Biography:Jody Turner
Jody Turner | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Evergreen State College |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur and futurist |
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
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
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
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
- ↑ "Jody Turner: A Glimpse Into Your Future" interview by impactmania
- ↑ "IDEO: Five Companies That Mastered Social Media’s Branding Potential". March 27, 2011. https://www.fastcompany.com/1663494/ideo-five-companies-that-mastered-social-medias-branding-potential.
- ↑ Olympia, The Evergreen State College 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW; Phone, Washington 98505867-6000; Directories, Email. "Evergreen Accolades | The Evergreen State College". https://www.evergreen.edu/about/evergreen-accolades.
- ↑ Interview With Reinier Evers by Jody Turner for Impactmania
- ↑ "TEDxHelsinki | TED". https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/1062.
- ↑ "Jody Turner, international keynote, presents at iMedia Summit". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDQbkAwusds.
- ↑ "Global Danışma Kurulu". https://sustainablebrandsturkey.com/2021/danisma-kurulu/.
- ↑ "Global Awards for Brand Excellence-09, Jody Turner". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMgR3ha6R7o.
- ↑ "Girl Effect". https://www.girleffect.org/.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "The Empowerment Plan: Social Innovation Style in Detroit". May 1, 2013. https://www.shareable.net/the-empowerment-plan-social-innovation-style-in-detroit/.
- ↑ "Jody Turner". https://www.fastcompany.com/user/jody-turner.
- ↑ "Collaborative Design Tackles Homelessness (SSIR)". https://ssir.org/articles/entry/collaborative_design_tackles_homelessness.
- ↑ "In An Era of Opportunity, Five Tips For Modern Entrepreneurs". January 21, 2014. https://www.good.is/articles/in-an-era-of-opportunity-five-tips-for-modern-entrepreneurs.
- ↑ "Jody Turner: A Glimpse into Your Future". April 16, 2019. http://www.impactmania.com/im/jody-turner-a-glimpse-into-your-future/.
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