Leadership and motivation at work - conference speaker

How to lead people so they feel passionate about your corporate goals. Change management and business objectives. Connect with passion. Why people follow leaders. Leadership styles and effective leadership. Conference keynote speaker and Futurist Dr Patrick Dixon.

Life insurance and life expectancy -- conference speaker

Life expectancy and life insurance, pensions. High net worth clients live longer -- better educated. Impact of future health care improvements. Actuarial forecasts, government planning. Government and social impact, pensions crisis and risk management. Science and research trends into longevity. Patrick Dixon, conference keynote speaker and futurist.

Construction industry trends -- conference speaker

Lifetime use of carbon in buildings. Polymer concrete reduction in carbon use. Real estate development. Energy saving and construction of commercial offices, property development, factories and residential buildings. Commodity inflation. New materials, e-concrete and concrete polymers. Building techniques, architects, surveyors, planning approval and government regulations. Life expectancy of commercial buildings. Building techniques and intelligent buildings. Retro-fitting of commercial buildings. Built-in redundancy in construction industry. Patrick Dixon, conference keynote speaker and futurist.

Joint replacement for rheumatoid and osteoarthritis

Growing need with older population. Largest market in US. New treatments and methods. Plastic and metal hips wear out, need revision, complications, infection, dislocation. Preserve neck of femur. Using adult stem cells to regrow joint surfaces. Grow new cartilage. Repair knee, hip, shoulder repairs. Chronic pain and disability, lack of mobility, improving mobility and function, range of movement. Medical research. Orthopaedics / orthopaedics and rheumatology future trends. Patrick Dixon, conference keynote speaker and futurist.

Work-life balance or life-life balance? -- conference ...

Work - life balance now priority for majority of executives in many nations. How to get better balance in personal and family life. Children and parents. Friends and career direction. Job choices, workplace motivation and winning war for talent. Attracting and keeping best people. Part-time working and gender equality. Feminisation of workplace. Women outperforming men and business school, college and junior management. Macho office culture. Human resources and personnel issues. Employment law and legislation. Insensitivity and lack of emotional intelligence. Promotion of incompetent male workers.

How do I keep up to date as a futurist?

Keep informed on global trends. Understanding risk and opportunity. Key futuring methods and scenario methodologies. Building a future vision. Strategic planning and forsight. Take a fresh view on the world, watch people, learn all the time, be hungry to understand what does not at first make sense. You will be judged by your own track record of correctly anticipating important new trends. Patrick Dixon, conference keynote speaker and futurist.

What have you got wrong as a Futurist

Most debates over the future are issues of timing rather than what will eventually take place (probably). ? Telling difference between high probability trends, likely, possible and unlikely -- plus the wild cards, areas of huge uncertainty.

What is a futurist - by Patrick Dixon, conference speaker

Video: All of us are genetically programmed to think about tomorrow, plan, develop strategies for survival of ourselves and our families. Futurist role to advise on corporate strategy, risk management and identifying new market opportunity. Risk of institutional blindness, need for external view on trends and future issues. Identifying trends, analyst research, scenario building, competitor analysis, listening to consumers, working with those at cutting edge of innovation.

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Can we find a cure for diabetes?

Can we find a cure for rheumatoid arthritis?

Joint replacement for osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis

Future of the pharmaceutical industry

What is a Futurist?

How do you become a Futurist?

Futurist methodology - research into trends

How do you keep up to date as a Futurist?

What have I got wrong as a Futurist?

Work-life balance - future working patterns

Work-life balance in emerging economies

Innovation

Real estate and construction industry trends

Life insurance, pensions and life expectancy trends

Staying young: impact of anti-ageing research

Leadership and motivation at work

How business can reduce global poverty

Limits to economic growth and sustainability

Why ports, ships and shipping will dominate global trade

Global warming and sustainability

Global warming - why planting trees has limited impact

Water wars - and water shortages

More nations, rise of nationalism



Economic growth of former Soviet Bloc nations, Russia etc

Too late for outsourcing?

