I am pleased to announce the addition of futurist Cecily Sommers to the Houston Foresight Program’s Advisory Board.
I was introduced to Cecily by friend-of-the-program Derek Woodgate several years ago when she was leading the Push Institute and have been following her work ever since. We re-connected a year ago at the APF’s Professional Development Day on “Professionalization” in Chicago. I explained how I was taking over as the Program Coordinator, and she generously offered to provide some coaching. She led me through a visioning-planning mini-retreat at her home base in Minneapolis that proved extremely helpful to me in developing a revised vision and a strategic plan for the program. We check in regularly and I think it is about time that she officially join our Advisory Board.
Cecily speaks, writes, and consults on emerging trends, markets, and technologies shaping our future. She is the author of Think Like a Futurist: Know What Changes, What Doesn’t, and What’s Next, which was nominated as an APF Most Significant Futures Work. As I mentioned she was the founder of The Push Institute, a non-profit think tank that routinely put on excellent conferences.
She is a frequent contributor to Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” and other media outlets. She was named by the Business Journal as one of twenty‐five “Women to Watch,” and selected as one of Fast Company‘s “Fast 50 Reader Favorites.”
Please join me in welcoming her to the Houston Foresight community! Andy Hines
