Creating the Future

AND a new Book & Magazine Subscription Giveaway!

Presented by Eric Garland, President of Competitive Futures, Inc.; Author; Business Intelligence Expert

RSVP requested to Michelle@CreativeEmergence.com

"Think out of the box! We need to be creative!" How many times have you heard this? People expect it constantly. Eric Garland - futurist, author and strategic advisor to corporate and government leaders around the world - will show you how to go beyond these platitudes into creative thinking. Drawing from examples like Apple's iPod and Nokia's move from rubber boots to cell phones, Eric will show you how to use the methodology of futures research - the analysis of social and technological trends five to twenty years into the future - to get new ideas for your business or government agency. In this interactive session, Eric will guide you in exploring trend analysis and implications as a way to discover the deeper meaning of changes that happen all around us - and to turn such insights into profit.

Eric Garland has a passion for helping leaders anticipate and profit from what's next. Eric is a professional futurist and author of Future Inc.: How Businesses Can Anticipate and Profit from What's Next. He is an advisor to executives at top corporations and government agencies about how to incorporate future trends into strategic planning. As a professional futurist and expert in competitive intelligence, he has unparalleled expertise in understanding the trends affecting some of the world's biggest industries. Garland studies the future for a global clientele on subjects such as information technology, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, agriculture, packaging, food, and consumer lifestyles. Garland speaks and writes frequently on a variety of trends that relate to businesses large and small. In his virtually non-existent free time, Eric is a professional musician and an amateur linguist. You can reach Eric at www.competitivefutures.com.

We're also having a new Book & Magazine Subscription Give-Away:

(1) Eric's book: Future Inc.: How Businesses can Anticipate and Profit from What's Next

(2) Founder of What is Enlightenment? magazine, Andrew Cohen, is generously donating 2 magazine subscriptions of this highly acclaimed (and highly creative!) magazine for our drawing. WIE is considered a must-read for anyone interested in creativity and consciousness (which will be the topic of a future CCN presentation). Andrew will be speaking this coming Sunday in DC on consciousness, the creative impulse, and what is possible for human beings in the 21st century. To find out more and register for his seminar visit http://www.enlightennext.org/dc.

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Also, there is now a Capitol Creativity Network Online where you can post images, videos, musings, and anything related to applied creativity; to express what is alive for you around creativity; and post events and anything else, i.e., your own workshops related to creativity. Click this link to join:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20567331752