Announcing BONUS FALL FORESIGHT CERTIFICATE COURSE

The UH Foresight program is very happy to announce a “bonus” fall 2014 offering of the foresight certificate course. Space is limited for this special seminar, which coincides with the special issue of THE FUTURIST magazine (Sept./Oct. 2014) on Futures Education. Houston faculty, alumni and students are featured authors in the issue:

Collaborative Futures Education, Peter Bishop
Foresight in Middle School: Teaching the Future For the Future, Katie King

There is even a section devoted to THE HOUSTON EXPERIENCE, including Richard Yonck’s essay about the certificate program itself:

Transforming a Graduate Futures Program, University of Houston, Oliver Markley
A Training Ground for Professional Futurists, Andy Hines
Inside the Houston Futures Strategic Foresight Program, Richard Yonck

The UH Foresight certificate program is a 5-day, project-based, face-to-face workshop. Participants learn to anticipate disruptive change and work towards the creation of transformational change in order to influence the future of their organizations, companies and communities. Participants will receive a Certificate in Foresight and four (4) CEUs (Continuing Education Units) from the University of Houston for attending the seminar. Students can also obtain a separate departmental Certificate of Achievement in Foresight if they complete a foresight project after program delivery.

When:	October 6-10, 2014
Where:	University of Houston, UH Hilton, West Wing Hilton Conference Center 105
Registration:	Cost is $3000Deadline to register is September 15, 2014.* Space is limited to 20 students. For more information and to register, visit: http://www.uh.edu/technology/programs/professional/foresight/index.php *If the course does not make by the Sept. 15 deadline, a full refund will be issued .
Lodging:	UH Hilton, conference rate code is “TECH” for rate of $189 (must be reserved by Sept. 5)

Contact Dr. Andy Hines (ahines@uh.edu) with questions about course content, or Alexandra Whittington (alwhittington@uh.edu) for registration assistance. — Andy Hines

About Andy Hines

Dr. Andy Hines is Program Coordinator at the University of Houston’s Graduate Program in Foresight, bringing together the experience he earned as an organizational, consulting, and academic futurist. He is also speaking, workshopping, and consulting through his firm Hinesight.

Before that, he was Managing Director of Social Technologies/Innovaro, and served as an Adjunct Professor with the university since 2004. Hines enjoyed earlier careers as a consulting and organizational futurist. He was a partner with Coates & Jarratt, Inc., a think tank and consulting firm that specialized in the study of the future. He was also Futurist & Senior Ideation Leader at Dow Chemical with a mission of using futures tools and knowledge to turn ideas into new business opportunities. Before that, Hines established and ran the Global Trends Program for the Kellogg Company.

Hines is motivated by a professional hunger to make foresight practical and useful, and he believes that foresight can help deliver the insight that is so needed in today’s organizations and the world. His goal, he says, is to infect as many change agents as possible with this message. Thus, he has honed a skill set designed to make foresight more actionable in organizations.

In this pursuit, he has authored five books: Teaching about the Future: The Basics of Foresight Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012); ConsumerShift: How Changing Values Are Reshaping the Consumer Landscape (No Limits Publishing, 2011); Thinking About the Future: Guidelines for Strategic Foresight (Social Technologies, 2007); 2025: Science and Technology Reshapes US and Global Society (Oak Hill, 1997); and Managing Your Future as an Association (ASAE, 1994) and has another in the hands of publishers: Teaching about the Future: The Basics of Foresight Education. He has also authored dozens of articles, speeches, and workshops, including the 2003 Emerald Literati Awards’ Outstanding Paper accolade for best article published in Foresight for “An Audit for Organizational Futurists” and the 2008 award for “Scenarios: The State of the Art.” He has appeared on several radio and television programs, PBS Houston, KRIV-26 News, and the CBS “Early Show.” He also co-founded and is former Chair of the Association of Professional Futurists.

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