John Mahaffie is a renowned futurist with years of experience in exploring and responding to emerging trends. He has been in the field since 1987, helping organizations in writing, speaking, training, research, and analysis on a wide range of futures topics. Together with Jennifer Jarratt, John is a founder and principal with Leading Futurists LLC which he joined in 2002. John's blog, foresightculture.com, is a platform for sharing his thoughts on exploring and responding to the emerging future.

John is an expert in the areas of change exploration and identification of emerging opportunities and challenges. Packaging organizations are his primary focus. His work involves developing multi-sponsor programs on the Future of Packaging project. John Mahaffie is passionate about speaking to groups and workshopping with them to get hold of insights concerning the future and connect them to their organizational realities.

John Mahaffie has spoken at various conferences and keynotes. For instance, he spoke on the topic "The Future Shaping the Accounting Industry" at the Accounting & Financial Women's Association, DC Chapter, in February 2016. Also, in January 2016, he spoke about "The world in 2026 or_____Six tomorrows for packaging" at the Future of Packaging 2016-2026 Program held in Tempe, Arizona. At the National Principal's Leadership Institute in New York, NY, July 2015, he spoke on "Challenging Our Assumptions," and "Exploring the Future: Planning Maine" at the National Association of State Personnel Executives in Seattle, WA, July 2015.