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(477, 1, '2020-11-16 17:02:41', '2020-11-16 07:02:41', '[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]\r\n<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>\r\nWe 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.\r\n\r\nIt 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.\r\n\r\nWe 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.\r\n\r\nOur 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.\r\n\r\n``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]\r\n<h4>Connecting People To Aspirations</h4>\r\n<p class=\"font_7\">Engaging Futures presents the information people need to become better futures thinkers, leaders and strategic planners.</p>\r\n<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>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/3\" css=\".vc_custom_1476030881601{padding-left: 20px !important;}\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h4>Conducting Workshops Locally And Globally</h4>\r\n<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>\r\n<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>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/3\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h4>Our Approach</h4>\r\n<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>\r\n<p class=\"font_7\">We aim to benefit current and future generations in the creation of sustainable, essential and preferred futures.</p>\r\n[/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]\r\n<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>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=\"208\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\"][vc_column_text]Photo above: Keynote and workshop by Dr. Colin Russo, Brisbane Primary Health.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=\".vc_custom_1481576227367{margin-top: 120px !important;margin-bottom: 60px !important;}\"][vc_column][/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]\r\n<h5 class=\"font_5\">About Dr. Colin Russo</h5>\r\n<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>\r\n<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>\r\n<p class=\"font_7\">Dr. Russo has facilitated futures workshops for international, national, State, regional and local government, corporate and community sector organisations.</p>\r\n\r\n<h5 class=\"font_5\">The Futures Board</h5>\r\n<p class=\"font_5\">The ​Engaging Futures Board is where internal decisions are made about annual practices. <span class=\"wixGuard\">​</span>​</p>\r\n\r\n<h5 class=\"font_5\">Mentors And Friends Of Engaging Futures</h5>\r\n<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>\r\n\r\n<h5 class=\"font_5\">Our Client Network</h5>\r\n<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>\r\n<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>\r\n\r\n<h5>Quotes about structure by UNESCO Chair of Futures Studies, Professor Sohail Inayatullah</h5>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<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>\r\n<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>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;</blockquote>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\"30px\"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/2\" el_class=\"wide-box-mobile\"][vc_single_image image=\"61\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"right\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row seperator_enable=\"seperator_enable_value\" seperator_type=\"triangle_svg_seperator\" seperator_position=\"bottom_seperator\" seperator_svg_height=\"60\" seperator_shape_background=\"#ffffff\" css=\".vc_custom_1481752768718{margin-bottom: 100px !important;padding-top: 120px !important;}\"][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=\"60px\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row bg_type=\"bg_color\" bg_override=\"ex-full\" css=\".vc_custom_1481576396754{padding-top: 80px !important;padding-bottom: 60px !important;}\" bg_color_value=\"#101010\"][vc_column width=\"1/4\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/2\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Our hope is that the pathway to the future will be brilliantly lit for the next generation, with the fullness of today\'s knowledge and wisdom.\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:15px|text_align:center|color:%23cecece|line_height:25px\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_empty_space height=\"10px\"][vc_btn title=\"CONTACT US\" style=\"outline-custom\" outline_custom_color=\"#ffffff\" outline_custom_hover_background=\"#ffffff\" outline_custom_hover_text=\"#101010\" shape=\"square\" size=\"xs\" align=\"center\" link=\"url:http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%3A8888%2Fwordpress%2Fcontact-us%2F|title:Contact%20Us\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\"][/vc_column][/vc_row]', 'Engaging Futures Home', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '18-revision-v1', '', '', '2020-11-16 17:02:41', '2020-11-16 07:02:41', '', 18, 'http://localhost:8888/wordpress/2020/11/16/18-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(478, 1, '2020-11-16 17:06:55', '2020-11-16 07:06:55', '<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>\n<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>\n<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>\n<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>\n<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>\n<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>\n<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>\n<h4>Connecting People To Aspirations</h4>\n<p class=\"font_7\">Engaging Futures presents the information people need to become better futures thinkers, leaders and strategic planners.</p>\n<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>\n<p>[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/3\" css=\".vc_custom_1476030881601{padding-left: 20px !important;}\"][vc_column_text]</p>\n<h4>Conducting Workshops Locally And Globally</h4>\n<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>\n<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>\n<p>[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/3\"][vc_column_text]</p>\n<h4>Our Approach</h4>\n<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>\n<p class=\"font_7\">We aim to benefit current and future generations in the creation of sustainable, essential and preferred futures.</p>\n<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]</p>\n<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>\n<p>[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=\"208\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\"][vc_column_text]Photo above: Keynote and workshop by Dr. Colin Russo, Brisbane Primary Health.[/vc_column_text][ult_range_slider title_typography=\"\" slider_data=\"%5B%7B%22slider_title%22%3A%22test%22%2C%22slider_desc%22%3A%22test%22%7D%2C%7B%22slider_title%22%3A%22test%22%2C%22slider_desc%22%3A%22test%22%7D%5D\" slider_color=\"#3bf7d1\" title_box_color=\"#ffffff\" desc_color=\"#444444\" title_padding=\"padding-top:15px;padding-right:15px;padding-bottom:15px;padding-left:15px;\" desc_padding=\"padding-top:35px;padding-right:35px;padding-bottom:35px;padding-left:35px;\" title_font_size=\"desktop:16px;\" desc_font_size=\"desktop:16px;\"][/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. 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(479, 1, '2020-11-16 18:29:13', '2020-11-16 08:29:13', '[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]\r\n<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>\r\nWe 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.\r\n\r\nIt 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.\r\n\r\nWe 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.\r\n\r\nOur pathway over the past ten years was influenced by great people, institutions and alternative ideas and actions. 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We host forums and workshops, research and write journal articles, facilitate futures conversations, present Futures Thinking Courses and develop visions, policies and strategies.</p>\r\n<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>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/3\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h4>Our Approach</h4>\r\n<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>\r\n<p class=\"font_7\">We aim to benefit current and future generations in the creation of sustainable, essential and preferred futures.</p>\r\n[/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]\r\n<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>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Photo above: Keynote and workshop by Dr. Colin Russo, Brisbane Primary Health.[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\"][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. 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(481, 1, '2020-11-16 18:52:05', '2020-11-16 08:52:05', '<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>\n<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>\n<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>\n<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>\n<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>\n<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>\n<p>``A city is not something you build to leave standing like the Pyramids, the Pantheon or one of the eleven Palaces of London. 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We host forums and workshops, research and write journal articles, facilitate futures conversations, present Futures Thinking Courses and develop visions, policies and strategies.</p>\n<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>\n<p>[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/3\"][vc_column_text]</p>\n<h4>Our Approach</h4>\n<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>\n<p class=\"font_7\">We aim to benefit current and future generations in the creation of sustainable, essential and preferred futures.</p>\n<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]</p>\n<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>\n<p>[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\"][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][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\"][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][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\"][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_inner][vc_column_inner 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_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_media_grid grid_id=\"vc_gid:1605515462042-ca8fedee-d2eb-2\" include=\"480,208,216,210,207,206,289,201,212\"][/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>\n<h5 class=\"font_5\">About Dr. Colin Russo</h5>\n<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>\n<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>\n<p class=\"font_7\">Dr. Russo has facilitated futures workshops for international, national, State, regional and local government, corporate and community sector organisations.</p>\n<h5 class=\"font_5\">The Futures Board</h5>\n<p class=\"font_5\">The ​Engaging Futures Board is where internal decisions are made about annual practices. <span class=\"wixGuard\">​</span>​</p>\n<h5 class=\"font_5\">Mentors And Friends Of Engaging Futures</h5>\n<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>\n<h5 class=\"font_5\">Our Client Network</h5>\n<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>\n<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>\n<h5>Quotes about structure by UNESCO Chair of Futures Studies, Professor Sohail Inayatullah</h5>\n<blockquote>\n<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>\n<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. 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(482, 1, '2020-11-16 18:54:26', '2020-11-16 08:54:26', '[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]\r\n<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>\r\nWe 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.\r\n\r\nIt 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.\r\n\r\nWe 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.\r\n\r\nOur 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.\r\n\r\n``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]\r\n<h4>Connecting People To Aspirations</h4>\r\n<p class=\"font_7\">Engaging Futures presents the information people need to become better futures thinkers, leaders and strategic planners.</p>\r\n<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>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/3\" css=\".vc_custom_1476030881601{padding-left: 20px !important;}\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h4>Conducting Workshops Locally And Globally</h4>\r\n<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>\r\n<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>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/3\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h4>Our Approach</h4>\r\n<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. 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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>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\"][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][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\"][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. 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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_inner][vc_column_inner 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! 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(483, 1, '2020-11-16 18:57:33', '2020-11-16 08:57:33', '<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>\n<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>\n<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>\n<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>\n<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>\n<p>Our pathway over the past ten years was influenced by great people, institutions and alternative ideas and actions. 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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>\n<h4>Connecting People To Aspirations</h4>\n<p class=\"font_7\">Engaging Futures presents the information people need to become better futures thinkers, leaders and strategic planners.</p>\n<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>\n<p>[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/3\" css=\".vc_custom_1476030881601{padding-left: 20px !important;}\"][vc_column_text]</p>\n<h4>Conducting Workshops Locally And Globally</h4>\n<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>\n<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>\n<p>[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/3\"][vc_column_text]</p>\n<h4>Our Approach</h4>\n<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>\n<p class=\"font_7\">We aim to benefit current and future generations in the creation of sustainable, essential and preferred futures.</p>\n<p>[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=\".vc_custom_1481576227367{margin-top: 120px !important;margin-bottom: 60px !important;}\"][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=\"60px\"][vc_media_grid grid_id=\"vc_gid:1605516976113-1674269ae75730fb05804ef4b6adfc79-7\" include=\"480,208,216\"][vc_empty_space height=\"60px\"][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]</p>\n<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>\n<p>[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\"][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][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\"][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][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\"][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_inner][vc_column_inner 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_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=\"60px\"][vc_media_grid grid_id=\"vc_gid:1605516976700-870945b3f213f5083c8c1942fdff8d47-2\" include=\"210,207,206\"][/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>\n<h5 class=\"font_5\">About Dr. Colin Russo</h5>\n<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>\n<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>\n<p class=\"font_7\">Dr. Russo has facilitated futures workshops for international, national, State, regional and local government, corporate and community sector organisations.</p>\n<h5 class=\"font_5\">The Futures Board</h5>\n<p class=\"font_5\">The ​Engaging Futures Board is where internal decisions are made about annual practices. <span class=\"wixGuard\">​</span>​</p>\n<h5 class=\"font_5\">Mentors And Friends Of Engaging Futures</h5>\n<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>\n<h5 class=\"font_5\">Our Client Network</h5>\n<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>\n<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>\n<h5>Quotes about structure by UNESCO Chair of Futures Studies, Professor Sohail Inayatullah</h5>\n<blockquote>\n<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. 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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.\r\n\r\nIt 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.\r\n\r\nWe 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.\r\n\r\nOur pathway over the past ten years was influenced by great people, institutions and alternative ideas and actions. 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YES, HOW DO WE GET THERE? THAT\'S WHAT WE DO.\r\n\r\n``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]\r\n<h4>Connecting People To Aspirations</h4>\r\n<p class=\"font_7\">Engaging Futures presents the information people need to become better futures thinkers, leaders and strategic planners.</p>\r\n<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>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/3\" css=\".vc_custom_1476030881601{padding-left: 20px !important;}\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h4>Conducting Workshops Locally And Globally</h4>\r\n<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>\r\n<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>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/3\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h4>Our Approach</h4>\r\n<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>\r\n<p class=\"font_7\">We aim to benefit current and future generations in the creation of sustainable, essential and preferred futures.</p>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=\".vc_custom_1481576227367{margin-top: 120px !important;margin-bottom: 60px !important;}\"][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=\"60px\"][vc_media_grid grid_id=\"vc_gid:1605517365852-391240ba-19c4-3\" include=\"210,207,206\"][vc_empty_space height=\"60px\"][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]\r\n<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>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\"][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][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\"][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][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\"][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_inner][vc_column_inner 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_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=\"60px\"][vc_media_grid grid_id=\"vc_gid:1605517406106-842d4bc5-b4a9-4\" include=\"282,275,213\"][/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]\r\n<h5 class=\"font_5\">About Dr. Colin Russo</h5>\r\n<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>\r\n<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>\r\n<p class=\"font_7\">Dr. Russo has facilitated futures workshops for international, national, State, regional and local government, corporate and community sector organisations.</p>\r\n\r\n<h5 class=\"font_5\">The Futures Board</h5>\r\n<p class=\"font_5\">The ​Engaging Futures Board is where internal decisions are made about annual practices. <span class=\"wixGuard\">​</span>​</p>\r\n\r\n<h5 class=\"font_5\">Mentors And Friends Of Engaging Futures</h5>\r\n<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>\r\n\r\n<h5 class=\"font_5\">Our Client Network</h5>\r\n<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>\r\n<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>\r\n\r\n<h5>Quotes about structure by UNESCO Chair of Futures Studies, Professor Sohail Inayatullah</h5>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<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>\r\n<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>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;</blockquote>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\"30px\"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/2\" el_class=\"wide-box-mobile\"][vc_single_image image=\"61\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"right\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row seperator_enable=\"seperator_enable_value\" seperator_type=\"triangle_svg_seperator\" seperator_position=\"bottom_seperator\" seperator_svg_height=\"60\" seperator_shape_background=\"#ffffff\" css=\".vc_custom_1481752768718{margin-bottom: 100px !important;padding-top: 120px !important;}\"][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=\"60px\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row bg_type=\"bg_color\" bg_override=\"ex-full\" css=\".vc_custom_1481576396754{padding-top: 80px !important;padding-bottom: 60px !important;}\" bg_color_value=\"#101010\"][vc_column width=\"1/4\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/2\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Our hope is that the pathway to the future will be brilliantly lit for the next generation, with the fullness of today\'s knowledge and wisdom.\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:15px|text_align:center|color:%23cecece|line_height:25px\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_empty_space height=\"10px\"][vc_btn title=\"CONTACT US\" style=\"outline-custom\" outline_custom_color=\"#ffffff\" outline_custom_hover_background=\"#ffffff\" outline_custom_hover_text=\"#101010\" shape=\"square\" size=\"xs\" align=\"center\" link=\"url:http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%3A8888%2Fwordpress%2Fcontact-us%2F|title:Contact%20Us\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\"][/vc_column][/vc_row]', 'Engaging Futures Home', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '18-revision-v1', '', '', '2020-11-16 19:06:19', '2020-11-16 09:06:19', '', 18, 'http://localhost:8888/wordpress/2020/11/16/18-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(485, 1, '2020-11-16 19:11:52', '2020-11-16 09:11:52', '[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]\r\n<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>\r\nWe 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.\r\n\r\nIt 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.\r\n\r\nWe 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.\r\n\r\nOur 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.\r\n\r\n``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]\r\n<h4>Connecting People To Aspirations</h4>\r\n<p class=\"font_7\">Engaging Futures presents the information people need to become better futures thinkers, leaders and strategic planners.