Charles Brass

As the Chairman of the Futures Foundation, the professional association for Australia's practicing futurists, Charles Brass is ideally placed to identify the forces and trends which are shaping Australia's future.

He is also an active member of all major international futures organisations.
Charles Brass is a regular commentator on the future in print and on radio and TV and speaks on creating the future (he has a particular interest in the future of work, money and community); on life-work balance (for which he prefers the term 'right livelihood'); on leadership and people management (in both corporate and community settings) and on other issues of contemporary importance (such as why just surviving in the world seems to be getting harder and harder for more and more people).
Charles Brass is passionate about explaining why current approaches to life/work balance are doomed to failure, and what to do instead. A one hour presentation using the model developed by Land and Jarman in 'Breakpoint and Beyond' in the 1980's to explore our current understanding of work and to suggest reasons why the current understanding has reached its use-by date is also very popular. Some initial suggestions for a new understanding of work are explored
A forty minute presentation exploring both the history of money and its interaction with work as suggesting a variety of future concepts for money and work and a forty minute presentation exploring the concept of unemployment as we understand it today - what unemployment is and what it isn't, how did we get unemployment and how do we get rid of it. Also one hour presentation exploring why the ten commonly held beliefs about the role of work in individual lives are false. Charles Brass also speaks on how people and societies work to how they live and exploring a future for work in which local communities (through their local business institutions) play a prominent part.
Charles Brass has had five careers in his 50+ years - he has been a successful business entrepreneur, teacher & educator, multinational business director, community builder and visionary - and his presentations combine wisdom and practical insights from all these. His educational qualifications are just as diverse, ranging from degrees in photography, physical science and education to a Master of Business Administration.

Speaker Topics Include:

A New Age of Work
It's Not About Balance, It's About Integration
Money and Work
How A New Perspective On Work Will Create Vibrant Communities
A futurist's perspective on facing up to four great global challenges
A futurist's perspective on leadership
Five things everyone needs to know about the future.