Janine Cahill BA MCom CPA
Janine Cahill BA MCom CPA is a Sydney-based strategy and futures consultant with special expertise in developing experiential innovation leadership programs and working with deep forms of learning. She has worked in strategy, organizational change and leadership since 1988.
She has developed strategy and implementation programs both at corporate and business-unit levels. She won an Australian national award for strategy and been involved in change management of technology, process and culture changes over a number of years, following an early career in consumer, commercial and corporate finance.
An expert in experiential learning, Janine has designed futures leadership, Futures and Innovation learning programs, futures events and simulation games. Communicating the future for clients drives this innovation. Inspiring them to interact with the future releases them to create and innovate: new ways of doing business, new products and services. Interacting with the future enables clients to think in new ways with new insight. These are take-away skills so that the individual can continue to experience the future, to see the future first.
With hands-on experience in the finance, energy, consulting, small business advisory, higher education, not-for-profit and training industries, Janine has built a number of organisations from scratch and understands the challenges facing businesses of all sizes.
Working in the innovation space where futures, business, technology and art converge, Janine is collaborating globally on a number of projects for the purpose of deepening the experience of the future today. Seeing the future first, feeling it, touching it, creating it is the passion that drives Janine.
Ms Cahill has taught Strategic and Futures Thinking, Strategic Management and Innovation Leadership in a number of undergraduate and post-graduate programs In London. She has degrees in psychology and finance and is a qualified CPA.
Elizabeth Markou BSc (Psyc) B Teach M Teach
I am Elizabeth Markou (BSc (Psyc); B Teach; M Teach) and I am or aspire to be a futurist. Now, when I say futurist there are many ideas that pop into people’s heads, but to me a futurist is “a person whose occupation or specialty is the forecasting of future events, conditions, or developments.
I think that the real reason that I became a futurist or aspire to become a futurist is really well summed up in my favourite quote by Mahatma Gandhi Be the change that you want to see in the World. This quote empowers you to do something, create something that you want the World to be. That you, yourself have the power to make the difference in this World, and that is what I aspire to do.
What motivates me is really when I see anyone creating a difference in their World and being a positive beacon for change. The ability to learn and the desire to learn about to the future and how we can better create the World we want to live in is the realm that I create and drive to facilitate in.
My first real experience in futures or strategic foresight was the PUSH conference (Push the Future) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA in early 2005. I attended this conference hoping to broaden my mind and learn about the field that is futures. I had my mind expanded and was floating on cloud 9 with ideas and ways I could facilitate change within my generation (which was my number one passion). Unfortunately my bubble was almost popped numerous times when the predominantly grey haired audience asked me my reason for attending the conference because I was too young to have anything to possibly add in the field (with my limited experience). Though experience is of utmost importance my nave belief that I can make a difference and my fresh ideas are just as imperative. Through this experience I realized that I wanted to work in this field with all the prejudice of youth (and their life of living in the fashions and fads of today) to broaden peoples view of youth, but also to bring this knowledge to the youth of today and bring youth knowledge to the World.
Since then I have attended almost 30 courses and conferences on futures and new media, learning as much as I can from the people I meet along the way and using my background of psychology and marketing to grow the field of long-term strategy and strategic foresight.
Highlights have been the World Future Society Conference in Toronto in July 2006, the Aus Foresight Conference in October in Melbourne, Cross Media Lab in November 2005, in Melbourne, the Laboratory for Advanced Media Production in Perth in May 2006 and most especially the Vienna International Model United Nations Youth Summit in Vienna in August 2006. I was given the unique opportunity of representing Somalia in trade facilitation within Africa during a week-long simulation. This experience deepened my understanding of a developing nations experience in the World and the challenges faced by the UN to truly create dialogue between nations. As the internet brings us all closer how will this evolve? Thats a question for us all to consider and think about.
Angelique McCall LLB/BCom Post grad NLP
Angelique is a Principal with Future Journeys where she is responsible for strategic foresight, innovation program design and undertakes corporate facilitations and leadership coaching. Angelique is very results focused and value driven – “it’s about delivering real tangible results for clients that make an ongoing, significant difference to how they operate and in turn how successfully their organizations operate.”
