
Futurist, strategist, and entrepreneur.
Ipswich, United Kingdom

Futurist, strategist, 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; 1-10 employees; Think Tanks industry)
October 2004 — Present (3 years 10 months)
Current projects include:
* The Globalisation Of Crime
* Future Hotspots - Geopolitical Turbulence In The Near Future
* Modelling Globalisation
* The End Of The Enlightenment?
Previous projects include:
*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.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)
October 1991 — Present (16 years 10 months)
Current projects include:
* Using Future Studies To Assess Organisational Risk.
* The Future Of Buy To Let In England & Wales 2007-2020
* Future Male Lifestyles To 2015
* Future Geopolitical Trends Bank
* Future Globalisation Trends Bank
Previous projects include:
* 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.
* Small business adviser to the MPC at the Bank of England.
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
2007: Fellow, Royal Society of Arts
2002 Post Graduate Diploma in Business Coaching, The University of Northumbria