David Houle: Strategy Futurist
Futurist and keynote speaker David Houle helps organizations anticipate change, understand emerging trends, and prepare for the future through strategic foresight and innovation.
Quick Facts:
- Internationally recognized futurist and keynote speaker
- Known as the “CEOs’ futurist”
- Delivered more than 450 presentations across six continents
- Advisor and speaker to over 3,500 CEOs and business leaders
- Formats:
- Futurist | Keynote Speaker | Strategic Thinker
- Audiences:
- Corporate leaders, executive teams, innovation conferences, healthcare organizations, educational institutions, media companies, government agencies
- Outcomes:
- Understand major trends shaping the future of business and society
- Develop strategic foresight and long-term innovation thinking
- Build adaptability and readiness for technological and cultural change
- Travels from: Sarasota, FL
- **Fee range: $20,001 - $35,000
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Keynote Topics:
The 2020s: The Most Disruptive Decade in History
An overview of the most disruptive decade in history. Why is this the most disruptive decade? What is going to happen between now and 2030? What are the major dynamics, the ascendant trends, and how will they change our realities.
This decade is and will be one of the most important historic transitions in all of history.
What was is fast giving way to what will be. This is Houle’s most popular keynote topic, based upon the book series that has already become a much discussed series about our collective future.
Trajectories of the Future
“This high-level long-range presentation looks at the two trajectories now facing humanity today. Which one will we take, the long-future of 100,000-200,000 years or the short one of 100-200 years?
The next few decades will determine this and what we do in the next few decades will determine which trajectory we will be on. This presentation looks at Climate, Intelligence, Population, Capitalism, and Consciousness and the unlimited potential on one trajectory and probably extinction with the other.
This presentation is what you want if the goal is to provide your attendees with a mind-bending look as to what lies ahead for those alive today.
“Age of Intelligence”
We have entered the Age of Intelligence here in the 2020s. What will it look like? When will the tipping points occur? What can AI do now and what will it be able to do in the future?
What can we do to insure a true and safe partnership between Technological Intelligence and Human Intelligence? Any new and significant technology always disrupts the existing reality.
How will AI alter our reality 10,20,50 years out? This presentation offers insight to this and will leave the audience with expanded minds.
Talent Short Bio
David Houle is an internationally recognized futurist, keynote speaker, and thought leader known for helping organizations anticipate disruption, understand emerging trends, and prepare strategically for the future. Frequently referred to as the “CEOs’ futurist,” David has advised and spoken to more than 3,500 CEOs and business leaders worldwide, earning recognition as one of the leading futurist voices in business today.
Over the past decade, David has delivered more than 450 keynote presentations across six continents and fourteen countries, speaking to corporations, executive leadership teams, global conferences, and management retreats. His work focuses on helping organizations navigate rapid technological, economic, and societal shifts by developing future-ready strategies grounded in long-term thinking and adaptability.
Before becoming a futurist, David spent more than 20 years in the media and entertainment industry, holding leadership roles at NBC and CBS and serving on the senior executive team responsible for launching influential networks including MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1, and CNN Headline News. His creative and strategic work also earned him two Emmy Awards, a George Foster Peabody Award, and an Academy Award nomination.
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