Jan Lee Martin says she was captured by the field of futures because she had finally found a discipline big enough to include everything that fascinated her -- from spirituality and inner growth to the wonders of technology;  from worldviews and myth to health and humanity --  how do we save the planet and create lasting world peace?  (Fix it up on Tuesday
morning!).   She is still hooked by the thrill of exploring the frontiers, but since she retired from the chair of the Futures Foundation, which she established with a network of colleagues in 1996 (www.futurists.net.au), she stays in futures work mostly out of respect and affection for her colleagues in that field.  Where else can you work with people who are intellectually gifted and emotionally mature?  learned and open-minded? heroes for humanity and free of arrogance?   And for someone who isn't gifted at the saintly end of service, what kind of work -- outside the family, at least -- could possibly be more important?

Jan grew into futures after 20 years or so in corporate communication. After selling her consultancy in the mid-1980s, she began to study change and futures, drawing from areas as diverse as the study of consciousness,
the new economics and living systems theory to technology and organisational behaviour.  Her main activity in recent years has been working with futurists to explore corporate and community futures.  Her personal specialty lies in combining the futures perspective with her corporate communication experience, to help organisations identify and
respond to fundamental changes in relationships with their host communities.   She is also interested in changes in the way we define and measure success -- as individuals, organisations and societies.   These inter-related issues are, of course, critical when it comes to changing the way we live and work in western societies.

Since reducing her workload, Jan has been doing some senior executive coaching, as well as continuing to edit Future News and participating in a number of community projects.