David Houle

David Houle is a global futurist, strategist and speaker. He has always been slightly ahead the curve. Houle spent more than 20 years in media and entertainment. He has worked at NBC, CBS and was part of the senior executive team that created and launched MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1 and CNN Headline News. He helped to create television series on A&E for his client Bill Kurtis, "Investigative Reports' and "American Justice", introducing single subject documentaries and legal programming to prime time before those programming concepts became common place. Both series were award winning and ran for more than ten years.

Houle has won a number of awards. He won two Emmys as Co-Executive Producer for a nationally syndicated kids program, "Energy Express". He won the prestigious George Foster Peabody award and the Heartland award for "Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream" and was nominated for an Academy Award.

Houle is consistently ranked as one of the top futurists and futurist speakers on the major search engines. He has keynoted numerous conferences both across the country and internationally. He is regularly invited to speak at corporate management retreats. He recently won a speaker of the year award from Vistage International, the leading organization of CEOs in the world. He is often called "the CEOs' Futurist" having spoken to or advised 600+ CEOs and business owners in the past two years.

He writes the highly regarded futurist blog, with the tag line "A Future Look At Today". For those of you on Twitter his user name is @evolutionshift which is also the name of hisYouTube channel. He has a free monthly Shift Age newsletter and will soon be launching a semi-annual trend report. He has been speaking about the future for a number of years and his first book "The Shift Age" was published in 2008.

David is co-founder of This Spaceship Earth. This Spaceship Earth (TSE) is the name for the state of the planet as it exists today. No matter what country, state or province you live in, you are a part of the one planet we all share, and we have no other spaceship. All we have, and all humanity will have, is TSE.