets like bendable resilience, attentive empathy, neuroflexible improvisation, and interconnected perspectives.

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.

LaVonne Leong, APF representative who explains the awards and judging. James Allen, foresight practitioner blending intelligence analysis and complexity methods. Reanna Browne, organisational designer behind a relational foresight approach. They discuss rejecting trend reports, framing foresight as relational infrastructure, complexity-informed mapping, generative AI for hypotheses, interactive digital artifacts, and turning dilemmas into small, safe experiments.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.