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Welcome. The University of Houston Futures Studies Advisory Board is made up of some pretty impressive folks in the Futures community, quite a few who also happen to be alumni and professors.
If you happen to be one of board members and wish to update or change any of the information in your bio, please, let us know by emailing pbishop@uh.edu. Thanks!
The University of Houston Futures Studies Advisory Board
Andy Hines Adjunct Instructor at the University of Houston & Director of Custom Programs at Social Technologies (Chair)
Social Technologies: http://www.socialtechnologies.com
See Andy's bio on the Professor & Instructor page.
Joel Barker Independent Futurist & Author
http://joelbarker.com/
From Premiere Speakers Bureau: Joel Barker is an independent scholar and futurist. Because he was the first person to popularize the concept of paradigm shifts, he is known around the world as the "Paradigm Man." He began his work in 1975 and pioneered the concept of paradigm shifts to explain profound change and the importance of vision to drive change within organizations. His book, "Future Edge," published in 1992, was listed as one of the most influential business books of that year by the prestigious Library Journal...Formerly director of the Futures Studies Department of the Science Museum of Minnesota from 1974 to 1978, Joel Barker has spoken to more than 1 million people around the world.
Clement Bezold Founder and Chairman of the Board
Institute for Alternative Futures: http://www.altfutures.com/
Clement Bezold is Chairman of the Board and Founder of the Institute for Alternative Futures (IAF) and it's for-profit subsidiary, Alternative Futures Associates (AFA). Dr. Bezold established IAF in 1977 to encourage "Anticipatory Democracy." In 1982, he started AFA to assist corporations in their strategic planning. Trained as a political scientist, he has been a major developer of foresight techniques - applying futures research and strategic planning methods in both the public and private sectors. As a consultant, Dr. Bezold has worked with a large variety of successful and growing corporations as well as governments and non-profit organizations. He has designed numerous workshops and projects to study future environments in a wide range of fields including health care, law and the courts, the environment, genomics, and science and technology.
Napier Collyns of the Global Business Network (GBN)
Global Business Network: http://www.gbn.com/
From the GBN Website: Napier Collyns is a cofounder of Global Business Network. He is also a board member of the Arlington Institute and the Meridian International Institute, a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, and a member of Forum 21, International Futures Forum, and the editorial boards of Omnipedia—Thinking for Tomorrow and Geopolitics of Energy.Until recently he was a senior associate of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a public director of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), editor-at-large for Doubleday Currency, a board member of the Strategic Management Society and a participant in the ICIS Forum.
Tom Conger Founder of Social Technologies
Social Technologies: http://www.socialtechnologies.com
From Social Technologies Website: Tom Conger is a consulting futurist and the founder of Social Technologies. A generalist by choice, his ongoing studies span business, science, technology, culture, politics, demographics, the economy, and the environment. Tom’s breadth of knowledge is reflected in the clients he serves, which range from Fortune 100 companies to national technology agencies to professional associations...Before starting Social Technologies in 1999, Tom worked with leading futurist firms including Coates & Jarratt and the Institute for Alternative Futures...Tom is a graduate of the MS program in Studies of the Future at the University of Houston–Clear Lake and was a founding board member of the Association of Professional Futurists. He regularly speaks and writes about the future.
Christian Crews Director of Growth Strategies at Pitney-Bowes
Pitney Bowes: www.pb.com/
From the Futures Podcast Lecture Series:Christian Crews is the Director of Futures Strategy for Pitney Bowes, where he conducts foresight projects such as scenario planning, innovation workshops, environmental scanning and strategy development. Prior to joining Pitney Bowes, Christian was a Director at the Waitt Institute, where he facilitated community and nonprofit scenario planning workshops for social innovation and preferred futures. Before the institute, he developed strategy and innovation engagements as the Long Range Planner for Toshiba International Corp. He has a BA in English from the College of William and Mary, and a MS in Future Studies from the University of Houston - Clear Lake.
Ted Gordon Senior Research Fellow of the Millennium Project
Millennium Project: http://www.millennium-project.org/
From the Lifeboat Foundation: Ted Gordon is a futurist and management consultant. He is an expert in several high technology fields, a graduate engineer, a specialist in planning and policy analysis, and an entrepreneur. His current professional activities include consulting on strategy for several major corporations, lecturing, serving as Senior Research Fellow of the Millennium Project of the World Federation of the United Nations Association. He was cofounder of the Millennium Project and has participated on the corporate boards of Apollo Genetics, the Institute for Global Ethics, Registry Databases, and The Futures Group, the consulting firm he formed over twenty years ago.
