Andy Hines

Dr. Andy Hines is Associate Professor & Program Coordinator at the University of Houston's Foresight Program, bringing together the experience he earned as an organizational, consulting, and academic futurist. He is also speaking, workshopping, and consulting through his firm Hinesight. As a consulting futurist, he was Managing Director of Social Technologies and a partner with Coates & Jarratt, Inc. As an organizational futurist, he was Futurist & Senior Ideation Leader at Dow Chemical and he also established and ran the Global Trends Program for the Kellogg Company. Hines is motivated by a professional hunger to make foresight practical and useful, and he believes that foresight can help deliver the insight that is so needed in today's organizations and the world. His goal, he says, is to infect as many change agents as possible with this message. Thus, he has honed a skill set designed to make foresight more actionable in organizations and communities.