Flower is the author of hundreds of articles. For over 20 years he was a contributing editor and regular columnist at the Healthcare Forum Journal. When the Healthcare Forum became the Health Forum of the American Hospital Association, he went on to a regular column in Hospitals and Health Networks Online. For 12 years he has written a regular column for Physician Executive, the Journal of the American College of Physician Executives. He is the author, as well, of a number of seminal articles of the Healthy Cities/Healthy Communities movement.

Flower was among the earliest denizens of cyberspace. Long before MySpace and Facebook made “social networking” a common phrase, even before there was a public Internet, he joined The Well, considered “the world’s most infuential online community,” where he has been a moderator for nearly two decades. He was a contributing writer for Wired Magazine in its explosive early years, and a columnist for the pioneering health websites DNA.com and HealthCentral.com.

His deep research into the nature of change in organizations and people led to interviews with the top thinkers on organizational change, from Peter Drucker to Peter Senge and Ari de Geus. He went deeper, into the study of chaos theory, Eastern thought, and martial arts, eventually earning a black belt in Ueshiba Aikido.

Flower was a founding member of the International Health Futures Network and the principal author of the landmark forecast, “Technological Advances and the Next 50 Years of Cardiology,” Journal of the American College of Cardiology (vol. 35, no. 4, 2000).

In Flower's talks and interactive workshops, you will discover:

• The deep forces driving change in healthcare in this decade
• How these forces affect your segment of healthcare and your market
• The risks and opportunities these forces bring your organization
• What your organization must know - and do - to survive and thrive in this environment
• How to deal with the emotional obstacles to change within your organization
• How to track leading indicators of change
• How to implement real change strategies for your organization

Joe Flower has been writing, speaking, and consulting about creating change for nearly two decades. He is author or co-author of several books including:

• Run Toward The Roar: Managing Healthcare in Turbulent Times (2003)
• China's Futures (2000)
• The 21st Century Healthcare Leader (1999)
• The Encyclopedia of the Future (1996)
• Age Wave (1989)

He is author, as well, of three major healthcare compendia and several hundred articles, and a contributing editor at Physician Executive.

Flower is principal author of the landmark forecast, "Technological Advances and the Next 50 Years of Cardiology," Journal of the American College of Cardiology (vol. 35, no. 4, 2000). His recent clients include the World Health Organization, the United States Department of Defense, the UK National Health Service, and the Global Business Network.

Flower holds a masters degree from San Francisco State University, with postgraduate work in education at UC Berkeley, as well as the rank of shodan (black belt) in Aikido.