Paul Higgins, Futurist with Emergent Futures

Paul Higgins is a Futurist with Emergent Futures. He holds a First Class Honours Degree in Veterinary Science and a Masters Degree in Strategic Foresight.

Paul has been a dairy cattle veterinarian, an abattoir manager, a pork farmer, and an agribusiness consultant before becoming a futurist with Emergent Futures. He has also been involved in politics and agri-politics having been Chairman of the pork industry national body twice for a total of 10 years, and President of Country Labor in Victoria for five years. Paul still runs a farm enterprise with an annual turnover of $3 million and has just retired from the board of Auspork after 16 years. Auspork is an unlisted public company that markets pork, beef, chicken and lamb, including branded retail ready packs of ready to eat meat products.

Paul is a graduate of the Leadership Victoria Program and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Paul writes and presents regularly on future disruptions to business models, and consults to a range of organisations on how to think about the future. He is currently running a collaboration group of large not for profit organisations looking at how to innovate in a safe-fail manner in high risk environments.

You can view Paul’s articles and presentations at www.emergentfutures.com or follow him on Twitter at @futuristpaul