Spouse(s) Jane | Name Graeme Codrington Role Author | |
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Born 8 October 1970 Johannesburg Occupation business consultant, speaker, and writer Website www.graemecodrington.com Books Navigating Your Career, Future‑proof Your Child: Parenting, Mind the Gap #4, Mind Over Money | ||
Nationality South Africa / British | ||
Dr graeme codrington top futurist speaker and author
Graeme Codrington is a South African author, futurist and strategy consultant, and a founding director of strategic insights firm, TomorrowToday.
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- Dr graeme codrington top futurist speaker and author
- The third wave of the digital age graeme codrington at tedxsquaremile
- Early life and education
- Career
- Awards
- Personal life
- References
The third wave of the digital age graeme codrington at tedxsquaremile
Early life and education
Codrington was born in 1970 in Johannesburg and is the oldest of three children. He obtained a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Witwatersrand, Bachelor of Arts from the University of Zululand, Honours in Youth Ministry from the Baptist Theological College of Southern Africa, a Masters in Diaconology from the University of South Africa, and a DBA from Rushmore University.
Career
Codrington is best known for his work on Generational Theory. In 2001, he completed a Masters Thesis applying the work of Neil Howe and William Strauss's Strauss–Howe generational theory to South Africa and Africa. His insights into generational theory resulted in two books published by Penguin, and have since been cited over 50 times in other research and publications. He is often called upon as a commentator on social and future trends. Codrington's work is used by a variety industries as varied as insurance, hospitality, marketing branding, local government, Christian ministry, human resources, and financial advisory services.
Codrington and his theories have been featured in many magazines and journals, including cover features in Style (Nov 2006), Future Company (March 2001) ThinkSales (Mar–Apr 2011), Leadership (May 2011), HR Future (Dec 2005), FinWeek (27 Sep 2007), and features in Men's Health (July 2007), MoneyWeb, Management Today, Meetings Professionals International's One+ magazine (Dec 2011) and Entrepreneur SA.
Codrington was featured in Africa's longest running investigative journalism TV show, Carte Blanche for his work on great companies to work for and staff engagement.
He is a guest lecturer on adjunct faculty at the London Business School, Duke Corporate Education and the Gordon Institute of Business Science. He is also on the faculty of the Institute for Management Studies and on the faculty of the Liberty University MBA and PhD courses run in Tehran, Iran by Hamayesh Farazan Graeme spoke at the TEDx SquareMile event in November 2012 on The Third Wave of the Digital Age.
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Personal life
Codrington married Jane Booth in 1991, and they have three children. They lived in London from 2008 to 2012, and now reside in Johannesburg, South Africa.