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Kate Delaney Kate Delaney is the Managing Director of Delaney & Associates Pty Ltd. Kate specialises in strategy, futures (scenario planning), capability and policy development. Before establishing her own firm, Kate worked at senior levels and as an executive for the Canadian Government for 17 years in Customs, Industry, Trade and Defence. Kate served on various advisory panels while in Government such as Minister's Industry Advisory Groups in several sectors, the Small Business Paperwork Reduction Task Force and the Special Blue Ribbon Committee on Automotive Trade between Canada and the United States. Kate has created pragmatic, new approaches and frameworks for strategic decision-making and business planning, capability decision making and transition management. She has facilitated futures studies, scenario planning exercises and strategic management, prospective evaluation and organisational renewal processes. She has helped many Australian and overseas clients, including new and old economy institutions (such as the National Office of the Information Economy and Meat & Livestock Australia) develop decision corridors and horizontal (whole-of-nation, whole-of-government, etc.) management frameworks. Kate has designed and facilitated seminars and other unique learning opportunities that allow participants to enhance their strategic thinking skills and build their strategic analysis skills and intelligence capability. She has worked with the private sector, the public sector & academic institutions (such as the Treasury (NZ), the Australian Public Service Commission, the Department of Defence, Melbourne University Private, Deakin University, Canberra University). Kate cultivates strategic insight, conversations and futures awareness as a founding steering committee member of the Australian Public Service Futures Forum (98), the first convener of the Defence Futures Forum (99) and a principal of the AfterNext Consortium, a strategic alliance of independent futurists and practitioners specialising in strategy emerging from a future orientation. Kate also partners Noetic Solutions and Sverdrup Technology Australia. She has an honours BA&Sc degree (Psychology/Biology), an MA in Public Administration (Organisation Behaviour) and has completed Command and Staff College in Canada. Kate has a Canadian Forces Decoration (CD). Kate has trained with futurist organisations including the Global Business Network in San Francisco and with the Global Business Network (Australia). Kate is a professional member of the World Futures Society and a founding member of the Association of Professional Futurists. She is also an Associate of the Perth-based Future Directions International. Kate has worked as a senior correspondent for an industry magazine and has published articles in specialist futures journals and presented papers at professional conferences. Kate's current interests relate to encouraging strategic awareness and growing problem solving capacity. Some recent conference papers/presentations include:
Some recent articles include:
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