David Houle is a futurist, thinker and speaker. Houle spent more than 20 years in mediaand entertainment. He has worked at NBC, CBS, and was part of the senior executiveteam that created and launched MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1 and CNN Headline News.Houle has won a number of awards including two Emmys, the prestigious George FosterPeabody award, and the Heartland award for "Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream". He wasnominated for an Academy Award as well.Houle is consistently ranked as one of the top futurists and futurist keynote speakers onthe major search engines and in the world today. In the last five years he has deliveredkeynotes on six continents and twelve countries. He is often called "the CEOs' Futurist"having spoken to or advised 2,500+ CEOs and business owners in the past seven years.He writes the highly regarded futurist blog www.evolutionshift.com with the tag line "AFuture 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 the free Shift AgeNewsletter, available at www.davidhoule.com/newsletter. During 2010 Houle was afeatured contributor on Oprah.com, and his much acclaimed site futurewow.com which is his curated visual look into the future launched in 2013.David has been speaking about the future for 8 years and his influential first book
The Shift Age was published in 2007. His second book,
Shift Ed: A Call to Action for Transforming K-12 Education, written with Jeff Cobb was published in March2011.
The New Health Age: the Future of Health Care in America, co-authored withJonathan Fleece, was published by Sourcebooks in January 2012, and became a #1 bestseller on Amazon in the categories of Medicine and Future of Health Care.
Enteringthe Shift Age was published by Sourcebooks in January of 2013. It is also a #1 Amazonbest seller in the category of Business Planning and Forecasting. Houle published theeBook
Is Privacy Dead: The Future of Privacy in the Digital Age in November2013. His latest book
Brand Shift: The Future of Brands and Marketing with co-author Owen Shapiro was published in August 2014Houle is currently Futurist in Residence and Guest Lecturer at the Ringling College of Art + Design.