<p>[vc_row][vc_column][rev_slider slidertitle="Home v4" alias="homev4"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=".vc_custom_1497195458103{padding-top: 120px !important;padding-bottom: 120px !important;}"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_custom_heading text="WE ARE ENGAGING FUTURES" font_container="tag:h6|text_align:left" use_theme_fonts="yes"][vc_custom_heading text="ABOUT US" font_container="tag:h2|font_size:50px|text_align:left" use_theme_fonts="yes"][vc_empty_space height="20px"][vc_column_text]</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Engaging Futures is a local, national and international centre of learning, teaching and researching. We are a consulting firm based in Australia.</p>
<p>We facilitate aspirational visions for people who hope to create a better world. We help people to explore essential and sustainable futures and to discover changes occurring in all systems. Dr. Russo, our Managing Director works with 10 domains constantly in flux and change: Social, economic, legislative, environmental, consumption, transport, futures, governance, polity and technology.</p>
<p>It is the transformational stories of ourselves and others that integrate - sometimes through negotiation and optimisation - to generate our possible and preferred futures. We create the preferred and alternative futures scenarios that offer innovation from which sustainability becomes more possible.</p>
<p>We bring many futures tools and methods to facilitate enquiry into what works and what should remain the same and what could be many generations better.</p>
<p>Our pathway over the past ten years was influenced by great people, institutions and alternative ideas and actions. Engaging Futures has been inspired by working alongside leaders of organisations such as the United Nations, Australian and overseas universities, national, State and local governments, industry, commerce and community organisations.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][info_circle edge_radius="180" start_degree="90" eg_padding="60" icon_size="18" img_icon_size="18" icon_show="not-show" content_bg="#101010" content_color="#ffffff" eg_br_style="solid" eg_br_width="2" eg_border_color="#dddddd" auto_slide="on" auto_slide_duration="5" highlight_style="info-circle-pulse" icon_launch="easeOutBounce" icon_launch_duration="1" icon_launch_delay="0.2" responsive_breakpoint="800"][info_circle_item info_title="Futures Methods and Tools" info_icon="Defaults-home" icon_bg_color="#101010" icon_color="#ffffff"]Qualified in applying futures methods to issues, especially governance and strategic planning.[/info_circle_item][info_circle_item info_title="Delivered with flair" info_icon="Defaults-user" icon_bg_color="#101010" icon_color="#ffffff"]All of our presentations and courses have excited and inspired our audiences[/info_circle_item][info_circle_item info_title="100% Ready" info_icon="Defaults-cogs gears" icon_bg_color="#101010" icon_color="#ffffff"]We are 100% Ready to consult you and to help you transform, from A to Z[/info_circle_item][info_circle_item info_title="Award Winning" info_icon="Defaults-group users" icon_bg_color="#101010" icon_color="#ffffff"]We are award-winning futures journal article authors and government projects award winners.[/info_circle_item][info_circle_item info_title="New Technology" info_icon="Defaults-flask" icon_bg_color="#101010" icon_color="#ffffff"]Fantastic technological innovations can help but can also accelerate change.[/info_circle_item][info_circle_item info_title="New Solutions" info_icon="Defaults-umbrella" icon_bg_color="#101010" icon_color="#ffffff"]How much better could your futures be with better strategies?[/info_circle_item][/info_circle][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=".vc_custom_1481576227367{margin-top: 120px !important;margin-bottom: 60px !important;}"][vc_column][ultimate_heading spacer="line_only" line_height="40" line_width="1" spacer_margin="margin-bottom:40px;"][/ultimate_heading][vc_custom_heading text="Our Vision" font_container="tag:h2|font_size:44px|text_align:center" use_theme_fonts="yes"][vc_custom_heading text="EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY, SUSTAINABILITY, JOBS WE LOVE? YES, HOW DO WE GET THERE? THAT'S WHAT WE DO.</p>
<p>``A city is not something you build to leave standing like the Pyramids, the Pantheon or one of the eleven Palaces of London. A city is something you build every day, with values of tolerance, diversity and inclusion, for people, prosperity and the planet``." font_container="tag:h6|text_align:center" use_theme_fonts="yes"][vc_empty_space height="20px"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=".vc_custom_1481236650908{margin-top: 100px !important;margin-bottom: 100px !important;}"][vc_column width="1/3" css=".vc_custom_1476030875969{padding-right: 20px !important;}"][vc_column_text]</p>
<h4>Connecting People To Aspirations</h4>
