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Glen is a futurist speaker, futurist consultant, writer, blogger, internet video producer and host, and Founder of Futurist.com. Book Cover

Glen is the author of Turning the Future Into Revenue: What Businesses and Individuals Need to Know to Shape Their Future (Wiley & Sons), and co-author of Strategic Leadership: Achieving Your Preferred Future. To arrange for a futurist keynote speech, contact us.


Sustainability 2.0

Is the sustainability trend impacting your organization? Are you being asked to be more sustainable? What does that even mean? Most people say it means producing goods and services without permanently depleting the earth's resources or polluting its environment. Is that possible? What if it is not enough? What if the real question is how we can make not just the environment sustainable, but jobs, medicine, travel, houses, whole communities, the world? How would we create that future? What advantage can you gain?


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Futurist.com is dedicated to disseminating information about the future. Whether you are interested in how we innovate our way to economic recovery, the future of energy, the future of health care, the future of transportation, the future of housing, future trends in technology, climate change, or any of the other compelling issues of our time, you will find answers here. Futurist.com is also dedicated to creating preferred futures, and offers expertise in long-range planning.


Long-Range Planning

Glen Hiemstra Facilitates Planning

How do we do long-range planning? Here is an example. A couple of years ago the Consumer & Commercial Products Division at John Deere wanted to create "pictures" of 2020. Using a series of workshops with several teams, preceded by in-depth research, we worked with advertising artists to create pictures of customers, products & services, and sales channels in 2020. This information became crucial input to the strategic planning process. In the public arena we've used similar activities to create scenarios of transportation in 2030, both for states and for the nation.


Future of Technology

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The three biggest areas of technology development are well known - information technology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology. Have you considered this trend - the web is becoming the stream. Less attention is paid to static information, more to information that is flowing constantly. You've got to produce, and live, in the stream. Before too many years the concept of being offline and "going online," will be obsolete. It may even disappear from the language.


About Us

The future has lessons to teach us, if we listen to it. Learn more about our value proposition, what we believe, the founder of Futurist.com Glen Hiemstra, and about our projects and speeches. Many additional writers contribute.