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Please note that this SuperSeminar will be held at a special time, centering the future in Oceania/Japan: 1400h Japan Standard Time (UTC+9) / 1500h AEST (UTC+10) on Tuesday June 4th — that's 2200h the night before for me in Venice Beach HQ 🌏❤️😄)!
Steph Clarke
Founder
28 Thursdays
Steph is a futurist and facilitator based in Melbourne, Australia who helps organisations think harder about what's possible, so they can stay relevant for tomorrow.
Her combination of 18 years in professional services, and global experience as a facilitator mean she's well-equipped to work with leadership teams to expand their thinking about the problems they face today, and share the signals of change that spark bigger conversations about what might happen tomorrow.
She has certifications from The University of Houston, Copenhagen Institute of Futures Studies (CIFS), and the Institute for the Future (IFTF) and has worked with clients across professional services, banking, financial services, fintech, retail, manufacturing, government, and utilities industries. She regularly appears on podcasts and is a contributing writer for SmartCompany.
Jan Rod
Director, Future Design Lab
PwC
Jan is a futures designer based in Tokyo, Japan where he helps organizations large and small discover and explore future versions of themselves and the value they bring into the future worlds.
Jan currently works as a director at PwC's Future Design Lab, a collective that brings together design, foresight and strategy consulting. He is especially passionate about finding creative ways to stimulate and facilitate organizational imagination through tangible artifacts and world building.
Prior to his current role, Jan has worked as a director at IDEO's Tokyo studio, prevalently focusing on future of automobiles with Japanese car manufacturers, as well as other products. Prior to his career in consulting, Jan worked as a trained scientist and designer, has a PhD. in Human Computer Interaction and has contributed to scientific papers, several patents and award winning products.
What was covered?
As you can now tell, SuperSeminar Season 02 is focussed exclusively on Futures, Foresight & Innovation practices. In Episode 03 we continue hearing from active practitioners bringing a futures-oriented mindset and set of methodologies into the world's largest organizations.
Some things that will be discussed by Jan and Steph include
Real-world examples and case studies
How futures/foresight are not 'instead' of innovation / design
How to blend the various methodologies for more impact
Using Design Fiction to world build that sparks more innovation imagination
A nod to strategy as another intersecting discipline
Come hear how Steph and Jan bring Insight, Imagination, and Inspiration to the Rational, Analytic, Structured organization of logic-based decision making of the corporate consciousness. This is a vital skill that is becoming more integral to Structure. Futures-oriented practices, Imagination, Insight augments the ability of systems steered by decisio nmakers to aid in the sense-making of weak signals, identifable trends, as well as social, political, technological, and cultural evolutionary behaviors. These are representations of an emergence — and emergence of the adjacent possible, the plausible, and the not true *yet.
Come to Season 02 to learn how they use analytical research, ethnographic investigations within their own progressive Research and Development and Innovation teams to help anticipate, forecast and prepare their senior leadership for the uncertainties of dynamic, complex, contentious, and tumultuous contexts.
Bringing imagination, creative thinking, a generalists sensibility to the rational decision making of organizations and similar structures is an existentially vital form of sense-making. Here in SuperSeminar we learn to appreciate the value of a rich meaningful collaboration between the creative and the analytic/rational parts of our human decision-making apparatus.
Join in a discussion with experienced practitioners as they help you understand how commercial organizations, public institutions, and governments use futures-oriented tools and practices to help prepare for change, manage the kinetics of challenging market dynamics; make sense of emerging trends; assess the implications of Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental, and Political dimensions and domains.
What are these tools for making sense of the future? How are they used to make the future sensical? How do you translate foresight into vision, inspiration and innovation? Who is able to help do this kind of future-facing speculation and what does it take to introduce the practice into your organization?
SuperSeminar S02E03 gives you the opportunity to not only learn from experienced practitioners, but engage in a discussion, create professional connections, and learn how you can develop the kinds of skills and the mindset to adopt unique insights into change.
Learn how to get reimbursed for this professional Learning & Development package!
SuperSeminar is not your usual online presentation platform. We've inverted the model.
No more long presentations followed by 0 minutes for deep discussion, engagement, and Q&A. In SuperSeminar, our presenters offer a tight 15-20 minute evocation, sharing brief insights on the topic from their experience. Then, much like a graduate seminar or salon, we #discuss the topic, offering attendees a unique opportunity to engage in a dialogue with the presenters and other attendees.