For over 20 years Jennifer's innovative programs have centred on creating courses in futures studies and foresight, delivered directly, or virtually, and licensed by corporations or educational institutions.
Learn MoreJennifer provides unrivalled expert, high-level advisory and consulting worldwide to NGOs, corporates, educational institutions, government departments, private foundations and think tanks.
Learn MoreJennifer brings a refreshingly warm, open and down-to-earth personal style to her speaking. Her scholarship, wide experience, maturity and deep understanding of people’s needs is valued by her international clients.
Learn More“Gidley has given us a stunning description of the new field of futures studies and of how we humans can help choose, and shape, the coming future.” - Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Wendell Bell, PhD, Yale University
Learn MoreThis book explains why the current education model, developed in the 19th century industrial era, has failed and is now obsolete, and how it can be reimagined for the 21st century.
Learn MoreThis book tells you everything you need to know about adapting Steiner's revolutionary educational approach to the 21st Century, to create healthier futures for your children.
Learn MoreWhat exactly might re-globalization mean in relation to higher education futures, particularly after the major disruptions of the Covid-19 pandemic and in face of Russia’s Ukraine war since February 2022?
Read MorePsychologist Jennifer Gidley, one of the most important scientists in the field of future studies, talks to "K" about what awaits us. Not with some crystal ball, but with more scientific methods.
Read MoreThe grand global futures challenges will create major problems for the futures of humanity if not reversed. Exploring alternative futures will inspire people to imagine, design, and create worlds beyond the disturbing trends enabling humanity’s great creativity reset.
Read MoreThis chapter examines and critiques the changing socio-political implications that accompany the shift from the concept of a singular future to the pluralization of futures.
Read MoreUntil recently, social and cultural systems were built around our belief that life is fairly predictable. Yet in the 21st century many of our socio-cultural and ecological systems are unravelling. Today’s world is complex and unreliable. Tomorrow is expected to be more so.
Read MoreTranshumanism has a paradoxical, largely overlooked history. The idea of a ‘superhuman’ goes back to Nietzsche’s Übermensch. Contemporary Silicon Valley transhumanists are convinced that humans can only progress through technological enhancement, oblivious to the historical lineage of transhumanism and ways for human beings to consciously evolve.
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