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About John Renesch  
John Renesch is an advisor, mentor, futurist and writer 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, 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.
John is now a global futurist, humanitarian, 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 of
the human race.
John is not an ordinary futurist who mostly downloads from the past. He
listens to what wants to happen and with unlimited possibilities he becomes
a champion of that future.
He offers a variety of services as an international keynote speaker, private mentor and advisor 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). He publishes a monthly newsletter called The
Mini-Keynote.
John 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 and
Inaugural Board Chair of the Shaping
Tomorrow's Foresight Network (UK), member of Voice of Business and Institute of Noetic
Sciences (US), advisory board member of the Sustainable Futures
Foundation (Switzerland) and a founding Fellow of the
international consortium The Global Collaborators’
Alliance.
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.
Warren Bennis, leadership expert, author and distinguished
professor emeritus at USC calls John “a wise elder who shines with
wisdom.”
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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