Marcus Barber
Marcus is a Strategic Futurist and one of Australasia's top Value Systems specialists, assisting clients with advanced strategic thinking and innovation processes. His skills have been utilised by Telstra, Victoria Police, HomeGround Services, Swinburne University, Deakin University, City of Greater Dandenong, CPA Australia, Gold Coast Water, General Motors, Fosters Australia, the Australian Sports Commission, Ernst and Young, ABF Singapore, VicUrban, Central Highlands Water and DIIRD among many others.
An energetic and engaging speaker, he a Visiting Fellow delivering the strategic futures block at the Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies in Canberra, the premiere management training program for the Department of Defence that brings military personnel from around the globe to a year long residential strategy training program.
Marcus was co-presenter on the National Geographic Channel's TV series 'Future Matters', author of 'The Money Tree and How to Grow One - Creating Success in Your Business' and is currently finishing 'Killing Trends: the Graceful Art of Innovation'; he is the founder of the Australian Strategic Planning Institute and an advisory board member of the Australian Bill of Rights Initiative. Marcus has been published in a number of Journals around the world and is a regular contributor to Australasia's leading innovation magazine 'Fast Thinking’
Qualifications
Master of Science, Strategic Foresight; Swinburne University of Technology (SUT)
Master Practitioner Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), International NLP Training Association
Level 1 & Level 2 certification, Spiral Dynamics; National Values Centre USA
Corporate Transformations Certification; National Values Centre USA
Graduate Certificate in Teaching & Learning; Napier University, Scotland (via SUT)
Certificate IV in Training & Assessment; Holmesglen
Professional Memberships
Professional Life Member of the World Futures Society
Fellow of the Australian Sales & Marketing Institute
Member Association of Professional Futurists
Additional Clients list:
In the past few years the following clients have utilised Marcus for a variety of training, facilitation, presentation and key note speaking requirements -
General Practise Australia; Audiology Australia; KMPG; Ernst & Young; DIIRD; Regional Development Victoria; Employee Assistance Professionals Association of Australia; Young Dairy Network; Turners & Growers (ENZA); Australian Computer Society; PageUp People; The CEO Institute; Gold Coast City Council; Gold Coast Water; Australasian Institute of Occupational Hygienists; Asia Business Forum; Department of Planning & Community Development; GPA South Gippsland; Homeground Services; Department of Defence (Centre for Defence & Strategic Studies); City of Greater Dandenong; South East Business Networks; South East Manufacturing & Marketing Alliance (SEMMA); Korowa Anglican Girls School; Australian Toy Industry; ARRB Group Ltd; Australian Podiatry Council; Barleycorn Brewers; Sport & Recreation Victoria; DEST; Adult Community & Further Education (Loddon Mallee); Australian Scholarships Group; City of Wangaratta; Association of National Tourist Office Representatives in Australia (ANTOR); Conductix; Sportsmans Warehouse...
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Events
Friday 16 July 2010
A series of recent activities has me writing on the idea of 'future strategy' and how different organisations are approaching their future development. What is interesting is the strong sense that preparing for your potential future requires multiple paths forward, not a single 'home run'. To that end I've recently considered sporting bodies and local community driven programs which has triggered these 'thought bubbles'
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Monday 5 July 2010
Stephen Downes is one the handful of bloggers I follow consistently. I do so because Downes (unlike many others unfortunately) like to write about his thinking AS WELL AS promoting the thinking of others, whether or not he agrees with them. In that way you get a solid collection of alternative views within his field of endeavour (learning & teaching et al). The link below will take you to a presentation by David Harvey that walks you through an interesting interpretation of the Capitalist model and where we are at in the world affairs. Whether or not you agree with the content, it is highly recommended
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Monday 28 June 2010
Coming off what has been undoubtedly my busiest period (3 months) in the past decade, I'm in the throws of catching up on some light reading. I usually have at least two books on the go and my preference is for the books to be about diverse topics because it allows the mind to seek out random connections. I once 'solved' the nuclear fusion problem whilst reading books by Umberto Eco and John D Barrow. A physicist friend of mine suggested my idea was radical and yet theoretically possible. But I digress. Right now I have a wide combination - 'From Poverty to Peace' by Duncan Green looks at ways in which we can empower people to help themselves more effectively, whilst looking at the myriad of mistakes so commonly made in the area of 'aid'. 'New knowledge in Human Values' is an older book edited by Ambraham Maslow with a wide contribution of thoughts from the likes of Pitirim Sorokin, Dorothy Lee and Paul Tillich (among others) and is a walk through some of the thinking about Human Values emerging in the late 1950's. The chapters are appropriately dense undertakings and I'm finding it hard to stick with, especially as I'm more inclined to lean towards the model of Clare W Graves and his Value Systems Thoery; 'Coercion as Cure' by Thomas Szasz is a ripper of a book thus far, though I'm only a few chapters in, I can tell the quality of a book by how much 'tagging' I do within a text
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