Dominique Jaurola (Purcell) Director of Visioware
Visoware: http://www.visioware.com/
From Visoware's Site: Dominique is Director of Visioware; Visioware facilitates strategic foresight - business, technology and consumer foresight - to business outcomes, company wide transformation and action. Dominique is also the co-author of Strategic Foresight: The Power of Standing in the Future.
Oliver Markley Professor Emeritus, University of Houston-Clear Lake
http://www.owmarkley.org/
From Prof. Markley's Site: Oliver Markley is an emeritus professor of human sciences and studies of the future. His career began as a design engineer but quickly expanded to include social psychology and “futures research” (forecasting, strategic trend assessment, visioning, strategic planning). After ten years as a principal in a pioneering futures research “think tank” at the Stanford Research Institute's Management and Social Systems Group, he was recruited to chair a new graduate program in Studies of the Future at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, where he taught for 23 years before retirement. As a master of Focused Visioning methods, Dr. Markley maintains a part-time research and consulting practice, Inward Bound. Most recently, he has founded The Integrity Project—an experimental social action initiative using "Integral Spiritual Activism" as a way to uplift the level of integrity in the body politic: personal, public and planetary.
Pero Mićić (pronounced mitch-itch) President of Future ManagmentGroup
Future Management Group: http://english.futuremanagementgroup.com
From Future Management's Site: Dr. Pero Mićić is internationally known as a leading expert for Future Management.
Amy Oberg Corporate Futurist at Kimberly Clark
Kimberly Clark: www.kimberly-clark.com/
From New Context Consulting: Amy Oberg is a strategist, futurist and competitive analyst who specializes in helping organizations better understand the emerging competitive environment and respond with effective, proactive strategies. With over 23 years of cumulative experience in competitive, organizational, management, and market analyses, her insights regarding emerging trends, threats and opportunities, competitor activities, market conditions, and new technologies have been sought out by organizations in a wide variety of industries including aerospace, energy, telecommunications, transportation, consumer goods, real estate and finance. Most recently, Ms. Oberg has applied her knowledge and skills to assist organizations such as NASA, Enron, Dynegy, Kimberly Clark, Conoco, MCI, Solectron, United Nations, DARPA, the State of Minnesota, and the City of Kaoshuing (Taiwan). Ms Oberg is the creator of the radio program Speaking of the Future; co-chair of the Boston chapter of Women in Networking; and a member of The World Future Society and Mass Women In Technology. She has served on national and local steering committees and boards for the World Future Society and the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals. Ms. Oberg holds a Master of Science degree in Studies of the Future and a Bachelors degree in Communications. In addition, she has completed the Program for Managers at Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Management and formal CI training at the Academy of Competitive Intelligence.
Dave Rejeski Director Foresight and Governance Project & the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies
Woodrow Wilson Center: http://www.wilsoncenter.org/
From the Wilson Center: David Rejeski directs the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies. For the past four years he has been the Director of the Foresight and Governance Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center, an initiative designed to facilitate better long-term thinking and planning in the public sector. He was a Visiting Fellow at Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and an agency representative (from EPA) to the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). Before moving to CEQ, he worked at the White House Office of Science and Technology (OSTP) on a variety of technology and R&D issues, including the development and implementation of the National Environmental Technology Initiative. Before moving to OSTP, he was head of the Future Studies Unit at the Environmental Protection Agency. He spent four years in Hamburg, Germany, working for the Environmental Agency, Department of Public Health, and Department of Urban Renewal and, in the late 1970’s, founded and co-directed a non-profit involved in energy conservation and renewable energy technologies. He has written extensively on science, technology, and policy issues, in areas ranging from genetics to electronic commerce and pervasive computing and is the co-editor of the recent book: Environmentalism and the Technologies of Tomorrow: Shaping the Next Industrial Revolution, Island Press 2004. He sits on the advisory boards of a number of organizations, including the EPA’s Science Advisory Board, the Greening of Industry Network, the Journal of Industrial Ecology, and the University of Michigan’s Corporate Environmental Management Program. He is a member of the External Advisory Board of Nanologue, a European project to bring together leading researchers to facilitate an international dialogue on the social, ethical and legal benefits and potential impacts of nanosciences and nanotechnologies. He has graduate degrees in public administration and environmental design from Harvard and Yale.
