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VAN WISHARD WILL:
 Offer
a frame of reference
for synthesizing the complex changes reshaping the environment
within which your association or corporation does business.
Show how such changes affect your organization . . . and
what can be done about it.
Tell how each person in your organization can play a practical
part in building the future.
WHAT AUDIENCES HAVE SAID:
AT&T: "Your performance was a tour de force, delivered
with energy and conviction . . . provocative, challenging,
perspective-enlarging."
Ernst & Young: "Your presentation left everyone
with a palpable sense of what the changes
reshaping the world mean for our company and for us."
Washington State Association of Counties: "Few voices
make coherent sense, or offer direction to people longing
to put America on a new course. You are one of those voices.
Your keynote offered a room full of bureaucrats new ways to
imagine governing."
Wall Street Investment Banker: "Your speech stimulated
new thoughts about how I fit into the macro of world events."
Wishard's analyses of global change draw on over four decades
of his assignments in Europe, Africa, South America, Asia
and Washington, D.C. His unique approach synthesizes not only
economic, technological and geopolitical developments, but
includes historical, cultural and psychological trends as
well.
HERE ARE FOUR TRENDS RESTRUCTURING
THE ENVIRONMENT WITHIN WHICH MANAGERS MUST OPERATE:
- The world is experiencing a long-term process of integrating
the global dimensions of life into each nation's economics,
politics, international relations and culture. The economic
shorthand for this is "globalization," but it may
be the global cultural backlash that most impacts America
over the next decade.
- For the first time in history, all nations are simultaneously
in the midst of radical technical, social and political change.
There is no longer any "center of balance," either
within or between nations. Thus professionals must be able
to operate in a climate of constant social and institutional
instability.
- The information environment, which traditionally has supported
social intercourse and national coherence, is being radically
reshaped. This forces every institution to continually redefine
its relationship with its constituencies.
- The world is in the midst of a long-term spiritual/psychological
reorientation that affects (a) individual identity, (b) established
belief systems, and (c) a nation's capacity for civil society.
Thus the individual and collective anchors of an earlier time
are being cut loose, and the guidelines of life become increasingly
uncertain.
These changes, and more, affect you, everyone in your organization
and their families, how your organization defines its mission
and relates to its constituencies, and how it achieves its
goals.
WHO IS VAN WISHARD?
William Van Dusen Wishard (Van) brings a wealth of
experience to his presentations. His address to members of
Congress was televised nationally.
C-SPAN has carried his speeches nationally numerous times.
His "One on One" TV interview by John McLaughlin
was seen on 150 stations. His briefings on global trends have
included presentations to the Naval War College, the senior
generals of the U.S. Marine Corps, the Indianapolis Economic
Club, as well as countless corporations, associations and
universities.
Wishard's articles and books
on global change have been published in the United States
and Japan, one of his books making the "best seller"
list of business books in Japan. He wrote extensive analyses
which appeared in the Encyclopedia of the Future published
by Macmillan & Company. His published analysis of the
1970s was described by The Washington Post as "the most
incisive commentary on the 1970s yet seen."
Van Wishard served as an assistant to the U.S. Secretary
of Commerce, researching and writing on economic policy, international
trade and U.S. competitiveness. Before entering government
service, he worked in over thirty countries with international
information and education programs. In the mid-1960s, he helped
found Up With People, the international educational program
for young people. He was an infantry platoon leader during
the Korean War.
TAILORED TO MEET YOUR NEEDS . .
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By interviewing members of your audience and/or association/industry
leadership in advance, Van Wishard customizes each presentation
to help achieve the objectives of your meeting.
ONE FINAL THOUGHT:
As the pace of doing business accelerates, the need for vision
increases. Vision is seeing beyond the immediacy of the moment.
It is understanding the temper of the times and the outline
of the future, and how best to move from one to the other.
Vision is seeing what life could be like while dealing with
life as it is. Vision is having some sense of the inner impulse
of the Age. It is sensing what is felt, yet unarticulated,
in the public soul, and then giving it voice and form. Vision
is seeing the potential purpose that's hidden in the chaos
of the moment, yet which could bring to birth new possibilities
for an individual, a corporation or a nation.
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONTACT:
World Trends Research
1805 Wainwright Drive
Reston, VA 20190
Tel: 703-437-9261
Fax: 703-437-9261
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