David Houle: Strategy Futurist
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- Travels from: Sarasota, FL
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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.
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David Houle is a futurist, thinker and keynote speaker. He has always been slightly ahead of the curve. Houle is consistently ranked as one of the top futurists and futurist keynote speakers on the major search engines.
He has keynoted numerous conferences across the country and internationally. In the last seven years he has delivered 450+ presentations and keynotes on 6 continents and 14 countries.
David is regularly invited to speak at corporate management retreats. Houle won a Speaker of the Year award from Vistage International, the leading organization of CEOs in the world.
He is often called the “CEOs’ futurist” having spoken to or advised 3,500+ CEOs and business owners in the past eight years.
David Houle spent more than 20 years in media and entertainment. He has worked at NBC, CBS and was part of the senior executive team that launched MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1 and CNN Headline News.
Houle has won a number of awards. He won two Emmys as co-executive Producer for a nationally syndicated children’s program, “Energy Express”. He won the prestigious George Foster Peabody award and the Heartland award for Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream and was nominated for an Academy Award.
He writes the highly regarded futurist blog, Evolution Shift, with the tag line “A Future Look At Today.” For those of you on Twitter his user name is evolutionshift, which is also the name of his YouTube channel.
David Houle publishes the free Shift Age Newsletter. During 2010 Houle was a featured contributor on Oprah.com. His much acclaimed curated visual look into the future, launched in 2013.
He has been speaking about the future for 8 years and his influential first book The Shift Age was published in 2007. His second book, Shift Ed: A Call to Action for Transforming K-12 Education, written with Jeff Cobb was published in March 2011.
The New Health Age: the Future of Health Care in America, co-authored with Jonathan Fleece, was published by Sourcebooks in January 2012. and became a #1 best seller on Amazon in the categories of Medicine and Future of Health Care.
“Entering the Shift Age” was published by Sourcebooks in January of 2013. It is also a #1 Amazon bestseller in the category of Business Planning and Forecasting.
David Houle published the eBook “Is Privacy Dead: The Future of Privacy in the Digital Age” in November 2013. His latest book “Brand Shift: The Future of Brands and Marketing” with co-author Owen Shapiro was published in August 2014 and was named one of the top five marketing books published in the world in 2014.
In addition to some 1200+ speeches on all six continents and in 16 countries, he has had 13 books published in his 17 years as a professional futurist. Few practicing futurists today rival such a level of intellectual output.
David Houle is in the tradition of the great futurists of the last 75 years, Alvin Toffler, R. Buckminster Fuller, and Marshall McLuhan. Arts Management Magazine, co-founded by Alvin Toffler and Alvin Reiss, had this to say about Houle in what was their “Future” issue.
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