the future on social media | Hinesight....for Foresight

A key part of the mission of the Houston Foresight, and my personal mission, is to introduce as many people as possible to the future. We teach our students various ways to explain the future to newcomers. Recently, I’ve had the opportunity to introduce the future on several social media outlets.

First, I appeared on the wonderful FuturePod run by Peter Hayward, the former head of the Swinburne Foresight program to talk about “Playing the Long Game.”
Next, I appeared on Gartner’s Thinkcast podcast on “Continuous Foresight: Skills for Inventing the Future” with hosts Marty Resnick, Kevin Gabbard and Steve Shapiro.
A nice spur-of-the moment opportunity emerged from our last week-long Foresight Certificate Boot Camp, where Linkedin Top Tech Voice 2019 & 2018 Cathy Hackl posted this video interview.
Most recently, I appeared on Brian Nelson’s Way of the Futurist podcast, with the appropriate flattering title of The Grand Master of Foresight.

It’s terrific to have so many wonderful outlets to spread the good word about foresight. Maybe you can check a few of them out, forward them to your networks, and we’ll keep building momentum for introducing the future. – Andy Hines

About Andy Hines

Dr. Andy Hines is Program Coordinator at the University of Houston’s Graduate Program in Foresight, bringing together the experience he earned as an organizational, consulting, and academic futurist. He is also speaking, workshopping, and consulting through his firm Hinesight.

Before that, he was Managing Director of Social Technologies/Innovaro, and served as an Adjunct Professor with the university since 2004. Hines enjoyed earlier careers as a consulting and organizational futurist. He was a partner with Coates & Jarratt, Inc., a think tank and consulting firm that specialized in the study of the future. He was also Futurist & Senior Ideation Leader at Dow Chemical with a mission of using futures tools and knowledge to turn ideas into new business opportunities. Before that, Hines established and ran the Global Trends Program for the Kellogg Company.

Hines is motivated by a professional hunger to make foresight practical and useful, and he believes that foresight can help deliver the insight that is so needed in today’s organizations and the world. His goal, he says, is to infect as many change agents as possible with this message. Thus, he has honed a skill set designed to make foresight more actionable in organizations.

In this pursuit, he has authored five books: Teaching about the Future: The Basics of Foresight Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012); ConsumerShift: How Changing Values Are Reshaping the Consumer Landscape (No Limits Publishing, 2011); Thinking About the Future: Guidelines for Strategic Foresight (Social Technologies, 2007); 2025: Science and Technology Reshapes US and Global Society (Oak Hill, 1997); and Managing Your Future as an Association (ASAE, 1994) and has another in the hands of publishers: Teaching about the Future: The Basics of Foresight Education. He has also authored dozens of articles, speeches, and workshops, including the 2003 Emerald Literati Awards’ Outstanding Paper accolade for best article published in Foresight for “An Audit for Organizational Futurists” and the 2008 award for “Scenarios: The State of the Art.” He has appeared on several radio and television programs, PBS Houston, KRIV-26 News, and the CBS “Early Show.” He also co-founded and is former Chair of the Association of Professional Futurists.

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