Education

As most keynote speakers can tell you, traditionally in business, we’ve been focused on building and maintaining competitive advantage—finding ways to outsmart, outmaneuver, and outperform the competition. But what if I told you that in today’s always-on, always-connected, globalized world, as we saw in the games industry, competition [...]

We've heard about it coming for years, and now it's finally here: Millennials, also known as Generation Y or Gen Yers (who are roughly 19-34 years of age at present) are now America's largest generation - bigger than the Boomers, even. What's more, not only have millions grown [...]

As futurists and trends experts, we couldn’t help but ask ourselves: What does the future of online and connected video games hold? The answer: A great deal more change – and competition – as a number of today’s most well-known industry insiders tell it. With over 500 new [...]

Sometimes, life throws you a curveball. Then it chases it with a couple left hooks, uppercuts, and gives you a good kick in the tender vittles while you’re still on the ground for good measure. Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out in life and [...]

Dear Business Leaders: YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG. The trick isn’t to avoid fear, it’s to embrace the discomfort, learn from it, and do the damn thing anyway… At least, it is if you’re a fan of growth, success, and staying relevant in an ever-changing world, or so new [...]

Pop quiz: What’s the single most important trend in mobile devices sweeping the globe today? The hottest new thing in entertainment since Apple and its fleet of high-tech sensations first took pop culture by storm? What does the home of the future look like, and how soon do [...]

As futurist speakers and trends experts, we're frequently asked to weigh in on major socioeconomic trends impacting the globe on a grand scale - a.k.a. "megatrends" as it were. Throughout a series of several posts, we thought we'd highlight a number of these new megatrends which promise to [...]

Talk to crowdfunding experts, and they'll tell you that the concept of crowdfunding - raising funds online for a new product or project - is rapidly and profoundly changing, growing, and quickly becoming an everyday part of our lives. But while crowd funding is wildly exciting, it can [...]

Like most education speakers will tell you, yt’s an inescapable fact of high-tech parenthood: Social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+ now enjoy near-ubiquity amongst kids, teens and tweens. But is access to these forms of social media necessarily a negative? It all depends on how [...]