Eric Garland
Eric is devoted to creating a world of future-focused leaders. With his signature humor, energy, and quick wit, Mr. Garland pushes individuals and organizations to question assumptions, think creatively, and identify strategic business strategic.
Mr. Garland is the author of Future Inc.: How Businesses Can Anticipate and Profit from What’s Next (AMACOM, 2006), introducing trends research, foresight, strategic thinking and scenario generation to leaders for practical use in both short-term and long-term planning.
Wearing many hats, Mr. Garland is: a global futurist, author, competitive analyst, strategic advisor, executive educator, and popular keynote speaker.
An internationally-recognized futurist, he has been exploring the issues of climate change, health care, global talent crisis, infrastructure, immigration, and advanced technologies. Mr. Garland advises small to medium-sized businesses, corporations, government agencies, and non-profit organizations, helping clients navigate change and identify opportunities for business development.
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Eric Garland: Program OutlinesThink fast! - Use foresight to drive next generation business development
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.
The future of _______:
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.
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.
The future of _______:
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.
Future, Inc.: How Businesses Can Anticipate and Profit from What's Next
In the next 50 years, new technologies, shifting global economics, and many other factors will present innumerable changes for business and society to navigate. Starting now, leaders need to be more flexible, responsive, and decisive than ever before. Unfortunately, most people are not trained in the type of critical thinking required to anticipate what lies ahead. This groundbreaking book will change that.
Futuring is not a matter of tea leaves and crystal balls -- it is a rigorous science based on time-tested analytical methods. Future, Inc. translates the proven techniques of professional futurists into accessible language and shows how to:
* identify what is and what isn’t changing at a given time, and how even small changes will affect whole businesses
* use forecasting -- not "predictions" -- to pinpoint tomorrow’s realities by looking at today’s trends
* employ scenarios to test the validity of potential strategies
The author illustrates his advice with examples of companies whose foresight has given them an unparalleled advantage and identifies significant trends that will impact businesses in the future. Companies can’t afford to be caught unaware. In order to survive and succeed, they need to look ahead. Future, Inc. provides the tools to bring the future into focus.
Futuring is not a matter of tea leaves and crystal balls -- it is a rigorous science based on time-tested analytical methods. Future, Inc. translates the proven techniques of professional futurists into accessible language and shows how to:
* identify what is and what isn’t changing at a given time, and how even small changes will affect whole businesses
* use forecasting -- not "predictions" -- to pinpoint tomorrow’s realities by looking at today’s trends
* employ scenarios to test the validity of potential strategies
The author illustrates his advice with examples of companies whose foresight has given them an unparalleled advantage and identifies significant trends that will impact businesses in the future. Companies can’t afford to be caught unaware. In order to survive and succeed, they need to look ahead. Future, Inc. provides the tools to bring the future into focus.
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