Oliver Freeman
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Oliver Freeman
Oliver Freeman is a director of the Neville Freeman Agency which
he co-founded with Richard Neville in 2001. He is also the co-founder
of GBN Australia which he founded with Professor Richard Bawden
and Dr Richard Hames in 1992.
He is acknowledged as having done more for the uptake of scenario
planning in Australia than any other practitioner by guiding over
400 people and organisations through GBN Australia's scenario planning
simulation training programs.
He is also a publisher, a profession he entered in 1967 as an academic
rep for McGraw Hill in the UK. His publishing career advanced rapidly
and he has been Managing Director of various companies since 1978.
Oliver came to Australia in 1983, and set up his own professional
and business publishing operation, Prospect Media, through which
he developed over forty periodical publications, numerous reports
and special monographs. He sold this business to Reed Elsevier in
2001.
He now publishes under the Richmond
imprint from his office in North Sydney. Current titles include
'Footprints of the Future; The Myth of Nine to Five;
I Need Balance in My Life; The Art of the Long View and
Strategic Enterprise Management Systems and Captive of
the System.
Oliver has put on hundreds of conferences, seminars and training
programs in the last twenty years across all topics. Recently he
has been spending more time on workshop facilitation and consulting.
He has developed a two-day course on Scenario Planning & Strategic
Leadership in line with the perceived need for organisations
to align long term vision with current strategic planning and operations.
Oliver directed the Australian Business Foundation's Alternative
Futures project and has undertaken recent scenario planning
projects with Queensland Cotton, Australian Bush Heritage Fund,
Rockhampton Enterprise, NRMA, Pacific Power International,Telstra
and the University of Canberra.
Oliver has an MA from the University of Oxford and an MA from the
University of Essex. He is past chairman of Publish Australia, the
Copyright Agency Limited and the current chairman of UNSW Press.
He is past Vice President of the Australian Publishers Association.
He is also a director of StickyCorp Pty Ltd and VISCOPY Ltd - the
visual arts collecting society.
He has a lifelong interest in the visual arts (though not as a
practitioner) and is deeply interested in the nexus between the
arts and business.
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