Outsourcing in India, China, Asia and Central Europe

Mobile phones, banking and financial services trends

Convergence and divergence

Power of tribes, clash of cultures and impact on consumer groups

Bottom of the pyramid - selling to the world's poor and making a difference

Microloans, microfinane, microcredit and future of banking

Motivation at work - leadership and passion

Intellectual copyright - protection of patents

Motivation at work - increase work place motivation

Business values - corporate and social responsibility really matters

Global brands, mergers and demergers

Customer focus and call-centre disasters

Women consumers rule - female customer trends

Insurance market in India, China and rest of Asia

Online communities and impact on marketing

Migration, immigration and the ageing crisis

Future of the Petrochemical Industry

Sovereign wealth funds - investment trends

Commodity shortages and prices - global trends

Retail revolution in India

Demographic impact on business

Trust and business leadership, marketing and brand image

Market research - how to get results

Risk management - leadership in uncertain times - wild cards

People do crazy things under pressure - power of emotion

Managing speed of change - leadership styles

Six faces of the future

Institutional blindness

Future of education

Education trends in a fast-changing world

Future technology and education

Future education - instant knowledge

How do you become a futurist? -- conference speaker

Book writing, research, website, lecturing and consulting to smaller and then larger corporations, becoming an authority in international media. The more you work with different corporations and the more countries you work in, the deeper your insights are likely to become. Break out of traditional thinking, take a fresh view on the world, watch people, learn all the time, be hungry to understand what does not at first make sense. You will be judged by your own track record of correctly anticipating important new trends. Can the future be predicted? Telling difference between high probability trends, likely, possible and unlikely -- plus the wild cards, areas of huge uncertainty. Patrick Dixon, conference keynote speaker and futurist.

Future of the pharmaceutical industry -- conference ...

Generic competition and product recalls. Patent expiry and intellectual property protection. Legal challenges and research scandals. Biogenerics and large molecule therapeutics. Cellular mechanisms of disease. Unmet needs. Government purchasing policies and insurance cover. Online pharmacy price pressures. Search for new blockbusters. Chronic disease and orphan therapies. Rheumatoid and asthma. Antibiotics and multiple resistance problems. Search for powerful antiviral therapy. Future health funding and ageing populations. Contrast with emerging nations. Treatment access and justice issues. Pharmacogenomics and gene prophecy. Ethical issues. HIV and AIDS.

Risk management - wild cards - high impact, unlikely events

High impact unlikely events. Impact on future business strategy. Leadership and change management. Managing uncertainty and rapid change. Insuring risk and risk management in business. Contingency planning. Leadership styles and decisions. Web marketing. Online sales. Impatient consumers and consumer choices. Rapid innovation. Conference keynote speaker and Futurist Dr Patrick Dixon.

Market research - how to get great results

Trust, corporate image, brand, reputational risk, managing public relations. For banks and insurers trust is all you have to sell. Why consumer confidence and client relationship really matters. Why trust and business reputation takes 25 years to build yet can be lost with negative media in a day. Marketing, advertising messages. Negative media coverage. Conference keynote speaker and Futurist Dr Patrick Dixon.

Demographic impact on your business and world

1 billion children will be new consumers. Demographic explosion in India and ageing population in China , Europe and Japan. Huge market growth. Beijing shortage of children. Young workforce in India so competitive advantage. Future trends. Social, political and economic challenge. War for talent challenge. 25 year impact. Urban migration. Urbanisation of India, China and Africa. Rural movement to cities. Megacities in Asia. Infrastucture challenges, water, roads, sanitation, transport, roads, rail, energy and power stations. Shortage of commodities -- copper, steel, coal, gas, oil. Conference keynote speaker and Futurist Dr Patrick Dixon.

Retail revolution in India

150,000 chain stores in 15 years with massive growth and consolidation of mom and pop small retail outlets. Specialisation, department stores, new markets, growth of middle class, designer products, luxury goods and services, competitors to wal-mart and other supermarket chains. Emerging markets and new economies, Asia, China, India and Africa. Conference keynote speaker and Futurist Dr Patrick Dixon