Betty Sue Flowers

Biography

Betty Sue Flowers, PhD, Professor Emerita (UT-Austin) and former Director, Johnson Presidential Library, is an international foresight consultant with publications ranging from poetry therapy to sustainability, including two books of poetry and four PBS tie-in books.

Flowers was the series consultant for Bill Moyers’ Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth, a moderator for executive seminars at the Aspen Institute, consultant for NASA, CIA, and the US Navy, Public Director of the American Institute of Architects, current board chair of Public Agenda, and scenario editor for Shell Global, OAS, WEC (London), CDC, OECD (Paris), Malaysia, Eskom (South Africa), Oman, Slovenia, the Five Eyes, and WBCSD (Geneva), among others. Publications also include the Penguin English Poets edition of Christina Rossetti’s poetry; Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future (co-authored); Realistic Hope: Facing Global Challenges(co-edited); “The American Dream and the Economic Myth”; and “The Primacy of People in a World of Nations.”

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