This presentation gives specific, immediately useable and clearly described actions audience members take away to prepare for the future. The key to understanding the future is anticipation, comfort with the unexpected or contradictory and keen observation. Bob uses a unique system to show participants the complex factors that will affect the future and how they will interact.

Bob outlines major forces, factors, and trends affecting business in an increasingly competitive and turbulent environment. He gives strategies for anticipating change, dealing with hyper-competition and focusing on the next edge for a company or organization.

Participants take away a clear view of the opportunities for the future, a new sense of what competitive edges will be most in demand, where competition will arise, and a specific set of guidelines for how to be better prepared to anticipate and profit from the future.

Typical subject areas addressed in "20/20 Foresight" include:

• A customized future view of your industry or field for the next five to ten years
• Suggested strategies, tactics, and actions for operating in a range of uncertainty
• How to anticipate innovations, technologies, and customer demands for the next decade
• Future trends in competition
• Political and regulatory issues that affect your future
• Trends and developments ahead in workforce availability and quality
• How to look more broadly at the developments affecting your future in order to be better prepared
• Managing, marketing, attracting, training, and retaining key talent
• How to develop an organization-wide scanning system for the future

Recent Audiences:

• Berkshire Hathaway
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute
• Abbott Laboratories
• The St. Paul
• Quaker Oats
• Syngenta
• SBC
• Top Producer Magazine
• United Airlines
• Credit Union Executive Society
• Eastman Chemical

"Thank you for the outstanding session you conducted for our Division Presidents. The unique way you adapted the possibilities of tomorrow with the problems and opportunities that face us today caused everyone to leave that meeting tangible to apply to their companies. Bob, I have been selecting conference speakers for the last twenty years and I rate you among the best."

President & COO
Scott Fetzer (division of Berkshire Hathaway)

"Clear. Concise. Credible. Excellent. Thought-provoking. Exactly what we needed!"

V.A. Robbins, Jr.,
Coordinator, Quality Management, Worldwide Sales Division
Eastman Chemical Company

"Thank you for an outstanding address at the recent OHA Joint Educational Summit in Columbus. Your remarks were both sobering and enlightening. You reminded us how important it is to monitor our business and personal surroundings to prepare for a rapidly approaching future. Your remarks about the ever-shortening windows of opportunity were particularly cogent to me."

R. Reed Fraley, Chairman of the Board
OHA - The Association for Hospitals and Health Systems

"Thank you for providing outstanding presentations at the 2000 Governor's Conference on Economic Development. Among the comments: 'Bob is a highly intelligent man who does his homework. He gives economic development people quality points to think about and act on if they want to stay in tune with the times.' Thank you for providing valuable information."

Conference Coordinator
Wisconsin Governor's Conference on Economic Development

"Your presentation in particular received very favorable reviews. This was especially impressive as you had a significant challenge. Keeping the interest of everyone after dinner and at the end of, what was for many, a long travel day. The information you presented was interesting, timely, and certainly motivating."

Rick Palomo
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Formats:

Keynote, Half-Day Seminar or Full Day Seminar

*Presentations are customized and tailored to your organization's needs.