</p>\r\n<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>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/3\" css=\".vc_custom_1476030881601{padding-left: 20px !important;}\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h4>Conducting Workshops Locally And Globally</h4>\r\n<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>\r\n<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>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/3\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h4>Our Approach</h4>\r\n<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>\r\n<p class=\"font_7\">We aim to benefit current and future generations in the creation of sustainable, essential and preferred futures.</p>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=\".vc_custom_1481576227367{margin-top: 120px !important;margin-bottom: 60px !important;}\"][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=\"60px\"][vc_media_grid grid_id=\"vc_gid:1605517693558-1040590b-06d6-10\" include=\"480,208,216\"][vc_empty_space height=\"60px\"][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]\r\n<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>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\"][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][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\"][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][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\"][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_inner][vc_column_inner 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! 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(486, 1, '2020-11-16 19:15:26', '2020-11-16 09:15:26', '[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]\r\n<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>\r\nWe 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.\r\n\r\nIt 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.\r\n\r\nWe 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.\r\n\r\nOur pathway over the past ten years was influenced by great people, institutions and alternative ideas and actions. 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YES, HOW DO WE GET THERE? THAT\'S WHAT WE DO.\r\n\r\n``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]\r\n<h4>Connecting People To Aspirations</h4>\r\n<p class=\"font_7\">Engaging Futures presents the information people need to become better futures thinkers, leaders and strategic planners.</p>\r\n<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>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/3\" css=\".vc_custom_1476030881601{padding-left: 20px !important;}\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h4>Conducting Workshops Locally And Globally</h4>\r\n<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>\r\n<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>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/3\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h4>Our Approach</h4>\r\n<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>\r\n<p class=\"font_7\">We aim to benefit current and future generations in the creation of sustainable, essential and preferred futures.</p>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=\".vc_custom_1481576227367{margin-top: 120px !important;margin-bottom: 60px !important;}\"][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=\"60px\"][vc_media_grid grid_id=\"vc_gid:1605517916389-31119c52-f530-6\" include=\"480,208,216\"][vc_empty_space height=\"60px\"][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]\r\n<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>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\r\n<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. 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After our initial consultations conclude, we mentor individual leaders to help them accelerate and remain in advance of emerging issues.[/bsf-info-box][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\"][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][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\"][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_inner][vc_column_inner 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! 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We are also proud to discuss our preferred futures with Dr. Marcus Bussey from USC.</p>\r\n\r\n<h5 class=\"font_5\">Our Client Network</h5>\r\n<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>\r\n<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>\r\n\r\n<h5>Quotes about structure by UNESCO Chair of Futures Studies, Professor Sohail Inayatullah</h5>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<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. 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(487, 1, '2020-11-16 19:27:07', '2020-11-16 09:27:07', '<p>[vc_row][vc_column][rev_slider slidertitle=\"Exploration Header\" alias=\"exploration-header\"][vc_empty_space height=\"120px\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"FUTURES THINKING AND STRATEGY TRANSFORMATION BEYOND 2030\" font_container=\"tag:h2|text_align:center\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Learn tools and methods to explore, create and manage alternative futures.<br />\nThis Course will be presented February 2021, live at the Gold Coast, Australia and at half price for online for international registrants. All workshops include live and online plenary breakout sessions.\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:22px|text_align:center|color:%239c9c9c\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=\"80px\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Course Presenters - wow, these guys are good!\" font_container=\"tag:h2|text_align:center\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_empty_space height=\"60px\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=\"stretch_row_content\" equal_height=\"yes\" bg_type=\"image\" parallax_style=\"vcpb-default\" bg_image_repeat=\"no-repeat\" bg_img_attach=\"fixed\" bg_override=\"full\" parallax_content=\"parallax_content_value\" seperator_enable=\"seperator_enable_value\" animation_type=\"h\" horizontal_animation=\"left-animation\" vertical_animation=\"top-animation\" disable_on_mobile=\"disable_on_mobile_value\" el_class=\"team-boxes-style\"][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605196884492{padding-top: 110px !important;padding-bottom: 110px !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}\" offset=\"vc_hidden-xs\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605228554238{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-right: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;padding-left: 40px !important;background-color: #a8a8a8 !important;}\"][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][vc_column_text el_class=\"make-p-small\"]</p>\n<h3></h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Professor Sohail Inayatullah</span></h3>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">UNESCO CHAIR OF FUTURES STUDIES</span></h6>\n<p>[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][vc_column_text el_class=\"make-p-small\"]<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Professor Sohail Inayatullah is a world-leading futurist and political scientist.</p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Professor Inayatullah is the inaugural UNESCO Chair of Futures Studies; winner of the Laurel Award 2010 for all-time best futurist; professor at the Graduate Institute of Futures Studies, Tamkang University, Taiwan; adjunct professor in the Faculty of Arts and Business, the University of the Sunshine Coast; and associate with Melbourne Business School - Mt Eliza Executive Education, University of Melbourne.</p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Professor Inayatullah has authored and edited 32 books and over 300 journal articles, book chapters, and reviews.</p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Professor Inayatullah has worked with organisations and governments locally and globally on internal transformation to create their own alternative and desired futures.</span>[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605253185562{padding-top: 110px !important;padding-bottom: 110px !important;background-image: url(http://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-13-at-01.31.57.png?id=241) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}\" offset=\"vc_hidden-xs\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605197129381{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-right: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;padding-left: 40px !important;}\"][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=\"80px\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=\"stretch_row_content\" equal_height=\"yes\" bg_type=\"image\" parallax_style=\"vcpb-default\" bg_image_repeat=\"no-repeat\" bg_img_attach=\"fixed\" bg_override=\"full\" parallax_content=\"parallax_content_value\" seperator_enable=\"seperator_enable_value\" animation_type=\"h\" horizontal_animation=\"left-animation\" vertical_animation=\"top-animation\" disable_on_mobile=\"disable_on_mobile_value\" el_class=\"team-boxes-style\"][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605197068247{padding-top: 110px !important;padding-bottom: 110px !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}\" offset=\"vc_hidden-xs\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605253200870{padding-top: 110px !important;padding-bottom: 110px !important;background-image: url(http://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-13-at-01.31.46.png?id=242) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605228566620{padding-top: 110px !important;padding-bottom: 110px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}\" offset=\"vc_hidden-xs\"][vc_column_text el_class=\"make-p-small\"]</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Dr. Colin Russo</span></h3>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">MANAGING DIRECTOR, ENGAGING FUTURES</span></h6>\n<p>[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][vc_column_text el_class=\"make-p-small\"]<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Dr. Colin has three decades of experience engaging stakeholders and clients of national, state and local governments. An award-winning futurist author, Colin writes using futures studies methods about topics including futures of cities, health, disabilities, security, technology and climate-change. Colin has facilitated futures workshops for City of Gold Coast\'s Our Bold Future 2037, and presented Futures Thinking Courses with Professor Inayatullah in 2017, 2018 and 2019. Dr. Russo also presented Futures Courses for the AFP, Brisbane Primary Health, National Disability Services (across Queensland), Uniting Care Queensland, Redland City Council, Bulloo Shire Council and the Queensland Government 2019 Leadership Series. He presented on water futures in Melbourne and futures of cities in Taiwan and USA.</span>[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605197029939{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-right: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;padding-left: 40px !important;}\"][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=\"120px\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Aims Of The Course\" font_container=\"tag:h2|text_align:center\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/6\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"2/3\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"The Course is intended to enhance your capacity to create alternative and preferred futures. Presenters will use case studies from foresight projects in government, corporate, and community sectors. 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width=\"1/3\"][ult_animation_block animation=\"fadeInUp\" animation_duration=\"0.5\" animation_delay=\"0.5\" animation_iteration_count=\"1\" opacity_start_effect=\"80\"][bsf-info-box icon=\"Defaults-book\" icon_size=\"32\" icon_color=\"#ffffff\" icon_style=\"circle\" icon_color_bg=\"#333333\" title=\"Deepen the future through the use of narratives.\" pos=\"square_box\" box_border_style=\"solid\" box_border_width=\"1\" box_border_color=\"#ededed\" box_bg_color=\"#ffffff\" title_font=\"font_family:Lato|font_call:Lato|variant:700\" title_font_style=\"font-weight:700;\" title_font_size=\"desktop:19px;\" desc_font_size=\"desktop:16px;\" desc_font_line_height=\"desktop:24px;\"][/bsf-info-box][/ult_animation_block][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/3\"][ult_animation_block animation=\"fadeInUp\" animation_duration=\"0.5\" animation_delay=\"0.7\" animation_iteration_count=\"1\" opacity_start_effect=\"80\"][bsf-info-box icon=\"Defaults-image photo picture-o\" icon_size=\"32\" icon_color=\"#ffffff\" icon_style=\"circle\" icon_color_bg=\"#333333\" title=\"Create scenarios to optimize goals, prepare for contingency, and imagine other worlds\" pos=\"square_box\" box_border_style=\"solid\" box_border_width=\"1\" box_border_color=\"#ededed\" box_bg_color=\"#ffffff\" title_font=\"font_family:Lato|font_call:Lato|variant:700\" title_font_style=\"font-weight:700;\" title_font_size=\"desktop:19px;\" desc_font_size=\"desktop:16px;\" desc_font_line_height=\"desktop:24px;\"][/bsf-info-box][/ult_animation_block][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/3\"][ult_animation_block animation=\"fadeInUp\" animation_duration=\"0.5\" animation_delay=\"0.9\" animation_iteration_count=\"1\" opacity_start_effect=\"80\"][bsf-info-box icon=\"Defaults-user-plus\" icon_size=\"32\" icon_color=\"#ffffff\" icon_style=\"circle\" icon_color_bg=\"#333333\" title=\"Transform self, the organisation, and strategy through visioning and backcasting.\" pos=\"square_box\" box_border_style=\"solid\" box_border_width=\"1\" box_border_color=\"#ededed\" box_bg_color=\"#ffffff\" title_font=\"font_family:Lato|font_call:Lato|variant:700\" title_font_style=\"font-weight:700;\" title_font_size=\"desktop:19px;\" desc_font_size=\"desktop:16px;\" desc_font_line_height=\"desktop:24px;\"][/bsf-info-box][/ult_animation_block][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row bg_type=\"image\" parallax_style=\"vcpb-default\" bg_image_new=\"id^9434|url^http://treekode.com/maple/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/negativespace-23.jpg|caption^null|alt^null|title^negativespace-23|description^null\" bg_override=\"ex-full\"][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=\"Critical Questions\" font_container=\"tag:h2|text_align:center\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/6\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"2/3\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Specifically, the Course will explore critical questions, such as:\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:22px|text_align:center|color:%239c9c9c\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/6\"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][ultimate_spacer height=\"120\" height_on_mob_landscape=\"40\" height_on_mob=\"40\"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\"][icon_counter border_size=\"1\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" icon=\"Defaults-user\" icon_size=\"38\" icon_color=\"#101010\" text_color=\"\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\" block_title_front=\"What are the implications of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) - globally and locally?\" block_title_back=\"Is Corona 4.0 likely?\" cont_align=\"on\" ult_param_heading=\"\" title_font=\"font_family:Montserrat|font_call:Montserrat|variant:700\" title_font_style=\"font-weight:700;\" desc_font=\"font_family:Open Sans|font_call:Open+Sans\" desc_font_style=\"font-weight:500;\" title_font_size=\"desktop:13px;\" desc_font_size=\"desktop:14px;\" 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text_color=\"\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\" block_title_front=\"What are the futures of education?\" block_title_back=\"Are short courses best as change accelerates?\" cont_align=\"on\" ult_param_heading=\"\" title_font=\"font_family:Montserrat|font_call:Montserrat|variant:700\" title_font_style=\"font-weight:700;\" desc_font=\"font_family:Open Sans|font_call:Open+Sans\" desc_font_style=\"font-weight:500;\" title_font_size=\"desktop:13px;\" desc_font_size=\"desktop:14px;\" desc_font_line_height=\"desktop:20px;\" title_font_line_height=\"desktop:12px;\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\"][icon_counter border_size=\"1\" border_color=\"rgba(255,255,255,0.5)\" icon=\"Defaults-group users\" icon_size=\"38\" icon_color=\"#101010\" text_color=\"\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\" block_title_front=\"Conflict resolution futures - what to do when there are contrasting visions of the future in an organization?\" block_title_back=\"How do we change our selves to better align with the future we 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title_font_size=\"desktop:13px;\" desc_font_size=\"desktop:14px;\" desc_font_line_height=\"desktop:20px;\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\"][icon_counter border_size=\"1\" border_color=\"rgba(255,255,255,0.5)\" icon=\"Defaults-bank institution university\" icon_size=\"38\" icon_color=\"#101010\" icon_style=\"circle\" text_color=\"\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\" block_title_front=\"What future for smart cities?\" block_title_back=\"Will smart cities find technology solutions for people, or for organisations?\" cont_align=\"on\" ult_param_heading=\"\" title_font=\"font_family:Montserrat|font_call:Montserrat|variant:700\" title_font_style=\"font-weight:700;\" desc_font=\"font_family:Open Sans|font_call:Open+Sans\" desc_font_style=\"font-weight:500;\" title_font_size=\"desktop:133px;\" desc_font_size=\"desktop:14px;\" desc_font_line_height=\"desktop:20px;\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\"][icon_counter border_size=\"1\" border_color=\"rgba(255,255,255,0.5)\" icon=\"Defaults-subway\" icon_size=\"38\" icon_color=\"#101010\" text_color=\"\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\" block_title_front=\"How different will public and private transport be, by 2030?\" block_title_back=\"Will electric vehicles be subsidised and required by law by 2050?\" cont_align=\"on\" ult_param_heading=\"\" title_font=\"font_family:Montserrat|font_call:Montserrat|variant:700\" title_font_style=\"font-weight:700;\" desc_font=\"font_family:Open Sans|font_call:Open+Sans\" desc_font_style=\"font-weight:500;\" title_font_size=\"desktop:13px;\" desc_font_size=\"desktop:14px;\" desc_font_line_height=\"desktop:20px;\" title_font_line_height=\"desktop:12px;\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\"][icon_counter border_size=\"1\" border_color=\"rgba(255,255,255,0.5)\" icon=\"Defaults-bolt flash\" icon_size=\"38\" icon_color=\"#101010\" text_color=\"\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\" block_title_front=\"Will fossil fuels be phased out by 2030?\" block_title_back=\"How soon will a renewables pathway be a viable alternative?\" cont_align=\"on\" ult_param_heading=\"\" title_font=\"font_family:Montserrat|font_call:Montserrat|variant:700\" title_font_style=\"font-weight:700;\" desc_font=\"font_family:Open Sans|font_call:Open+Sans\" desc_font_style=\"font-weight:500;\" title_font_size=\"desktop:13px;\" desc_font_size=\"desktop:14px;\" desc_font_line_height=\"desktop:20px;\"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=\"1/6\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"2/3\"][vc_empty_space height=\"80px\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"FAQs\" font_container=\"tag:h2|text_align:center\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_empty_space height=\"40px\"][vc_tta_accordion active_section=\"1\"][vc_tta_section title=\"Course resources\" tab_id=\"1462039446254-a71612d9-2b19\"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]Reading material will be provided prior to the Course. Participants will receive 4-5 articles written by Professor Sohail Inayatullah, and Dr. Colin Russo. For example, Dr. Russo encourages you to read <a href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XuOoz35o1Uy3dKkd1_nkxzVFUtfG5gH8/view?usp=sharing\">Creating Preferred Futures Of Australian Healthcare.</a> This article includes emerging issues gained from workshopping Australian healthcare futures to 2030, with medical health practitioners. The workshop and article applied the futures method, The Futures Triangle.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"Course locations\" tab_id=\"1462039446331-e7bbf359-6158\"][vc_column_text]This Course is offered in a hotel venue in Surfers Paradise, on the Gold Coast, and online.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"Registration\" tab_id=\"1463610695891-082b0cba-747b\"][vc_column_text]</p>\n<p class=\"font_8\">This Course is offered by Professor Inayatullah, and Dr. Russo, in February, 2021.</p>\n<p>On this website is a registration form for scheduling seats and asking questions, and a separate Paypal payment system. Paypal allows you to use a corporate or personal credit card to make payment of Course fees.</p>\n<p class=\"font_8\">The Course cost for your in-person attendance, is $1100 per person.  Up to 30 participants can attend Futures Thinking and Strategy Transformation 2030 in-person.</p>\n<p>The Course uses the powr.io link to Paypal system - powr.io is the means of linking the Paypal options. This system has been used by Engaging Futures in helping participants to make Course fee payments, since 2017.  If you require verification of this link, please ask Dr. Russo to email it to your business email address. <a href=\"https://www.powr.io/checkout_screen?app_id=12252613\">www.powr.io/checkout_screen?app_id=12252613</a></p>\n<p class=\"font_8\">The Online only participation fee is $600. All online sessions include plenary breakout rooms, facilitated by Course presenters.</p>\n<p>[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"Course Flyer\" tab_id=\"1605231285324-4922f16e-8c1d\"][vc_column_text]</p>\n<p class=\"font_8\">The Futures Thinking and Strategy Transformation 2030 And Beyond Course brochure is now available upon request. Email a course administrator via the single email address colinrusso@engagingfutures.com</p>\n<p>[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"Who should attend this advanced three-day Course?\" tab_id=\"1605231412055-c4b2f296-22e3\"][vc_column_text]</p>\n<p class=\"font_8\">Strategy leaders of government, councillors, corporate and industry leaders and officers, consultants and community sector strategists and practitioners, students and other individuals are all encouraged to attend.</p>\n<p>[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"CONTACT DETAILS\" tab_id=\"1605231867516-b98de893-9798\"][vc_column_text]</p>\n<h5 class=\"font_5\">Contact details</h5>\n<p class=\"font_7\">If you have any questions about the Course or about the registration systems, please contact Dr. Colin Russo, Managing Director, Engaging Futures.