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What I got from working with Sonny was the confidence and the clarity to communicate my ideas to others both within and outside of my professional circle. Instead of being one voice amongst many, I was able to direct the agenda of many discussions! I was also able to effectively communicate ideas that were contrary to the beliefs of the people they were directed at. Karen Casey 2020 Summiteer - Creativity Stream
Melbourne-based Artist
As an academic, I am used to workshopping ideas, but this was a totally different context for which I needed to think differently.
Prior to the 2020 Summit, it was hard to know how to really prepare for such an ideas fest. Sonny Neale posed questions that prompted me to both articulate my grand visions for Australia, and to explain how these might be achieved through more practical steps.
2020 Summiteer - Indigenous Australia Stream
Director of the Australian Centre for indigenous History in the History Program Research School of Social Sciences Australian National University
Sonny had a firm grasp and uncanny foresight of the dynamics of such a meeting of 1000 people. I was so well prepared compared to many there on the day that it occurred to me how much more efficient the summit would have gone if everyone had had the benefit of a futures strategist of his calibre. His skills and knowledge were invaluable to me in clarifying my thinking, setting directions and coming up with the ‘Big Ideas' required at the summit. Though we were chosen as the best and brightest in our respective fields it became apparent that a strong awareness of different levels of thinking, the language and mode of delivery and a grasp of futurist concepts were critical to our ability to organise our own thoughts, and perhaps more importantly, to communicate these in short grabs of time. Adjunct Professor Margo Neale 2020 Summitteer - Creativity Stream
The City of Melbourne's Sustainability team commissioned Sonny Neale to run a two half day program for us.
The program was extremely successful, it enabled us to experience team work, to set our direction, and to outline our next work plan. Some of this success was due to Sonny guiding us through the challenges of working as a group. Some was due to the structure of the program as we learnt how to work together before we tried to get to where we needed to get to. The rest of was due to the Sonny's ability to fire our imaginations and to get everyone to commit to and share a vision.
It was an amazing, satisfying and productive program.
Alex Fearnside Team Leader Sustainability City of Melbourne |