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David Houle is a futurist, thinker and speaker. 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. He was named a Vistage Speaker of the Year for 2008. In the last 17 years, he has delivered 1,400+ keynotes and presentations on six continents and 16 countries. He is often called “the CEOs’ Futurist” having spoken to or advised 4,000+ CEOs and business owners in the past ten years.
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. During 2010 Houle was a featured contributor on Oprah.com. He writes a regular column “The Futurist” for the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
Houle has had 8 books published, starting with his influential first book The Shift Age in 2007.
“Shift Ed: A Call to Action for Transforming K-12 Education in America” publishedin 2011
“The New Health Age: The Future of Health Care in America published in 2012. An Amazon best seller.
“Entering the Shift Age” published in2013 A #1 Amazon best seller in the category of Business Planning and Forecasting
“Is Privacy Dead: The Future of Privacy in the Digital World published in2013
“Brand Shift: The Future of Brands and Marketing 2014. Named one of the top five Marketing books published in the world in 2014
“This Spaceship Earth” published in 2015
“Moving to a Finite Earth Economy – Crew Manual” published in 2019
In April 2016, Houle launched a global non-profit https://thisspaceshipearth.org/ to create “Crew Consciousness” to address climate change. He was invited to present “This Spaceship Earth” to scientists at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in 2016.
Houle has delivered speeches to scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory several times. He has spoken at the Oak Ridge National Labs. He also has made numerous presentations at Burning Man in 2012 and 2013.
Houle is Futurist in Residence and Guest Lecturer at the Ringling College of Art + Design. He is also the Honorary Futurist of the Future Business School of China, and a Founding Member of The Sarasota Institute https://sarasotainstitute.global/ , a 21st Century Think Tank.