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Roger Herman, Strategic Business Futurist Having carefully researched business trends and trends that will affect the way we do business, Roger delivers forecasts, perspectives, and insights on workforce, workplace, and work style issues to help his audiences plan for the future. Although he owns a crystal ball, he doesn't use it for professional prognostication! From everything Roger sees "out there," he's upbeat about the future. He does, however, warn of certain challenges and changes that can make employers and workers seriously vulnerable. Characterized as a modern-day Paul Revere, he alerts his audiences to coming shifts and how to prepare for them. Roger predicts a number of shifts that will dramatically change what we do and how we do it. Forewarned is forearmed. As a trend watcher, Roger researches what's happened in the past, what's happening now, and what can we reasonably anticipate will happen in the foreseeable future. No trend can be viewed as standing alone. Each trend he explores is influenced by other trends in our society. Local, national, and international influences must be taken into account in an effort to be as accurate and legitimate as possible. With Roger's help, his clients see the greater flow of the trends and shifts. Roger is provocative. He stimulates thinking, challenging, exploring, explaining, and revealing probabilities that go way beyond current thinking. And he's primarily focused only on the next 5-15 years! A reporter who heard Roger speak a few years ago simply didn't believe his forecasts. She described him as a "crackpot." Now, having seen his predictions come true, she calls him a "visionary." Talk show interviewers depict him as "fascinating," "contrarian," and a man who "can see around corners." His solid content and sharp insights make Roger a popular talk show guest on radio and television coast to coast. "My interview with Roger Herman ranks as one of our top ten shows of the year." Mike Murphy KCMO Talk Radio Kansas City Roger is an active member of the World Future Society. He speaks frequently at the Society's conferences. The World Future Society Bookstore features his books and he serves as Contributing Editor (workforce and workplace trends) for The Futurist Magazine. Among Roger's attention-getting forecasts are: An Unprecedented Churning in the Labor Market A New Breed of Workers He Calls "The Adaptables" A New Leadership Style is Emerging: Facilitative Leadership Linear Career Paths Will Practically Disappear; It's Hopscotch Time! eople will choose where they work