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DAVID PEARCE SNYDER
FUTURIST
David Pearce Snyder is Life-Styles Editor of The Futurist magazine, and asocial forecaster whose seminars on strategic management and decision- making have been attended by representatives from most of the Fortune 500 companies. Before entering full-time practice as a consulting futurist in 1981, Snyder was Senior Planning Officer for the US Internal Revenue Service (1974-1981), where he designed and managed the Service’s Strategic Planning System.
A former consultant to the RAND Corporation, Snyder has also served as an instructor for the Federal Executive Institute and for Congressional and White House staff development programs. Since leaving the federal government, he has worked with hundreds of US trade and professional associations, and with educators from every state in the union. His private sector clients have included such major firms as IBM, Exxon, Ameritech, Taco Bell, Walgreens and the McDonnell Douglas Corporation.
In great demand as both a speaker and writer, Snyder is the editor/co-author of four books, including Future Forces, published in 1984 by the American Society of Association Executives. A sequel, America in the 1990s, was released in April of 1992.
SPEECH TOPICS
“Roller Coaster 2000: America in Transition – 1995 to 2005”
A dramatic portrait of the demographic, socioeconomic and technologic realities that will confront the nation during the remainder of this decade, plus a detailed description of how these forces will reshape business, government, the work-place and life-styles in the US during the next 10 years.
“From Managing Change to Mastering Change: Strategies for the Future, Based on Lessons from the Past”
A decade of investment in new workplace technologies has failed to significantly improve US productivity or competitiveness. The lessons learned from our first large-scale experience with high-tech innovations, however, have corrected many widespread mis-conceptions regarding productivity improvement and economic development. This session summarizes benchmark practices for improving productivity, quality, profitability and competitive advantage.
“Re-inventing Public Education for the 21st Century: The Coming Grass-roots Transformation of America’s Schools”
America’s public schools, designed in the age of steam, have served the nations young people – and society – admirably for the past 100 years. Today, however, as America enters the information age, we must re-invent the content and methods of public education to enable schools to provide all students with mastery of a much more sophisticated array of information-handling skills than have been required in the past. On the horizon: performance-based testing, experiential learning, team teaching, integrated curriculum, public-private partnerships, lots of training and, of course, more technology.
“Social Adaptation and Consumer Behavior in a Decade of Change Time-Short Tough-Minded and Technologically-Empowered”
A revealing analysis of how households and other basic social groups have adapted to changing economic and technologic realities in the past, concluding with a forecast of what these historic dynamics imply about the most probable consumer utilities and household investments during the next five to ten years.
“The Enterprising Community Sustaining Local Prosperity in a Decade of Economic Change”
In our free-market economy, local communities have the opportunity – and the responsibility – to take charge of their own economic destinies in the face of rapid innovation and change. Here is how the leaders of local business, education, government and labor can work together to guide their communities to the techno-economic “high-ground” during the 1990s.
“The Race for the 21st Century: The Outlook for America in the Global Marketplace”
During the coming decade, North America, Europe, and Japan will compete so vigorously to capture the world’s high-value markets and new productive processes that some observers are already talking about “Trade Wars 2000.” In this presentation, Snyder will describe the specific strengths and weaknesses of the contestants in this race, the role of the Third World, and the economic strategies that will best serve to keep America in first place.
