Andy Hines is a leading organizational, academic, and consulting futurist. In 2006 he joined Social Technologies to manage the firms consulting practice. He also serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Houston MS Program in Futures Studies, a program from which he graduated in 1990.

Prior to joining S)T, Andy established and ran the Global Trends Program for Kellogg Co., then served as futurist and senior ideation leader at Dow Chemical. Before that he was a partner with Coates & Jarratt, a futurist think tank and consulting firm in Washington, DC.

Andy believes foresight can help deliver the insight so needed by todays organizations, and seeks to infect as many change agents as possible with this message.

In pursuit of this mission he co-founded and is currently chair of the Association of Professional Futurists, and has co-authored three booksThinking about the Future: Guidelines for Strategic Foresight (Social Technologies, 2006); 2025: Science and Technology Reshapes US and Global Society (Oak Hill, 1997) and Managing Your Future as an Association (ASAE, 1994).

Andy has authored dozens of articles, speeches, and workshops; his article An Audit for Organizational Futurists won the 2003 Emerald Literati Awards Outstanding Paper accolade after it was published in the journal Foresight in February 2003.

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