<p class="font_7">Engaging Futures presents the information people need to become better futures thinkers, leaders and strategic planners.</p>
<p class="font_7">We offer the futures tools and methods that connect people with their inner purpose, dreams and aspirations and their capacities to adapt and transform to create preferred futures.</p>
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<h4>Conducting Workshops Locally And Globally</h4>
<p class="font_7">Engaging Futures are qualified experts working internationally, nationally, regionally and locally. We host forums and workshops, research and write journal articles, facilitate futures conversations, present Futures Thinking Courses and develop visions, policies and strategies.</p>
<p class="font_7">We hope to inspire you to work with us to create futures that are genuinely engaging, favourable and interesting, through brilliant ideas, breathtaking innovations, exciting knowledge, new case studies and futures methods that you can use for a lifetime.</p>
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<h4>Our Approach</h4>
<p class="font_7">Engaging Futures works with the "Six-pillars" approach to futures studies, creating alternative and preferred futures. Methods include the futures triangle, CLA and emerging issues and trends analysis. Engaging Futures is a boutique consultancy and also uses experimental methods including the Unicity Method, The Futures Ball and games e.g. using the context of space to imagine civilisational challenges and alternative futures thinking.</p>
<p class="font_7">We aim to benefit current and future generations in the creation of sustainable, essential and preferred futures.</p>
<p>[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=".vc_custom_1481576227367{margin-top: 120px !important;margin-bottom: 60px !important;}"][vc_column][ultimate_heading spacer="line_only" line_height="40" line_width="1" spacer_margin="margin-bottom:40px;"][/ultimate_heading][vc_custom_heading text="Our Services" font_container="tag:h2|font_size:44px|text_align:center" use_theme_fonts="yes"][vc_custom_heading text="WE CREATE PREFERRED FUTURES" font_container="tag:h6|text_align:center" use_theme_fonts="yes"][vc_column_text]Photo above: Keynote and workshop by Dr. Colin Russo, Brisbane Primary Health</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Every thing we do to facilitate futures thinking has a written component - so we really know what we are doing! When we consult our clients about their hopes for the future, present a key note, workshop futures of particular topics like smart city futures and health futures, or when we present our three-day Futures Thinking Course, we renew as authors of possible futures. See our regular services below.</p>
<p>[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image="208" img_size="full" alignment="center"][vc_empty_space height="60px"][ultimate_carousel slides_on_desk="3"][/ultimate_carousel][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=".vc_custom_1482265871241{padding-top: 120px !important;padding-bottom: 100px !important;}"][vc_column css_animation="slideInUp" width="1/4" css=".vc_custom_1497199728369{padding-right: 25px !important;padding-left: 25px !important;}"][bsf-info-box icon="Defaults-user" icon_size="30" title="Leadership Consulting And Research" read_more="box" pos="top" title_font="font_family:Open Sans|font_call:Open+Sans|variant:700" title_font_style="font-weight:700;" title_font_size="desktop:13px;" title_font_color="#3f3f3f"]There's no better feeling than connecting with your client's vision and using our extensive futures thinking experience to help them to shape their agenda and program. After our initial consultations conclude, we mentor individual leaders to help them accelerate and remain in advance of emerging issues.[/bsf-info-box][ultimate_spacer height="0" height_on_mob_landscape="40" height_on_mob="40"][/vc_column][vc_column css_animation="slideInUp" width="1/4" css=".vc_custom_1497199733334{padding-right: 25px !important;padding-left: 25px !important;}"][bsf-info-box icon="linearicons-gift" icon_size="30" title="Futures Presentations And Articles" read_more="box" pos="top" title_font="font_family:Open Sans|font_call:Open+Sans|variant:700" title_font_style="font-weight:700;" title_font_size="desktop:13px;" title_font_color="#3f3f3f"]It's a gift! Presenting you with our thoughts - we should be paying you :) Honestly, we love to learn about the topics that can help our clients to transform their organisations and lives. What an honour! We hope and believe we do that well. Engaging Futures has presented to more than 40 organisations in the past few years - we must be doing something well - it's because we enjoy what we do.