David Houle
ABC, APR, Fellow PRSA
FL, USHoule is known for being a highly entertaining and enthusiastic speaker. and is usually booked to open or close conferences. He is the most published futurist speaker in the world today.
David Houle is a futurist, thinker and keynote speaker. He has always been slightly ahead of the curve. Houle is consistently ranked as one of the top futurists and futurist keynote speakers on the major search engines. He has keynoted numerous conferences across the country and internationally. In the last three years he has delivered keynotes or 6 continents and 14 countries. He is regularly invited to speak at corporate management retreats. Houle won a Speaker of the Year award from Vistage International, the leading organization of CEOs in the world. He is often called the "CEOs' futurist" having spoken to or advised 3,500 CEOs and business owners in the past nine years.
Houle is one of the few futurists who posts most of his forecasts and when he made them as his accountability to the world: https://davidhoule.com/forecasts
Houle spent more than 20 years in media and entertainment. He has worked at NBC, CBS and was part of the senior executive team that launched MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1 and CNN Headline News. He helped to create television series on A&E for his client Bill Kurtis, (Investigative Reports' and American Justice), introducing single- subject documentaries and legal programming to prime time before those programming concepts became common place. Both series were award winning and ran for more than 10 years.
Houle has won a number of awards. He won two Emmys as co-executive Producer for a nationally syndicated children's program, "Energy Express". He won the prestigious George Foster Peabody award and the Heartland award for Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream and was nominated for an Academy Award.
He writes the highly regarded futurist blog www.evolutionshift.com with the tag line "A Future Look At Today." For those of you on Twitter his user name is evolutionshift, which is also the name of his YouTube channel. He publishes the free Shift Age Newsletter, available at www.davidhoule.com/newsletter. In February 2010 Houle became a featured contributor on Oprah.com, www.oprah.com/davidhoule for a year.
He has been speaking about the future for 10 years and his influential first book The Shift Age was published in 2008. His second book, Shift Ed: A Call to Action for Transforming K-12 Education, written with Jeff Cobb was published in March 2011.The New Health Age: the Future of Health Care in America, co-authored with Jonathan Fleece, was published by Sourcebooks in January 2012. and became a #1 best seller on Amazon in the categories of Medicine and Future of Health Care. His fourth book,"Entering the Shift Age" was published by Sourcebooks in January of 2013. It is also a #1 Amazon best seller in the category of Business Planning and Forecasting. His latest book was a short eBook "Is Privacy Dead? The Future of Privacy in the Digital Age" His book "Brand Shift: The Future of Brands and Marketing" was published in September 2014 and was subsequently named one of the top five marketing books publsihed in the world in 2014.
His 7th book, published in 2015, was "This Spaceship Earth" co-authored with Tim Rumage. This book led Houle to co-found a global non-profit of the same name to face Climate Change
Houle followed up this book with a second, widely acclaimed book on facing the climate crisis, "Moving to a Finite Earth Economy - Crew Manual"
Houle has had 13 book published, making him the most published futurist speaker in the world today. His latest series is about the 2020s:
"The 2020s: The Most Disruptive Decade in History"
"The 2020s: A Decade of Cognitive Dissonance"
"The 2020s: The Golden Age of Design and Redesign"
Houle is Futurist in Residence and guest lecturer at the Ringling College of Art Design in Sarasota, Florida. .
David Houle is a futurist, thinker and keynote speaker. He has always been slightly ahead of the curve. Houle is consistently ranked as one of the top futurists and futurist keynote speakers on the major search engines. He has keynoted numerous conferences across the country and internationally. In the last three years he has delivered keynotes or 6 continents and 14 countries. He is regularly invited to speak at corporate management retreats. Houle won a Speaker of the Year award from Vistage International, the leading organization of CEOs in the world. He is often called the "CEOs' futurist" having spoken to or advised 3,500 CEOs and business owners in the past nine years.
Houle is one of the few futurists who posts most of his forecasts and when he made them as his accountability to the world: https://davidhoule.com/forecasts
Houle spent more than 20 years in media and entertainment. He has worked at NBC, CBS and was part of the senior executive team that launched MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1 and CNN Headline News. He helped to create television series on A&E for his client Bill Kurtis, (Investigative Reports' and American Justice), introducing single- subject documentaries and legal programming to prime time before those programming concepts became common place. Both series were award winning and ran for more than 10 years.
Houle has won a number of awards. He won two Emmys as co-executive Producer for a nationally syndicated children's program, "Energy Express". He won the prestigious George Foster Peabody award and the Heartland award for Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream and was nominated for an Academy Award.
He writes the highly regarded futurist blog www.evolutionshift.com with the tag line "A Future Look At Today." For those of you on Twitter his user name is evolutionshift, which is also the name of his YouTube channel. He publishes the free Shift Age Newsletter, available at www.davidhoule.com/newsletter. In February 2010 Houle became a featured contributor on Oprah.com, www.oprah.com/davidhoule for a year.
He has been speaking about the future for 10 years and his influential first book The Shift Age was published in 2008. His second book, Shift Ed: A Call to Action for Transforming K-12 Education, written with Jeff Cobb was published in March 2011.The New Health Age: the Future of Health Care in America, co-authored with Jonathan Fleece, was published by Sourcebooks in January 2012. and became a #1 best seller on Amazon in the categories of Medicine and Future of Health Care. His fourth book,"Entering the Shift Age" was published by Sourcebooks in January of 2013. It is also a #1 Amazon best seller in the category of Business Planning and Forecasting. His latest book was a short eBook "Is Privacy Dead? The Future of Privacy in the Digital Age" His book "Brand Shift: The Future of Brands and Marketing" was published in September 2014 and was subsequently named one of the top five marketing books publsihed in the world in 2014.
His 7th book, published in 2015, was "This Spaceship Earth" co-authored with Tim Rumage. This book led Houle to co-found a global non-profit of the same name to face Climate Change
Houle followed up this book with a second, widely acclaimed book on facing the climate crisis, "Moving to a Finite Earth Economy - Crew Manual"
Houle has had 13 book published, making him the most published futurist speaker in the world today. His latest series is about the 2020s:
"The 2020s: The Most Disruptive Decade in History"
"The 2020s: A Decade of Cognitive Dissonance"
"The 2020s: The Golden Age of Design and Redesign"
Houle is Futurist in Residence and guest lecturer at the Ringling College of Art Design in Sarasota, Florida. .
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Moving to a Finite Earth Economy
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