New Foresight Advisory Board | Hinesight....for Foresight

I am pleased to share our new Foresight Advisory Board. They are going to help with the program strategic plan, which will guide our next phase of development. The formation of the new Advisory Board is itself a part of the planning process that has been underway for about the last six months. We are also planning a retreat alongside our annual Spring Gathering. Currently, we’re in the midst of interviewing. What fun! I get so energized by exploring the possibilities for the future with other futurists. The ideas are truly inspiring.

Indeed, there is so much potential in the academic space. We have barely got started. Of course, there is good reason for that. The academic space in not exactly fertile ground for innovation these days. Isn’t it bizarre that the most obvious place for stimulating ideas has become a virtual dead zone? Ah, but we know about the potential for alternative futures. And we can thrive in any environment if we put our minds to it.

Thanks to April Koury, our Houston Foresight webmaster, who put together the nice table below highlighting this stellar crew . If you couldn’t already tell, I am super excited about exploring our future together.

Name	Title	Organization	LinkedIn
Andy Hines, Chair	Associate Professor & Program Coordinator	University of Houston Foresight Program	LinkedIn
Adam Cowart	Director, Strategy	Loblaw	LinkedIn
Garry Golden	Founder	Into the Future	LinkedIn
Maggie Greyson	Chief Futurist and CEO	Futures Present	LinkedIn
Hannah Kim	Senior Consultant- Futures, Brand & Innovation	Kantar	LinkedIn
Kelly Kornet Weber	Design Lead & Strategic Foresight Steward	Coeuraj	LinkedIn
Mina McBride	Manager, Strategic Foresight	Disney	LinkedIn
JT Mudge	Director – Data Strategy \| Foresight	productOps, Inc.	LinkedIn
Laura Schlehuber	Research Program Director	University of Houston Foresight Program	LinkedIn
Cecily Sommers	Founder	Wherefore Co.	LinkedIn
John Sweeney	Visiting Professor Senior Research Fellow	Westminster International University (Tashkent, Uzbekistan)	LinkedIn
Denise Worrell	VP of Consumerism	Memorial Hermann Health System	LinkedIn

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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