He is regarded as one of the foremost futurist speakers in the world today. He has keynoted hundreds of conferences, spoken to corporate retreats in the U.S. and internationally, and regularly presents to groups of CEOs around the world. He has spoken on all six continents and in 16 countries in the last 16 years. All speeches deal with mega concepts that provoke audiences to think about the future and what may lie ahead. David very much likes to follow up speeches with extended Q&A and discussions and to act as a catalyst for thinking about the future as it may pertain to a specific group or company.
David Houle has won a “Speaker of the Year” award from Vistage International, the world’s largest CEO organization. He has been called, “the CEOs futurist” “America’s Leading Futurist” and “one of the foremost futurists in the world today”
He is a Co-Founder and Managing Director of The Sarasota Institute – A 21st Century Think Tank.
He is also the co-founder of the global non-profit organization http://thisspaceshipearth.org/
An overview of the most disruptive decade in history. Why is this the most disruptive decade? What is going to happen between now and 2030? What are the major dynamics, the ascendant trends, and how will they change our realities. This decade is and will be one of the most important historic transitions in all of history. What was is fast giving way to what will be. This is Houle’s most popular keynote topic, based upon the book series that has already become a much discussed series about our collective future
This decade has delivered us into the state of cognitive dissonance. The disorienting events – COVID-19, social unrest, bear then bull then bear equities markets, the horrifying manifestations of the climate catastrophe, a land war in Europe, and the rapid growth of technological intelligence – have created a deep sense in many of us as to what is reality. Why is this happening and how does this decade of disruption compare to past eras of disruption and invention.
The 2020s ushers in the golden age of design and redesign. To face our future, we will need to have design thinking at the forefront of how we create our new future for the 21st century. More than at any time in history, design and redesign will shape how we will live. This presentation explains why this is true and suggests what design and redesign can do to recast our path, our institutions and our way of thinking. What are the 17 guidelines for Planetary Systemic Design that will guide us? An exciting look into design, design thinking and why it is the key way for the reinvention of how humanity lives and operates in the next few decades.
Based upon the influential book of the same name this presentation sets forth the answer to the question “What humanity needs to do to successfully face climate change”. It is a roadmap with metrics, technology, high-level policy and economics that needs urgent implementation. It takes a futurist to combine the three biggest trends of the next decade – the Age of Climate Change, the Age of Intelligence and the need for the Reinvention of Capitalism – into a unique, systemic recasting of the global economy from being a Growth Economy to a Finite Earth Economy. Simply put, endless growth – with an 8 billion population – no longer works on a Finite Spaceship Earth. Perhaps the most significant view on our path forward in this time of crisis and disruption.
This is Houle’s acclaimed presentation on Climate Change, and the need for humanity to develop Crew Consciousness as the only real way to move as rapidly as possible to collectively face the single biggest threat facing all of us. Based on Houle’s seventh and most recent book of the same name, this presentation has already triggered high praise and demand. Using science, visuals and high level concepts this is the presentation that will provide the “aha” moment for audiences ans it is delivered by a globally known futurist and not a scientist or environmental activist. As Houle says: “It would be a professional dereliction of duty as a futurist to not address Climate Change. This is why I have founded: http://thisspaceshipearth.org/ to activate humanity to act as crew of This Spaceship Earth”
This presentation is based on the book of the same name which was rated one of the top five books published on marketing in the world in 2014. Houle takes a high level look at the future of brands and the marketing of brands. After a quick look back on the history of brands, Houle discusses the waves of technology and then the current and future trends that are rapidly reshaping how brands are marketed. Not a “how to” presentation but a visionary look into what brands will have to do to thrive in this time of rapid transformation in the next 5-10 years. This presentation has been well received by professional marketing executives in a variety of industries.
We have entered the Age of Intelligence. Breakthroughs in Neuroscience, brainwave connectivity and Technological Intelligence will merge to possibly create humanity’s next evolutionary stage. There will be no aspect of society that will not be affected by this historical passage we have entered. The age of computing has been just a prelude to this new age.
The Shift Age – Singapore
TEDx: The Concept of Place has Changed Forever
Annual CEO Forum, Tianjin, China
PCMA
Corporate Visioning and Futuring
SCF Commencement Address – David Houle
“The New Health Age”
“Entering the Shift Age”
“Shift Ed: The Future of Education”