The company that reads megatrends, market developments, customers and competitors - and takes action - is almost always more successful that the company that focuses on old business models and plays defense. We’ll bring audiences the strategic forces of the next 20 years and the market demands they are highly likely to create, so you can focus on positive revenue growth as soon as possible.

Future Leaders Now!: Unprecedented challenges and opportunities for the next generation of leaders

The future of leadership will be affected by two major forces. First, the retirement of the Baby Boom Generation means that we’re facing an unprecedented lack of skilled labor and talented leadership. We’ve got to find new leaders in unprecedented numbers. Second: these new leaders will be facing challenges in aging populations, water resources, economics, healthcare and more - changes that are unprecedented in history. Will you get the people you need for the future you face? Future Leaders Now will help answer those questions.

The Next 100 Days of the Future: What’s Happening, How to Think About it, and How to Keep Individuals and Organizations Happy and Productive (together with Chris Largent and Sue Snyder)

The changes of 2009 are so profound, we’re taking a multi-disciplinary approach to exploring the leadership of the future. In this full-day seminar, we are leading audiences to consider what they need to do today in order to survive and thrive in this rapidly-evolving, chaotic world.

Eric Garland will provide the strategic forecasting piece, a view into what's really happening in the world through under-reported trends in society and technology.

Historian, economic philosopher, author, and expert in paradigm shifts Chris Largent will provide insight into periods of fundamental change and what mental models are best suited to think clearly and succeed. Drawing from 4000 years of history, Chris will show audiences that while the current period of change is turbulent, there are lessons we can learn from fundamental shifts in history. We'll be thinking new, strange thoughts, but it will be fun, creative, and quite possibly profitable.

An expert in organizational development, Sue Snyder is America's top "ego rancher," a woman that top companies call when they want to turn big egos and competing agendas into harmony, productivity and profit. She knows that one of the big risks right now is that while we're tearing down old organizations, individuals are being left in the lurch. She presents her "Template for Recovery," a method for keeping teams together in times of strife and uncertainty - only this time, the template will go for entire societies, not just individual companies.

Audiences can look forward to seeing what's next, but also knowing what they can do today to guide themselves and their organizations to a brighter future, even in difficult times.

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As in past years, we look forward to working with organizations to present custom presentations on the future of their industry, presenting fresh trend data they won’t see elsewhere, and insightful views into what’s next.

All presentations are available in English or French.