FuturePod
Episodes
EP 235: Decision-making under uncertainty - Ewa Lombard
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 collect...
EP 234: Mindstock. Fictional Futures and Present Realities - Richard Yonck
02 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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, Mind...
EP 233: From Occupy to Design Economics - Vinny Tafuro
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
EP 232: Crafting Stories about the Future - Betty Sue Flowers
04 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 232 Peter chats to Betty Sue Flowers, Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus and a writer, editor, and international foresight consultan...
EP 231: From Armchair to Asteroids - Fernando Gutierrez Olaizola
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 231 Peter meets Fernando Gutiérrez Olaizola who is a Uruguayan-born futurist based in the United States with a passion for space and scien...
EP 230 - WFSF World Conference 2025 - Doris Viljoen
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Doris Viljoen about the upcoming WFSF World Conference in South Africa 29 to 31 October 2025
EP 229: Remembering Johan Galtung - Sohail Inayatullah & Otto Scharmer
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Sohail Inayatullah and Otto Scharmer remembering Johan Galtung, a Norwegian sociologist and the principal founder of the disciplin...
EP 228: Imagining After Capitalism - Andy Hines
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A return conversation with Andy Hines about his book, Imagining After Capitalism.
EP 227: Education Futures for School Leadership - Riel Miller, Stephen Murgatroyd & JC Couture
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Riel Miller returns for a conversation about where education systems need to go and he brings with him some friends who have conducted research on thi...
EP 226: The Great Transition Game - Fabienne Goux-Baudiment and Tamas Gaspar
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Fabienne Goux-Baudiment and Tamas Gaspar about their Great Transition Game and the experiences they have had with developing a se...
EP 225: Remembering Willis Harman - Oliver Markley and Ruben Nelson
27 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Oliver Markley and Ruben Nelson remembering Willis Harman, author of Global Mind Change and An Incomplete guide to the Future expl...
EP 224: FuturePod - The Future Loves You - Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston
29 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston is a neuroscientist and a Research Fellow at Monash University in Australia and is the author of The Future Loves You: Ho...
EP 223: FuturePod - Longing for Normal while Standing at the Cusp - Donna Dupont
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donna Dupont who is a former policy advisor and emergency manager who now applies foresight to strengthen decision-making and she returns to the Pod f...
EP 222: FuturePodX - Letters to the Future - Maya van Leemput
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The next instalment in our Letters to the Future Series. Our guest is Maya van Leemput.
EP 221: FuturePod - The Augmented Learner - Derek Woodgate
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Derek Woodgate returns to the Pod after 3 plus years to talk about his new book, The Augmented Learner
EP 220: FuturePod - Foresightful Engineering - Samista Jugwanth
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Samista Jugwanth who is an engineer and technical director at Zutari in South Africa
EP 219: FuturePod - Moving Beyond the Natural and Artificial - Erik Overland
15 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Erik Overland about his paper, Sustainability and Futures, Moving Beyond the Natural and Artificial
EP 218: FuturePodX - Letters to the Future - Rowena Morrow
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The next instalment in our Letters to the Future Series. Our guest is Rowena Morrow
EP 217: FuturePod - The Possibility Wheel - Patricia Lustig & Gill Ringland
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Patricia Lustig and Gill Ringland about their new book, The Possibility Wheel
EP 216: FuturePod - Global South Futures - Shermon Cruz and Katindi Sivi
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Shermon Cruz and Katindi Sivi about a new futures community being established, the Global South Futures Community.
EP 215: FuturePodX - Letters to the Future - Bhavana Nissama
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The next instalment in our Letters to the Future Series. Our guest is Bhavana Nissima
EP 214: FuturePodX - Letters to the Future - Sonja Blignaut
23 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The next instalment in our Letters to the Future Series. Our guest is Sonja Blignaut.
EP 213: FuturePodX - Letters to the Future - Marcus Bussey
22 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our first episode in a different style of podcast that we are calling ‘Letters to the Future’, with our inaugural guest, Marcus Bussey.
EP 212: Whales, Psychology and Futures - Trish Lavery
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Peter’s guest today is Trish Lavery who is an academic and policy expert working with the School of Cybernetics, Australian National University. Her...
EP 211: Love, Ephemerality and the Future - Riel Miller
14 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Riel Miller returns for his sixth FuturePod appearance and another deep dive into matters Futures and Foresight related.