</p>\n<ul class=\"font_7\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"font_7\">Email <a href=\"mailto:colinrusso@engagingfutures.com\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-content=\"colinrusso@engagingfutures.com\" data-type=\"mail\">colinrusso@engagingfutures.com</a></p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"font_7\">Telephone (+61)408887751</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Thank you![/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"PARTICIPANT ALUMNI\" tab_id=\"1605240589499-adf4c541-92d8\"][vc_column_text]</p>\n<h5 class=\"font_5\">Since 2017, our alumni has been growing on Facebook and LinkedIn. We connect you on day 1 of the Course, for your own networking purposes. We include a selection of photos from the event and include all slides presented, together with chat facilities and other resources.</h5>\n<p>[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/6\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row bg_type=\"grad\" bg_override=\"ex-full\" css=\".vc_custom_1476033850417{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 80px !important;padding-bottom: 80px !important;}\" bg_grad=\"background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%, #F0F0F0), color-stop(100%, #FFFFFF));background: -moz-linear-gradient(top,#F0F0F0 0%,#FFFFFF 100%);background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top,#F0F0F0 0%,#FFFFFF 100%);background: -o-linear-gradient(top,#F0F0F0 0%,#FFFFFF 100%);background: -ms-linear-gradient(top,#F0F0F0 0%,#FFFFFF 100%);background: linear-gradient(top,#F0F0F0 0%,#FFFFFF 100%);\"][vc_column css=\".vc_custom_1605249862210{background-color: #ffffff !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"OUR TESTIMONIALS\" font_container=\"tag:h2|text_align:center\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Read what our alumni are saying about their experiences on our Futures Thinking Course!\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:19px|text_align:center|color:%23afafaf\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_empty_space height=\"40px\"][ult_ihover thumb_height_width=\"300\" gutter_width=\"40\"][ult_ihover_item title=\"Brook Kitson\" thumb_img=\"id^291|url^http://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Brook-Kitson.jpeg|caption^null|alt^null|title^Brook Kitson|description^null\" hover_effect=\"effect19\" desc_font_color=\"#ffffff\" spacer_width=\"100\" spacer_border_width=\"1\" title_font_size=\"22\" title_font_line_height=\"28\" desc_font_size=\"12\" desc_font_line_height=\"18\" title_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:22px;\" title_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:28px;\" desc_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:12px;\" desc_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:18px;\"]\"I really got a lot out of the course (new ways of thinking and tools to get a desired outcome) and appreciated our discussions\"[/ult_ihover_item][ult_ihover_item title=\"Amanda Hirschausen\" thumb_img=\"id^268|url^http://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Amanda-Hirschausen.jpeg|caption^null|alt^null|title^Amanda Hirschausen|description^null\" hover_effect=\"effect19\" desc_font_color=\"#ffffff\" block_border_color=\"rgba(255,255,255,0.2)\" block_border_size=\"10\" spacer_width=\"100\" spacer_border_width=\"1\" title_font_size=\"22\" title_font_line_height=\"28\" desc_font_size=\"12\" desc_font_line_height=\"18\" title_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:22px;\" title_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:28px;\" desc_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:12px;\" desc_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:18px;\"]\"The practical tips about engaging business leaders, in the Futures Thinking and Strategy Transformation course truly expands the mind.  Sohail and Colin share their wealth of experience in thinking about and designing our preferred future.  It\'s fabulous!\".[/ult_ihover_item][ult_ihover_item title=\"Michael Cooke\" thumb_img=\"id^269|url^http://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Michael-Cooke.jpeg|caption^null|alt^null|title^Michael Cooke|description^null\" hover_effect=\"effect19\" desc_font_color=\"#ffffff\" block_border_color=\"rgba(255,255,255,0.2)\" block_border_size=\"10\" spacer_width=\"100\" spacer_border_width=\"1\" title_font_size=\"22\" title_font_line_height=\"28\" desc_font_size=\"12\" desc_font_line_height=\"18\" title_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:22px;\" title_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:28px;\" desc_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:12px;\" desc_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:18px;\"]\"Brilliant Course - I really enjoyed the team spirit and had a great time meeting other leaders and discussing how to create a better world - thanks!\".[/ult_ihover_item][ult_ihover_item title=\"Edwina Marks\" thumb_img=\"id^270|url^http://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Edwina-Marks-1.jpeg|caption^null|alt^null|title^Edwina Marks|description^null\" hover_effect=\"effect19\" desc_font_color=\"#ffffff\" block_border_color=\"rgba(255,255,255,0.2)\" block_border_size=\"10\" spacer_width=\"100\" spacer_border_width=\"1\" title_font_size=\"22\" title_font_line_height=\"28\" desc_font_size=\"12\" desc_font_line_height=\"18\" title_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:22px;\" title_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:28px;\" desc_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:12px;\" desc_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:18px;\"]\"My team and I found the three days a rewarding experience. 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(488, 1, '2020-11-16 19:30:41', '2020-11-16 09:30:41', '[vc_row][vc_column][rev_slider slidertitle=\"Exploration Header\" alias=\"exploration-header\"][vc_empty_space height=\"120px\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"FUTURES THINKING AND STRATEGY TRANSFORMATION BEYOND 2030\" font_container=\"tag:h2|text_align:center\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Learn tools and methods to explore, create and manage alternative futures.\r\nThis Course will be presented February 2021, live at the Gold Coast, Australia and at half price for online for international registrants. All workshops include live and online plenary breakout sessions.\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:22px|text_align:center|color:%239c9c9c\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=\"80px\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Course Presenters - wow, these guys are good!\" font_container=\"tag:h2|text_align:center\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_empty_space height=\"60px\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=\"stretch_row_content\" equal_height=\"yes\" bg_type=\"image\" parallax_style=\"vcpb-default\" bg_image_repeat=\"no-repeat\" bg_img_attach=\"fixed\" bg_override=\"full\" parallax_content=\"parallax_content_value\" seperator_enable=\"seperator_enable_value\" animation_type=\"h\" horizontal_animation=\"left-animation\" vertical_animation=\"top-animation\" disable_on_mobile=\"disable_on_mobile_value\" el_class=\"team-boxes-style\"][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605196884492{padding-top: 110px !important;padding-bottom: 110px !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}\" offset=\"vc_hidden-xs\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605228554238{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-right: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;padding-left: 40px !important;background-color: #a8a8a8 !important;}\"][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][vc_column_text el_class=\"make-p-small\"]\r\n<h3></h3>\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Professor Sohail Inayatullah</span></h3>\r\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">UNESCO CHAIR OF FUTURES STUDIES</span></h6>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][vc_column_text el_class=\"make-p-small\"]<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Professor Sohail Inayatullah is a world-leading futurist and political scientist.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Professor Inayatullah is the inaugural UNESCO Chair of Futures Studies; winner of the Laurel Award 2010 for all-time best futurist; professor at the Graduate Institute of Futures Studies, Tamkang University, Taiwan; adjunct professor in the Faculty of Arts and Business, the University of the Sunshine Coast; and associate with Melbourne Business School - Mt Eliza Executive Education, University of Melbourne.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Professor Inayatullah has authored and edited 32 books and over 300 journal articles, book chapters, and reviews.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Professor Inayatullah has worked with organisations and governments locally and globally on internal transformation to create their own alternative and desired futures.</span>[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605253185562{padding-top: 110px !important;padding-bottom: 110px !important;background-image: url(http://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-13-at-01.31.57.png?id=241) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}\" offset=\"vc_hidden-xs\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605197129381{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-right: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;padding-left: 40px !important;}\"][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=\"80px\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=\"stretch_row_content\" equal_height=\"yes\" bg_type=\"image\" parallax_style=\"vcpb-default\" bg_image_repeat=\"no-repeat\" bg_img_attach=\"fixed\" bg_override=\"full\" parallax_content=\"parallax_content_value\" seperator_enable=\"seperator_enable_value\" animation_type=\"h\" horizontal_animation=\"left-animation\" vertical_animation=\"top-animation\" disable_on_mobile=\"disable_on_mobile_value\" el_class=\"team-boxes-style\"][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605197068247{padding-top: 110px !important;padding-bottom: 110px !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}\" offset=\"vc_hidden-xs\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605253200870{padding-top: 110px !important;padding-bottom: 110px !important;background-image: url(http://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-13-at-01.31.46.png?id=242) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605228566620{padding-top: 110px !important;padding-bottom: 110px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}\" offset=\"vc_hidden-xs\"][vc_column_text el_class=\"make-p-small\"]\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Dr. Colin Russo</span></h3>\r\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">MANAGING DIRECTOR, ENGAGING FUTURES</span></h6>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][vc_column_text el_class=\"make-p-small\"]<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Dr. Colin has three decades of experience engaging stakeholders and clients of national, state and local governments. An award-winning futurist author, Colin writes using futures studies methods about topics including futures of cities, health, disabilities, security, technology and climate-change. Colin has facilitated futures workshops for City of Gold Coast\'s Our Bold Future 2037, and presented Futures Thinking Courses with Professor Inayatullah in 2017, 2018 and 2019. Dr. Russo also presented Futures Courses for the AFP, Brisbane Primary Health, National Disability Services (across Queensland), Uniting Care Queensland, Redland City Council, Bulloo Shire Council and the Queensland Government 2019 Leadership Series. He presented on water futures in Melbourne and futures of cities in Taiwan and USA.</span>[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605197029939{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-right: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;padding-left: 40px !important;}\"][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=\"120px\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Aims Of The Course\" font_container=\"tag:h2|text_align:center\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/6\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"2/3\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"The Course is intended to enhance your capacity to create alternative and preferred futures. Presenters will use case studies from foresight projects in government, corporate, and community sectors. 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Sans|font_call:Open+Sans\" desc_font_style=\"font-weight:500;\" title_font_size=\"desktop:13px;\" desc_font_size=\"desktop:14px;\" desc_font_line_height=\"desktop:20px;\"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=\"1/6\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"2/3\"][vc_empty_space height=\"80px\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"FAQs\" font_container=\"tag:h2|text_align:center\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_empty_space height=\"40px\"][vc_tta_accordion active_section=\"1\"][vc_tta_section title=\"Course resources\" tab_id=\"1462039446254-a71612d9-2b19\"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]Reading material will be provided prior to the Course. Participants will receive 4-5 articles written by Professor Sohail Inayatullah, and Dr. Colin Russo. For example, Dr. Russo encourages you to read <a href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XuOoz35o1Uy3dKkd1_nkxzVFUtfG5gH8/view?usp=sharing\">Creating Preferred Futures Of Australian Healthcare.</a> This article includes emerging issues gained from workshopping Australian healthcare futures to 2030, with medical health practitioners. The workshop and article applied the futures method, The Futures Triangle.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"Course locations\" tab_id=\"1462039446331-e7bbf359-6158\"][vc_column_text]This Course is offered in a hotel venue in Surfers Paradise, on the Gold Coast, and online.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"Registration\" tab_id=\"1463610695891-082b0cba-747b\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<p class=\"font_8\">This Course is offered by Professor Inayatullah, and Dr. Russo, in February, 2021.</p>\r\nOn this website is a registration form for scheduling seats and asking questions, and a separate Paypal payment system. Paypal allows you to use a corporate or personal credit card to make payment of Course fees.\r\n<p class=\"font_8\">The Course cost for your in-person attendance, is $1100 per person.  Up to 30 participants can attend Futures Thinking and Strategy Transformation 2030 in-person.</p>\r\nThe Course uses the powr.io link to Paypal system - powr.io is the means of linking the Paypal options. This system has been used by Engaging Futures in helping participants to make Course fee payments, since 2017.  If you require verification of this link, please ask Dr. Russo to email it to your business email address. <a href=\"https://www.powr.io/checkout_screen?app_id=12252613\">www.powr.io/checkout_screen?app_id=12252613</a>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\">The Online only participation fee is $600. All online sessions include plenary breakout rooms, facilitated by Course presenters.</p>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"Course Flyer\" tab_id=\"1605231285324-4922f16e-8c1d\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<p class=\"font_8\">The Futures Thinking and Strategy Transformation 2030 And Beyond Course brochure is now available upon request. Email a course administrator via the single email address colinrusso@engagingfutures.com</p>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"Who should attend this advanced three-day Course?\" tab_id=\"1605231412055-c4b2f296-22e3\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<p class=\"font_8\">Strategy leaders of government, councillors, corporate and industry leaders and officers, consultants and community sector strategists and practitioners, students and other individuals are all encouraged to attend.</p>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"CONTACT DETAILS\" tab_id=\"1605231867516-b98de893-9798\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h5 class=\"font_5\">Contact details</h5>\r\n<p class=\"font_7\">If you have any questions about the Course or about the registration systems, please contact Dr. Colin Russo, Managing Director, Engaging Futures.</p>\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"font_7\">\r\n 	<li>\r\n<p class=\"font_7\">Email <a href=\"mailto:colinrusso@engagingfutures.com\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-content=\"colinrusso@engagingfutures.com\" data-type=\"mail\">colinrusso@engagingfutures.com</a></p>\r\n</li>\r\n 	<li>\r\n<p class=\"font_7\">Telephone (+61)408887751</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nThank you![/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"PARTICIPANT ALUMNI\" tab_id=\"1605240589499-adf4c541-92d8\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h5 class=\"font_5\">Since 2017, our alumni has been growing on Facebook and LinkedIn. We connect you on day 1 of the Course, for your own networking purposes. We include a selection of photos from the event and include all slides presented, together with chat facilities and other resources.</h5>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/6\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row bg_type=\"grad\" bg_override=\"ex-full\" css=\".vc_custom_1476033850417{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 80px !important;padding-bottom: 80px !important;}\" bg_grad=\"background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%, #F0F0F0), color-stop(100%, #FFFFFF));background: -moz-linear-gradient(top,#F0F0F0 0%,#FFFFFF 100%);background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top,#F0F0F0 0%,#FFFFFF 100%);background: -o-linear-gradient(top,#F0F0F0 0%,#FFFFFF 100%);background: -ms-linear-gradient(top,#F0F0F0 0%,#FFFFFF 100%);background: linear-gradient(top,#F0F0F0 0%,#FFFFFF 100%);\"][vc_column css=\".vc_custom_1605249862210{background-color: #ffffff !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"OUR TESTIMONIALS\" font_container=\"tag:h2|text_align:center\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Read what our alumni are saying about their experiences on our Futures Thinking Course!\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:19px|text_align:center|color:%23afafaf\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_empty_space height=\"40px\"][ult_ihover thumb_height_width=\"300\" gutter_width=\"40\"][ult_ihover_item title=\"Brook Kitson\" thumb_img=\"id^291|url^http://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Brook-Kitson.jpeg|caption^null|alt^null|title^Brook Kitson|description^null\" hover_effect=\"effect19\" desc_font_color=\"#ffffff\" spacer_width=\"100\" spacer_border_width=\"1\" title_font_size=\"22\" title_font_line_height=\"28\" desc_font_size=\"12\" desc_font_line_height=\"18\" title_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:22px;\" title_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:28px;\" desc_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:12px;\" desc_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:18px;\"]\"I really got a lot out of the course (new ways of thinking and tools to get a desired outcome) and appreciated our discussions\"[/ult_ihover_item][ult_ihover_item title=\"Amanda Hirschausen\" thumb_img=\"id^268|url^http://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Amanda-Hirschausen.jpeg|caption^null|alt^null|title^Amanda Hirschausen|description^null\" hover_effect=\"effect19\" desc_font_color=\"#ffffff\" block_border_color=\"rgba(255,255,255,0.2)\" block_border_size=\"10\" spacer_width=\"100\" spacer_border_width=\"1\" title_font_size=\"22\" title_font_line_height=\"28\" desc_font_size=\"12\" desc_font_line_height=\"18\" title_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:22px;\" title_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:28px;\" desc_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:12px;\" desc_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:18px;\"]\"The practical tips about engaging business leaders, in the Futures Thinking and Strategy Transformation course truly expands the mind.  Sohail and Colin share their wealth of experience in thinking about and designing our preferred future.  It\'s fabulous!\".[/ult_ihover_item][ult_ihover_item title=\"Michael Cooke\" thumb_img=\"id^269|url^http://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Michael-Cooke.jpeg|caption^null|alt^null|title^Michael Cooke|description^null\" hover_effect=\"effect19\" desc_font_color=\"#ffffff\" block_border_color=\"rgba(255,255,255,0.2)\" block_border_size=\"10\" spacer_width=\"100\" spacer_border_width=\"1\" title_font_size=\"22\" title_font_line_height=\"28\" desc_font_size=\"12\" desc_font_line_height=\"18\" title_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:22px;\" title_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:28px;\" desc_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:12px;\" desc_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:18px;\"]\"Brilliant Course - I really enjoyed the team spirit and had a great time meeting other leaders and discussing how to create a better world - thanks!\".[/ult_ihover_item][ult_ihover_item title=\"Edwina Marks\" thumb_img=\"id^270|url^http://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Edwina-Marks-1.jpeg|caption^null|alt^null|title^Edwina Marks|description^null\" hover_effect=\"effect19\" desc_font_color=\"#ffffff\" block_border_color=\"rgba(255,255,255,0.2)\" block_border_size=\"10\" spacer_width=\"100\" spacer_border_width=\"1\" title_font_size=\"22\" title_font_line_height=\"28\" desc_font_size=\"12\" desc_font_line_height=\"18\" title_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:22px;\" title_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:28px;\" desc_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:12px;\" desc_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:18px;\"]\"My team and I found the three days a rewarding experience. 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(489, 1, '2020-11-16 20:05:39', '2020-11-16 10:05:39', '[vc_row][vc_column][rev_slider slidertitle=\"Exploration Header\" alias=\"exploration-header\"][vc_empty_space height=\"120px\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"FUTURES THINKING AND STRATEGY TRANSFORMATION BEYOND 2030\" font_container=\"tag:h2|text_align:center\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Learn tools and methods to explore, create and manage alternative futures.\r\nThis Course will be presented February 2021, live at the Gold Coast, Australia and at half price for online for international registrants. All workshops include live and online plenary breakout sessions.\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:22px|text_align:center|color:%239c9c9c\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=\"80px\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Course Presenters - wow, these guys are good!\" font_container=\"tag:h2|text_align:center\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_empty_space height=\"60px\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=\"stretch_row_content\" equal_height=\"yes\" bg_type=\"image\" parallax_style=\"vcpb-default\" bg_image_repeat=\"no-repeat\" bg_img_attach=\"fixed\" bg_override=\"full\" parallax_content=\"parallax_content_value\" seperator_enable=\"seperator_enable_value\" animation_type=\"h\" horizontal_animation=\"left-animation\" vertical_animation=\"top-animation\" disable_on_mobile=\"disable_on_mobile_value\" el_class=\"team-boxes-style\"][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605196884492{padding-top: 110px !important;padding-bottom: 110px !