Z + Luminaries
Here are a just a few of the newest members of our network of luminaries and advisors:
Thornton May is a leading thinker, educator and forecaster in the field of information technology.
Thornton publishes the prestigious "CIO Habitat Study", a monthly synthesis of what's new in the technology world; designs and delivers the "Prediction Fiction" course, a senior executive learning experience using science fiction to help executives chart a course for their future; is an executive education faculty member at the Graduate School of Management at UCLA; teaches the "Strategic IT" Module in the Advanced Management Program at the Haas School of Business at UC-Berkeley; and lectures on e-commerce, information security and storage issues at Carnegie-Mellon University.
He serves as the Corporate Futurist for Guardent, Inc. [a global security and privacy firm]; is the Non-Toxic Behaviors coach at Lawson Software, and recently worked with Al and Heidi Toffler to help them better understand 'what is going on inside the heads' of current period technology leaders.
Thornton's research at Nolan Norton helped create the career rules-of-engagement for the contemporary CIO. His tenure as the Chairman of AIIM [the Association for Imaging and Information Management] helped re-brand and redefine roles for information technology managers [previously stigmatized as little more than clerks and mechanics]. His research has been acknowledged in such seminal business books as Seth Godin's "Permission Marketing"; Michael Schrage's "Serious Play: How the World's Best Companies Simulate to Innovate"; Moshe Rubenstein's "The Minding Organization"; Bill Jensen's "Simplicity"; and Jeff Williams' "Renewable Advantage: Crafting Strategy Through Economic Time". He wrote the Preface for George Geis' "Digital Deals," and Marc Farley's "Building Storage Networks."
Thornton is an acknowledged master in crafting executive learning experiences that bridge three very different and unfortunately, frequently very separate disciplines: technology - the tools we use; economics - the trade-offs we make; and experience - how we feel about the tools we use and the trade-offs we make. Good curriculum design brings these three disciplines together.
Moshe F. Rubinstein is a professor at the UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and is Director of the A-B-C Corporate Network at the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA. He is an internationally renowned authority on problem solving and creativity in organizations. Professor Rubinstein is widely respected for his insights, expertise, and ability to infuse organizations with tools for decision making and innovation. He has been a consultant to many major corporations and has been invited to lecture all over the world.
Professor Rubinstein is a Fulbright Hays fellow and has received numerous awards for his outstanding teaching, including the UCLA Academic Senate Award, the UCLA Alumni Award, and the Anderson School Executive Education Teaching Award. He has published over 100 articles and ten books, including Patterns of Problem Solving, Tools for Thinking and Problem Solving, Concepts in Problem Solving. His latest book The Minding Organization, published by John Wiley & Sons in 1999 has been translated into five languages. His other books also have been translated into several foreign languages. Professor Rubinstein was named in January 2000 one of the top twenty professors of the century at UCLA.
Wendy L. Schultz is a leading academic futurist, helping create and catalog new tools and methods for exploring the future.
Dr. Schultz recently completed a six month stay at the Finland Futures Research Centre as a Fulbright Lecturer and Researcher. From August 1996 through August 2001, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor in Studies of the Future at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. During that time, she organized two conferences, designed and taught graduate seminars, edited the five-year program review, and served for one year as Acting Chair. Her sojourn in Houston also included co-designing and teaching a graduate seminar on Public Health Leadership at the University of Texas School of Public Health.
From her home in Oxford, England, Dr. Schultz has been working with a small group of business and community futurists comparing participatory techniques for foresight in community development and small business management. Since moving to Europe, she has also worked with the International Space University, lecturing on futures studies and visioning at ISU's Summer Session `95 in Stockholm, and at the inauguration of their Master's program in October 1995 in Strasbourg, France.
Prior to her move to England, Dr. Schultz spent a decade and a half working at the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies (University of Hawaii at Manoa). While there she developed participatory workshops to enable people to learn various futures techniques and perspectives experientially. My research experience has included: designing group scenario-building for Hawaii's planners; creating a visioning process for U.S. state courts; developing Hawaii's Ocean Resource Management Plan; planning for sea level rise in the Republic of the Marshall Islands; and forecasting world natural gas trade.
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