Paul Saffo Independent Futurist
http://www.saffo.com
From Paul's Website: Paul is a forecaster and essayist with over two decades experience exploring long-term technological change and its practical impact on business and society. He currently teaches at Stanford University and is a Visiting Scholar in the Stanford Media X research network. He was the founding chairman of the Samsung Science Board and serves on a variety of other boards including the Long Now Foundation and the Singapore National Research Foundation Science Advisory Board. He is also an advisor to 3i Venture Capital and has served as an advisor and Forum Fellow to the World Economic Forum. Paul's is a columnist for ABCNews.com, and his essays have appeared in numerous publications, including The Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Wired, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, The New York Times, and the Washington Post. Paul is a Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and holds degrees from Harvard College, Cambridge University, and Stanford University.
Wendy Schultz Founder of Infinite Futures
Infinite Futures:http://www.infinitefutures.com/
Dr. Wendy L. Schultz is Director of Infinite Futures: Foresight Research, Training, and Facilitation, with over two decades of foresight practice from Honolulu to Helsinki, and Brisbane to Budapest. She earned her Ph.D. in Alternative Futures at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, working for five years forecasting global natural gas markets at the East-West Center, and over ten years as a researcher, foresight process designer, and project manager at the Hawai'i Research Center for Futures Studies. From 1996 to 2004 she served as visiting faculty with the Masters program in Studies of the Future at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, developing the introductory seminar, the qualitative methods seminar, and the facilitation practicum as part of overall curriculum redesign. Awarded a Fulbright grant in 2001, she spent six months as a lecturer and researcher with colleagues at the Finland Futures Research Centre.
Wendy is a Fellow of the World Futures Studies Federation, and a member of the Association of Professional Futurists.
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If you happen to be one of board members and wish to update or change any of the information in your bio, please, let us know by emailing pbishop@uh.edu. Thanks!
The University of Houston Futures Studies Advisory Board
Andy Hines Adjunct Instructor at the University of Houston & Director of Custom Programs at Social Technologies (Chair)
Social Technologies: http://www.socialtechnologies.com
See Andy's bio on the Professor & Instructor page.
Joel Barker Independent Futurist & Author
http://joelbarker.com/
From Premiere Speakers Bureau: Joel Barker is an independent scholar and futurist. Because he was the first person to popularize the concept of paradigm shifts, he is known around the world as the "Paradigm Man." He began his work in 1975 and pioneered the concept of paradigm shifts to explain profound change and the importance of vision to drive change within organizations. His book, "Future Edge," published in 1992, was listed as one of the most influential business books of that year by the prestigious Library Journal...Formerly director of the Futures Studies Department of the Science Museum of Minnesota from 1974 to 1978, Joel Barker has spoken to more than 1 million people around the world.
Clement Bezold Founder and Chairman of the Board
Institute for Alternative Futures: http://www.altfutures.com/
Clement Bezold is Chairman of the Board and Founder of the Institute for Alternative Futures (IAF) and it's for-profit subsidiary, Alternative Futures Associates (AFA). Dr. Bezold established IAF in 1977 to encourage "Anticipatory Democracy." In 1982, he started AFA to assist corporations in their strategic planning. Trained as a political scientist, he has been a major developer of foresight techniques - applying futures research and strategic planning methods in both the public and private sectors. As a consultant, Dr. Bezold has worked with a large variety of successful and growing corporations as well as governments and non-profit organizations. He has designed numerous workshops and projects to study future environments in a wide range of fields including health care, law and the courts, the environment, genomics, and science and technology.
Napier Collyns of the Global Business Network (GBN)
Global Business Network: http://www.gbn.com/
From the GBN Website: Napier Collyns is a cofounder of Global Business Network. He is also a board member of the Arlington Institute and the Meridian International Institute, a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, and a member of Forum 21, International Futures Forum, and the editorial boards of Omnipedia—Thinking for Tomorrow and Geopolitics of Energy.Until recently he was a senior associate of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a public director of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), editor-at-large for Doubleday Currency, a board member of the Strategic Management Society and a participant in the ICIS Forum.