[/bsf-info-box][ultimate_spacer height="0" height_on_mob_landscape="40" height_on_mob="40"][/vc_column][vc_column css_animation="slideInUp" width="1/4" css=".vc_custom_1497199737375{padding-right: 25px !important;padding-left: 25px !important;}"][bsf-info-box icon="Defaults-spinner" icon_size="30" title="Transformational Workshops And Reports" read_more="box" pos="top" title_font="font_family:Open Sans|font_call:Open+Sans|variant:700" title_font_style="font-weight:700;" title_font_size="desktop:13px;" title_font_color="#3f3f3f"]Aside from smaller keynote presentations for conferences, we convene half-day workshops right through to three-day workshops, all focused on our client's vision. So, our client gains our full focus of attention, customised suggestions and we work with their team and help prepare their reports, for an additional fee, of course ;) Every little extra helps Engaging Futures to service you, our clients. We put days of preparation into our workshops, so, we give a little more during our client briefing session. Then, when we arrive in your seminar or meeting room, participants, executives and Engaging Futures are all smiles.[/bsf-info-box][/vc_column][vc_column css_animation="slideInUp" width="1/4"][bsf-info-box icon="Defaults-group users" icon_size="30" title="Futures Thinking Courses And Strategies" read_more="box" pos="top" title_font="font_family:Open Sans|font_call:Open+Sans|variant:700" title_font_style="font-weight:700;" title_font_size="desktop:13px;" title_font_color="#3f3f3f"]Futures Thinking Courses bring diverse groups together to cross-fertilise a host of emerging issues - it's a great way to find out what issues other organisations are addressing and how they think the future might change for your sector. Everyone becomes more informed during Courses - even our presenters! We network you and help build an alumni of contacts for those wishing to remain a step ahead between Courses.[/bsf-info-box][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="stretch_row_content_no_spaces" bg_type="bg_color" bg_override="ex-full" css=".vc_custom_1480356215449{padding-top: 100px !important;}" bg_color_value="#f7f7f7"][vc_column width="1/2" el_class="wide-box-mobile"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/4"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner el_class="home-box1-mobile" width="3/4"][vc_custom_heading text="OUR STRUCTURE" font_container="tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:left" use_theme_fonts="yes"][vc_empty_space height="10px"][vc_column_text]</p>
<h5 class="font_5">About Dr. Colin Russo</h5>
<p class="font_7">As Managing Director of Engaging Futures, Dr. Russo brings three decades of experience engaging stakeholders and clients of national, state and local governments.</p>
<p class="font_7">An award-winning futurist author, Dr. Russo writes using futures studies methods about topics including futures of cities, health, disabilities, security, technology and climate change.</p>
<p class="font_7">Dr. Russo has facilitated futures workshops for international, national, State, regional and local government, corporate and community sector organisations.</p>
<h5 class="font_5">The Futures Board</h5>
<p class="font_5">The ​Engaging Futures Board is where internal decisions are made about annual practices. <span class="wixGuard">​</span>​</p>
<h5 class="font_5">Mentors And Friends Of Engaging Futures</h5>
<p class="font_5">Mentors and friends of Engaging Futures include the brilliant UNESCO Chair of Futures Studies, Professor Sohail Inayatullah, and the effervescent Professor Ivana Melojevic. We are also proud to discuss our preferred futures with Dr. Marcus Bussey from USC.</p>
<h5 class="font_5">Our Client Network</h5>
<p class="font_5">Our many professional clients, Course participant alumni, journal editors, and professional body executives all help to facilitate our desired futures. Thank you! and we look forward to meeting more of you!</p>
<p class="font_5">There is also a wider international group of professional Futurist affiliates whom Engaging Futures frequently interacts and shares resources with.</p>
<h5>Quotes about structure by UNESCO Chair of Futures Studies, Professor Sohail Inayatullah</h5>
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<h6 style="text-align: left;">- "Complexity theory suggests that the future is patterned and chaotic; that is, it can be known and yet unknown, or explained but not accurately predicted. This 'both-and' perspective is especially useful in reconciling classical dichotimies such as agency (individuals can influence the future) and structure (structures define individuals and limit what is possible)".</h6>
<h6 style="text-align: left;">- "While globalisation has not suddenly developed a soft heart, the agenda now includes how we know the world and how these knowings are complicit in the disasters around us. This has led to calls to move from strategy as the defining metaphor of the world system [strategy as global structure] to health, or inner and outer balance".</h6>
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