Our People

 MEET SOME OF THE TEAM
 
Dr. Mike McAllum | Global

 

Global Foresight; Mike has had decades of experience helping businesses, organisations and governments across the world.

 

He has significant strengths in many industries and verticals  including food and the environment.

 

Mike assists the Australian Institute of Company Directors with their Mastery of the Boardroom training.

 

This course is designed to assist skilled directors with the next level of thinking and corporate strategy | governance.

 

Mikes focus is – What is the likely, possible and probable futures for your business and how do you harvest a better future for your business.

 

Mike is a practical person who assists boards and executive teams ‘transport’ themselves into the future in their vertical in the next decade.

 

 

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Dawn Ringrose, | Canada | UAE | Western World

 

Dawn is a life long practitioner of business and organisational excellence.

 

She is part of a global practise who assists businesses to achieve more from their current business model  by integration of world best processes and systems.

 

Dawn has an interest in both organisational excellence as well as strategy excellence.

 

 

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Dr Miranda Jensen, Australia | New Zealand |S.E. Asia

Miranda speciality is change management excellence.

 

Her passion and vitality is to assist organisations and business to smoothly move from their current state to their desired new business model in the smoothest, simplest most effective way.

 

Miranda has had significant experience across large, medium and smaller organisations.

 

Miranda is a down to earth, practical and highly efficient practitioner of change.

 

Her interest in future business models and integrating these into a current business models make Miranda a must have in any change management program.

 

 

 

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Davids Harris

 

David brings experience in leading major business performance transformations that deliver bottom-line impact across various industries.  He has wide experience in across retail, transport, utilities, government and commercial organisations. He is an experienced director, operating  the $5 million to $650 million turnover range, asset bases up to $2.5 plus billion and staff up to 1700.

 

He has always held a significant interest in strategy and risk. He has an extensive tool kit that has served him across operations, execution, leadership and director roles. He is passionate about cutting through barriers to change and continuous improvement.  

 

David has had significant experience in infrastructure, capital expenditure, productivity, performance, governance and results.

 

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Sohails Inayatullah

 

Institutional

Professor Sohail Inayatullah is the UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies.

He is a political scientist/futurist at Tamkang University, Taipei;

An Associate at the Melbourne Business School, the University of Melbourne; and

Adjunct Professor at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia.

 

Expertise

Inayatullah has authored  and co-edited twenty-four books/cdroms, including: Asia 2030: the rights of women, the rise of robots and futures after capitalism; What Works: Case Studies in the Practice of Foresight (winner of the most significant work for 2016, the Association of Professional Futurists); and, CLA 2.0: Transformative Research in Theory and Practice (2015).  Inayatullah has written more than 350 journal articles, book chapters, encyclopaedia entries and magazine editorials. His articles have been translated into a variety of languages, including Catalan, Spanish, Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Indonesian, Farsi, Arabic, and Mandarin.

 

Presentations

In the past three years, among other groups, Inayatullah has addressed or conducted foresight workshops for The Knowledge Park, Office of the Prime Minister, Government of Thailand, Bangkok; Worldvision International, Geneva and London; Bond International, London; Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Brussels; African Youth Futures Network, UNESCO, Paris; Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa; National Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Government of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur; Office of the PM, Government of Singapore, Singapore; Office of the President, Government of South Korea, Seoul; Office of the Prime Minister, Government of Canada; The European Commission, Brussels; Royal Automobile Club of Western Australia, Perth;  Loreto Normanhurst, Sydney; Pearls of Policing (a consortium of Europol, Australia Federal Police, the Dutch Police, the RCMP and the FBI), Hong Kong and Sydney; Australian Council for International Development, Canberra; the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, Government of Iran, Tehran; Jesuit Social Services, Melbourne; State of Victoria, Department of Treasury and Finance, Melbourne; the Lowitja Institute, Melbourne; Centre for Investment Education, Melbourne; Department of Fire and Emergency Services, Brisbane; the City of Greater Geelong; and National Disability Services, Brisbane.

 

His corporate clients include: Bluescope Steel, Sydney; Northern Queensland Airports, Cairns; Bristol Myers Squibb, Singapore; Glaxosmithkline, Melbourne; Australian Pharmaceuticals Association, Sydney; Fuji Xerox, Sydney; Zurich, Sydney; AAMI, Sydney; Tenaga Nasional Berhad, Malaysia, Dow and Sadara Chemical Company, Dubai; National Transport Insurance, Queensland; Stepbeyond, Perth; the Family Wealth Forum, Sydney; Cisco, Melbourne; Indue, Sydeny; Ozri, Melbourne; BUPA Group, Melbourne; Ergon, Queensland; Suncorp Bank, Queensland; and John Holland, Queensland.