Tom Conger Founder of Social Technologies
Social Technologies: http://www.socialtechnologies.com
From Social Technologies Website: Tom Conger is a consulting futurist and the founder of Social Technologies. A generalist by choice, his ongoing studies span business, science, technology, culture, politics, demographics, the economy, and the environment. Tom’s breadth of knowledge is reflected in the clients he serves, which range from Fortune 100 companies to national technology agencies to professional associations...Before starting Social Technologies in 1999, Tom worked with leading futurist firms including Coates & Jarratt and the Institute for Alternative Futures...Tom is a graduate of the MS program in Studies of the Future at the University of Houston–Clear Lake and was a founding board member of the Association of Professional Futurists. He regularly speaks and writes about the future.
Christian Crews Director of Growth Strategies at Pitney-Bowes
Pitney Bowes: www.pb.com/
From the Futures Podcast Lecture Series:Christian Crews is the Director of Futures Strategy for Pitney Bowes, where he conducts foresight projects such as scenario planning, innovation workshops, environmental scanning and strategy development. Prior to joining Pitney Bowes, Christian was a Director at the Waitt Institute, where he facilitated community and nonprofit scenario planning workshops for social innovation and preferred futures. Before the institute, he developed strategy and innovation engagements as the Long Range Planner for Toshiba International Corp. He has a BA in English from the College of William and Mary, and a MS in Future Studies from the University of Houston - Clear Lake.
Ted Gordon Senior Research Fellow of the Millennium Project
Millennium Project: http://www.millennium-project.org/
From the Lifeboat Foundation: Ted Gordon is a futurist and management consultant. He is an expert in several high technology fields, a graduate engineer, a specialist in planning and policy analysis, and an entrepreneur. His current professional activities include consulting on strategy for several major corporations, lecturing, serving as Senior Research Fellow of the Millennium Project of the World Federation of the United Nations Association. He was cofounder of the Millennium Project and has participated on the corporate boards of Apollo Genetics, the Institute for Global Ethics, Registry Databases, and The Futures Group, the consulting firm he formed over twenty years ago.
Dominique Jaurola (Purcell) Director of Visioware
Visoware: http://www.visioware.com/
From Visoware's Site: Dominique is Director of Visioware; Visioware facilitates strategic foresight - business, technology and consumer foresight - to business outcomes, company wide transformation and action. Dominique is also the co-author of Strategic Foresight: The Power of Standing in the Future.
Oliver Markley Professor Emeritus, University of Houston-Clear Lake
http://www.owmarkley.org/
From Prof. Markley's Site: Oliver Markley is an emeritus professor of human sciences and studies of the future. His career began as a design engineer but quickly expanded to include social psychology and “futures research” (forecasting, strategic trend assessment, visioning, strategic planning). After ten years as a principal in a pioneering futures research “think tank” at the Stanford Research Institute's Management and Social Systems Group, he was recruited to chair a new graduate program in Studies of the Future at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, where he taught for 23 years before retirement. As a master of Focused Visioning methods, Dr. Markley maintains a part-time research and consulting practice, Inward Bound. Most recently, he has founded The Integrity Project—an experimental social action initiative using "Integral Spiritual Activism" as a way to uplift the level of integrity in the body politic: personal, public and planetary.
Pero Mićić (pronounced mitch-itch) President of Future ManagmentGroup
Future Management Group: http://english.futuremanagementgroup.com
From Future Management's Site: Dr. Pero Mićić is internationally known as a leading expert for Future Management.
- Chairman of FutureManagementGroup AG whose mission it is to help top leaders in business, politics and administration to see more of the future than their competitors.
- Consultant to the management teams and experts of many of the world’s leading companies. He helps them to systematically elaborate and analyze future scenarios, to perceive and to seize future opportunities at a very early point and to turn this knowledge into strategic and financial success.
- Keynote speaker on professional conferences and festivities in places like Mexico-City, London, Paris, Washington, Warsaw, Budapest, Prague and Moscow.
- Studied Business Administration and Futures Research in Germany and the USA.
- Earned his PhD with a work on "The Phenomenology of Future Management in Top Management Teams" from Leeds Metropolitan University in UK.
- Author of the books "Die fünf ZukunftsBrillen" (The Five FutureGlasses) 2007; "Das Zukunfts-Radar (The FutureRadar) 2006; "Der ZukunftsManager" (The FutureManager) (2003) and three more books.
- Founding member of the Association of Professional Futurists in the USA.
- President of the advisory board to the European Futurists Conference in Lucerne.
- President of the conference on International Trend- and Future Management.
