Jack Uldrich is a renowned global futurist, independent scholar, sought-after business speaker.
Jack Uldrich is a renowned global futurist, independent scholar, sought-after business speaker, and best-selling author. His books include the best-selling, The Next Big Thing is Really Small: How Nanotechnology Will Change the Future of Your Business, and the award-winning, Into the Unknown: Leadership Lessons from Lewis & Clark’s Daring Westward Expedition. His latest book is Jump the Curve: 50 Essential Strategies to Help Your Company Stay Ahead of Emerging Technologies.
Jack has spoken to hundreds of business, nonprofit and educational organizations about future trends, emerging technologies, innovation, change management and leadership. He is well known for his willingness to work with clients in advance of his presentations in order to deliver tailored remarks that will inform, educate, entertain and inspire his audiences.
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Speaking topics include:
1. Jump the Curve: 50 Essential Strategies to Help Companies Deal with Emerging Technologies. This topic, which is the basis of a book by the same name to be released in 2008 by Adams Media, explores how exponential trends in information technology, biotechnology, robotics, manufacturing, material science and nanotechnology, are all converging at this unique moment in history. Uldrich’s presentation lays out ten specific strategies that executives, businesses and industries can use to navigate and survive in this era of unparalleled change.
2. Future Trends. Jack Uldrich also speaks frequently on future trends for specific industries. In 2010, he has addressed numerous medical associations on “The Future of Health Care,” as well as a handful of other business associations on the future of manufacturing.
3. The Next Big Thing is Really Small: How Nanotechnology Will Change the Future of Your Business. This topic, which is taken from his 2003 besting-selling book of the same name, can be tailored for any audience or industry. In the past year, Uldrich has spoken to a variety of groups in the pharmaceutical, energy, educational, agricultural, retail, insurance and computer industries about nanotechnology’s impending impact on their businesses.
4. Investing in Nanotechnology: Think Small, Win Big. This topic, which is the title of Uldrich’s third book is ideal for audiences in the investment or financial services industries who are looking to profit from emerging trends.
5. The Future is Green. Jack Uldrich, the author of the best-selling books, Green Investing: A Guide to Making Money Through Environment-Friendly Stocks (2010) and Jump the Curve: 50 Essential Strategies to Help Your Company Stay Ahead of Emerging Technologies (2008), lays out in this entertaining, educational and informative presentation eight reasons why your future will be green. He further explains why “going green” will have as much to do with the color of money as it does protecting the environment. Depending upon the audience and the goals of the conference, Mr. Uldrich will tailor his remarks to: discuss particular green technologies (e.g. solar, wind, biofuels, advanced batteries, demand management and energy conservation technologies, etc.); emphasize the opportunities inherent in emerging green technologies, such as fuel cells and wave power; or outline the business and investment strategies necessary to take advantage of the coming green revolution.
Leadership/History
5. Into the Unknown: Leadership Lesson from Lewis & Clark’s Daring Westward Adventure. Adapted from his book of the same name, Uldrich tells the inspirational story of Lewis & Clark’s amazing Journey of Discovery and explains what today’s businesses can still learn from these explorers’ trek into the unknown.
6. Five-Star Leadership. Taken from his awarding-winning book Soldier, Statesman, and Peacemaker: Leaderships Lessons from George C. Marshall this talk explores the leadership principles of the man Winston Churchill called “The Last Great American.”
7. Common Sense, Uncommon Wisdom. Adapted from his full length article, “The Extraordinary Leadership of Benjamin Franklin, in the fall 2005 edition of Leader to Leader, this talk outlines what businesses and individuals can still learn from one of America’s greatest scientist, businessman, diplomat, politician and Founding Father.
Highly regarded for his unique ability to present complex information in an entertaining, understandable and digestible manner that stays with his audiences long afterwards, Uldrich has spoken to hundreds of businesses and organizations, including General Electric, General Mills, the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), Pfizer, Healthcare Association of New York, St. Jude Medical, AG Schering, Imation, Fairview Hospitals, Touchstone Energy, The Insurance Service Organization, The National Kitchen & Bath Association, The National Electric Rural Cooperative, The National Paint & Coatings Association and hundreds more.
To book a speaking engagement, please email or call Jack Uldrich at 612-267-1212.
