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Glen is a futurist speaker, futurist consultant, writer, blogger, internet video producer and host, and Founder of Futurist.com. 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.
From the Blog
November 23rd, 2009
In mid-October 2009 I gave a closing keynote speech to the 2009 Institute for Oral Health conference on defining quality. They had asked me to address the question of how one goes about promoting systems change. The podcast of my talk is now available here.
To provide some insight on making systems change, I [...]
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