Amy Oberg Corporate Futurist at Kimberly Clark
Kimberly Clark: www.kimberly-clark.com/
From New Context Consulting: Amy Oberg is a strategist, futurist and competitive analyst who specializes in helping organizations better understand the emerging competitive environment and respond with effective, proactive strategies. With over 23 years of cumulative experience in competitive, organizational, management, and market analyses, her insights regarding emerging trends, threats and opportunities, competitor activities, market conditions, and new technologies have been sought out by organizations in a wide variety of industries including aerospace, energy, telecommunications, transportation, consumer goods, real estate and finance. Most recently, Ms. Oberg has applied her knowledge and skills to assist organizations such as NASA, Enron, Dynegy, Kimberly Clark, Conoco, MCI, Solectron, United Nations, DARPA, the State of Minnesota, and the City of Kaoshuing (Taiwan). Ms Oberg is the creator of the radio program Speaking of the Future; co-chair of the Boston chapter of Women in Networking; and a member of The World Future Society and Mass Women In Technology. She has served on national and local steering committees and boards for the World Future Society and the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals. Ms. Oberg holds a Master of Science degree in Studies of the Future and a Bachelors degree in Communications. In addition, she has completed the Program for Managers at Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Management and formal CI training at the Academy of Competitive Intelligence.
Dave Rejeski Director Foresight and Governance Project & the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies
Woodrow Wilson Center: http://www.wilsoncenter.org/
From the Wilson Center: David Rejeski directs the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies. For the past four years he has been the Director of the Foresight and Governance Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center, an initiative designed to facilitate better long-term thinking and planning in the public sector. He was a Visiting Fellow at Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and an agency representative (from EPA) to the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). Before moving to CEQ, he worked at the White House Office of Science and Technology (OSTP) on a variety of technology and R&D issues, including the development and implementation of the National Environmental Technology Initiative. Before moving to OSTP, he was head of the Future Studies Unit at the Environmental Protection Agency. He spent four years in Hamburg, Germany, working for the Environmental Agency, Department of Public Health, and Department of Urban Renewal and, in the late 1970’s, founded and co-directed a non-profit involved in energy conservation and renewable energy technologies. He has written extensively on science, technology, and policy issues, in areas ranging from genetics to electronic commerce and pervasive computing and is the co-editor of the recent book: Environmentalism and the Technologies of Tomorrow: Shaping the Next Industrial Revolution, Island Press 2004. He sits on the advisory boards of a number of organizations, including the EPA’s Science Advisory Board, the Greening of Industry Network, the Journal of Industrial Ecology, and the University of Michigan’s Corporate Environmental Management Program. He is a member of the External Advisory Board of Nanologue, a European project to bring together leading researchers to facilitate an international dialogue on the social, ethical and legal benefits and potential impacts of nanosciences and nanotechnologies. He has graduate degrees in public administration and environmental design from Harvard and Yale.
Paul Saffo Independent Futurist
http://www.saffo.com
From Paul's Website: Paul is a forecaster and essayist with over two decades experience exploring long-term technological change and its practical impact on business and society. He currently teaches at Stanford University and is a Visiting Scholar in the Stanford Media X research network. He was the founding chairman of the Samsung Science Board and serves on a variety of other boards including the Long Now Foundation and the Singapore National Research Foundation Science Advisory Board. He is also an advisor to 3i Venture Capital and has served as an advisor and Forum Fellow to the World Economic Forum. Paul's is a columnist for ABCNews.com, and his essays have appeared in numerous publications, including The Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Wired, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, The New York Times, and the Washington Post. Paul is a Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and holds degrees from Harvard College, Cambridge University, and Stanford University.
Wendy Schultz Founder of Infinite Futures
Infinite Futures:http://www.infinitefutures.com/
Dr. Wendy L. Schultz is Director of Infinite Futures: Foresight Research, Training, and Facilitation, with over two decades of foresight practice from Honolulu to Helsinki, and Brisbane to Budapest. She earned her Ph.D. in Alternative Futures at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, working for five years forecasting global natural gas markets at the East-West Center, and over ten years as a researcher, foresight process designer, and project manager at the Hawai'i Research Center for Futures Studies. From 1996 to 2004 she served as visiting faculty with the Masters program in Studies of the Future at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, developing the introductory seminar, the qualitative methods seminar, and the facilitation practicum as part of overall curriculum redesign. Awarded a Fulbright grant in 2001, she spent six months as a lecturer and researcher with colleagues at the Finland Futures Research Centre.
Wendy is a Fellow of the World Futures Studies Federation, and a member of the Association of Professional Futurists.
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