EP 210: Oceania Futures and Foresight Symposium - Elissa Farrow & Jeanne Hoffman
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Peter chats with Elissa Farrow and Jeanne Hoffman about the Oceania Futures and Foresight Symposium 3-4 April 2025 they are organising in Meanjin (Br...
EP 209: Embracing AI's disruption to Foresight - Paulo Carvalho
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Paulo Carvalho is an Educator, Innovator and Entrepreneur who has thought deeply about the disruptions and opportunities provided by Generative AI and...
EP 208 - Doing Good Work - Doris Viljoen
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
EP 207 - Colouring the Future - Alexis Tennent
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alexis is a Design and Foresight Strategist in Toronto and Peter chats to her about the psychology of meeting our future self and how we can build a b...
EP 206 - Ethical AI - Rose Genele
03 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Amanda speaks with Rose Genele about how we can navigate the ethics of using Artificial Intelligence. Rose is a transformative leader...
EP 205 - Rewilding the Imagination - Dana Klisanin
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Peter talks to Dana Klisanin who is a psychologist, and futurist. She is the founder of ReWilding: Lab and pioneer of ReWilding Leadership™, an inno...
EP 204 - Disrupt with Impact - Roger Spitz
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 Worl...
EP 203 - From Living a Life Wrong to Mind Time - Gareth Priday
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A chat with Gareth Priday who is lead Foresight practitioner at Action Foresight and a director at Living Labs Innovation Network and Ethical Fields. ...
EP 202 - Amplifying Cognition - Ross Dawson
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A chat with Ross Dawson who is a futurist, keynote speaker, podcaster, strategy advisor, author, and entrepreneur about his journey into the field, ho...
EP 201 - The Hard Graft Policy Craft - James Balzer
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
James Balzer is a policy analyst in the New South Wales Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. He was recently admitted into...
EP 200 - A Milestone Episode
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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.
EP 199 - Patterns of Strategy - Patrick Hoverstadt
26 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Hoverstadt is a Director and Consultant at Fractal Consulting and the author of The Fractal Organisation and Patterns of Strategy. Patrick is ...
EP 198 - Natural Foresight - Frank Spencer
18 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A return conversation with Frank Spencer that covers a lot and specifically the new book Natural Foresight
EP 197 - Untying Cows, Changing Lives - Aminata Mansaray
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Aminata Mansaray, a Strategic Foresight practitioner in Sierra Leone about how she is changing communities and lives using Strateg...
EP 196 - Polycrisis - Michael Lawrence and Megan Shipman
14 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Michael Lawrence and Megan Shipman who are from the Cascade Institute which is a Canadian research centre at Royal Roads Universit...
EP 195 - Unlocking Change The Bookcast - Rob Roe
07 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 th...
EP 194 - Why Foresight Matters! - John Smart
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 mott...
EP 193 - Complex Mess - Meredith Bowden & Dave Godden
16 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 co...
EP 192 - An Honest Exploration of Uncertainty - Kristin Alford, Maggie Greyson & Elizabeth Merritt
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A guest conversation between Kristin Alford, Maggie Greyson and Elizabeth Merritt starts from the question about how Museums of the Future create agen...
EP 191 - The Inner Dimensions of the Future - Jay Gary
02 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jay Gary returns for a chat and we discuss leadership development, institutional support, practice development and how his faith is foundational to hi...
EP 190 - Somatic Futures: Speculations of Embodiment - Rodney Frederickson
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Rodney Frederickson who is a design futurist, abstract artist, storyteller, philosopher, game designer, martial artist and an occ...
EP 189 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Signs of Change & Envisioning Future Humanitarian Aid
19 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Petran...
EP 188 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Embedding Long-Term Thinking & Minister for the Future
12 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Petran...
EP 187 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Dreams and Disruptions & Young Voices
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from the te...
EP 186 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Fashion Futuring & Healing Past Trauma
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Claric...
EP 185 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Expanding Imaginations and Intergenerational Wellbeing
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Mikko ...
EP 184 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Navigating Community Change & AI Enabled Foresight
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Petra ...
EP 183 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Transformative Food & Museum Repatriation
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Estefa...
EP 182 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Democracy Games & PAN
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Randy ...
EP 181 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Interspecies Surrogacy & Utopia
06 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Luna M...
