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EDIE WEINER
BUSINESS FUTURIST
Edie Weiner is president of Weiner, Edrich, Brown, Inc., a leading futurist consulting group in the United States. Formed in 1977, WEB has served over 300 clients (corporate, academic, government) in identifying opportunities in the areas of marketing, product development, strategic planning, investments, human resources, public affairs and advertising. Clients have ranged from the U.S. Congress to many of the Fortune 500.
Ms. Weiner has been in the field of issues analysis and strategic planning for over 30 years, having directed the first industry-wide futures research program—the Trend Analysis Program of the American Council of Life Insurance. She is acknowledged as one of the most influential practitioners of social, technological, political and economic intelligence-gathering.
Ms. Weiner was the youngest outside woman ever elected to the board of directors of a major financial institution when she joined the board of Union Mutual Life Insurance Company (now UNUM Provident Corporation) in 1978 at the age of 29. She has been a guest lecturer at Wharton, Harvard, Brown and a number of other universities. Her articles have appeared in numerous publications, including The Harvard Business Review, The Futurist, and The Wall Street Journal. She has co-authored three books with her partner Arnold Brown: Supermanaging (McGraw-Hill 1984), Office Biology (MasterMedia 1993), and Insider’s Guide to the Future (Bottom Line, 1997), and is currently working on a fourth. Aside from speaking at several hundred conferences, and appearing on a variety of television and radio shows, Ms. Weiner has conducted a number of seminars for corporate leaders and written reports on topics as diverse as the Underground Economy, Life-Extending Technologies, New Information and Communication Technologies, The Future of Leisure, and Barter and Countertrade.
In 1992 she founded and chaired the Esteem Teams, an innovative program in which dozens of inner city, at risk girls are mentored by executive women.
Currently she serves on numerous Boards and Advisory Boards, including the Jose Limon Dance Foundation (Co-Chair), the U.S. Comptroller General’s Advisory Board, the U.S. Council on Competitiveness, EnviroSystems, FlexCorps, ThinkQuest NYC (Chair), and Boardroom Inc. In the past, she has served on the Boards of many additional organizations, including UNUM Corporation, First Unum Corp., CompUSA, the Fashion Group International and Avon’s Women of Enterprise Awards. Ms. Weiner is a member of the Women’s Forum, and she is the first recipient of the Fashion Group International’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award (1998).
