David Houle is a futurist, advisor and speaker. He has always been slightly ahead the curve. 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 created and launched MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1 and CNN Headline News. Houle has won a number of awards. He won two Emmys, the prestigious George Foster Peabody award and the Heartland award for “Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream”. He was also nominated for an Academy Award. Houle is consistently ranked as one of the top futurists and futurist keynote speakers on the major search engines and in the world today. In the last year he has delivered keynotes on five continents. Called “the emerging futurist in the world today”, he is regularly invited to speak at corporate management retreats. He 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 2,000+ CEOs and business owners in the past four years. He launched his highly regarded futurist blog in early 2006. He also publishes the Shift Age Newsletter. In February 2010 he also became a featured contributor to Oprah.com and his column can be found at www.oprah.com/davidhoule. He has written the influential and highly acclaimed “The Shift Age,” as well as “Shift Ed: A Call to Action for Transforming K-12 Education,” and "The New Health Age: the Future of Healthcare and Medicine in America” will be published in the fall of 2011. Titles The Shift Age Leading and Succeeding in the Transformation Decade Shift Ed: A Call to Action for Transforming K-12 Education The New Health Age: the Future of Health Care in America Future Wow! (Disruptive age, available 2012 on) Leading with Vision: Being Slightly Ahead of the Curve Topics future, media, technology, youth, education, leadership, success Click topic above to see more speakers on that topic Speaker's Asking Fee Range $15,000 or more Click on fee range to see more speakers. This is the starting keynote fee range - other programs may be higher. State IL/FL Click on state above to see more speakers from that state. Fees The fee range quoted means the speaker's fee starts somewhere within that range. Note that speaker's fees are subject to change and some speakers may have special fee quotes.