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}\" offset=\"vc_hidden-xs\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605228554238{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-right: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;padding-left: 40px !important;background-color: #a8a8a8 !important;}\"][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][vc_column_text el_class=\"make-p-small\"]\r\n<h3></h3>\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Professor Sohail Inayatullah</span></h3>\r\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">UNESCO CHAIR OF FUTURES STUDIES</span></h6>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][vc_column_text el_class=\"make-p-small\"]<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Professor Sohail Inayatullah is a world-leading futurist and political scientist.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Professor Inayatullah is the inaugural UNESCO Chair of Futures Studies; winner of the Laurel Award 2010 for all-time best futurist; professor at the Graduate Institute of Futures Studies, Tamkang University, Taiwan; adjunct professor in the Faculty of Arts and Business, the University of the Sunshine Coast; and associate with Melbourne Business School - Mt Eliza Executive Education, University of Melbourne.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Professor Inayatullah has authored and edited 32 books and over 300 journal articles, book chapters, and reviews.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Professor Inayatullah has worked with organisations and governments locally and globally on internal transformation to create their own alternative and desired futures.</span>[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605253185562{padding-top: 110px !important;padding-bottom: 110px !important;background-image: url(http://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-13-at-01.31.57.png?id=241) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}\" offset=\"vc_hidden-xs\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605197129381{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-right: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;padding-left: 40px !important;}\"][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=\"80px\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=\"stretch_row_content\" equal_height=\"yes\" bg_type=\"image\" parallax_style=\"vcpb-default\" bg_image_repeat=\"no-repeat\" bg_img_attach=\"fixed\" bg_override=\"full\" parallax_content=\"parallax_content_value\" seperator_enable=\"seperator_enable_value\" animation_type=\"h\" horizontal_animation=\"left-animation\" vertical_animation=\"top-animation\" disable_on_mobile=\"disable_on_mobile_value\" el_class=\"team-boxes-style\"][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605197068247{padding-top: 110px !important;padding-bottom: 110px !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}\" offset=\"vc_hidden-xs\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605253200870{padding-top: 110px !important;padding-bottom: 110px !important;background-image: url(http://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-13-at-01.31.46.png?id=242) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605228566620{padding-top: 110px !important;padding-bottom: 110px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}\" offset=\"vc_hidden-xs\"][vc_column_text el_class=\"make-p-small\"]\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Dr. Colin Russo</span></h3>\r\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">MANAGING DIRECTOR, ENGAGING FUTURES</span></h6>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][vc_column_text el_class=\"make-p-small\"]<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Dr. Colin has three decades of experience engaging stakeholders and clients of national, state and local governments. An award-winning futurist author, Colin writes using futures studies methods about topics including futures of cities, health, disabilities, security, technology and climate-change. Colin has facilitated futures workshops for City of Gold Coast\'s Our Bold Future 2037, and presented Futures Thinking Courses with Professor Inayatullah in 2017, 2018 and 2019. Dr. Russo also presented Futures Courses for the AFP, Brisbane Primary Health, National Disability Services (across Queensland), Uniting Care Queensland, Redland City Council, Bulloo Shire Council and the Queensland Government 2019 Leadership Series. He presented on water futures in Melbourne and futures of cities in Taiwan and USA.</span>[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605197029939{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-right: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;padding-left: 40px !important;}\"][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=\"120px\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Aims Of The Course\" font_container=\"tag:h2|text_align:center\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/6\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"2/3\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"The Course is intended to enhance your capacity to create alternative and preferred futures. Presenters will use case studies from foresight projects in government, corporate, and community sectors. 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desc_font_style=\"font-weight:500;\" title_font_size=\"desktop:13px;\" desc_font_size=\"desktop:14px;\" desc_font_line_height=\"desktop:20px;\"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=\"1/6\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"2/3\"][vc_empty_space height=\"80px\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"FAQs\" font_container=\"tag:h2|text_align:center\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_empty_space height=\"40px\"][vc_tta_accordion active_section=\"1\"][vc_tta_section title=\"Course resources\" tab_id=\"1462039446254-a71612d9-2b19\"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]Reading material will be provided prior to the Course. Participants will receive 4-5 articles written by Professor Sohail Inayatullah, and Dr. Colin Russo. For example, Dr. Russo encourages you to read <a href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XuOoz35o1Uy3dKkd1_nkxzVFUtfG5gH8/view?usp=sharing\">Creating Preferred Futures Of Australian Healthcare.</a> This article includes emerging issues gained from workshopping Australian healthcare futures to 2030, with medical health practitioners. The workshop and article applied the futures method, The Futures Triangle.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"Course locations\" tab_id=\"1462039446331-e7bbf359-6158\"][vc_column_text]This Course is offered in a hotel venue in Surfers Paradise, on the Gold Coast, and online.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"Registration\" tab_id=\"1463610695891-082b0cba-747b\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<p class=\"font_8\">This Course is offered by Professor Inayatullah, and Dr. Russo, in February, 2021.</p>\r\nOn this website is a registration form for scheduling seats and asking questions, and a separate Paypal payment system. Paypal allows you to use a corporate or personal credit card to make payment of Course fees.\r\n<p class=\"font_8\">The Course cost for your in-person attendance, is $1100 per person.  Up to 30 participants can attend Futures Thinking and Strategy Transformation 2030 in-person.</p>\r\nThe Course uses the powr.io link to Paypal system - powr.io is the means of linking the Paypal options. This system has been used by Engaging Futures in helping participants to make Course fee payments, since 2017.  If you require verification of this link, please ask Dr. Russo to email it to your business email address. <a href=\"https://www.powr.io/checkout_screen?app_id=12252613\">www.powr.io/checkout_screen?app_id=12252613</a>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\">The Online only participation fee is $600. All online sessions include plenary breakout rooms, facilitated by Course presenters.</p>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"Course Flyer\" tab_id=\"1605231285324-4922f16e-8c1d\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<p class=\"font_8\">The Futures Thinking and Strategy Transformation 2030 And Beyond Course brochure is now available upon request. Email a course administrator via the single email address colinrusso@engagingfutures.com</p>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"Who should attend this advanced three-day Course?\" tab_id=\"1605231412055-c4b2f296-22e3\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<p class=\"font_8\">Strategy leaders of government, councillors, corporate and industry leaders and officers, consultants and community sector strategists and practitioners, students and other individuals are all encouraged to attend.</p>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"CONTACT DETAILS\" tab_id=\"1605231867516-b98de893-9798\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h5 class=\"font_5\">Contact details</h5>\r\n<p class=\"font_7\">If you have any questions about the Course or about the registration systems, please contact Dr. Colin Russo, Managing Director, Engaging Futures.</p>\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"font_7\">\r\n 	<li>\r\n<p class=\"font_7\">Email <a href=\"mailto:colinrusso@engagingfutures.com\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-content=\"colinrusso@engagingfutures.com\" data-type=\"mail\">colinrusso@engagingfutures.com</a></p>\r\n</li>\r\n 	<li>\r\n<p class=\"font_7\">Telephone (+61)408887751</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nThank you![/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"PARTICIPANT ALUMNI\" tab_id=\"1605240589499-adf4c541-92d8\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h5 class=\"font_5\">Since 2017, our alumni has been growing on Facebook and LinkedIn. We connect you on day 1 of the Course, for your own networking purposes. We include a selection of photos from the event and include all slides presented, together with chat facilities and other resources.</h5>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/6\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row bg_type=\"grad\" bg_override=\"ex-full\" css=\".vc_custom_1476033850417{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 80px !important;padding-bottom: 80px !important;}\" bg_grad=\"background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%, #F0F0F0), color-stop(100%, #FFFFFF));background: -moz-linear-gradient(top,#F0F0F0 0%,#FFFFFF 100%);background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top,#F0F0F0 0%,#FFFFFF 100%);background: -o-linear-gradient(top,#F0F0F0 0%,#FFFFFF 100%);background: -ms-linear-gradient(top,#F0F0F0 0%,#FFFFFF 100%);background: linear-gradient(top,#F0F0F0 0%,#FFFFFF 100%);\"][vc_column css=\".vc_custom_1605249862210{background-color: #ffffff !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"OUR TESTIMONIALS\" font_container=\"tag:h2|text_align:center\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Read what our alumni are saying about their experiences on our Futures Thinking Course!\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:19px|text_align:center|color:%23afafaf\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_empty_space height=\"40px\"][ult_ihover thumb_height_width=\"300\" gutter_width=\"40\"][ult_ihover_item title=\"Brook Kitson\" thumb_img=\"id^291|url^http://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Brook-Kitson.jpeg|caption^null|alt^null|title^Brook Kitson|description^null\" hover_effect=\"effect19\" desc_font_color=\"#ffffff\" spacer_width=\"100\" spacer_border_width=\"1\" title_font_size=\"22\" title_font_line_height=\"28\" desc_font_size=\"12\" desc_font_line_height=\"18\" title_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:22px;\" title_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:28px;\" desc_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:12px;\" desc_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:18px;\"]\"I really got a lot out of the course (new ways of thinking and tools to get a desired outcome) and appreciated our discussions\"[/ult_ihover_item][ult_ihover_item title=\"Amanda Hirschausen\" thumb_img=\"id^268|url^http://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Amanda-Hirschausen.jpeg|caption^null|alt^null|title^Amanda Hirschausen|description^null\" hover_effect=\"effect19\" desc_font_color=\"#ffffff\" block_border_color=\"rgba(255,255,255,0.2)\" block_border_size=\"10\" spacer_width=\"100\" spacer_border_width=\"1\" title_font_size=\"22\" title_font_line_height=\"28\" desc_font_size=\"12\" desc_font_line_height=\"18\" title_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:22px;\" title_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:28px;\" desc_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:12px;\" desc_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:18px;\"]\"The practical tips about engaging business leaders, in the Futures Thinking and Strategy Transformation course truly expands the mind.  Sohail and Colin share their wealth of experience in thinking about and designing our preferred future.  It\'s fabulous!\".[/ult_ihover_item][ult_ihover_item title=\"Michael Cooke\" thumb_img=\"id^269|url^http://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Michael-Cooke.jpeg|caption^null|alt^null|title^Michael Cooke|description^null\" hover_effect=\"effect19\" desc_font_color=\"#ffffff\" block_border_color=\"rgba(255,255,255,0.2)\" block_border_size=\"10\" spacer_width=\"100\" spacer_border_width=\"1\" title_font_size=\"22\" title_font_line_height=\"28\" desc_font_size=\"12\" desc_font_line_height=\"18\" title_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:22px;\" title_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:28px;\" desc_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:12px;\" desc_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:18px;\"]\"Brilliant Course - I really enjoyed the team spirit and had a great time meeting other leaders and discussing how to create a better world - thanks!\".[/ult_ihover_item][ult_ihover_item title=\"Edwina Marks\" thumb_img=\"id^270|url^http://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Edwina-Marks-1.jpeg|caption^null|alt^null|title^Edwina Marks|description^null\" hover_effect=\"effect19\" desc_font_color=\"#ffffff\" block_border_color=\"rgba(255,255,255,0.2)\" block_border_size=\"10\" spacer_width=\"100\" spacer_border_width=\"1\" title_font_size=\"22\" title_font_line_height=\"28\" desc_font_size=\"12\" desc_font_line_height=\"18\" title_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:22px;\" title_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:28px;\" desc_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:12px;\" desc_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:18px;\"]\"My team and I found the three days a rewarding experience. 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(490, 1, '2020-11-16 20:09:56', '2020-11-16 10:09:56', '[vc_row][vc_column][rev_slider slidertitle=\"Exploration Header\" alias=\"exploration-header\"][vc_empty_space height=\"120px\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"FUTURES THINKING AND STRATEGY TRANSFORMATION BEYOND 2030\" font_container=\"tag:h2|text_align:center\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Learn tools and methods to explore, create and manage alternative futures.\r\nThis Course will be presented February 2021, live at the Gold Coast, Australia and at half price for online for international registrants. All workshops include live and online plenary breakout sessions.\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:22px|text_align:center|color:%239c9c9c\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=\"80px\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Course Presenters - wow, these guys are good!\" font_container=\"tag:h2|text_align:center\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_empty_space height=\"60px\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=\"stretch_row_content\" equal_height=\"yes\" bg_type=\"image\" parallax_style=\"vcpb-default\" bg_image_repeat=\"no-repeat\" bg_img_attach=\"fixed\" bg_override=\"full\" parallax_content=\"parallax_content_value\" seperator_enable=\"seperator_enable_value\" animation_type=\"h\" horizontal_animation=\"left-animation\" vertical_animation=\"top-animation\" disable_on_mobile=\"disable_on_mobile_value\" el_class=\"team-boxes-style\"][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605196884492{padding-top: 110px !important;padding-bottom: 110px !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}\" offset=\"vc_hidden-xs\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605228554238{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-right: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;padding-left: 40px !important;background-color: #a8a8a8 !important;}\"][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][vc_column_text el_class=\"make-p-small\"]\r\n<h3></h3>\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Professor Sohail Inayatullah</span></h3>\r\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">UNESCO CHAIR OF FUTURES STUDIES</span></h6>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][vc_column_text el_class=\"make-p-small\"]<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Professor Sohail Inayatullah is a world-leading futurist and political scientist.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Professor Inayatullah is the inaugural UNESCO Chair of Futures Studies; winner of the Laurel Award 2010 for all-time best futurist; professor at the Graduate Institute of Futures Studies, Tamkang University, Taiwan; adjunct professor in the Faculty of Arts and Business, the University of the Sunshine Coast; and associate with Melbourne Business School - Mt Eliza Executive Education, University of Melbourne.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Professor Inayatullah has authored and edited 32 books and over 300 journal articles, book chapters, and reviews.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Professor Inayatullah has worked with organisations and governments locally and globally on internal transformation to create their own alternative and desired futures.</span>[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605253185562{padding-top: 110px !important;padding-bottom: 110px !important;background-image: url(http://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-13-at-01.31.57.png?id=241) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}\" offset=\"vc_hidden-xs\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605197129381{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-right: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;padding-left: 40px !important;}\"][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=\"80px\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=\"stretch_row_content\" equal_height=\"yes\" bg_type=\"image\" parallax_style=\"vcpb-default\" bg_image_repeat=\"no-repeat\" bg_img_attach=\"fixed\" bg_override=\"full\" parallax_content=\"parallax_content_value\" seperator_enable=\"seperator_enable_value\" animation_type=\"h\" horizontal_animation=\"left-animation\" vertical_animation=\"top-animation\" disable_on_mobile=\"disable_on_mobile_value\" el_class=\"team-boxes-style\"][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605197068247{padding-top: 110px !important;padding-bottom: 110px !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}\" offset=\"vc_hidden-xs\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605253200870{padding-top: 110px !important;padding-bottom: 110px !important;background-image: url(http://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-13-at-01.31.46.png?id=242) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605228566620{padding-top: 110px !important;padding-bottom: 110px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}\" offset=\"vc_hidden-xs\"][vc_column_text el_class=\"make-p-small\"]\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Dr. Colin Russo</span></h3>\r\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">MANAGING DIRECTOR, ENGAGING FUTURES</span></h6>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][vc_column_text el_class=\"make-p-small\"]<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Dr. Colin has three decades of experience engaging stakeholders and clients of national, state and local governments. An award-winning futurist author, Colin writes using futures studies methods about topics including futures of cities, health, disabilities, security, technology and climate-change. Colin has facilitated futures workshops for City of Gold Coast\'s Our Bold Future 2037, and presented Futures Thinking Courses with Professor Inayatullah in 2017, 2018 and 2019. Dr. Russo also presented Futures Courses for the AFP, Brisbane Primary Health, National Disability Services (across Queensland), Uniting Care Queensland, Redland City Council, Bulloo Shire Council and the Queensland Government 2019 Leadership Series. He presented on water futures in Melbourne and futures of cities in Taiwan and USA.</span>[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605197029939{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-right: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;padding-left: 40px !important;}\"][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=\"120px\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Aims Of The Course\" font_container=\"tag:h2|text_align:center\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/6\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"2/3\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"The Course is intended to enhance your capacity to create alternative and preferred futures. Presenters will use case studies from foresight projects in government, corporate, and community sectors. Tools and methods from the discipline of Futures Studies will help you:\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:22px|text_align:center|color:%239c9c9c\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/6\"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=\"stretch_row_content\" css=\".vc_custom_1480792812297{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 60px !important;}\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner css=\".vc_custom_1462898611266{margin-bottom: 40px !important;}\"][vc_column_inner width=\"1/3\"][ult_animation_block animation=\"fadeInUp\" animation_duration=\"0.5\" animation_delay=\"0.5\" animation_iteration_count=\"1\" opacity_start_effect=\"80\"][bsf-info-box icon=\"linearicons-shield-check\" icon_size=\"32\" icon_color=\"#ffffff\" icon_style=\"circle\" icon_color_bg=\"#333333\" title=\"Map the future.