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Glen Hiemstra is a powerful and entertaining speaker, a professional speaker for two decades. Audiences have compared Glen’s speaking to Alvin Toffler for the scope of his vision, and to James Burke for his style of presentation.
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Glen’s most popular keynote, based on his book Turning the Future Into Revenue: What Businesses and Individuals Need to Know to Shape their Futures. A sweeping overview of four dynamic trend areas : demographics, technology, the new economy, and the next energy revolution. The program gives focused inspiration for developing successful strategic leadership, by sharing insights on how to overcome the biggest challenges we face—the global climate crisis, and the Great Divides. Full of surprises, it is a balanced view of both opportunities and problems, and a hopeful vision for the 21st Century.
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A provocative program based on the online TV series “Future Talks,” produced by the Conversations network featuring Glen Hiemstra and EU futurist Gerd Leonhard, and now available on iTunes. What is the future of media when music flows like water, consumers become producers, Web 2.0 grows up into Web 3.0, bandwidth is nearly free, copyright is challenged, advertising is in flux, and the old world passes by with a song? How can the “Data Flow Culture” support and extend the tremendous creativity now flowering in the universe of new media?
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A program based on extensive work with transportation policy and research organizations, influential in setting the national agenda for the next several decades. A look at the future of energy, of automobiles, planes and trains—and of a society in an age of peak oil and climate crisis. This program delves into key technologies and policies that have the potential to revolutionize the way we move about in the world.
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An examination of economic, population, social, energy, environmental and technological trends from a global perspective—a time of more creative opportunity than ever, yet one of great turmoil as well. As global dynamics drive us further toward income inequality, the fundamental values issues that are raised must be considered at a deep level. Calling upon the creative resources of the human family, this program explores the critical choices and dynamic possibilities that lie ahead.
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Healthcare tomorrow will not, and must not, resemble health care today. Demographic and financial challenges both urge us toward necessary change, and threaten to bog us down in bureaucracy. Meanwhile, the big three technologies—bio, nano, and information—are surging together, revolutionizing many medical treatments. Super longevity is on the horizon—but, lacking decisive action, millions may be left out. What is coming, what must be done? By imagining the preferred future of healthcare, we can aim our efforts toward the creation of an exciting, feasible and equitable industry.
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This keynote presentation or seminar explores the drivers of future change, including technological, societal, economic, demographic and global forces. An eye-opening approach for thinking about the future and creating the future we prefer is outlined; in the seminar we put this approach into practice. With an equal emphasis on future trends, and processes, skills, and models for thinking about and shaping the future, this presentation shows how we can approach future planning with an effective long-range view, while harnessing the potential of the possibilities in front of us right now.
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The title of Chapter 1 of Glen Hiemstra’s 2006 book, Turning the Future Into Revenue, this program examines the five generations alive today – the traditionals, the boomers, the X’ers, the millenials, and the next generation being born today. Customized to the interests of the audience the program may explore selling into these generations, or recruiting and managing them, or both. A particular focus is often placed on the age wave now beginning, and on the millennial generation – better characterized as the “digital natives.” This latter group, larger than the baby boom, is unique in so many ways. An in-depth program might examine:
An important feature of this program is to time-shift the generations ahead, for example to the year 2020, when Boomers will be age 56-74, X’ers will be age 40-55, digital natives will be age 20-40, and the next generation will be age 1-19. As Glen Hiemstra says in Turning the Future Into Revenue , “In this first quarter of the twenty-first century, major demographic tidal shifts are underway. Some we see, but we underestimate the implications. Others we fail to see, though the evidence is right before us.”
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August 19th, 2008
The current issue of The Economist, August 16-22, 2008, on news stands now, features a paid special section entitled “The Future of Energy: Sustainability Rules in 2030.” Comments from Futurist.com founder and futurist speaker Glen Hiemstra are prominently featured by the article author, writer Morey Stettner.
In this piece, sponsored by BP, the writer [...]