
Innovation and Future Thinking in Telecommunications, Education and Social Enterprise
New Zealand

Innovation and Future Thinking in Telecommunications, Education and Social Enterprise
New Zealand
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I'm an ideas person obsessed with pragmatic outcomes. I invent the future and enable it to happen.
I work with the Research and Venturing group at Telecom New Zealand, looking 3-5 years into the future to identify opportunities and threats for the business. I'm also director of a new media company and chair of the EON Foundation.
My current expertise is in Social Networking, E-Learning, Social Media, Virtual Worlds, Online Collaboration, Mobile Services and understanding what the Future Telco looks like. I enjoy speaking at conferences and other events as well as meeting and sharing with others .
My Vision:
Education towards freedom for an inclusive and sustainable world though cooperation, mutual respect and understanding, supported by new communication technologies.
My Goals:
* Working to create a sustainable future through engaging, globally connected and supportive communities
* Working with visionary thinkers and creators
* Working in the online learning, social media and communications space
* Working to meld audiovisual mobile media and virtual world gaming into learning games and new knowledge systems
Thought Leadership
Entrepreneurship
Creative Thinking & Strategic Problem Solving
Web 2.0 / Web 3.0
Virtual Worlds and Web 3D
Harnessing potential of distributed groups through digital media
E-Learning / Mobile Learning
Group Facilitation
Research Practice and Methods
Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Conference Keynote and Public Speaking
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; NZT; Telecommunications industry)
August 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)
Looking 3 to 5 years into the future for threats and opportunities for the business. Providing thought leadership, innovation, creative problem solving and strategic insights - followed through with action. Managing research and alliances for the research and venturing unit at Telecom New Zealand.
(Philanthropy industry)
August 1997 — Present (12 years 4 months)
A not for profit social enterprise dedicated to advanced global learning.
See website: http://www.e-o-n.org
(Online Media industry)
January 1997 — Present (12 years 11 months)
Providing consultancy in strategic thinking, new knowledge systems and e-learning.
TUANZ, Telecommunications Users Association New Zealand, Humanities Research Network, ParticipatioNZ - State Services Commission Community of Practice, Teaching and Learning Online (TALO), Future of Learning in a Networked World (FLNW), EON Foundation, Neosophical Society, Global Issues Special Interest Group (GISIG) of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL), Global Issues Network, New Zealand Tourism Research Institute, NZTRI, Auckland Plus - Advisory board - leveraging international networks