\" pos=\"square_box\" box_border_style=\"solid\" box_border_width=\"1\" box_border_color=\"#ededed\" box_bg_color=\"#ffffff\" 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desc_font_line_height=\"desktop:24px;\"][/bsf-info-box][/ult_animation_block][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/3\"][ult_animation_block animation=\"fadeInUp\" animation_duration=\"0.5\" animation_delay=\"0.9\" animation_iteration_count=\"1\" opacity_start_effect=\"80\"][bsf-info-box icon=\"linearicons-crown\" icon_size=\"32\" icon_color=\"#ffffff\" icon_style=\"circle\" icon_color_bg=\"#333333\" title=\"Discuss and analyse which futures are more likely to result.\" pos=\"square_box\" box_border_style=\"solid\" box_border_width=\"1\" box_border_color=\"#ededed\" box_bg_color=\"#ffffff\" title_font=\"font_family:Lato|font_call:Lato|variant:700\" title_font_style=\"font-weight:700;\" title_font_size=\"desktop:19px;\" desc_font_size=\"desktop:16px;\" desc_font_line_height=\"desktop:24px;\"][/bsf-info-box][/ult_animation_block][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner css=\".vc_custom_1462898611266{margin-bottom: 40px !important;}\"][vc_column_inner width=\"1/3\"][ult_animation_block animation=\"fadeInUp\" animation_duration=\"0.5\" animation_delay=\"0.5\" animation_iteration_count=\"1\" opacity_start_effect=\"80\"][bsf-info-box icon=\"Defaults-book\" icon_size=\"32\" icon_color=\"#ffffff\" icon_style=\"circle\" icon_color_bg=\"#333333\" title=\"Deepen the future through the use of narratives.\" pos=\"square_box\" box_border_style=\"solid\" box_border_width=\"1\" box_border_color=\"#ededed\" box_bg_color=\"#ffffff\" title_font=\"font_family:Lato|font_call:Lato|variant:700\" title_font_style=\"font-weight:700;\" title_font_size=\"desktop:19px;\" desc_font_size=\"desktop:16px;\" desc_font_line_height=\"desktop:24px;\"][/bsf-info-box][/ult_animation_block][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/3\"][ult_animation_block animation=\"fadeInUp\" animation_duration=\"0.5\" animation_delay=\"0.7\" animation_iteration_count=\"1\" opacity_start_effect=\"80\"][bsf-info-box icon=\"Defaults-image photo picture-o\" icon_size=\"32\" icon_color=\"#ffffff\" icon_style=\"circle\" icon_color_bg=\"#333333\" title=\"Create scenarios to optimize goals, prepare for contingency, and imagine other worlds\" pos=\"square_box\" box_border_style=\"solid\" box_border_width=\"1\" box_border_color=\"#ededed\" box_bg_color=\"#ffffff\" title_font=\"font_family:Lato|font_call:Lato|variant:700\" title_font_style=\"font-weight:700;\" title_font_size=\"desktop:19px;\" desc_font_size=\"desktop:16px;\" desc_font_line_height=\"desktop:24px;\"][/bsf-info-box][/ult_animation_block][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/3\"][ult_animation_block animation=\"fadeInUp\" animation_duration=\"0.5\" animation_delay=\"0.9\" animation_iteration_count=\"1\" opacity_start_effect=\"80\"][bsf-info-box icon=\"Defaults-user-plus\" icon_size=\"32\" icon_color=\"#ffffff\" icon_style=\"circle\" icon_color_bg=\"#333333\" title=\"Transform self, the organisation, and strategy through visioning and backcasting.\" pos=\"square_box\" box_border_style=\"solid\" box_border_width=\"1\" box_border_color=\"#ededed\" box_bg_color=\"#ffffff\" title_font=\"font_family:Lato|font_call:Lato|variant:700\" title_font_style=\"font-weight:700;\" title_font_size=\"desktop:19px;\" desc_font_size=\"desktop:16px;\" desc_font_line_height=\"desktop:24px;\"][/bsf-info-box][/ult_animation_block][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row bg_type=\"image\" parallax_style=\"vcpb-default\" bg_image_new=\"id^9434|url^http://treekode.com/maple/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/negativespace-23.jpg|caption^null|alt^null|title^negativespace-23|description^null\" bg_override=\"ex-full\"][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=\"Critical Questions\" font_container=\"tag:h2|text_align:center\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/6\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"2/3\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Specifically, the Course will explore critical questions, such as:\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:22px|text_align:center|color:%239c9c9c\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/6\"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][ultimate_spacer height=\"120\" height_on_mob_landscape=\"40\" height_on_mob=\"40\"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\"][icon_counter border_size=\"1\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" icon=\"Defaults-user\" icon_size=\"38\" icon_color=\"#101010\" text_color=\"\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\" block_title_front=\"What are the implications of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) - globally and locally?\" block_title_back=\"Is Corona 4.0 likely?\" cont_align=\"on\" title_font=\"font_family:Montserrat|font_call:Montserrat|variant:700\" title_font_style=\"font-weight:700;\" desc_font=\"font_family:Open Sans|font_call:Open+Sans\" desc_font_style=\"font-weight:500;\" title_font_size=\"desktop:13px;\" desc_font_size=\"desktop:14px;\" desc_font_line_height=\"desktop:20px;\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\"][icon_counter border_size=\"1\" border_color=\"rgba(255,255,255,0.5)\" icon=\"Defaults-pagelines\" icon_size=\"38\" icon_color=\"#101010\" text_color=\"\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\" block_title_front=\"What aspects of climate change will impact our futures the most?\" block_title_back=\"What does a carbon neutral 2050 mean for your organisation?\" cont_align=\"on\" title_font=\"font_family:Montserrat|font_call:Montserrat|variant:700\" title_font_style=\"font-weight:700;\" desc_font=\"font_family:Open Sans|font_call:Open+Sans\" desc_font_style=\"font-weight:500;\" title_font_size=\"desktop:13px;\" desc_font_size=\"desktop:14px;\" desc_font_line_height=\"desktop:20px;\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\"][icon_counter border_size=\"1\" border_color=\"rgba(255,255,255,0.5)\" icon=\"Defaults-graduation-cap mortar-board\" icon_size=\"38\" icon_color=\"#101010\" text_color=\"\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\" block_title_front=\"What are the futures of education?\" block_title_back=\"Are short courses best as change accelerates?\" cont_align=\"on\" title_font=\"font_family:Montserrat|font_call:Montserrat|variant:700\" title_font_style=\"font-weight:700;\" desc_font=\"font_family:Open Sans|font_call:Open+Sans\" desc_font_style=\"font-weight:500;\" title_font_size=\"desktop:13px;\" desc_font_size=\"desktop:14px;\" desc_font_line_height=\"desktop:20px;\" title_font_line_height=\"desktop:12px;\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\"][icon_counter border_size=\"1\" border_color=\"rgba(255,255,255,0.5)\" icon=\"Defaults-group users\" icon_size=\"38\" icon_color=\"#101010\" text_color=\"\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\" block_title_front=\"Conflict resolution futures - what to do when there are contrasting visions of the future in an organization?\" block_title_back=\"How do we change our selves to better align with the future we envision?\" cont_align=\"on\" title_font=\"font_family:Montserrat|font_call:Montserrat|variant:700\" title_font_style=\"font-weight:700;\" desc_font=\"font_family:Open Sans|font_call:Open+Sans\" desc_font_style=\"font-weight:500;\" title_font_size=\"desktop:13px;\" desc_font_size=\"desktop:14px;\" desc_font_line_height=\"desktop:20px;\"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\"][icon_counter border_size=\"1\" border_color=\"\" icon=\"Defaults-video-camera\" icon_size=\"38\" icon_color=\"#101010\" text_color=\"\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\" block_title_front=\"What are the futures of policing and security?\" block_title_back=\"Are facial recognition cameras helpful or disruptive?\" cont_align=\"on\" title_font=\"font_family:Montserrat|font_call:Montserrat|variant:700\" title_font_style=\"font-weight:700;\" desc_font=\"font_family:Open Sans|font_call:Open+Sans\" desc_font_style=\"font-weight:500;\" title_font_size=\"desktop:13px;\" desc_font_size=\"desktop:14px;\" desc_font_line_height=\"desktop:20px;\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\"][icon_counter border_size=\"1\" border_color=\"rgba(255,255,255,0.5)\" icon=\"Defaults-subway\" icon_size=\"38\" icon_color=\"#101010\" text_color=\"\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\" block_title_front=\"Are smart cities key to solving climate change issues?\" block_title_back=\"Will smart cities create equal opportunity and inclusivity?\" cont_align=\"on\" ult_param_heading=\"\" title_font=\"font_family:Montserrat|font_call:Montserrat|variant:700\" title_font_style=\"font-weight:700;\" desc_font=\"font_family:Open Sans|font_call:Open+Sans\" desc_font_style=\"font-weight:500;\" title_font_size=\"desktop:13px;\" desc_font_size=\"desktop:14px;\" desc_font_line_height=\"desktop:20px;\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\"][icon_counter border_size=\"1\" border_color=\"rgba(255,255,255,0.5)\" icon=\"Defaults-subway\" icon_size=\"38\" icon_color=\"#101010\" text_color=\"\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\" block_title_front=\"How different will public and private transport be, by 2030?\" block_title_back=\"Will electric vehicles be subsidised and required by law by 2050?\" cont_align=\"on\" title_font=\"font_family:Montserrat|font_call:Montserrat|variant:700\" title_font_style=\"font-weight:700;\" desc_font=\"font_family:Open Sans|font_call:Open+Sans\" desc_font_style=\"font-weight:500;\" title_font_size=\"desktop:13px;\" desc_font_size=\"desktop:14px;\" desc_font_line_height=\"desktop:20px;\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\"][icon_counter border_size=\"1\" border_color=\"rgba(255,255,255,0.5)\" icon=\"Defaults-bolt flash\" icon_size=\"38\" icon_color=\"#101010\" text_color=\"\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\" block_title_front=\"Will fossil fuels be phased out by 2030?\" block_title_back=\"How soon will a renewables pathway be a viable alternative?\" cont_align=\"on\" title_font=\"font_family:Montserrat|font_call:Montserrat|variant:700\" title_font_style=\"font-weight:700;\" desc_font=\"font_family:Open Sans|font_call:Open+Sans\" desc_font_style=\"font-weight:500;\" title_font_size=\"desktop:13px;\" desc_font_size=\"desktop:14px;\" desc_font_line_height=\"desktop:20px;\"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=\"1/6\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"2/3\"][vc_empty_space height=\"80px\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"FAQs\" font_container=\"tag:h2|text_align:center\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_empty_space height=\"40px\"][vc_tta_accordion active_section=\"1\"][vc_tta_section title=\"Course resources\" tab_id=\"1462039446254-a71612d9-2b19\"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]Reading material will be provided prior to the Course. Participants will receive 4-5 articles written by Professor Sohail Inayatullah, and Dr. Colin Russo. For example, Dr. Russo encourages you to read <a href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XuOoz35o1Uy3dKkd1_nkxzVFUtfG5gH8/view?usp=sharing\">Creating Preferred Futures Of Australian Healthcare.</a> This article includes emerging issues gained from workshopping Australian healthcare futures to 2030, with medical health practitioners. The workshop and article applied the futures method, The Futures Triangle.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"Course locations\" tab_id=\"1462039446331-e7bbf359-6158\"][vc_column_text]This Course is offered in a hotel venue in Surfers Paradise, on the Gold Coast, and online.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"Registration\" tab_id=\"1463610695891-082b0cba-747b\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<p class=\"font_8\">This Course is offered by Professor Inayatullah, and Dr. Russo, in February, 2021.</p>\r\nOn this website is a registration form for scheduling seats and asking questions, and a separate Paypal payment system. Paypal allows you to use a corporate or personal credit card to make payment of Course fees.\r\n<p class=\"font_8\">The Course cost for your in-person attendance, is $1100 per person.  Up to 30 participants can attend Futures Thinking and Strategy Transformation 2030 in-person.</p>\r\nThe Course uses the powr.io link to Paypal system - powr.io is the means of linking the Paypal options. This system has been used by Engaging Futures in helping participants to make Course fee payments, since 2017.  If you require verification of this link, please ask Dr. Russo to email it to your business email address. <a href=\"https://www.powr.io/checkout_screen?app_id=12252613\">www.powr.io/checkout_screen?app_id=12252613</a>\r\n<p class=\"font_8\">The Online only participation fee is $600. All online sessions include plenary breakout rooms, facilitated by Course presenters.</p>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"Course Flyer\" tab_id=\"1605231285324-4922f16e-8c1d\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<p class=\"font_8\">The Futures Thinking and Strategy Transformation 2030 And Beyond Course brochure is now available upon request. Email a course administrator via the single email address colinrusso@engagingfutures.com</p>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"Who should attend this advanced three-day Course?\" tab_id=\"1605231412055-c4b2f296-22e3\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<p class=\"font_8\">Strategy leaders of government, councillors, corporate and industry leaders and officers, consultants and community sector strategists and practitioners, students and other individuals are all encouraged to attend.</p>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"CONTACT DETAILS\" tab_id=\"1605231867516-b98de893-9798\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h5 class=\"font_5\">Contact details</h5>\r\n<p class=\"font_7\">If you have any questions about the Course or about the registration systems, please contact Dr. Colin Russo, Managing Director, Engaging Futures.</p>\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"font_7\">\r\n 	<li>\r\n<p class=\"font_7\">Email <a href=\"mailto:colinrusso@engagingfutures.com\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-content=\"colinrusso@engagingfutures.com\" data-type=\"mail\">colinrusso@engagingfutures.com</a></p>\r\n</li>\r\n 	<li>\r\n<p class=\"font_7\">Telephone (+61)408887751</p>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nThank you![/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"PARTICIPANT ALUMNI\" tab_id=\"1605240589499-adf4c541-92d8\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h5 class=\"font_5\">Since 2017, our alumni has been growing on Facebook and LinkedIn. We connect you on day 1 of the Course, for your own networking purposes. We include a selection of photos from the event and include all slides presented, together with chat facilities and other resources.</h5>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/6\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row bg_type=\"grad\" bg_override=\"ex-full\" css=\".vc_custom_1476033850417{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 80px !important;padding-bottom: 80px !important;}\" bg_grad=\"background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%, #F0F0F0), color-stop(100%, #FFFFFF));background: -moz-linear-gradient(top,#F0F0F0 0%,#FFFFFF 100%);background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top,#F0F0F0 0%,#FFFFFF 100%);background: -o-linear-gradient(top,#F0F0F0 0%,#FFFFFF 100%);background: -ms-linear-gradient(top,#F0F0F0 0%,#FFFFFF 100%);background: linear-gradient(top,#F0F0F0 0%,#FFFFFF 100%);\"][vc_column css=\".vc_custom_1605249862210{background-color: #ffffff !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"OUR TESTIMONIALS\" font_container=\"tag:h2|text_align:center\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Read what our alumni are saying about their experiences on our Futures Thinking Course!\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:19px|text_align:center|color:%23afafaf\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_empty_space height=\"40px\"][ult_ihover thumb_height_width=\"300\" gutter_width=\"40\"][ult_ihover_item title=\"Brook Kitson\" thumb_img=\"id^291|url^http://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Brook-Kitson.jpeg|caption^null|alt^null|title^Brook Kitson|description^null\" hover_effect=\"effect19\" desc_font_color=\"#ffffff\" spacer_width=\"100\" spacer_border_width=\"1\" title_font_size=\"22\" title_font_line_height=\"28\" desc_font_size=\"12\" desc_font_line_height=\"18\" title_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:22px;\" title_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:28px;\" desc_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:12px;\" desc_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:18px;\"]\"I really got a lot out of the course (new ways of thinking and tools to get a desired outcome) and appreciated our discussions\"[/ult_ihover_item][ult_ihover_item title=\"Amanda Hirschausen\" thumb_img=\"id^268|url^http://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Amanda-Hirschausen.jpeg|caption^null|alt^null|title^Amanda Hirschausen|description^null\" hover_effect=\"effect19\" desc_font_color=\"#ffffff\" block_border_color=\"rgba(255,255,255,0.2)\" block_border_size=\"10\" spacer_width=\"100\" spacer_border_width=\"1\" title_font_size=\"22\" title_font_line_height=\"28\" desc_font_size=\"12\" desc_font_line_height=\"18\" title_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:22px;\" title_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:28px;\" desc_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:12px;\" desc_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:18px;\"]\"The practical tips about engaging business leaders, in the Futures Thinking and Strategy Transformation course truly expands the mind.  Sohail and Colin share their wealth of experience in thinking about and designing our preferred future.  It\'s fabulous!\".[/ult_ihover_item][ult_ihover_item title=\"Michael Cooke\" thumb_img=\"id^269|url^http://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Michael-Cooke.jpeg|caption^null|alt^null|title^Michael Cooke|description^null\" hover_effect=\"effect19\" desc_font_color=\"#ffffff\" block_border_color=\"rgba(255,255,255,0.2)\" block_border_size=\"10\" spacer_width=\"100\" spacer_border_width=\"1\" title_font_size=\"22\" title_font_line_height=\"28\" desc_font_size=\"12\" desc_font_line_height=\"18\" title_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:22px;\" title_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:28px;\" desc_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:12px;\" desc_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:18px;\"]\"Brilliant Course - I really enjoyed the team spirit and had a great time meeting other leaders and discussing how to create a better world - thanks!\".[/ult_ihover_item][ult_ihover_item title=\"Edwina Marks\" thumb_img=\"id^270|url^http://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Edwina-Marks-1.jpeg|caption^null|alt^null|title^Edwina Marks|description^null\" hover_effect=\"effect19\" desc_font_color=\"#ffffff\" block_border_color=\"rgba(255,255,255,0.2)\" block_border_size=\"10\" spacer_width=\"100\" spacer_border_width=\"1\" title_font_size=\"22\" title_font_line_height=\"28\" desc_font_size=\"12\" desc_font_line_height=\"18\" title_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:22px;\" title_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:28px;\" desc_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:12px;\" desc_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:18px;\"]\"My team and I found the three days a rewarding experience. 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(491, 1, '2020-11-16 20:13:31', '2020-11-16 10:13:31', '<p>[vc_row][vc_column][rev_slider slidertitle=\"Exploration Header\" alias=\"exploration-header\"][vc_empty_space height=\"120px\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"FUTURES THINKING AND STRATEGY TRANSFORMATION BEYOND 2030\" font_container=\"tag:h2|text_align:center\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Learn tools and methods to explore, create and manage alternative futures.<br />\nThis Course will be presented February 2021, live at the Gold Coast, Australia and at half price for online for international registrants. All workshops include live and online plenary breakout sessions.\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:22px|text_align:center|color:%239c9c9c\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=\"80px\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Course Presenters - wow, these guys are good!\" font_container=\"tag:h2|text_align:center\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_empty_space height=\"60px\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=\"stretch_row_content\" equal_height=\"yes\" bg_type=\"image\" parallax_style=\"vcpb-default\" bg_image_repeat=\"no-repeat\" bg_img_attach=\"fixed\" bg_override=\"full\" parallax_content=\"parallax_content_value\" seperator_enable=\"seperator_enable_value\" animation_type=\"h\" horizontal_animation=\"left-animation\" vertical_animation=\"top-animation\" disable_on_mobile=\"disable_on_mobile_value\" el_class=\"team-boxes-style\"][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605196884492{padding-top: 110px !important;padding-bottom: 110px !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}\" offset=\"vc_hidden-xs\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605228554238{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-right: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;padding-left: 40px !important;background-color: #a8a8a8 !important;}\"][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][vc_column_text el_class=\"make-p-small\"]</p>\n<h3></h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Professor Sohail Inayatullah</span></h3>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">UNESCO CHAIR OF FUTURES STUDIES</span></h6>\n<p>[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][vc_column_text el_class=\"make-p-small\"]<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Professor Sohail Inayatullah is a world-leading futurist and political scientist.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Professor Inayatullah is the inaugural UNESCO Chair of Futures Studies; winner of the Laurel Award 2010 for all-time best futurist; professor at the Graduate Institute of Futures Studies, Tamkang University, Taiwan; adjunct professor in the Faculty of Arts and Business, the University of the Sunshine Coast; and associate with Melbourne Business School - Mt Eliza Executive Education, University of Melbourne.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Professor Inayatullah has authored and edited 32 books and over 300 journal articles, book chapters, and reviews.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Professor Inayatullah has worked with organisations and governments locally and globally on internal transformation to create their own alternative and desired futures.