Angelique has coached senior management at organisations such as APN Media Ltd, YUM Foods Ltd and the Responsible Investment Association of Australia. Previously Angelique led the tax team of Toll (ASX listed) in New Zealand and was part of the senior management team that led the culture change program. Prior to Toll Angelique worked in the tax team of Deloitte for 12 years in New Zealand and Canada, 8 years in corporate taxation including in their Strategic Tax team – a unique, innovative approach to bring high value tax advice to clients and non-clients, generating substantial fees and building strong, robust relationships, creating mutual success for all.
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Geoff Edwards
Geoff has extensive experience in the Corporate world, making a significant contribution by transforming executives and leaders and enabling them to adapt to substantial challenges. His exceptional broad-based experience covers leadership, project/business management and executive coaching where he has empowered Executives and Senior Managers across a range of sectors. Through 25 years and more than 3000 hours coaching experience, Geoff has empowered clients internationally including Executives, Senior Managers, Business owners and countless individuals. Geoff’s industry experience covers Telecommunications, Research, Government, Medical, Hospitality, Manufacturing, Finance, Education, Health/Fitness, Media and Construction.
Geoff is passionate about people’s potential, making a difference in their lives and creating an impact that has a lasting change. His extensive industry and business experience provides excellent, empowering and sustainable coaching through the delivery of quality programmes which provide meaningful and tangible benefits
Geoff is a senior leadership coach with a reputation for providing excellent, empowering and sustainable outcomes as well as organisational improvement programs.
Geoff is the author of “The Success Coach” and may be contacted via www.geoffedwards.net
Yvonne Collier CSP BA (Hons) PGCE MasterNLPP Master Facilitator
“Like Janine and the team I am passionate about experiential learning and development. Partnering with Janine and Future Journeys in forums such as Creating Climate Wealth as a facilitator and in other corporate programs is exciting, innovative, cutting edge, gets results and we have fun along the way!”
Yvonne founded Maddison Training in 1992 specialising in ‘people skills’ to produce profitable relationship.
She does this through training, facilitation, coaching and mentoring. Prior to this she spent 12 years in the corporate world of News Ltd & Fairfax and highlights include National Advertising Sales Manager of Good Weekend and then The Australian Magazine.
She is the author of LAFFe to Success: A Practical Guide to Getting Along with others.
Clients say she gets fantastic results, she’s professional, practical, she makes it fun, knows when to challenge, when to step back, when to share knowledge and wisdoms and has amazing energy.
Selena Griffith
Selena Griffith is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Design Studies at COFA. She coordinates the Design Management and Practice courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Originally qualifying for a Bachelor of Industrial Design Honors, Selena has worked as a Design Manager in a variety of contexts from in house to international consultancy and as a freelance designer with her own consultancy.
Selena researches in Design Management, Sustainability, Collaboration, Social Innovation, Futures and Education. Her interest in creating positive futures through transformative design thinking as led her to produce teaching tools and methods to assist with the development of innovation, collaboration and design thinking skills. Selena is very interested in how organisations can most effectively utilise design thinking to deliver more sustainable products and services. Co-creation and nexus – where people from different backgrounds and professions come together in collaborations that result in innovation or new perceptions has fascinates Griffith and she not only researches in this area but has also developed courses to teach the skills needed to run multidisciplinary creative collaborations.
http://www.cofa.unsw.edu.au/about-us/staff/109
Terry Collins
“I want to partner with future journeys because Janine Cahill is not only a personal inspiration and mentor who has a kindred vision of the future as me but Ms. Cahill is also a model of fearlessness in her application of her vision for a better world for future generations.”
Terry Collins is a Houston-based Futures consultant and adjunct faculty at the University of Houston who has appeared on Great Day Houston (Aug 4, 2011 and Aug 23, 2011) talking about foresight and technology.
She co-presented with Janine Cahill at the World Futures Society in 2010 on “Live Futures: Creating Sustainable Futures through Collaboration and Co-Creation” and also presented “How Futuring is Changing Lives.” In 2008 she did a student presentation at the WFS on “Wind Energy.”
Terry co-wrote with Andy Hines The Evolution of Integral Futures, World Future Review Volume 2, Number 3 2010, pp. 5-16 which was based on her Masters Project at the University of Houston.
Terry did research for a published paper on scenario development in Foresight (Bishop, Hines, & Collins), The current state of scenario development: an overview of techniques., which won a Best Paper Award for 2007 from Emerald.
Terry has a B.A. in Philosophy and a M.T. in Futures Studies from the University of Houston.
http://www.integralfutures.us/
Soren Harner
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