Eric Garland Speaker Biography
An expert in geopolitics and future trends, Eric Garland has served leaders at the highest level of business and government for nearly 30 years. His clients since the 1990s range from 3M, GM, DuPont, and Siemens to agencies of the U.S. Intelligence Community and His Most Serene Highness, Albert II of Monaco. Renowned as a forecaster, Garland famously exposed hostile foreign interference in democratic elections as early as 2016. Beloved by audiences and sanctioned by Russia, when Garland gives his view on the future, the world listens.
Garland’s keynotes give audiences an advanced look at topics of global importance, such as hacking by hostile governments, or more generally on how leaders think about the future.
He is the author of Future Inc. How Businesses Can Anticipate and Profit from What’s NEXT, which was published around the world in English, Mandarin Chinese, Korean, and Bahasa Indonesia. He is also an author for Harvard Business Review and The Atlantic.
The Chaos Advantage: How Great Leaders Win in Uncertain Times
This keynote combines historical examples and current trends to show how the greatest leaders have actually used chaotic trend to thrive in the past–and how today’s leaders can find the same opportunities in the near future. Prohibition, world wars, and the end of communism actually led to some of the greatest triumphs in the history of leadership, and today’s future trends are no less full of potential for your organization’s success. From Anheuser-Busch during Prohibition, to Royal Dutch Shell during the 1970s oil crisis, to Nokia and the fall of the Soviet Union, history gives us vivid lessons in how great organizations find their ultimate success not when all is calm, but when all is chaotic.
The Future of Globalization: What Business and Government Will Really Look Like in the 21st Century
The late 20th Century, Post-Cold War global order is coming to an end. The world where offshore finance, rampant consumerism, and foreign manufacturing dominate, and where transnational organized crime flourishes, is coming to a rapid end. What will replace it? Who will succeed and who will fail? This keynote shows the way forward from a world transformed by new American tariffs, a re-armed, anti-Russia NATO, less interdependence with China, a modern Mexico, and the impending end of transnational organized crime. The old model of globalization is falling apart, and a new global economy is being re-engineered before our very eyes. Armed with foresight, your organization can position itself today for success.
How to Think About the Future (and How Not to Screw It Up!)
This is a presentation for government and business professionals to improve their analytical skills. The most successful organizations are led through a sophisticated understanding of the future and which factors will create it. This takes time to build, and there are many pitfalls. Available as a keynote, breakout session, or day-long executive education session which covers the history of forecasting, the tragicomedy of bad forecasts throughout history, how to understand cognitive bias, and how any organization can improve its capacity to anticipate the future and win.
Strategic Intelligence Brief (Industry Specific)
This keynote or breakout session will be built to order for each client, combining strategic trends and expert forecasts from Eric Garland’s personal database of intelligence based on thirty years of working for corporate and government clients. Briefs will include analysis of trends in national security, information technology, energy, culture, economics, geopolitics, society, ecology, and more.
