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David Houle - Futurist Consultant & Speaker

David Houle is a futurist, strategist and keynote speaker. He has always been slightly ahead 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 both across the country and internationally.  He is regularly invited to speak and corporate management retreats. He recently won a Speaker of the Year award from Vistage International, the leading organizations of CEOs in the world.  He is often called the "CEOs futurist" having spoken to or advised 1200+ CEOs and business owners in the past three years.

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 ten years.

 Houle has won a number of awards. He won two Emmys as Co-Executive Producer for a nationally syndicated kids 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 a free monthly newsletter and the highly acclaimed semi-annual Shift Age Trend Report.  Both are available at www.davidhoule.com/shiftstore/index.asp.  He has been speaking about the future for a number of years and his first book "The Shift Age" was published in 2008. He is currently working on two new books.

In February  2010 Houle became a featured contributor on Oprah.com: www.oprah.com/davidhoule