The Femme Futurists Society Podcast

Yvette Montero Salvatico and Nancy Giordano discuss why everyone should practice foresight...

Yvette Montero Salvatico is on a passionate mission: democratize foresight. Having started out in finance at The Walt Disney Company many years ago, Yvette was tapped to establish and lead the internal Future Workforce Insights division. The goal was to identify future workforce trends and leverage foresight models and techniques to assess potential threats and impacts, emerging ideas, and exciting opportunities for the organization. Experiencing firsthand the transformational effects of building a foresight practice into multiple roles and levels of employment, she and her co-Partner at current firm Kedge (a strategic design, foresight, and innovation company), decided to start 'The Futures School' to bring the critical skills of strategic foresight and futures thinking to everyone and anyone - especially important as we enter a new era in which we have the opportunity to create a better future. 

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Cecily Sommers and Nancy Giordano discuss holding tight to purpose and playing loose with tactics...

In our Femme Futurist Video Podcast with extraordinary women, we discuss holding tight to purpose + playing loose with tactics with Cecily Sommers. CECILY SOMMERS is a globally renowned futurist, showing how a winning strategy is one that applies foresight to market forces, champions proprietary opportunities, and invents a future that can be chosen.

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Leyla Acaroglu and Nancy Giordano discuss creating change by design...

In our Femme Futurist Video Podcast with extraordinary women, Leyla Acaraglu challenges us to think differently about how the world works. DR LEYLA ACARAGLU is a circular economy and sustainability provocateur who founded the UnSchool of Disruptive Design who is an award-winning designer, UNEP Champion of the Earth, and social scientist. 

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Tamsin Woolley-Barker and Nancy Giordano discuss thriving in complexity...

What can we really learn from the birds and the bees? Evolutionary biologist, corporate strategist and author of TEEMING, Tamsin Woolley-Barker, PhD, helps leaders understand and apply the lessons in adaptivity that nature has honed over millions of years of experimentation; finely tuned to create harmonious and integrated systems that are built on trust. Providing organizational design and consulting for some of the world’s biggest and most innovative companies, all of Tamsin's work is aimed at catalyzing a fundamental paradigm shift from mechanistic design to Living Systems Thinking + Design in all human endeavors.

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Heather McGowan and Nancy Giordano discuss the adaptation advantage in "the new normal"...

In our Femme Futurist Video Podcast with extraordinary women, we discuss intelligent cities not just smart cities with Geci Karuri-Sebina. GECI KARURI-SEBINA is a Johannesburg-based scholar-practitioner who works on urban planning and governance issues to ensure we don’t just have smart cities but intelligent cities that foster distributed communities, self-reliance, interconnectivity, and a unique sense of identity. 

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In our Femme Futurist Video Podcast with extraordinary women, we discuss fresh perspectives on 21st century leadership with Ayelet Baron. AYELET BARON a reformed corporate strategist who was Global VP of Strategy, Innovation and Transformation at Cisco for 15+ years, leaving to cultivate a fresh perspective on 21st-century business that creates authentic, transformational change.

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Cathy Hackl and Nancy Giordano discuss spatial computing and the augmented workforce...

Recognized as one of the top 10 Tech Voices on Linkedin and author of the upcoming book, "The Augmented Workforce: How AI, AR, and 5G Will Impact Every Dollar You Make", next in our Femme Futurists series is Cathy Hackl discussing spatial computing, AR/VR and the augmented workforce with Nancy Giordano. 

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Riane Eisler and Nancy Giordano discuss the needed shift from power over to power with...

In our Femme Futurists Video Podcast with extraordinary women, showcases 60+ years of Riane Eisler tirelessly championing a more caring economics. RIANE EISLER is a cultural historian, systems scientist and president of the Center for Partnership Systems, often compared to Marx + Smith for her more than 60+ years tirelessly championing a new system of economics centered on caring

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Tessa Finlev and Nancy Giordano discuss embodying the future you want...

From her early start traveling the world with the Peace Corps to becoming Head Foresight Strategist for Dolby Labs, Tessa Finlev’s mission has been to gather a deep understanding of what it means to be human through multiple contexts and experiences. Her global insights, futures thinking and unconventional path have led her to the conclusion that: only by engaging as many people as possible will the work that is being done today, successfully transform the work that needs to be done for the emergent future. As a mother of two small children and a richly diverse existence that spans Africa to Denmark, Tessa believes that by embodying all we want the future to be, we can make it so for generations to come.

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Guillermina Benavides and Nancy Giordano discuss the need to change the way we change...

Guillermina Benavides Rincón is a Professor with a master’s degree in strategic foresight at the School of Government and Public Transformation at Tecnológico de Monterrey, and a PhD from the University of Texas at Arlington. Beyond the accomplishments though, what’s mind-blowing is that she started her final dissertation with no children, and by the end had four(!), having been surprised with triplets during her studies.

Instead of this slowing her down, and alongside teaching students, she's been advising Federal, State and Local Governments on the need for public policy, economics and social development policies to evolve alongside the rapid pace at which women and their roles in family systems are changing within Mexico. Since most of the policies are developed by men with little or no real understanding of the current + future opportunities that can be made possible for women, Guillermina is a champion and important advocate in her country for changing the way we change. 

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