</span>[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605253185562{padding-top: 110px !important;padding-bottom: 110px !important;background-image: url(http://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-13-at-01.31.57.png?id=241) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}\" offset=\"vc_hidden-xs\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605197129381{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-right: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;padding-left: 40px !important;}\"][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=\"80px\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=\"stretch_row_content\" equal_height=\"yes\" bg_type=\"image\" parallax_style=\"vcpb-default\" bg_image_repeat=\"no-repeat\" bg_img_attach=\"fixed\" bg_override=\"full\" parallax_content=\"parallax_content_value\" seperator_enable=\"seperator_enable_value\" animation_type=\"h\" horizontal_animation=\"left-animation\" vertical_animation=\"top-animation\" disable_on_mobile=\"disable_on_mobile_value\" el_class=\"team-boxes-style\"][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605197068247{padding-top: 110px !important;padding-bottom: 110px !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}\" offset=\"vc_hidden-xs\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605253200870{padding-top: 110px !important;padding-bottom: 110px !important;background-image: url(http://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-13-at-01.31.46.png?id=242) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605228566620{padding-top: 110px !important;padding-bottom: 110px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}\" offset=\"vc_hidden-xs\"][vc_column_text el_class=\"make-p-small\"]</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Dr. Colin Russo</span></h3>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">MANAGING DIRECTOR, ENGAGING FUTURES</span></h6>\n<p>[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][vc_column_text el_class=\"make-p-small\"]<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Dr. Colin has three decades of experience engaging stakeholders and clients of national, state and local governments. An award-winning futurist author, Colin writes using futures studies methods about topics including futures of cities, health, disabilities, security, technology and climate-change. Colin has facilitated futures workshops for City of Gold Coast\'s Our Bold Future 2037, and presented Futures Thinking Courses with Professor Inayatullah in 2017, 2018 and 2019. Dr. Russo also presented Futures Courses for the AFP, Brisbane Primary Health, National Disability Services (across Queensland), Uniting Care Queensland, Redland City Council, Bulloo Shire Council and the Queensland Government 2019 Leadership Series. He presented on water futures in Melbourne and futures of cities in Taiwan and USA.</span>[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605197029939{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-right: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;padding-left: 40px !important;}\"][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=\"120px\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Aims Of The Course\" font_container=\"tag:h2|text_align:center\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/6\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"2/3\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"The Course is intended to enhance your capacity to create alternative and preferred futures. Presenters will use case studies from foresight projects in government, corporate, and community sectors. 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desc_font_style=\"font-weight:500;\" title_font_size=\"desktop:13px;\" desc_font_size=\"desktop:14px;\" desc_font_line_height=\"desktop:20px;\"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=\"1/6\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"2/3\"][vc_empty_space height=\"80px\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"FAQs\" font_container=\"tag:h2|text_align:center\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_empty_space height=\"40px\"][vc_tta_accordion active_section=\"1\"][vc_tta_section title=\"Course resources\" tab_id=\"1462039446254-a71612d9-2b19\"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]Reading material will be provided prior to the Course. Participants will receive 4-5 articles written by Professor Sohail Inayatullah, and Dr. Colin Russo. For example, Dr. Russo encourages you to read <a href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XuOoz35o1Uy3dKkd1_nkxzVFUtfG5gH8/view?usp=sharing\">Creating Preferred Futures Of Australian Healthcare.</a> This article includes emerging issues gained from workshopping Australian healthcare futures to 2030, with medical health practitioners. The workshop and article applied the futures method, The Futures Triangle.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"Course locations\" tab_id=\"1462039446331-e7bbf359-6158\"][vc_column_text]This Course is offered in a hotel venue in Surfers Paradise, on the Gold Coast, and online.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"Registration\" tab_id=\"1463610695891-082b0cba-747b\"][vc_column_text]</p>\n<p class=\"font_8\">This Course is offered by Professor Inayatullah, and Dr. Russo, in February, 2021.</p>\n<p>On this website is a registration form for scheduling seats and asking questions, and a separate Paypal payment system. Paypal allows you to use a corporate or personal credit card to make payment of Course fees.</p>\n<p class=\"font_8\">The Course cost for your in-person attendance, is $1100 per person.  Up to 30 participants can attend Futures Thinking and Strategy Transformation 2030 in-person.</p>\n<p>The Course uses the powr.io link to Paypal system - powr.io is the means of linking the Paypal options. This system has been used by Engaging Futures in helping participants to make Course fee payments, since 2017.  If you require verification of this link, please ask Dr. Russo to email it to your business email address. <a href=\"https://www.powr.io/checkout_screen?app_id=12252613\">www.powr.io/checkout_screen?app_id=12252613</a></p>\n<p class=\"font_8\">The Online only participation fee is $600. All online sessions include plenary breakout rooms, facilitated by Course presenters.</p>\n<p>[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"Course Flyer\" tab_id=\"1605231285324-4922f16e-8c1d\"][vc_column_text]</p>\n<p class=\"font_8\">The Futures Thinking and Strategy Transformation 2030 And Beyond Course brochure is now available upon request. Email a course administrator via the single email address colinrusso@engagingfutures.com</p>\n<p>[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"Who should attend this advanced three-day Course?\" tab_id=\"1605231412055-c4b2f296-22e3\"][vc_column_text]</p>\n<p class=\"font_8\">Strategy leaders of government, councillors, corporate and industry leaders and officers, consultants and community sector strategists and practitioners, students and other individuals are all encouraged to attend.</p>\n<p>[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"CONTACT DETAILS\" tab_id=\"1605231867516-b98de893-9798\"][vc_column_text]</p>\n<h5 class=\"font_5\">Contact details</h5>\n<p class=\"font_7\">If you have any questions about the Course or about the registration systems, please contact Dr. Colin Russo, Managing Director, Engaging Futures.</p>\n<ul class=\"font_7\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"font_7\">Email <a href=\"mailto:colinrusso@engagingfutures.com\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-content=\"colinrusso@engagingfutures.com\" data-type=\"mail\">colinrusso@engagingfutures.com</a></p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"font_7\">Telephone (+61)408887751</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Thank you![/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"PARTICIPANT ALUMNI\" tab_id=\"1605240589499-adf4c541-92d8\"][vc_column_text]</p>\n<h5 class=\"font_5\">Since 2017, our alumni has been growing on Facebook and LinkedIn. We connect you on day 1 of the Course, for your own networking purposes. We include a selection of photos from the event and include all slides presented, together with chat facilities and other resources.</h5>\n<p>[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/6\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row bg_type=\"grad\" bg_override=\"ex-full\" css=\".vc_custom_1476033850417{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 80px !important;padding-bottom: 80px !important;}\" bg_grad=\"background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%, #F0F0F0), color-stop(100%, #FFFFFF));background: -moz-linear-gradient(top,#F0F0F0 0%,#FFFFFF 100%);background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top,#F0F0F0 0%,#FFFFFF 100%);background: -o-linear-gradient(top,#F0F0F0 0%,#FFFFFF 100%);background: -ms-linear-gradient(top,#F0F0F0 0%,#FFFFFF 100%);background: linear-gradient(top,#F0F0F0 0%,#FFFFFF 100%);\"][vc_column css=\".vc_custom_1605249862210{background-color: #ffffff !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"OUR TESTIMONIALS\" font_container=\"tag:h2|text_align:center\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Read what our alumni are saying about their experiences on our Futures Thinking Course!\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:19px|text_align:center|color:%23afafaf\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_empty_space height=\"40px\"][ult_ihover thumb_height_width=\"300\" gutter_width=\"40\"][ult_ihover_item title=\"Brook Kitson\" thumb_img=\"id^291|url^http://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Brook-Kitson.jpeg|caption^null|alt^null|title^Brook Kitson|description^null\" hover_effect=\"effect19\" desc_font_color=\"#ffffff\" spacer_width=\"100\" spacer_border_width=\"1\" title_font_size=\"22\" title_font_line_height=\"28\" desc_font_size=\"12\" desc_font_line_height=\"18\" title_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:22px;\" title_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:28px;\" desc_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:12px;\" desc_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:18px;\"]\"I really got a lot out of the course (new ways of thinking and tools to get a desired outcome) and appreciated our discussions\"[/ult_ihover_item][ult_ihover_item title=\"Amanda Hirschausen\" thumb_img=\"id^268|url^http://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Amanda-Hirschausen.jpeg|caption^null|alt^null|title^Amanda Hirschausen|description^null\" hover_effect=\"effect19\" desc_font_color=\"#ffffff\" block_border_color=\"rgba(255,255,255,0.2)\" block_border_size=\"10\" spacer_width=\"100\" spacer_border_width=\"1\" title_font_size=\"22\" title_font_line_height=\"28\" desc_font_size=\"12\" desc_font_line_height=\"18\" title_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:22px;\" title_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:28px;\" desc_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:12px;\" desc_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:18px;\"]\"The practical tips about engaging business leaders, in the Futures Thinking and Strategy Transformation course truly expands the mind.  Sohail and Colin share their wealth of experience in thinking about and designing our preferred future.  It\'s fabulous!\".[/ult_ihover_item][ult_ihover_item title=\"Michael Cooke\" thumb_img=\"id^269|url^http://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Michael-Cooke.jpeg|caption^null|alt^null|title^Michael Cooke|description^null\" hover_effect=\"effect19\" desc_font_color=\"#ffffff\" block_border_color=\"rgba(255,255,255,0.2)\" block_border_size=\"10\" spacer_width=\"100\" spacer_border_width=\"1\" title_font_size=\"22\" title_font_line_height=\"28\" desc_font_size=\"12\" desc_font_line_height=\"18\" title_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:22px;\" title_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:28px;\" desc_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:12px;\" desc_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:18px;\"]\"Brilliant Course - I really enjoyed the team spirit and had a great time meeting other leaders and discussing how to create a better world - thanks!\".[/ult_ihover_item][ult_ihover_item title=\"Edwina Marks\" thumb_img=\"id^270|url^http://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Edwina-Marks-1.jpeg|caption^null|alt^null|title^Edwina Marks|description^null\" hover_effect=\"effect19\" desc_font_color=\"#ffffff\" block_border_color=\"rgba(255,255,255,0.2)\" block_border_size=\"10\" spacer_width=\"100\" spacer_border_width=\"1\" title_font_size=\"22\" title_font_line_height=\"28\" desc_font_size=\"12\" desc_font_line_height=\"18\" title_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:22px;\" title_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:28px;\" desc_responsive_font_size=\"desktop:12px;\" desc_responsive_line_height=\"desktop:18px;\"]\"My team and I found the three days a rewarding experience. 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(492, 1, '2020-11-16 20:19:31', '2020-11-16 10:19:31', '<p>[vc_row][vc_column][rev_slider slidertitle=\"Exploration Header\" alias=\"exploration-header\"][vc_empty_space height=\"120px\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"FUTURES THINKING AND STRATEGY TRANSFORMATION BEYOND 2030\" font_container=\"tag:h2|text_align:center\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Learn tools and methods to explore, create and manage alternative futures.<br />\nThis Course will be presented February 2021, live at the Gold Coast, Australia and at half price for online for international registrants. All workshops include live and online plenary breakout sessions.\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:22px|text_align:center|color:%239c9c9c\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=\"80px\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Credentialled Experienced Course Presenters \" font_container=\"tag:h2|text_align:center\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_empty_space height=\"60px\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=\"stretch_row_content\" equal_height=\"yes\" bg_type=\"image\" parallax_style=\"vcpb-default\" bg_image_repeat=\"no-repeat\" bg_img_attach=\"fixed\" bg_override=\"full\" parallax_content=\"parallax_content_value\" seperator_enable=\"seperator_enable_value\" animation_type=\"h\" horizontal_animation=\"left-animation\" vertical_animation=\"top-animation\" disable_on_mobile=\"disable_on_mobile_value\" el_class=\"team-boxes-style\"][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605196884492{padding-top: 110px !important;padding-bottom: 110px !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}\" offset=\"vc_hidden-xs\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605228554238{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-right: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;padding-left: 40px !important;background-color: #a8a8a8 !important;}\"][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][vc_column_text el_class=\"make-p-small\"]</p>\n<h3></h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Professor Sohail Inayatullah</span></h3>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">UNESCO CHAIR OF FUTURES STUDIES</span></h6>\n<p>[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][vc_column_text el_class=\"make-p-small\"]<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Professor Sohail Inayatullah is a world-leading futurist and political scientist.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Professor Inayatullah is the inaugural UNESCO Chair of Futures Studies; winner of the Laurel Award 2010 for all-time best futurist; professor at the Graduate Institute of Futures Studies, Tamkang University, Taiwan; adjunct professor in the Faculty of Arts and Business, the University of the Sunshine Coast; and associate with Melbourne Business School - Mt Eliza Executive Education, University of Melbourne.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Professor Inayatullah has authored and edited 32 books and over 300 journal articles, book chapters, and reviews.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Professor Inayatullah has worked with organisations and governments locally and globally on internal transformation to create their own alternative and desired futures.</span>[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605253185562{padding-top: 110px !important;padding-bottom: 110px !important;background-image: url(http://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-13-at-01.31.57.png?id=241) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}\" offset=\"vc_hidden-xs\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605197129381{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-right: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;padding-left: 40px !important;}\"][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=\"80px\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=\"stretch_row_content\" equal_height=\"yes\" bg_type=\"image\" parallax_style=\"vcpb-default\" bg_image_repeat=\"no-repeat\" bg_img_attach=\"fixed\" bg_override=\"full\" parallax_content=\"parallax_content_value\" seperator_enable=\"seperator_enable_value\" animation_type=\"h\" horizontal_animation=\"left-animation\" vertical_animation=\"top-animation\" disable_on_mobile=\"disable_on_mobile_value\" el_class=\"team-boxes-style\"][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605197068247{padding-top: 110px !important;padding-bottom: 110px !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}\" offset=\"vc_hidden-xs\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605253200870{padding-top: 110px !important;padding-bottom: 110px !important;background-image: url(http://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-13-at-01.31.46.png?id=242) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605228566620{padding-top: 110px !important;padding-bottom: 110px !important;background-color: #000000 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}\" offset=\"vc_hidden-xs\"][vc_column_text el_class=\"make-p-small\"]</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Dr. Colin Russo</span></h3>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">MANAGING DIRECTOR, ENGAGING FUTURES</span></h6>\n<p>[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][vc_column_text el_class=\"make-p-small\"]<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Dr. Colin has three decades of experience engaging stakeholders and clients of national, state and local governments. An award-winning futurist author, Colin writes using futures studies methods about topics including futures of cities, health, disabilities, security, technology and climate-change. Colin has facilitated futures workshops for City of Gold Coast\'s Our Bold Future 2037, and presented Futures Thinking Courses with Professor Inayatullah in 2017, 2018 and 2019. Dr. Russo also presented Futures Courses for the AFP, Brisbane Primary Health, National Disability Services (across Queensland), Uniting Care Queensland, Redland City Council, Bulloo Shire Council and the Queensland Government 2019 Leadership Series. He presented on water futures in Melbourne and futures of cities in Taiwan and USA.</span>[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1605197029939{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-right: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;padding-left: 40px !important;}\"][vc_empty_space height=\"20px\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=\"120px\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Aims Of The Course\" font_container=\"tag:h2|text_align:center\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/6\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"2/3\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"The Course is intended to enhance your capacity to create alternative and preferred futures. Presenters will use case studies from foresight projects in government, corporate, and community sectors. 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Participants will receive 4-5 articles written by Professor Sohail Inayatullah, and Dr. Colin Russo. For example, Dr. Russo encourages you to read <a href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XuOoz35o1Uy3dKkd1_nkxzVFUtfG5gH8/view?usp=sharing\">Creating Preferred Futures Of Australian Healthcare.</a> This article includes emerging issues gained from workshopping Australian healthcare futures to 2030, with medical health practitioners. The workshop and article applied the futures method, The Futures Triangle.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"Course locations\" tab_id=\"1462039446331-e7bbf359-6158\"][vc_column_text]This Course is offered in a hotel venue in Surfers Paradise, on the Gold Coast, and online.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"Registration\" tab_id=\"1463610695891-082b0cba-747b\"][vc_column_text]</p>\n<p class=\"font_8\">This Course is offered by Professor Inayatullah, and Dr. Russo, in February, 2021.</p>\n<p>On this website is a registration form for scheduling seats and asking questions, and a separate Paypal payment system. Paypal allows you to use a corporate or personal credit card to make payment of Course fees.</p>\n<p class=\"font_8\">The Course cost for your in-person attendance, is $1100 per person.  Up to 30 participants can attend Futures Thinking and Strategy Transformation 2030 in-person.</p>\n<p>The Course uses the powr.io link to Paypal system - powr.io is the means of linking the Paypal options. This system has been used by Engaging Futures in helping participants to make Course fee payments, since 2017.  If you require verification of this link, please ask Dr. Russo to email it to your business email address. <a href=\"https://www.powr.io/checkout_screen?app_id=12252613\">www.powr.io/checkout_screen?app_id=12252613</a></p>\n<p class=\"font_8\">The Online only participation fee is $600. All online sessions include plenary breakout rooms, facilitated by Course presenters.</p>\n<p>[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"Course Flyer\" tab_id=\"1605231285324-4922f16e-8c1d\"][vc_column_text]</p>\n<p class=\"font_8\">The Futures Thinking and Strategy Transformation 2030 And Beyond Course brochure is now available upon request. Email a course administrator via the single email address colinrusso@engagingfutures.com</p>\n<p>[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"Who should attend this advanced three-day Course?\" tab_id=\"1605231412055-c4b2f296-22e3\"][vc_column_text]</p>\n<p class=\"font_8\">Strategy leaders of government, councillors, corporate and industry leaders and officers, consultants and community sector strategists and practitioners, students and other individuals are all encouraged to attend.</p>\n<p>[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"CONTACT DETAILS\" tab_id=\"1605231867516-b98de893-9798\"][vc_column_text]</p>\n<h5 class=\"font_5\">Contact details</h5>\n<p class=\"font_7\">If you have any questions about the Course or about the registration systems, please contact Dr. Colin Russo, Managing Director, Engaging Futures.</p>\n<ul class=\"font_7\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"font_7\">Email <a href=\"mailto:colinrusso@engagingfutures.com\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-content=\"colinrusso@engagingfutures.com\" data-type=\"mail\">colinrusso@engagingfutures.com</a></p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"font_7\">Telephone (+61)408887751</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Thank you![/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=\"PARTICIPANT ALUMNI\" tab_id=\"1605240589499-adf4c541-92d8\"][vc_column_text]</p>\n<h5 class=\"font_5\">Since 2017, our alumni has been growing on Facebook and LinkedIn. 