Joel Barker was the first person
to popularize the concept of
paradigm shifts for the
corporate world. He began his
work in 1975 after spending a
year on fellowship meeting and
working with visionary thinkers
in both North America and Europe.
Joel Barker has worked with
organizations, both for profit
and not for profit, all over the
world as well as with nations,
including Singapore, Venezuela,
Canada, Mexico and Peru.His
honors include an honorary
Doctorate in Visionary
Leadership from St. Mary's
University and the Excellence in
Education Award given to him by
the international education
association, Pi Lambda Theta for
his part in supporting
educational innovation.
for more information, visit his
private website.
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James
Canton, Ph.D.
Futurist, Social
Scientist, Author and
Sought-After Public Speaker
Dr.
James Canton is a renowned
global futurist, social
scientist, author, and
sought-after business advisor.
For the past twenty-five years,
he has been insightfully
forecasting the impact of future
trends and innovations on
business, customers and society.
Dr. Canton is Chairman
and CEO of the Institute for
Global Futures, an
internationally-recognized San
Francisco-based think tank he
founded in 1990, to help clients
better anticipate the future.
Dr. Canton advises Fortune 1000
corporations and governments
worldwide.
He also
served as an advisor to the
White House Office of Science
and Technology, Motorola, and
MIT's Media Lab, Europe.
Dr. Canton is the
Editor-in-Chief of the Global
Futures Forecast, which advises
leaders about emerging
innovations and trends. He is
the author of Technofutures,
a book acclaimed as a blueprint
for how innovation will shape
the future of business in the
21st century. His next book is
The Extreme Future, which
will be forthcoming in September
of 2006, published by Dutton.
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Wendell Bell
(Ph.D., University of
California, Los Angeles, 1952)
is Professor Emeritus of
Sociology and Senior Research
Scientist, Center for
Comparative Research, Yale
University.
He has been a futurist
for four decades and was a
gubernatorial appointee on the
Commission on Connecticut’s
Future. He continues to work as
a futurist-sociologist
consultant, for example in 1999
participating in the work of the
U.S. Commission on National
Security/21st Century |
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Joseph
Coates Consulting Futurist
Joe Coates is a
world-renowned thinker, writer,
and speaker on the future.
He is the author of more
than 300 articles, chapters,
papers, and publications and
currently writes columns for
Technological Forecasting and
Social Change, Research and
Technology Management and
Personnel Management and is on
the editorial boards of nine
publications. He is co-author of
2025: Scenarios of U.S. and
Global Society Reshaped by
Science and Technology (Oakhill,
1997), Future Work (Jossey Bass,
1990), What Futurists Believe
(World Future Society, 1989),
and Issues Management (Lomond,
1986). Joe was also on the
editorial board of the
Encyclopedia of the Future
(Macmillan, 1996).
for more information, visit
his private
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Dr Patrick
Dixon, Futurist
Dr Patrick Dixon has been ranked
as one of the 20 most
influential business thinkers
alive today (Thinkers 50 2005),
and is often described in the
media as a Futurist. Chairman of
Global Change Ltd, author of
twelve books, Patrick Dixon has
spoken to audiences in 43
countries."Dr Dixon lives in the
year 2020 and sees tomorrow as
history".
His multimedia vision of the
future is experienced by up to
3,000 people a time, in up to
five countries a week. His main
website (www.globalchange.com)
has had 10 million different
visitors. Patrick Dixon is also
founder of the international
AIDS agency ACET (progammes in
17 countries eg Uganda, Russia
and Thailand.) Phone Patrick
Dixon: +44 7768 511 390
The
Blog by Patrick Dixon
(http://pdixon.blogspot.com) |
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Thomas
Frey - Senior Futurist
Thomas
Frey pushes the envelope
of understanding, creating
fascinating images of the world
to come. His talks on futurist
topics have captivated people
ranging from high
level government officials to
executives in Fortune 100
companies including NASA, IBM,
AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, Lucent
Technologies, First Data,
Boeing, Capital One, Bell
Canada, Ford Motor Company,
Qwest, Allied Signal, Hunter
Douglas, Direct TV, National
Association of Federal Credit
Unions, and many more.
Because of his work inspiring
inventors and other
revolutionary thinkers, the
Boulder Daily Camera has
referred to him
as the "Father of Invention".The
Denver Post and Seattle Post
Intelligence have referred to
him as the "Dean
of Futurists".
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Theodore
Jay Gordon
Mr. Theodore Jay Gordon is a
futurist and management
consultant. He is an expert in
several hightechnology fields,a
graduate engineer,a
specialist in planning and
policy analysis, and an
entrepreneur. His current
professional activities include
consulting on strategy for
several major corporations,
lecturing, serving as Director
of the American Council for the
United Nations University, and
participating on the corporate
boards of Apollo Genetics, the
Institute for Global Ethics,
Registry Databases, and The
Futures Group, the consulting
firm he formed over twenty years
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