Jody Turner
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| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Evergreen State College |
| 💼 Occupation | Entrepreneur and futurist |
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Jody Turner is an American entrepreneur and futurist known for her international brand insight and trend futurism research,[1] writing[2] and keynote presenting.
Biography[edit]
Born in the U.S., Turner’s heritage is American of mixed race. She is of Nordic/Irish descent and is a 5th generation blood Choctaw tribal member with multi-generations listed in the Dawes Historic Registry. Turner settled on the West Coast as a young adult, where she received a Liberal Arts degree from Evergreen State College[3] Olympia, Washington, a self-generating curriculum school, where her studies centered on the understanding of current-to-future human endeavors in design and culture.
Career[edit]
Turner began her professional career as a visual communications designer, working 15 years+ from San Francisco to New York City, including tenure as communications designer with Nike’s trend resource team. Subsequent design and trend insight work included consulting with Starbucks international retail brand teams and a full-time role instigating a trend library for The Gap/Old Navy with Ivy Ross. In 2004, Turner met Reinier Evers[4] of Trendwatching.com at a round table in France, and cites this encounter as critical to launching her career as a trend hunter futurist. That same year Turner founded her company Culture of Future (CoF).
Turner speaks at international conferences across the Americas, Europe,[5] the Middle East, Australia,[6] and within developing nations. She is a regular speaker at the Sustainable Brands Conference in Istanbul.[7] In 2009 she was awarded a World Brand Congress Leadership Award in Mumbai [8] and has worked on numerous global projects focused on empowering women and girls, including the Nike Foundation Girl Effect[9] out of London.
In 2010, Turner mentored then-Creative Studies design student Veronika Scott, and assisted her in the founding of American humanitarian project the Empowerment Plan.[10] The organization provides employment and training to homeless women as they hand-make sleeping-bag coats distributed to the homeless of Detroit, as well as globally via disaster relief programs.
Turner has written strategic insights for Fast Company magazine,[11] the Stanford Social Innovation Review,[12] GOOD Magazine[13] and Shareable.net.[10]
Publications[edit]
In April 2019 Turner published a global insight trend report entitled "Glimpse: Understanding the Future Marketplace" that summarizes her findings as a cross-generational global trendwatcher.[14]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Jody Turner: A Glimpse Into Your Future" interview by impactmania
- ↑ "IDEO: Five Companies That Mastered Social Media's Branding Potential". Fast Company. March 27, 2011.
- ↑ Olympia, The Evergreen State College 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW; Phone, Washington 98505867-6000; Directories, Email. "Evergreen Accolades | The Evergreen State College". www.evergreen.edu.
- ↑ Interview With Reinier Evers by Jody Turner for Impactmania
- ↑ "TEDxHelsinki | TED". www.ted.com.
- ↑ "Jody Turner, international keynote, presents at iMedia Summit" – via www.youtube.com.
- ↑ "Global Danışma Kurulu".
- ↑ "Global Awards for Brand Excellence-09, Jody Turner" – via www.youtube.com.
- ↑ "Girl Effect". www.girleffect.org.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "The Empowerment Plan: Social Innovation Style in Detroit". www.shareable.net. May 1, 2013.
- ↑ "Jody Turner". Fast Company.
- ↑ "Collaborative Design Tackles Homelessness (SSIR)". ssir.org.
- ↑ "In An Era of Opportunity, Five Tips For Modern Entrepreneurs". GOOD. January 21, 2014.
- ↑ "Jody Turner: A Glimpse into Your Future". www.impactmania.com. April 16, 2019.
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