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(517, 1, '2020-11-16 21:27:04', '2020-11-16 11:27:04', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<div class=\"yF0IC\" data-hook=\"post-description\">\n<article class=\"blog-post-page-font\">\n<div class=\"post-content__body\">\n<div class=\"lV_uZ _1LHlu _1ltva\" data-rce-version=\"8.3.0\">\n<div class=\"kcuBq _1PkHV blog-post-page-font _3f8WX uatYj\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"kaqlz _1FQ9t blog-post-page-font zJfAe\">\n<div class=\"lead-text\">\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Dry heat and drought in one season and flooding rains in another is part and parcel of our global food futures to 2050. Also on the radar is a tidal wave of change caused by global warming, population growth, digital futures and deep systemic issues in food futures to 2050 and beyond. These issues are influencing food security, scarcity and trends like biotechnology and precision agriculture in the food industry.</span></p>\n</div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">It is argued in this article that bringing sustainability to our fluctuating food futures requires the workshopping of holistic problems and opportunities across multiple emerging issues to align current practices with emerging challenges.</span></p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">The method used in writing this article is Emerging Issues Analysis (EIA) by Graham Molitor. It is one of the Futures Thinking tools and methods from Professor Sohail Inayatullah’s Six Pillars of Futures Studies (2008).</span></p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Global emerging issues on the demand and supply of food</span></strong></p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Emerging issues may make huge changes to food futures, but people really aren’t aware of their presence. The consequence of the issue may seem a long way off in the future, yet may be building in the background with no statistics pervasive in the popular media.</span></p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Statistics about demand for food are always being monitored, by authorities interested in the consumer price index, i.e., when the price of food changes and it has a small impact on inflation, but this is only news for some people. Statistics are also monitored closely by food suppliers (growers, sellers, packaging companies, restaurateurs and food outlets, regulators, health providers and educators) who flex to the desires of consumers.</span></p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">These issues fit well with </span><a href=\"https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/bitstream/10453/51643/4/9BACB453-E04F-4BC2-B197-ADD80FF8D36E%20am.pdf\">research</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> theory stating that socio-economic context is linked to environmental futurity – </span><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">suppliers of food are impacted by global warming but also by population growth. By 2050 a population of 9 billion will mean farmers have to feed 310 people per farmer - almost twice as many people than they did just a decade ago.</span></p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">At the same time as global populations are growing, farmers are currently experiencing some of the warmest and unseasonably wet and drier months on record. In Queensland, Australia temperatures are </span><a href=\"http://www.climatekelpie.com.au/see-forecasts/australias-future-climate/queenslands-future-climate\">expected</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> to rise by 1 degree by 2030 and by up to 4 degrees by 2070 under a high emissions scenario. Further to this problem, </span><a href=\"http://www.bom.gov.au/state-of-the-climate/State-of-the-Climate-2016.pdf\">extreme heat events</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> (the number of extremely hot days each year) have been increasing across the Australian continent, from none in 1910 to 28 every year in 2017.</span></p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Fluctuating temperatures influence rainfall patterns. In 2016 France experienced its driest July and August on </span><a href=\"http://library.wmo.int/\">record</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> and Switzerland had its driest December on record, while parts of Eastern Australia had their wettest month on record in September. After the driest eight months on record from September 2015 to April 2016, Tasmania in Australia, had its wettest May to December on record resulting in record winter grain production 49% above that of the winter before. In 2014 Brazil had its worst drought in 85 years, and it is home to more seed plants than any other country in the world.</span></p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">While global warming is an issue and a trend in itself, we don’t often think about its impact on </span><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MIlFNQniYI&amp;feature=youtu.be\">ocean warming and acidif</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">ication.</span><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> Anthropogenic change is putting pressure on the supply of food from land but also from our oceans.</span></p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">There are </span><a href=\"http://globalprioritiesproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Global-Catastrophic-Risk-Annual-Report-2016-FINAL.pdf\">global risks</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> to these emerging issues, such as </span><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">food security, seed protection and development of alternative food sources.</span></p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Who is most at risk of going hungry? According to the United Nations, today </span><a href=\"http://publications.wfp.org/2017/mapping-hunger/index.html?_ga=2.119751560.1207568174.1507595817-1250403088.1507595817\">four countries are fighting famine</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">: Yemen, Somalia, Nigeria and South Sudan. The UN has 17 Sustainability Development Goals. Sustainability is the capability to advance long-term multi-faceted quality of life. There are numerous </span><a href=\"http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/hunger/\">hunger issues and food security</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> issues</span><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">. Hunger issues identified by the UN include:</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Globally, one in nine people in the world today (795 million) are undernourished</span></li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">The vast majority of the world’s hungry people live in developing countries, where 12.9 per cent of the population is undernourished.</span></li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Asia is the continent with the most hungry people – two thirds of the total. The percentage in southern Asia has fallen in recent years but in western Asia it has increased slightly.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Trends that influence food futures</span></strong></p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Trends are a line of development that occur over a period of time. </span><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">A number of foods have become fashionable in 2017, like Thai styled roll-up ice-cream, veggie burgers, seaweed, mixed mocktails. New practices have also emerged, such as healthy dinners ordered via virtual reality restaurants and Google drones delivering foods, e.g., around US campuses.</span></p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Consumer choice is now being driven by concerns for personal health, ethical growers, taste and home cooking as popularized by a host of reality cooking television shows. This trend, for example, is influencing the product lines of the </span><a href=\"http://brandfinance.com/images/upload/brand_finance_food_and_beverage_report_locked.pdf\">world’s most valuable food brand</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> Nestle, who are now adding healthier food to their product lines.</span></p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Nestle is losing billions of dollars because of the trend and is now transforming its products to align to health food futures. The reason for this trend can be found in a 2016 </span><a href=\"http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/national-survey-taps-over-1700-dietitians-to-predict-top-2017-food-trends-300376374.html\">survey of 1,700 US dietitians</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">,</span><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> that shows 49% of registered dietitians attribute the change to “mindfulness” eating where consumers will choose health foods over diets – why? Consumers are now better connected to the recommendations of registered dietitians through technology: fit-bits, point of sale apps and social media devices.</span></p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Technology trends such as biotechnology continue to offer resistance to viruses and increases in the shelf life of food which decreases food waste e.g. </span><a href=\"http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0734975014001931\">a new generation of genome editing tools</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> is being developed for plants to help speed up gene discovery and trait development to facilitate both forward and reverse genetics.</span></p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">A pervasive technological trend is precision agriculture which creates specific strategies for each field of crops by using drones to monitor crop health, quadcopters to measure the growth of crops, apps to model data, </span><a href=\"http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-11/precision-agriculture/7162914\">lasers</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> to sense plant health to match plants to fertilizers and pesticides, and artificial intelligence to match plants to particular soil types. Computers aboard drones will also use the images with algorithms to </span><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/inaturalist-challenge-at-fgvc-2017\">recognise differences between plant and animal species</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">.</span></p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Solutions for a more sustainable future of food</span></strong></p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Over time, trends can drive problems that require solutions. A range of global solutions are provided below.</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0024/002468/246887E.pdf\">Systemic change</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> is recommended because of the interlinkages between consumer demand, product supply lifecycles and the environment – as technology-assisted populations increase from 6 billion to 9 billion, global incomes are increasing, further disturbing ecosystems, increasing energy use and expanding global industry, while water is in decline.</span></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/queensland-remains-australias-biggest-greenhouse-gas-emitter-20170711-gx951t.html\">Reduce greenhouse gas emissions</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> via development of carbon sinks, transitioning to electric vehicles, and by de-carbonising the energy sector, with a transitioning to solar and other renewables.</span></li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Use specialist </span><a href=\"http://www.gulf-times.com/story/565285/Dutch-firms-offer-solutions-for-Qatar-food-securit\">greenhouse techniques</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> to provide stable climates for crops.</span></li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Understand the role of fair, equitable and sustainable food practices and trade in contributing to </span><a href=\"http://brandfinance.com/images/upload/brand_finance_food_and_beverage_report_locked.pdf\">the full food brand value chain</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> including links between marketing investment, brand tracking data, stakeholder behaviour and business value.</span></li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Protect food sources and plants on </span><a href=\"https://stateoftheworldsplants.com/2016/report/sotwp_2016.pdf\">the endangered list</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> and threatened foods such as </span><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/26/chips-chocolate-and-coffee-our-food-crops-face-mass-extinction-too\">chocolate</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">, honey, </span><a href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-fa38cb91-bdc0-4229-8cae-1d5c3b447337\">coffee</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> and peanut paste, and protect wild food sources not currently gene banked e.g. banana, aubergine and sorghum. A most important preservation and adaptation strategy is biodiversity – variety is the spice of life. This is because predicting temperatures for the planting of a particular crop is unwise when </span><a href=\"https://thefern.org/ag_insider/syrian-seeds-shake-europes-plant-patent-regime/\">a range of crops</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> can self-select for changes in climate.</span></li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Support food-related targets of the </span><a href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20060223053428/http:/www.biodiv.org:80/doc/decisions/COP-06-dec-en.pdf\">Global Strategy for Plant Conservation</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> to conserve 70% of the genetic diversity of crops and associated indigenous and local knowledge, and to halt the decline of resources and knowledge sustaining livelihoods, food security and health. In sub-Saharan Africa, studies showed that changes are needed by 2050 to prevent areas growing maize, bananas and beans from becoming unviable, through, for example, </span><a href=\"https://www.bioversityinternational.org/fileadmin/_migrated/uploads/tx_news/Participatory_plant_breeding_to_promote_Farmers__Rights_1254.pdf\">participatory plant breeding</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">.</span></li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Identify </span><a href=\"https://stateoftheworldsplants.com/2016/climate-change.html\">which regions are more sensitive</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> to climatic drivers than others, and reverse the effects of climate change overall, but especially in arid regions.</span></li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Eliminate food waste in the post-harvest supply chain, as more than </span><a href=\"http://www.eco-business.com/news/fixing-food-loss-with-disruptive-tech/\">one-third of food waste occurs before it reaches supermarket shelves</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">.</span></li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Link growers to food technologists and tech experts who can create apps and devices that support ethical choices, so that consumers know </span><a href=\"http://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/australia/whats-the-real-price-of-your-groceries.aspx\">the real price of their groceries</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Going Forward</span></strong></p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Advances in food technology are tremendously important to beating Malthusian scenarios where populations grow faster than food can be produced. In fact, everyone can </span><a href=\"http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/takeaction/\">take action</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> to help transform our food futures – whether it’s from your couch, at home, or outside the house, taking care of your right to elect appropriate leaders, or buying locally and buying smart, or even planting locally and learning about endangered plants to save them from becoming</span> <a href=\"http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/excerpt/2015/Jordan_Edible_Memory.html\">heirlooms</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> of the past.</span></p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Even with advanced equipment, life cycles, and systems, consumers and stakeholders cannot be connected to humane, sustainable futures without foresight and strategic direction. Growers and stakeholders struggle to make their industries sustainable </span><a href=\"https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601935/six-ways-drones-are-revolutionizing-agriculture/\">using AI in agricultural settings</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> to automate plant and soil solutions because of drone safety, privacy issues and insurance questions that policy makers must grapple with. Systemic cooperation across boundaries is needed to facilitate outcomes where </span><a href=\"https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601935/six-ways-drones-are-revolutionizing-agriculture/\">AI in the food industry</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> offers new hope to a changing planet.</span></p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">The old story is of farmers providing the food basket to feed the global village. The new story is of the global village becoming sustainability farmers.</span></p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p><strong><em><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Dr Colin Russo</span></em></strong><strong><em><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> is an Australian futurist, facilitator, award-winning futures author and award-winning engagement expert. Dr Russo has worked for the Queensland Department of Environment and Department of Mines and Energy and for the City of Gold Coast. He worked for Director General’s and CEO’s Offices and continues to work with executive and policy staff and their stakeholders.</span></em></strong></p>\n<p><strong><em><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">From 2015 Dr Russo has worked as Managing Director of Engaging Futures, a consultancy delivering futures workshops for executives and staff interested in learning about and working on their futures thinking and action learning projects. Most recently, Dr Russo has presented in the USA, Taiwan and Australia. From 2015 he has been a futurist facilitator of 1-3 day futures workshops, panels, forums and strategy developments for State and Local governments and for corporations.</span></em></strong></p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n</article>\n</div>\n<div class=\"_1yEvn\">\n<div class=\"_3YxRQ\" data-hook=\"post-main-actions-desktop\">\n<div class=\"ygPzE blog-separator-background-color\"> </div>\n<div class=\"_29Euw MQFQm\">\n<div id=\"post-social-actions\" class=\"_1nBO7 blog-text-color\" tabindex=\"-1\"> </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'The Future of Food - Who Will Be Hungry?', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1-autosave-v1', '', '', '2020-11-16 21:27:04', '2020-11-16 11:27:04', '', 1, 'http://localhost:8888/wordpress/2020/11/16/1-autosave-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(518, 1, '2020-11-16 21:24:59', '2020-11-16 11:24:59', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\r\n<div class=\"yF0IC\" data-hook=\"post-description\">\r\n<article class=\"blog-post-page-font\">\r\n<div class=\"post-content__body\">\r\n<div class=\"lV_uZ _1LHlu _1ltva\" data-rce-version=\"8.3.0\">\r\n<div class=\"kcuBq _1PkHV blog-post-page-font _3f8WX uatYj\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<div class=\"kaqlz _1FQ9t blog-post-page-font zJfAe\">\r\n<p id=\"viewer-9akf3\" class=\"XzvDs _208Ie ljrnk blog-post-text-font blog-post-text-color _2QAo- _25MYV _1Fao9 ljrnk public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr\"><span class=\"vkIF2 public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\">Dry heat and drought in one season and flooding rains in another is part and parcel of our global food futures to 2050. Also on the radar is a tidal wave of change caused by global warming, population growth, digital futures and deep systemic issues in food futures to 2050 and beyond. These issues are influencing food security, scarcity and trends like biotechnology and precision agriculture in the food industry. It is argued in this article, that bringing sustainability to our fluctuating food futures requires the workshopping of holistic problems and opportunities across multiple emerging issues to align current practices with emerging challenges.</span></p>\r\n<p id=\"viewer-af493\" class=\"XzvDs _208Ie ljrnk blog-post-text-font blog-post-text-color _2QAo- _25MYV _1Fao9 ljrnk public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr\"><span class=\"vkIF2 public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\">The method used in writing this article is Emerging Issues Analysis (EIA) by Graham Molitor. It is one of the Futures Thinking tools and methods from Professor Sohail Inayatullah’s Six Pillars of Futures Studies (2008). I work with Professor Inayatullah, UNESCO Chair of Futures Studies while conducting futures workshops on the futures of cities, disability, health and wellbeing and other topics. </span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</article>\r\n</div>\r\n<div class=\"_1yEvn\">\r\n<div class=\"_3YxRQ\" data-hook=\"post-main-actions-desktop\">\r\n<div class=\"ygPzE blog-separator-background-color\"> </div>\r\n<div class=\"_29Euw MQFQm\">\r\n<div id=\"post-social-actions\" class=\"_1nBO7 blog-text-color\" tabindex=\"-1\"> </div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'The Future of Food - Who Will Be Hungry?', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1-revision-v1', '', '', '2020-11-16 21:24:59', '2020-11-16 11:24:59', '', 1, 'http://localhost:8888/wordpress/2020/11/16/1-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(519, 1, '2020-11-16 21:27:30', '2020-11-16 11:27:30', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\r\n<div class=\"yF0IC\" data-hook=\"post-description\">\r\n<article class=\"blog-post-page-font\">\r\n<div class=\"post-content__body\">\r\n<div class=\"lV_uZ _1LHlu _1ltva\" data-rce-version=\"8.3.0\">\r\n<div class=\"kcuBq _1PkHV blog-post-page-font _3f8WX uatYj\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<div class=\"kaqlz _1FQ9t blog-post-page-font zJfAe\">\r\n<div class=\"lead-text\">\r\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Dry heat and drought in one season and flooding rains in another is part and parcel of our global food futures to 2050. Also on the radar is a tidal wave of change caused by global warming, population growth, digital futures and deep systemic issues in food futures to 2050 and beyond. These issues are influencing food security, scarcity and trends like biotechnology and precision agriculture in the food industry.</span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">It is argued in this article that bringing sustainability to our fluctuating food futures requires the workshopping of holistic problems and opportunities across multiple emerging issues to align current practices with emerging challenges.