Glen Hiemstra, M.S.
Glen Hiemstra, M.S. is the founder and owner of Futurist.com. An
internationally respected futurist, He has advised professional,
business, and governmental organizations for two decades.
His latest book is
Turning the Future into Revenue: What Business and Individuals Need to
Know to Shape Their Futures
Previously he coauthored
Strategic
Leadership: Achieving Your
Preferred Future.
He is the author of Beyond 2020 : The Shape of Things to Come,
available in
Audio CD or
Audio Cassette and of the innovative Amazon download
Driving in 2020: Commuting Meets Computing. : An article from: The
Futurist.
Glen is a popular speaker who focuses on emerging trends in science,
technology, economics, demographics, energy, the environment, and
transportation. An expert in
preferred future planning, He goes
beyond simple trend analysis to discuss the opportunity that we have to
shape the future.
Over the years he has worked with many leading companies including
Microsoft,
Boeing,
Hewlett Packard,
Ernst & Young,
PaineWebber,
ShareBuilder, and
Novartis.
Glen has also served as a technical advisor for futuristic
television programs. He has worked with
Steven Bochco Productions and is
presently consulting on programs that are in development. He has been
quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, US News & World Report, The
Futurist, and the Los Angeles Times.
In a first career, he was an award-winning educator at
Whitworth
College and serves as a Visiting Scholar at the
Human Interface Technology Lab at the
University of Washington, which
works on virtual
and augmented reality technology.
Glen was educated at
Whitworth College, the
University of Oregon,
and the
University of Washington. He lives in Kirkland, Washington with
his wife Tracie. They have three adult children.
Watch Glen’s very popular 2000 speech
Beyond 2020 that he delivered
at the University of Washington and is replayed periodically on regional
and national television.
Watch his 15 minute
Keynote Sample Video.
Listen to him on Web Talk Radio.
Read
Friday Forward: A Chat with a Futurist in U.S. News.
Read the article
Futurist.com relies on trends, not predictions.
Read his LinkedIn profile.