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If you listen carefully, you can learn what the future is telling you.

Glen Hiemstra is the founder and owner of Futurist.com, a company dedicated to disseminating information about the future, to assist individuals, organizations and industries in creating the futures they prefer. An internationally respected futurist, Glen has advised professional, business, and governmental organizations for two decades. He is the author of Turning the Future into Revenue: What Businesses and Individuals Need to Know to Shape Their Futures, from John Wiley & Sons, 2006, and is co-author of Strategic Leadership: Achieving Your Preferred Future.

As an expert in preferred future planning and a popular keynote speaker, Mr. Hiemstra zeros in on emerging trends in science, technology, economics, demographics, energy, the environment, and transportation. In his mind-stretching programs, Glen goes beyond simple trend analysis to discuss the opportunities that we all have to shape a future of hope and possibility.

Glen has worked with many leading companies, government agencies and organizations including Microsoft, Boeing, Adobe, Ernst & Young, PaineWebber, ShareBuilder, Ambrosetti (Italy), Club of Amsterdam, Northern Telecom, Home Depot, Weyerhaeuser, Hewlett Packard, Novo Nordisk, U.S./Mexico JWC, APAX Partners, Costa Rica Hotel Association, Atlanta 2060, Tulsa 2025, Idaho Transportation 2030, Federal Highway Administration Advanced Research, John Deere, and many others.

A skilled educator, Glen also offers a variety of informational resources for those interested in exploring the future. Each month, visitors from more than 100 countries come to Futurist.com for provocative snapshots of emerging ideas, trends and technologies. FutureTalks, Glen's online video series on the future of media produced by the Conversations Network, is now available at iTunes. Futurist.comTV also produces regular short videos for the web on a variety of future topics, including the Knowledge Value Economy, Energy, and the Online Community.

Glen has served as a technical advisor for futuristic television programs, working with Steven Bochco Productions (creator of "LA Law" and "Hill Street Blues,"), among others. He is frequently cited in a variety of prestigious publications, such as The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, US News & World Report, The Futurist, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Times. Glen was selected as one of 30 global leaders to advise on the design of the General Motors & Shanghai Automotive Industry pavilion for the Shanghai 2010 exhibition, and is a member of a similar team proposing a Global Solutions pavilion for Shanghai 2010.

In a first career, Glen was an award-winning educator; he has served as a Visiting Scholar at the Human Interface Technology Lab at the University of Washington, which works 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.

Create a Custom Program
We learn about your industry and apply our targeted futures research toward a vision of the future that will specifically address the special interests of your audience. Past examples include The Future of...

• global trade
• workforce
• human resources
• public works
• cities and communities
• bioethics
• technology
• computing and the internet
• insurance
• housing and real estate
• construction trades
• education
• manufacturing
• banking and financial services
• global investing
• philanthropy