Glen Hiemstra, Futurist, was telling audiences about global warming and climate change...in 1987. He was writing about the age wave and the end of classic retirement...in 1995. Glen was previewing nanotechnology...in 1989. He was describing genomic science and biotechnology even earlier. Glen was studying how the Internet would change human and organizational communication in 1981, before the Internet was even a public network. In the mid-1980's he was telling people about the coming economic growth of the Pacific Rim countries. By 2001 Glen was describing peak oil and the coming energy transformation as the greatest economic opportunity of the next half-century. As early as 2006 Glen was telling people why the debt bubble would burst, as it did more than a year later. To deal with breakthrough trends like these Glen was helping large and small companies, educational institutions, government agencies and communities re-think their future vision. Oh yes, and Glen Hiemstra was the one professional futurist with the foresight to register Futurist.com and become Founder and CEO of the website visited by people from 120 nations each month.

This is why audience members for Glen's keynote speeches and clients for his long-range planning say things like, "Once you hear Glen Hiemstra speak, the future will never look the same." Glen Hiemstra is dedicated to disseminating information about the future to assist individuals, organizations, and industries in effective strategic planning. An internationally respected expert on future trends, long-range planning and creating the preferred future, Glen has advised professional, business, and governmental organizations for two decades and has served as a technical advisor for futuristic television programs. A writer and blogger as well as a speaker and consultant, Glen is the author of Turning the Future into Revenue: What Businesses and Individuals Need to Know to Shape Their Future (Wiley & Sons 2006). Previously he co-authored Strategic Leadership: Achieving Your Preferred Future.

Glen has worked with many leading companies, government agencies and organizations across a wide variety of domains. These include Microsoft, The Home Depot, Boeing, Adobe, Ernst & Young, PaineWebber, ShareBuilder, Ambrosetti (Italy), Club of Amsterdam, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Savannah District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Pacific Ocean Division, Northern Telecom, REI, Weyerhaeuser, Hewlett Packard, Novo Nordisk, U.S./Mexico JWC, APAX Partners, Costa Rica Hotel Association, Atlanta 2060, Tulsa 2025, Idaho Transportation 2030, Michigan DOT 2030, Federal Highway Administration Advanced Research, Eddie Bauer, Procter & Gamble, ACE Hardware, IHOP, John Deere, Weitz Construction, Lexis Nexus, Land O Lakes, GHD Engineering (Australia), SONAE (Portugal), and others.

As a recognized expert in preferred future planning, Glen is a popular keynote speaker who can zero in on emerging trends in economics, demographics, energy, the environment, Internet and communications, science, technology, housing, and transportation. Glen goes beyond simple trend analysis to discuss the opportunities that we all have to shape the preferred future. In his consulting, Glen utilizes tools such as environmental scanning, scenario development, whole systems perspectives, paradigm shifts, and analysis of organizational culture for managing change to assist enterprises to achieve high performance.

A skilled communicator, Glen also offers a variety of informational resources for those interested in exploring the future. Each day visitors come to Futurist.com and Glen's blog for provocative snapshots of emerging ideas, trends, and technologies. Futurist.com produces short videos for the web on a variety of future topics. Glen can be followed at twitter.com/futuristspeaker and youtube.com/futuristspeaker.

As a media technical advisor Glen worked with Steven Bochco Productions (creator of "Hill Street Blues" and "NYPD Blue"), among others. He is often cited in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, US News & World Report, The Futurist, USA Today, Business Week, the Economist, and the Los Angeles Times.

In a first career, Glen was an award-winning educator; more recently he served as a Visiting Scholar at the Human Interface Technology Lab at the University of Washington, which worked on virtual and augmented reality technology.

Glen was educated at Whitworth College, the University of Oregon, and the University of Washington. He lives in Kirkland, Washington with his wife Tracie. They have three adult children.

Beyond 2020: Hope and Possibilities
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.

The Future of Transportation
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.

Our Economic Future in a Global Age
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.

Conversations on the Future of Media in a Data Flow Culture
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?

21st Century Healthcare
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.

Creating Preferred Futures
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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