Joe Tankersley is a futurist, writer and advocate for better tomorrows. He combines his experience as a storyteller with the tools of strategic foresight to help others create compelling visions for our futures. Joe’s early professional dream was to become a world-famous independent filmmaker. Fortunately for all, those days were pre-YouTube, so most of the incriminating evidence of his efforts to learn how to tell a story remains hidden from public view. That all changed when he joined Walt Disney Imagineering as a writer/producer. For the next twenty years, his work was scrutinized, and often enjoyed, by millions of visitors to Disney theme parks. During his time there, Joe worked on projects for Epcot, Magic Kingdom Park, Disney’s Animal Kingdom, Disney’s Hollywood Studios, and the Disneyland Resort in California. He was part of the team that won the prestigious THEA award for creating the Millennium Village at Epcot, a showcase of global aspirations for the 21st century. It was at his first World Future Society Conference that Joe discovered his true calling. Appalled at how boring most of the presentations were, he committed himself to making the future exciting again. Not in a sci-fi fantasy way, but in a way that would inspire others to take up the work of creating better tomorrows. By pestering his bosses at Disney, he got his first opportunity to try out his new idea when he was asked to help establish the first Strategic Foresight Group for Walt Disney Imagineering’s elite Blue-Sky Studio. Joe trained hundreds of Disney cast members to use narrative to explore possible futures and developed visions for the future of socially responsible corporations, creative communities, and digitally empowered workforces. In 2014, Joe decided it was time to take his future storytelling show on the road. He envisioned this new project, Unique Visions, as a vehicle to share the power of story ad foresight with those who were already working to create better tomorrows. In this role, Joe has worked with nonprofits, entrepreneurs, community groups, and international corporations. His belief that the future should belong to everyone has led him to work with groups ranging from international pharmaceutical companies to the country’s largest rodeo. Joe is most passionate about projects relating to conscious capitalism, the environment, connected communities, sustainable tourism, and aging (because he realizes he is getting older). Despite his healthy disdain for membership in organized groups, Joe served on the board of directors of the Association of Professional Futurists for six years and was a founding board member of the Global Futures Forum. He currently serves as advisor to the Federal Alliance for Safe Homes and the Blue Ocean Community. Joe lives in the heart of Central Florida, where if current trends continue, his future grandchildren will one day inherit beachfront property.
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