EP 180 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - The Plantiverse & Gen Z Innovations Tour
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We are delighted to start a new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Cecilia Tha...
EP 179 - Eleven Tomorrows : A Futures Film - David Lindsay-Wright
10 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A return conversation with Dr David Lindsay-Wright who is a Futurist, Educator and Filmmaker about his latest venture. A communities view of their pre...
EP 178 - What Government Could Be - Thea Snow
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Thea Snow, Director of the Centre for Public Impact Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Thea works in exploring ways to engage gov...
EP 177 - Foresight & Innovation - Patrick van der Duin
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Patrick van der Duin who is a researcher, consultant and educator in Foresight and Innovation Management about how Foresight drive...
EP 176: Exploring the Future Through Games - Randy Lubin
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Randy Lubin is an award-winning foresight games designer, discussing how he brings these two disciplines together and how other games-curious futures ...
EP 175: None of us are OK until all of us are OK - Adam Drake
14 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Drake is the founder of Balanced Choice, which works with movement, theater, and sharing stories to encourage positive behavioral change. Adam’...
EP 174: Trans Normal Futures - Christopher Jones
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Christopher Jones returns for a chat on all things Post Normal and Trans Normal. Chris is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Post Normal Policy and Fut...
EP 173: The Future of Sex and Intimacy - 2023 APF Masters Group Winners
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Shameless Collective won the award for the Best Masters group work in 2023. They discuss their work on the Future of Sex and Intimacy.
EP 172: The Future of You - Tracey Follows
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tracey Follows is back to put the big questions of identity to FuturePod.Interviewed by: Peter Hayward
EP 171: The Playbook of Careless Non Legal Innovation - Richard Slaughter
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Slaughter is back for a chat to discuss the latest target of his forensic critical thinking skills, the careless innovation of Big IT.
EP 170: FuturePod Conversations - Riel Miller and Maree Conway
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Riel Miller and Maree Conway discuss how we find and promote the crack in thinking so that people can open towards complexity and uncertainty and help...
EP 169: APF Best Masters Student 2023 - Trish Mwenda
14 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Trish Mwenda who was recognized as the best Masters Student work 2023 by the Association of Professional Futurists
EP 168: Futures Brought to Life - Tina Auer and Tim Boykett
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Tina Auer and Tim Boykett from the art collective, Times Up. We discuss what they learned and wrote about in their book called Fut...
EP 167: APF IF Awards - Maggie Greyson, John Sweeney and Lisa Guiliani
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Maggie Greyson, John Sweeney and Lisa Guiliani about the upcoming APF IF Awards.
EP 166: Preparing for Possibility- Kelly Kornet Weber
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Kelly Kornet Weber who is a member of the Strategic Foresight team at Autodesk, based in Canada. We discuss her journey into the f...
EP 165: Breaking Free of Fate - Alex Quicho
08 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Quicho joins Amanda Reeves to discuss the value of arts and poetics in futures work, viewing the world through the lens of tropical futures, and ...
EP 164 : The Wild West of AI Futures - Richard Yonck
27 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A return interview with Richard Yonck where he surveys what he calls the Wild West of AI Futures including digital assistants, job losses, human hybri...
EP 163 : Scaffolding Collective Resilience - Rowena Morrow
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A return interview with Rowena Morrow to hear about her work with Adaptive Cultures and the challenge of assisting organisations evolving their cultur...
EP 162 : Reducing Avoidable Surprises - Norbert Kolos
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An interview with Norbert Kołos is the managing partner and co-founder of 4CF, a strategic foresight consultancy with nearly two decades of experienc...
EP 161 : Together and Unique - Fabienne Goux-Baudiment
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A return interview with the French Futurist, Fabienne Goux-Baudiment which covers our emerging social evolution, Meritory Foresight, the new VUCA, art...
EP 160: Exploring Liminality (WFSF 50th Anniversary Conference) - Helga Veigl & Martin Calnan
21 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our guests today are Helga Veigl and Martin Calnan talk about the upcoming 50th Anniversary conference for the World Futures Studies Federation which ...
EP 159: Decolonial Inclusive Futures - Zan Chandler
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest is Zan Chandler who is an Adjunct Professor at OCAD University in Toronto, Canada and is also Foresight analyst & educator. She is a Boa...
