
Futurist, strategist, economist, and entrepreneur.
Ipswich, United Kingdom

Futurist, strategist, economist, and entrepreneur.
Ipswich, United Kingdom
Our main focus is to identify future business trends and to assist our clients in becoming future ready. We tend to work with individuals and small teams, although we are also called upon by larger organisations from time to time. Our current interests are geopolitical futures and globalisation, and how they apply at an individual level.
Our areas of specialisation are financial futures, strategic futures, and the future of the organisation. To this, we add a blend of skills that allow our clients to project the right business structure, into the right market, with the right business model, at the right time.
Over the years, we have built up a certain amount of expertise in the area of small business, entrepreneurship, and business building. We operate in a global environment, and we have clients from all over the globe.
(Non-Profit; Think Tanks industry)
October 2004 — Present (5 years 6 months)
Current projects include:
* The Age Of Scarcity 2010-2050 (Book in preparation).
* The Second Scramble for Africa 2005-2030
* Future Hotspots - Geopolitical Turbulence In The Near Future
Previous projects include:
* The Post Scarcity World 2050-2075 - An examination of how society, the economy, and the financial system may develop in the seconf half of this century.
* The Globalisation Of Crime - Looking at how organised crimninal networks have adopted the architecture of globalisation.
*America 2025 Project - Looking at the grand strategic futures for US Foreign Policy out to 2025.
*Suffolk Small Business Scenarios to 2020 - Looking at possible futures for small business in the English county of Suffolk in the years to 2020.
* The European Way Of War 2005-2020 - Looking at how a Common Defence Policy might evolve to 2020.
* Oil And The New World Order 2006-2016 - Looking at how the possible onset of Peak Oil might affect the world order.
(Management Consulting industry)
October 1991 — Present (18 years 6 months)
Current projects include:
* The New Normal - How The Financial Crisis Has Changed The World
* Using Simulations To Achieve Our Preferred Future
Previous projects include:
* Using Future Studies To Assess Organisational Risk - an examination of how we can use futures to identify and minimise risk.
* A demographic review of the County of Suffolk in the UK, with projections as to how that population might change in the years to 2020.
* A survey of the small business population in Suffolk, resulting in the production of a Spiral Profile of the small business community.
The Catenian Association, The Ipswich Share Club, The Ipswich Writing Group
1983: Fellow, Royal Economics Society,
1987: Member, Chartered Institute of Managers (Resigned 2007),
1989: Associate, Chartered Institute of Secretaries,
1991: Associate, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants,
1995: Member, Strategic Planning Society,
1998: Member, World Future Society,
2002: Full Member, Association of Professional Futurists
2006: Board Member, Association of Professional Futurists
2007: Fellow, Royal Society of Arts
2008: Global Advisory Council, World Future Society
2008: President, Europe Chapter of the World Future Society
2002 Post Graduate Diploma in Business Coaching, The University of Northumbria