Dominique is deeply committed to a better future, in particular through understanding the human condition; our dreams, silliness, and the means to weave it into important contexts, into the minds and souls of decision makers. Her roles over the last 20 years as intrapreneur, in-house futurist, change agent and executive in rapidly changing high technology industry have allowed her to work in and on the decision-making processes to know what is needed and how that information can be leveraged. Her entrepreneurial experience allows her to put forward businesses, which directly influence human ability to leverage a better understanding of itself and its creative nature. As an infopreneur; speaker, author, facilitator and mentor she is able to share her experiences and expertise with various audiences.

This journey and passion is demonstrated in her actions as an early leader in putting human sciences and future consumer thinking on to the corporate agenda when she was the global product marketing lead in 1994 at Nokia. Her actions made a difference through looking into the eyes of the beholder in a different way. She initiated and led in mid 90s at Nokia a strategic program to shift Nokia's understanding of the future consumer. Within that role she developed many new approaches to understand people and translated those views to meaningful strategies and product concepts, connecting people. In 1998 she initiated and led at Nokia a vision program on "Mobile Information Society 2010", as she says, many of its recommendations are emerging on the market. She has written on these topics and co-authored and contributed to books and reports: "Strategic Foresight - The Power of Standing in the Future", "Thinking about the Future" and "Connected World - Redefining the Geography of Business and how we Work and Play".

She co-founded, in 1999, iiiglobal an "Innovation Community Marketplace", set to bridge the gap between ideas and commercialization and founded Visioware, the main context from within which she trained, authored and consulted. She initiated and led the development of global Mobile Enterprise vision and strategy, as well as provided insights for change at CSC [Computer Sciences Corporation].

In 2008 she founded Hunome, the culmination of her pathways and a company set to transform human understanding of itself, providing a dynamic and visually engaging environment on the net where to share and draw 'what makes us tick' insights and understanding for many professional, intellectual and personal needs. In her words, "I think the beauty and creativity in my work is in the combinatorial efforts - looking for beauty in the in between spaces and then putting that together into a story that inspires." Hunome will launch early 2009.

Her wish to progress the meaningful thinking about our predicament and our potential is evident also in her other activities. She is a founding member and for three years was a member of the board of the Association of Professional Futurists. She initiated and co-led the establishment of AusForesight, leading to the formation of an Australian professional futurist association. She is an advisory board member of Genesis Campus, an early stage venture capital fund based in the US focused on identifying, investing and developing emerging world-class wireless communications and information technology companies as well as in the University of Houston Futures Studies program. She was invited, as a transformation-oriented visionary with a unique perspective to The Future Shapers Institute, "a think tank formed to challenge widely-accepted assumptions which underlie common human belief systems that present global society from advancing toward a future of environment sustainability, social justice and global harmony".

Dominique holds a Master's degree from Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration. She is a graduate of Australian Institute of Company Directors.

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