Episode One: Bill Sharpe on Three Horizons

Welcome to episode one of The Futures Workshop, a series of interviews with some of the world’s leading futures thinkers about the tools they’ve created.

In episode one we meet Bill Sharpe, who tells us about his Three Horizons tool. We talk about the origins of the tool, how Bill uses it in practice and what tips he has for faciliators and practitioners looking to adopt Three Horizons in their own work.

This was an interesting and inspiring conversation! As with all our interviews it’s designed with the professional futures practitioner in mind, though if you’re new to the area this is a great place to start - Bill tells me Three Horizons is a great ‘first tool’, to help audiences understand futures, but also to equip somebody hired into a future facing role to hit the ground running on day one.

We hope you enjoy this episode. We’re new to podcasting so please bear with us through any technical bugs or oversights - most importantly please let us know what you think of the podcast, good or bad, and we’ll work on incorporating your feedback into future episodes. To our Northern Hemisphere listeners including Bill, thank you for hanging in there with this thick New Zealand accent!

And now, please enjoy our conversation with Bill Sharpe.

www.futurestewards.com is the home of the 3H Network. There you will find:

• Practice Network page has links to organisations using 3H, and in particular to the resources made available by the main originators of the practice: International Futures Forum and H3Uni

• The Resources page has more resources, particularly the Ten Tools for Systems Change with accompanying introductory videos.

Thanks to The Beths for the beautiful music that accompanies this and other episodes.