We are going back to the Future! Please join us Tuesday, November 30th, 2021 6pm PST [Zoom Link]. Oh so many moons ago, John was our first Future Salon presenter! This event, therefore, has a special place in my heart. :-)
As always our Future Salon will be super interactive! There will be breakouts, laughter, and time to hang out after the 90 minutes for the ones who want to. Bring your favorite beverage :-)
Foresight - Your Hidden Superpower Future Salon with John Smart!
Here John is holding his Introduction to Foresight, Executive Edition: Personal, Team, and Organizational Adaptiveness (The Foresight Guide Book 1) in his hand!
We all use foresight every day, in a foresight-action cycle, to predict, create, and lead the future. Foresight professionals are anyone tasked to think about probable, possible, preferable, or preventable (“Four Ps”) futures, over any time horizon. Foresight is both a set of time-tested practices and emerging models of adaptiveness and values, rooted in psychology and complex systems research. The more we use good foresight practices, the better our futures become.
The two books of The Foresight Guide, written over the last six years by our academically-trained team at Foresight University, address this challenge. Book 1, Introduction to Foresight (Nov 2021, Amazon) covers personal, team, and organizational foresight practices and challenges. Book 2, Big Picture Foresight (Apr 2022), covers key 21st century stories of societal and global adaptiveness, in a world of accelerating change. The focus of each book is not just strategic foresight, which makes us more effective in short-term actions, but adaptive foresight, or the goals, values and practices most likely to improve our personal and group adaptiveness, in any environment, over the long term. We can all get transformatively better at both foresight and action, the more evidence-based, conscious, and committed we are to the process.
Bio: John Smart is a student of strategic and adaptive foresight, global futures, exponential processes, and complex systems. He is President of the Acceleration Studies Foundation nonprofit (est. 2003), co-Founder of the Evo-Devo Universe complex systems research community (est. 2008), and CEO of Foresight University, a foresight learning and development company (est. 2016). For twenty years, John has taught and written on foresight development, and on the drivers, opportunities, and problems of exponential processes throughout human history. John has a B.S. in business administration from UC Berkeley, an M.S. in futures studies from the University of Houston, and an M.S.-equivalency in physiology and medicine from UCSD School of Medicine. He has an honorary PhD in Technology Education from the University of Advancing Technology (2008) and an Outstanding Faculty Award from the California Law Enforcement Command College (2011). He blogs at Medium.com, and his speakers' website is JohnMSmart.com. He lives in Ann Arbor, MI with his wife and two young children.
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