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About John Renesch  
John Renesch is a writer and thinker on matters of
social and organizational change. He believes that commerce holds the key
to bringing about a global shift of human consciousness thus creating a
future of tremendous possibility for humankind - the possibility that will
allow humanity to transcend the inevitable future that can be projected
from current trends.
John has four decades of experience as a business owner
and entrepreneur. He left his chief executive position in the real estate
investment industry in the mid-1980s and, after a period of personal introspection
prompted by his concerns for the future of humanity, he embarked upon a new
path.
From 1990 to 1997, he served as publisher and
editor-in-chief of New Leaders Press, dedicated to publishing progressive
business books and periodicals. John has created twelve business
anthologies on the subject of business and transformation. Over 300
visionaries have contributed to these books. Among them are USC Professor
Emeritus, author and leadership expert Warren Bennis, Gary Zukav (author, The
Seat of the Soul ), One Minute Manager creator Ken Blanchard,
Riane Eisler (author, The Chalice and the Blade), M. Scott Peck, MD
(author, The Road Less Traveled ), The Body Shop founder Anita
Roddick, former Herman Miller CEO Max DePree, television genius Norman
Lear, Harvard University's Rosabeth Moss Kanter, international management
guru Tom Peters, Common Cause founder John Gardner, Megatrends series
creators John Naisbitt and Patricia Aburdene, Stanford Business School
Professor Emeritus Michael Ray, and former USSR president Mikhail
Gorbachev.
In 2000, he co-founded The Presidio Dialogues, a
monthly series of evening gatherings in San Francisco which are focused on
conscious business, and hosted the meetings for four years before turning
it over to the Saybrook
Graduate School & Research Center at the beginning of 2005. He
offers a variety of services as an international keynote speaker, private
mentor and consultant to consultants (see Services). His latest book is Getting to the Better
Future: A Matter of Conscious Choosing (click here for preview,
Foreword and praise).
John is now a global futurist, writer and keynote
speaker on topics that integrate the subjects of business, human
consciousness and possible scenarios for the future of humanity. He has
also become a social activist, an advocate of social and organizational
transformation and awakening what he sees as the latent
potentialities in the human race. He is a member of the practitioner faculty for the Center for Leadership
Studies, past member and project advisor of the World Future Society, current member of the Shaping Tomorrow's Foresight
Network (UK), Voice of
Business (US) and advisory board member of the Sustainable Futures
Foundation (Switzerland).
As a keynote speaker, John has presented challenging
questions and observations to audiences in Tokyo, Seoul, Brussels, London,
Sao Paulo, Porto Alegre, Zurich, Amsterdam, Port-of-Spain, Caracas, Gold
Coast, Brisbane, Budapest and many U.S. cities. He's received much
praise as a speaker and a visionary. John has also addressed numerous
classes of MBA students, including University of California, Stanford
University, University of San Francisco and others.
John has been interviewed by The Wall Street
Journal, The Nikkei Financial Times, Business Week, public radio's
"Marketplace," CNBC-TV's Ron Insana on "Management Today
Show," Business Talk Radio (U.S.), National Public Radio (U.S.), Forbes
(both Brazil and U.S.), Chief Executive and Industry Week magazines
on the subject of consciousness and business. The Futurist magazine
calls John a "business visionary."
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