An experienced professional ‘futurist’, also known as a strategic foresight practitioner who has maintained a link with academic Futures Studies in her career as a practitioner and consultant specialising in: scenario planning, horizon scanning, risk management and facilitating strategic conversations that provide clarity and direction for organisations and institutions faced with complexity and uncertainty. Extensive experience in applying Futures Studies to ‘development issues’ in the ‘emerging world’, but with a solid track record in business strategy. Teaches post-graduate students and serves on boards of Futures organisations. A passion for expanding and building the practical application of Future Studies on the African continent. Where opportunity allows, a love for innovative and experimental approaches, and working at the intersection of complex issues. Host of the Unesco Chair in Complex Systems and Transformative African Futures, and brings futures/foresight practice to Social-Ecological Systems and Sustainability disciplines. Originator of innovative new method. (Seeds of Good Anthropocenes visioning)