Janine Cahill BA MCom CPA is a Sydney-based strategy and futures consultant with special expertise in developing experiential innovation leadership programs and working with deep forms of learning. She has worked in strategy, organizational change and leadership since 1988.

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She has developed strategy and implementation programs both at corporate and business-unit levels. She won an Australian national award for strategy and been involved in change management of technology, process and culture changes over a number of years, following an early career in consumer, commercial and corporate finance.

An expert in experiential learning, Janine has designed futures leadership, Futures and Innovation learning programs, futures events and simulation games. Communicating the future for clients drives this innovation. Inspiring them to interact with the future releases them to create and innovate: new ways of doing business, new products and services. Interacting with the future enables clients to think in new ways with new insight. These are take-away skills so that the individual can continue to experience the future, to see the future first.

With hands-on experience in the finance, energy, consulting, small business advisory, higher education, not-for-profit and training industries, Janine has built a number of organisations from scratch and understands the challenges facing businesses of all sizes.

Working in the innovation space where futures, business, technology and art converge, Janine is collaborating globally on a number of projects for the purpose of deepening the experience of the future today. Seeing the future first, feeling it, touching it, creating it is the passion that drives Janine.

Ms Cahill has taught Strategic and Futures Thinking, Strategic Management and Innovation Leadership in a number of undergraduate and post-graduate programs In London. She has degrees in psychology and finance and is a qualified CPA.

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I am Elizabeth Cahill (BSc (Psyc)) and I am or aspire to be a futurist. Now, when I say futurist there are many ideas that pop into people’s heads, but to me a futurist is “a person whose occupation or specialty is the forecasting of future events, conditions, or developments.

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I think that the real reason that I became a futurist or aspire to become a futurist is really well summed up in my favourite quote by Mahatma Gandhi Be the change that you want to see in the World. This quote empowers you to do something, create something that you want the World to be. That you, yourself have the power to make the difference in this World, and that is what I aspire to do.

What motivates me is really when I see anyone creating a difference in their World and being a positive beacon for change. The ability to learn and the desire to learn about to the future and how we can better create the World we want to live in is the realm that I create and drive to facilitate in.

My first real experience in futures or strategic foresight was the PUSH conference (Push the Future) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA in early 2005. I attended this conference hoping to broaden my mind and learn about the field that is futures. I had my mind expanded and was floating on cloud 9 with ideas and ways I could facilitate change within my generation (which was my number one passion). Unfortunately my bubble was almost popped numerous times when the predominantly grey haired audience asked me my reason for attending the conference because I was too young to have anything to possibly add in the field (with my limited experience). Though experience is of utmost importance my nave belief that I can make a difference and my fresh ideas are just as imperative. Through this experience I realized that I wanted to work in this field with all the prejudice of youth (and their life of living in the fashions and fads of today) to broaden peoples view of youth, but also to bring this knowledge to the youth of today and bring youth knowledge to the World.

Since then I have attended almost 30 courses and conferences on futures and new media, learning as much as I can from the people I meet along the way and using my background of psychology and marketing to grow the field of long-term strategy and strategic foresight.

Highlights have been the World Future Society Conference in Toronto in July 2006, the Aus Foresight Conference in October in Melbourne, Cross Media Lab in November 2005, in Melbourne, the Laboratory for Advanced Media Production in Perth in May 2006 and most especially the Vienna International Model United Nations Youth Summit in Vienna in August 2006. I was given the unique opportunity of representing Somalia in trade facilitation within Africa during a week-long simulation. This experience deepened my understanding of a developing nations experience in the World and the challenges faced by the UN to truly create dialogue between nations. As the internet brings us all closer how will this evolve? Thats a question for us all to consider and think about.

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Future Journeys assists organizations to recognize and understand the future. A leader in experiential and deep learning processes, Future Journeys will support you while your company gains the competencies necessary to thrive in the future. Future-focused capabilities will help your organisation to deliver new products, new services, and new processes.

Most organisations today have developed a vision of where they want to be in five or ten or fifteen years but have given little thought to what the world will be like when they get there. Future Journeys works in this innovation space: between possible futures, and the present. Explore these futures with us. Prepare your organisation to innovate. Create the future you want to see.

Future Journeys adapts deep learning and immersive processes to your organizational requirements. We build simulations so that your people can practice living and creating the future. We work with your core competencies and can work with you to identify future competencies that are essential to your long-term success.

Experts in strategy and experiential learning, Future Journeys has designed Futures and Strategic Leadership, Futures and Innovation learning programs, futures events and simulations. Inspiring you to interact with the future releases you to create and innovate: new products and services, new ways of doing business. Interacting with the future enables you to think in new ways with new insight. Build your core competence around skills that will take you forward, let your organisation experience the future now.

Clients and Case Studies

European Business School London
Designed, developed and delivered new Strategic Management program incorporating Futures Thinking workshops and Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility. Developed Strategic and Futures thinking weekend deep immersive simulation.

Institute for Executive Development London
Designed developed and delivered new Creativity Leadership and Futures and Strategic Thinking programs with simulated futures and immersion.

Energy Australia
Designed and developed an organisational change program to support strategic objectives while maintaining dignity of staff and support of management.

Westpac
Designed and developed organisational change programs to support strategic objectives of cost-savings and retention of valuable employees. Designed, developed and delivered learning programs to support introduction of strategic HR frameworks. Designed and developed a methodology to identify, analyse and report on impacts of technology and process changes on staff and a computer system to deliver it.

Sydney Business Centre
Designed and Developed a number of learning programs from two hours to three months in the areas of business development, personal development, computer skills, organisational change and business incubation.

IPS Worldwide
Developed with executive strategy and business plan for global expansion.

International Planned Parenthood Federation London
Developed workshops in capacity building in the areas of strategy and business planning for Sustainability and Youth Initiatives in Africa.

Premiers Department NSW
Designed developed and delivered a workshop in Strategic and Futures Thinking to senior staff as part of capacity building strategy

Central Sydney Area Health Service
Designed developed and delivered a planning workshop using techniques and tools drawn from Strategy, Creativity Leadership and Futures.