Alliance

The NFA Alliance comprises of a select group of organisations and practitioners throughout the world who are committed to the development of innovative tools for collaborative learning and planning.

The Alliance network comprises:

Belgium

Flora Lanen
Assistant to Jaap Leemhuis. Administrator for 17 years with Shell Internationale Petroleum Maatschappij, the Hague.

Jaap Leemhuis
Economist and specialist in scenario and strategy development; 25 years in planning and management with Royal Dutch/Shell around the world. Former Olympian.

Paul de Ruijter
Consultant specialising in design tools for organisational learning. Former scenario planner, Royal Netherlands Academy for the Arts and Sciences.

Alain Wouters
Brussels-based consultant specialising in applied systems thinking and complexity science. Former analyst with Shell Group Planning, London.

Britain

Dr George Burt
International consultant in strategy development and corporate review and Co-founder and Managing Director of the Centre for Scenario Planning and Future Studies (the Centre), at the Graduate School of Business, Strathclyde University, Scotland.

Kees van der Heijden
Emeritus Professor at Strathclyde University, Director and co-founder of Global Business Network, Kees has pioneered the concept of 'strategic conversation' which envelops scenario planning as well as conception and development of the Business Idea.

Canada

Arden Brummel
Founder of Decision Futures, Inc.; consultant specialising in scenario and planning facilitation. Former strategist with Shell Canada and Royal Dutch/Shell Group Planning; professor, economic geography.

China

Ron Bradfield
China-based GBN alliance member and GBN contact in China and Southeast Asia. Academic director and lecturer in strategic management at the Graduate Business School, University of Strathclyde. Former group finance director for Canadian MNCs.

Italy

Raimondo Boggia
Founder, Alchera Strategic Vision, Milan, specialising in global communications and marketing strategies. Former journalist; author, The Time of Uncertainty.

South Africa

Adam Kahane
Founding partner, Centre for Generative Leadership, Boston, and facilitator of the Mont Fleur and Destino Colombia national scenario projects. Former scenario planner with Shell.

Louis van der Merwe
Managing director, Centre for Innovative Leadership, South Africa; affiliate, MIT organizational learning center. Former executive, Eskom.

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