Expertise
- Strategy – research, analysis, design, facilitation, mentoring
- M&A, partnership research and negotiation
- Training, development and performance enhancement
- Project management
Education
- Masters of Science, Strategic Foresight, Swinburne University
- Bachelor of Communications (Public Relations, Psychology) University of Canberra
- Spiral Dynamics Certifications 1 & 2, NVC
- Workplace Trainer & Assessor, AQF
Experience
Chris co-founded Greenfields Partners upon leaving a boutique strategy consulting firm focused on strategic foresight where he was Managing Director working with public, private and community sector organisations across ACT, NSW, and VIC. He has over a decade of consulting experience providing project management, communications planning, and policy and strategy development services. Combining hindsight from practical experience with foresight from futures research, Chris assists organisations to develop a wealth of strategic insights into their business, markets and industry and find how to better navigate to the futures they want. Chris is also an organisation builder, having established a dozen different community and commercial organisations. Chris has conducted futures research for clients, incorporated in strategy and/or policy projects, workshops and presentations, across the following areas:
- Agriculture
- Philanthropy
- Defence communications
- Digital content
- Emerging technologies – bio / nano / info
- Generational change
- Geospatial information systems
- OECD government foresight programs
- Public sector (state and federal)
- Public safety and emergency services
- Retail banking
- Road transport fuels and technologies
- Telecommunications
- Utilities – electricity, gas, water
Examples of some of the above work are available on his personal blog.
Associations
Chris is a professional member of the Association of Professional Futurists (wikipedia) and the World Future Society, a Fellow at the Asian Foresight Institute and co-chair of the United Nation’s Millennium Project, Australasian node. He is an owner of www.RapidHealing.com.au and www.TheHotList.com.au.
