Glen Hiemstra

Glen Hiemstra is the founder and owner of Futurist.com. He is dedicated to disseminating information about the future to assist individuals, organizations, and industries in effective strategic planning. An internationally respected expert on future trends, long-range planning and creating the preferred future, Hiemstra has advised professional, business, and governmental organizations for two decades and has served as a technical advisor for futuristic television programs.

A writer as well as a speaker and consultant, Hiemstra is the author of "Millennial City: How a New Generation Can Save the Future," and "Turning the Future into Revenue: What Businesses and Individuals Need to Know to Shape Their Future." Previously he co-authored "Strategic Leadership: Achieving Your Preferred Future." He has worked with many leading companies, government agencies and organizations across a wide variety of domains.

As a recognized expert in preferred future planning, Hiemstra is a popular keynote speaker who can zero in on emerging trends in economics, demographics, energy, the environment, Internet and communications, science, technology, housing, and transportation. He goes beyond simple trend analysis to discuss the opportunities that we all have to shape the preferred future. In his consulting, Hiemstra utilizes tools such as environmental scanning, scenario development, whole systems perspectives, paradigm shifts, and analysis of organizational culture for managing change to assist enterprises to achieve high performance.

As a media technical advisor, Hiemstra has worked on several television productions, including with Steven Bochco Productions (creator of “Hill Street Blues” and “NYPD Blue”), among others. He is often cited in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, US News & World Report, The Futurist, USA Today, Business Week, the Economist, and the Los Angeles Times.

In a first career, Hiemstra was an award-winning educator; more recently he served as a Visiting Scholar at the Human Interface Technology Lab at the University of Washington, which worked on virtual and augmented reality technology. He was educated at Whitworth College, the University of Oregon, and the University of Washington.