Andy Hines is managing the consulting practice of Social Technologies, bringing together the experience he earned as an academic, organizational, and consulting futurist. He is also currently an Adjunct Professor teaching futures studies at the University of Houston MS Program in Futures Studies, whose program he graduated from in 1990.

Prior to joining Social Technologies, he enjoyed earlier careers as a consulting and then organizational futurist. He became a partner with Coates & Jarratt, Inc., a think tank and consulting firm that specialized in the study of the future. He was also Futurist & Senior Ideation Leader at Dow Chemical with a mission of using futures tools and knowledge to turn ideas into new business opportunities. Before that, he established and ran the Global Trends Program for the Kellogg Company

Each career has been characterized by a professional hunger to make foresight practical and useful. Andy believes that foresight can help deliver the insight we are so much in need in today's organizations and the world, and hopes he can infect as many change agents as possible with this message. Thus, he has honed a skill set designed to make foresight more actionable in organizations.

In this pursuit, he co-founded and is currently Vice-Chair of the Assn of Professional Futurists, co-authored three books -- Thinking About the Future: Guidelines for Strategic Foresight," 2025: Science and Technology Reshapes US and Global Society (Oak Hill, 1997) and Managing Your Future as an Association (ASAE, 1994). He has also authored dozens of articles, speeches, and workshops, including the 2003 Emerald Literati Awards' Outstanding Paper accolade for best article published in Foresight for "An Audit for Organizational Futurists."