EP 158: Facing Our Futures - Nikolas Badminton
27 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nikolas Badminton FRSA is a global futurist speaker that mentors top executives and the highest levels of government to explore desirable futures, ant...
EP 157: Future Thinking Maverick- Maggie Greyson
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Maggie Greyson MDes is an award-winning professional futurist and the CEO of Futures Present. This boutique agency helps people make decisions in time...
EP 156: Polylogue Futures - Maya Van Leemput
05 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Maya Van Leemput is Senior Researcher for the Research Center Open Time | Applied Futures Research at Erasmus Brussels University of Ap...
EP 155: Herding Yaks - Venkatesh Rao
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How can newly minted futures and foresight folk make their mark and attract the right work? What does it take to assemble an informal group of indepen...
EP 154: Open to Variety - Stefan Bergheim
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Dr. Stefan Bergheim. Stefan strengthens Futures Literacy in politics, business, academia, and civil society with events and proces...
EP 153: Remembering P.R. Sarkar - Building an Exploitation Free Future
08 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Sohail Inayatullah and Dada Shambushivananda remembering Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar (Baba). They discuss who he was, what he mean...
EP 152: Jawn Lim - Leaving No One Behind
26 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Associate Professor Jawn Lim. A design futurist at the Singapore Institute of Technology. He holds an Advance Certificate in Man...
EP 151: Victor Motti - Alternative Planetary Futures
17 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A returning chat with Victor Motti, Director of the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF), and founder of a new Think Tank in Washington DC, the Alt...
EP 150: Colin Russo - Weaving the Future
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Colin Russo is the Managing Director of Engaging Futures and he has extensive experience in running Community consultation in a range of organisations...
EP 149: Andy Hines - After Capitalism
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A reinterview with Andy Hines discussing his upcoming book After Capitalism.
EP 148: Ciela Hartanov - Where Work is Placed
24 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Ciela Hartanov joins us to talk about work - what it means, how we do it, and how we create a more humane futures of work.Dr. Ciela Hartanov was p...
EP 147: Mina McBride - Lifestyle Foresight
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mina works as a futurist for a Fortune 500 corporation in Central Florida, USA. She previously worked at the Center for Health and the Global Environm...
EP 146: Roger Spitz - Disruptive Futures
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A reinterview with Roger Spitz discussing the Disruptive Futures Institute, their new guidebook, existentialism and all points in between.
EP 145: Loes Damhof - Nurturing Futures Capability
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Loes is a an award-winning educator, futures consultant, UNESCO Chair on futures literacy and higher education and futures lab designer.
EP 144: Sabine Winters - Scientific Imagination
17 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sabine Winters is a philosopher working at the intersection of science and art with an interest in the 'how and why' behind theory and process.She is ...
EP 143 : Leah Zaidi - Building Brave New Worlds
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Award-winning futurist Leah Zaidi shares her top three trends that matter and her ideas on how we can build brave new worlds in anxious times.
EP 142 : Claire Marshall - Getting Capitalism Out of Our Brains
18 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Claire Marshall has a love for stories, technology and social good. An award-winning creative her work melds story-telling, futures thinking and exper...
EP 141: FuturePod Conversations: Uzbekistan Futures - John Sweeney and Pete Malvicini
01 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this latest podcast John Sweeney and Pete Malvicini are in conversation discussing a new UNSECO Chair in Anticipatory Governance and Sustainable Po...
EP 140 : Yvette Salvatico - Pulling the Future towards us
24 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Yvette is the Managing Director of Kedge Futures. She comes from a finance and leadership background and discusses how foresight work must be used t...
EP 139 : Changing Minds - Epaminondas Christophilopoulos
27 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Epaminondas is the UNESCO Chair on Futures Research Hellas and the Chief Scientific Advisor to the Special Secretariat for Foresight at the Presidency...
EP 138 : Using Scenarios - Thomas Chermack
15 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas is Founder and Principal of Chermack Scenarios which offers customised scenario planning and consulting. He develops systems to provoke new ins...
EP 137 : Transdisciplinary Synthesis - Richard Eckersley
08 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Eckersley is an independent researcher and writer on progress, sustainability, culture, health and wellbeing. He ranges across many fields of ...
EP 136 : Futures Weaver - Cat Tully
01 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cat Tully is the founder of SOIF, the School of International Futures, celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2022. Before setting up SOIF, Cat worked as...