</span></p>\r\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">The method used in writing this article is Emerging Issues Analysis (EIA) by Graham Molitor. It is one of the Futures Thinking tools and methods from Professor Sohail Inayatullah’s Six Pillars of Futures Studies (2008).</span></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Global emerging issues on the demand and supply of food</span></strong></p>\r\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Emerging issues may make huge changes to food futures, but people really aren’t aware of their presence. The consequence of the issue may seem a long way off in the future, yet may be building in the background with no statistics pervasive in the popular media.</span></p>\r\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Statistics about demand for food are always being monitored, by authorities interested in the consumer price index, i.e., when the price of food changes and it has a small impact on inflation, but this is only news for some people. Statistics are also monitored closely by food suppliers (growers, sellers, packaging companies, restaurateurs and food outlets, regulators, health providers and educators) who flex to the desires of consumers.</span></p>\r\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">These issues fit well with </span><a href=\"https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/bitstream/10453/51643/4/9BACB453-E04F-4BC2-B197-ADD80FF8D36E%20am.pdf\">research</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> theory stating that socio-economic context is linked to environmental futurity – </span><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">suppliers of food are impacted by global warming but also by population growth. By 2050 a population of 9 billion will mean farmers have to feed 310 people per farmer - almost twice as many people than they did just a decade ago.</span></p>\r\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">At the same time as global populations are growing, farmers are currently experiencing some of the warmest and unseasonably wet and drier months on record. In Queensland, Australia temperatures are </span><a href=\"http://www.climatekelpie.com.au/see-forecasts/australias-future-climate/queenslands-future-climate\">expected</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> to rise by 1 degree by 2030 and by up to 4 degrees by 2070 under a high emissions scenario. Further to this problem, </span><a href=\"http://www.bom.gov.au/state-of-the-climate/State-of-the-Climate-2016.pdf\">extreme heat events</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> (the number of extremely hot days each year) have been increasing across the Australian continent, from none in 1910 to 28 every year in 2017.</span></p>\r\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Fluctuating temperatures influence rainfall patterns. In 2016 France experienced its driest July and August on </span><a href=\"http://library.wmo.int/\">record</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> and Switzerland had its driest December on record, while parts of Eastern Australia had their wettest month on record in September. After the driest eight months on record from September 2015 to April 2016, Tasmania in Australia, had its wettest May to December on record resulting in record winter grain production 49% above that of the winter before. In 2014 Brazil had its worst drought in 85 years, and it is home to more seed plants than any other country in the world.</span></p>\r\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">While global warming is an issue and a trend in itself, we don’t often think about its impact on </span><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MIlFNQniYI&amp;feature=youtu.be\">ocean warming and acidif</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">ication.</span><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> Anthropogenic change is putting pressure on the supply of food from land but also from our oceans.</span></p>\r\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">There are </span><a href=\"http://globalprioritiesproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Global-Catastrophic-Risk-Annual-Report-2016-FINAL.pdf\">global risks</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> to these emerging issues, such as </span><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">food security, seed protection and development of alternative food sources.</span></p>\r\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Who is most at risk of going hungry? According to the United Nations, today </span><a href=\"http://publications.wfp.org/2017/mapping-hunger/index.html?_ga=2.119751560.1207568174.1507595817-1250403088.1507595817\">four countries are fighting famine</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">: Yemen, Somalia, Nigeria and South Sudan. The UN has 17 Sustainability Development Goals. Sustainability is the capability to advance long-term multi-faceted quality of life. There are numerous </span><a href=\"http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/hunger/\">hunger issues and food security</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> issues</span><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">. Hunger issues identified by the UN include:</span></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Globally, one in nine people in the world today (795 million) are undernourished</span></li>\r\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">The vast majority of the world’s hungry people live in developing countries, where 12.9 per cent of the population is undernourished.</span></li>\r\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Asia is the continent with the most hungry people – two thirds of the total. The percentage in southern Asia has fallen in recent years but in western Asia it has increased slightly.</span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Trends that influence food futures</span></strong></p>\r\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Trends are a line of development that occur over a period of time. </span><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">A number of foods have become fashionable in 2017, like Thai styled roll-up ice-cream, veggie burgers, seaweed, mixed mocktails. New practices have also emerged, such as healthy dinners ordered via virtual reality restaurants and Google drones delivering foods, e.g., around US campuses.</span></p>\r\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Consumer choice is now being driven by concerns for personal health, ethical growers, taste and home cooking as popularized by a host of reality cooking television shows. This trend, for example, is influencing the product lines of the </span><a href=\"http://brandfinance.com/images/upload/brand_finance_food_and_beverage_report_locked.pdf\">world’s most valuable food brand</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> Nestle, who are now adding healthier food to their product lines.</span></p>\r\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Nestle is losing billions of dollars because of the trend and is now transforming its products to align to health food futures. The reason for this trend can be found in a 2016 </span><a href=\"http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/national-survey-taps-over-1700-dietitians-to-predict-top-2017-food-trends-300376374.html\">survey of 1,700 US dietitians</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">,</span><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> that shows 49% of registered dietitians attribute the change to “mindfulness” eating where consumers will choose health foods over diets – why? Consumers are now better connected to the recommendations of registered dietitians through technology: fit-bits, point of sale apps and social media devices.</span></p>\r\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Technology trends such as biotechnology continue to offer resistance to viruses and increases in the shelf life of food which decreases food waste e.g. </span><a href=\"http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0734975014001931\">a new generation of genome editing tools</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> is being developed for plants to help speed up gene discovery and trait development to facilitate both forward and reverse genetics.</span></p>\r\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">A pervasive technological trend is precision agriculture which creates specific strategies for each field of crops by using drones to monitor crop health, quadcopters to measure the growth of crops, apps to model data, </span><a href=\"http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-11/precision-agriculture/7162914\">lasers</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> to sense plant health to match plants to fertilizers and pesticides, and artificial intelligence to match plants to particular soil types. Computers aboard drones will also use the images with algorithms to </span><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/inaturalist-challenge-at-fgvc-2017\">recognise differences between plant and animal species</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">.</span></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Solutions for a more sustainable future of food</span></strong></p>\r\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Over time, trends can drive problems that require solutions. A range of global solutions are provided below.</span></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><a href=\"http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0024/002468/246887E.pdf\">Systemic change</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> is recommended because of the interlinkages between consumer demand, product supply lifecycles and the environment – as technology-assisted populations increase from 6 billion to 9 billion, global incomes are increasing, further disturbing ecosystems, increasing energy use and expanding global industry, while water is in decline.</span></li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/queensland-remains-australias-biggest-greenhouse-gas-emitter-20170711-gx951t.html\">Reduce greenhouse gas emissions</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> via development of carbon sinks, transitioning to electric vehicles, and by de-carbonising the energy sector, with a transitioning to solar and other renewables.</span></li>\r\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Use specialist </span><a href=\"http://www.gulf-times.com/story/565285/Dutch-firms-offer-solutions-for-Qatar-food-securit\">greenhouse techniques</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> to provide stable climates for crops.</span></li>\r\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Understand the role of fair, equitable and sustainable food practices and trade in contributing to </span><a href=\"http://brandfinance.com/images/upload/brand_finance_food_and_beverage_report_locked.pdf\">the full food brand value chain</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> including links between marketing investment, brand tracking data, stakeholder behaviour and business value.</span></li>\r\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Protect food sources and plants on </span><a href=\"https://stateoftheworldsplants.com/2016/report/sotwp_2016.pdf\">the endangered list</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> and threatened foods such as </span><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/26/chips-chocolate-and-coffee-our-food-crops-face-mass-extinction-too\">chocolate</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">, honey, </span><a href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-fa38cb91-bdc0-4229-8cae-1d5c3b447337\">coffee</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> and peanut paste, and protect wild food sources not currently gene banked e.g. banana, aubergine and sorghum. A most important preservation and adaptation strategy is biodiversity – variety is the spice of life. This is because predicting temperatures for the planting of a particular crop is unwise when </span><a href=\"https://thefern.org/ag_insider/syrian-seeds-shake-europes-plant-patent-regime/\">a range of crops</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> can self-select for changes in climate.</span></li>\r\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Support food-related targets of the </span><a href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20060223053428/http:/www.biodiv.org:80/doc/decisions/COP-06-dec-en.pdf\">Global Strategy for Plant Conservation</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> to conserve 70% of the genetic diversity of crops and associated indigenous and local knowledge, and to halt the decline of resources and knowledge sustaining livelihoods, food security and health. In sub-Saharan Africa, studies showed that changes are needed by 2050 to prevent areas growing maize, bananas and beans from becoming unviable, through, for example, </span><a href=\"https://www.bioversityinternational.org/fileadmin/_migrated/uploads/tx_news/Participatory_plant_breeding_to_promote_Farmers__Rights_1254.pdf\">participatory plant breeding</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">.</span></li>\r\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Identify </span><a href=\"https://stateoftheworldsplants.com/2016/climate-change.html\">which regions are more sensitive</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> to climatic drivers than others, and reverse the effects of climate change overall, but especially in arid regions.</span></li>\r\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Eliminate food waste in the post-harvest supply chain, as more than </span><a href=\"http://www.eco-business.com/news/fixing-food-loss-with-disruptive-tech/\">one-third of food waste occurs before it reaches supermarket shelves</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">.</span></li>\r\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Link growers to food technologists and tech experts who can create apps and devices that support ethical choices, so that consumers know </span><a href=\"http://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/australia/whats-the-real-price-of-your-groceries.aspx\">the real price of their groceries</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">.</span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Going Forward</span></strong></p>\r\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Advances in food technology are tremendously important to beating Malthusian scenarios where populations grow faster than food can be produced. In fact, everyone can </span><a href=\"http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/takeaction/\">take action</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> to help transform our food futures – whether it’s from your couch, at home, or outside the house, taking care of your right to elect appropriate leaders, or buying locally and buying smart, or even planting locally and learning about endangered plants to save them from becoming</span> <a href=\"http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/excerpt/2015/Jordan_Edible_Memory.html\">heirlooms</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> of the past.</span></p>\r\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Even with advanced equipment, life cycles, and systems, consumers and stakeholders cannot be connected to humane, sustainable futures without foresight and strategic direction. Growers and stakeholders struggle to make their industries sustainable </span><a href=\"https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601935/six-ways-drones-are-revolutionizing-agriculture/\">using AI in agricultural settings</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> to automate plant and soil solutions because of drone safety, privacy issues and insurance questions that policy makers must grapple with. Systemic cooperation across boundaries is needed to facilitate outcomes where </span><a href=\"https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601935/six-ways-drones-are-revolutionizing-agriculture/\">AI in the food industry</a><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"> offers new hope to a changing planet.</span></p>\r\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">The old story is of farmers providing the food basket to feed the global village. 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(520, 1, '2020-11-16 21:31:58', '2020-11-16 11:31:58', '“Our Future”, a year-long consultation process about a long-term vision for the City of Geelong, has begun. City of Greater Geelong CEO Kelvin Spiller engaged the first UNESCO chair of futures studies, <a href=\"http://www.soif.org.uk/sohail-inayatullah/\">Sohail Inayatullah</a>, to kick-start the project in September.\r\n\r\nSpiller, who has produced <a href=\"http://emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/FS-02-2016-0003\">outcomes for city visioning</a> initiatives on the Sunshine Coast, describes <a href=\"https://geelongaustralia.com.au/ourfuture/default.aspx\">Our Future</a> as a process of “presenting new perceptions, future directions, identifying used futures and new scenarios”. In a rapidly changing world, citizens use scenario thinking to gain insights into how cities can create alternative possibilities and solutions.\r\n<h2>How does industry see the future?</h2>\r\nInayatullah helped workshops of industry professionals develop various industry scenarios:\r\n<ol>\r\n 	<li>Geelong’s emerging futures emphasise its great coastal beauty and its people’s strengths. The city remains small compared to the Gold Coast although, with 229,000 people, Greater Geelong is still among the largest of 561 local government areas in Australia. It is attractive, scenic and touristy. The city’s tranquil bay and marina, picturesque vineyards and proximity attract holidaymakers from Melbourne.\r\n<div class=\"slot\" data-id=\"17\">\r\n<div class=\"promo\"></div>\r\n</div></li>\r\n 	<li>Artificial intelligence (AI) futures open up a journey on the digital highway to build crowdsourced ideas, new funding models and business start-ups. Geelong’s traditional motor vehicle <a href=\"http://users.tpg.com.au/gmc/industry_strengths.html\">manufacturing culture</a> combines with a spirit of innovation and global enterprise. The city promotes, evolves and services the introduction of driverless cars, the gaming industry, smart technologies and robotics.</li>\r\n 	<li>Geelong’s population density, growing diversity, economic mix and proximity to Melbourne’s demographic richness support it as a social and education city. Geelong increases its transport and connectedness to its unique destinations to attract wide interests, new worker profiles and residents seeking a “sea change” from Melbourne’s inner suburbs. Residents network with local business owners and workers to generate services and programs for regional neighbours and Melbourne’s markets.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<h2>What does the community want?</h2>\r\nGuided by Inayatullah, a community interactive session used metaphors to bring home a message of continual transition. He describes the use of metaphors as being a decisive factor in shifting narrative strategy:\r\n<blockquote>If you don’t innovate and create agency to shift your own narrative, then culture eats strategy for breakfast.</blockquote>\r\n<figure>\r\n<div class=\"fluidvids\"><iframe class=\"fluidvids-item\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/blP0Q61-SXI?wmode=transparent&amp;start=0\" width=\"440\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-fluidvids=\"loaded\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"></iframe></div>\r\n<figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Professor Sohail Inayatullah at the Geelong Our Future community session.</span></figcaption></figure>\r\nGeelong’s history of innovation includes the development of the world’s <a href=\"http://www.intown.com.au/feature/geelongs-ute-a-world-first.htm\">first ute</a> and the <a href=\"https://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2009/harrison-refrigerator-model/\">first industrial refrigerator</a>. This history suggests Geelong could provide services to global niche markets.\r\n\r\nThe community also suggested transitions from costly and unnatural botanic gardens to green bionic gardens – sprawling rooftop gardens, indoor gardens and rainwater systems flowing into indigenous gardens. Gardens would beautify municipal roads and infrastructure.\r\n\r\nAnother suggested transition was from being a “dormitory of Melbourne” to being a retreat for Melbourne holidaymakers and a “hive” location for its best thinkers to create their futures.\r\n\r\nIn the community session, I outlined Gold Coast’s <a href=\"http://www.gchaveyoursay.com.au/bfpdiscussionforum\">Bold Future</a> initiative. My presentation featured the city’s growth, including 100 new high-rises on the Surfers Paradise skyline in five decades.\r\n<figure>\r\n<div class=\"fluidvids\"><iframe class=\"fluidvids-item\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/QcdtmXYoRQs?wmode=transparent&amp;start=0\" width=\"440\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-fluidvids=\"loaded\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"></iframe></div>\r\n<figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The author explains how Gold Coast prepared for growth.</span></figcaption></figure>\r\n<h2>Navigating different growth scenarios</h2>\r\nThe challenge for Geelong is to navigate through growth scenarios such as:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Sustainable growth: five new high-rises emerge to support low-level tourism, conference accommodation and a burgeoning education and health precinct.</li>\r\n 	<li>Overdevelopment: an oversupply of residential and holiday maker apartments become difficult to fill, halting investment. Population waves are required to sustain rates and market base.</li>\r\n 	<li>Underdevelopment: Gold Coast’s rapid growth raises questions about Geelong’s slow growth and missed opportunities to develop high-rises alongside celebratory events packages. These packages rely on transport and tourism infrastructure and include the building of stadiums. The strength of underdevelopment, however, is that Geelong remains a clean, green and historically beautiful seaside city.</li>\r\n 	<li>Negative growth: collapse results in generations of hardship.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAn outcome of Gold Coast’s 2037 vision is its <a href=\"http://healthknowledge.moregoldcoast.com.au/\">Health and Knowledge Precinct</a>. The 200-hectare site has generated more than A$5 billion in investment and is now linked by light rail to the city’s tourism centres.\r\n\r\nSpiller noted that Geelong’s Our Future is continuing a 175-year process of reinvention. He hailed transformational metaphors that saw the city as more than a technology hub, potentially providing a deep commitment to networking to create a Silicon Valley. 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