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Daniel Levine
Current Rank: 1
Statistical Rank: 9462
Direct Contact: DanielLevine.com
Global Trends Expert
Dynamic Speaker
Bestselling Author
Daniel Levine is an international social trends expert and award-winning speaker with an uncanny ability to help brands and businesses be more relevant, innovative and profitable.
The author of over 20 bestselling books, and regularly featured in newspapers and magazines, Daniel is the Executive Director of the Avant-Guide Institute (www.avantguide.com) and the hands-on leader of a huge international team of "trend-hunters" -- over 9000 spotters who track the latest ideas and experiences from around the globe.
As a corporate consultant, Daniel has worked with numerous companies, brands and destinations who seek his trends expertise to help them be more relevant, innovative and profitable. A wide variety of businesses seek out Daniel when looking to understand the impact of forthcoming social and cultural trends and to "hip" up their image.
• MasterCard selected Daniel to be the spokesperson of a major television campaign to reach stylish spenders
• South African Tourism chose Daniel to be the face of a major campaign to attract business tourism
• Deutsche Telekom AG asked Daniel to help them understand what's happening in the world of tourism, restaurants, nightlife and retail
• Samsonite teamed with Daniel when launching their style-driven Black Label line
• Saatchi & Saatchi tapped Daniel to be the judge of their first ever Lovemarks holiday contest to help give it credible cool
• Both HBO and NBC turned to Daniel when they needed an exceptionally well-connected expert to produce international segments for primetime lifestyle shows.
While Daniel's presentations are inspirational and packed with captivating visuals, the focus is on the practical. Using inspirational and enlightening examples of where culture is headed, he utilizes the full resources of the Avant-Guide Institute to demonstrate how creative businesses from around the world are reaping major benefits by responding to real-world trends in innovative new ways. Then he demonstrates how you too can immediately take advantage of these same trends to transcend market challenges, win customers and dramatically increase sales.
Daniel is often on television — including BBC, NBC, Fox and many others. He was featured on a 20-city broadcast TV media tour and has appeared as an expert on both news and lifestyle programming. Daniel is also a regular trends expert guest on international radio, from Europe and the United States to Australia and Africa and he is regularly quoted in newspapers and magazines worldwide.
Statistical Rank: 9462
Direct Contact: DanielLevine.com
Global Trends Expert
Dynamic Speaker
Bestselling Author
Daniel Levine is an international social trends expert and award-winning speaker with an uncanny ability to help brands and businesses be more relevant, innovative and profitable.
The author of over 20 bestselling books, and regularly featured in newspapers and magazines, Daniel is the Executive Director of the Avant-Guide Institute (www.avantguide.com) and the hands-on leader of a huge international team of "trend-hunters" -- over 9000 spotters who track the latest ideas and experiences from around the globe.
As a corporate consultant, Daniel has worked with numerous companies, brands and destinations who seek his trends expertise to help them be more relevant, innovative and profitable. A wide variety of businesses seek out Daniel when looking to understand the impact of forthcoming social and cultural trends and to "hip" up their image.
• MasterCard selected Daniel to be the spokesperson of a major television campaign to reach stylish spenders
• South African Tourism chose Daniel to be the face of a major campaign to attract business tourism
• Deutsche Telekom AG asked Daniel to help them understand what's happening in the world of tourism, restaurants, nightlife and retail
• Samsonite teamed with Daniel when launching their style-driven Black Label line
• Saatchi & Saatchi tapped Daniel to be the judge of their first ever Lovemarks holiday contest to help give it credible cool
• Both HBO and NBC turned to Daniel when they needed an exceptionally well-connected expert to produce international segments for primetime lifestyle shows.
While Daniel's presentations are inspirational and packed with captivating visuals, the focus is on the practical. Using inspirational and enlightening examples of where culture is headed, he utilizes the full resources of the Avant-Guide Institute to demonstrate how creative businesses from around the world are reaping major benefits by responding to real-world trends in innovative new ways. Then he demonstrates how you too can immediately take advantage of these same trends to transcend market challenges, win customers and dramatically increase sales.
Daniel is often on television — including BBC, NBC, Fox and many others. He was featured on a 20-city broadcast TV media tour and has appeared as an expert on both news and lifestyle programming. Daniel is also a regular trends expert guest on international radio, from Europe and the United States to Australia and Africa and he is regularly quoted in newspapers and magazines worldwide.
Jonathan Pontell
Current Rank: 2
Statistical Rank: 9243
Direct Contact: JonathanPontell.com
International Generations Expert
TV Personality
Marketing Guru
Jonathan Pontell is a widely-acclaimed keynote speaker, TV pundit and marketing advisor.
Pontell is one of the foremost global experts on generations. He is particularly well-known as the person who identified the existence of, and coined the name for, Generation Jones. Generation Jones (the heretofore lost generation between the Baby Boomers and Generation X) is a term and concept now embraced by millions of people worldwide.
Pontell’s keynote speeches have been so well-received that they are often referred to as “legendary” and “iconic.” He has frequently been the top-ranked speaker at events he’s spoken at. Audiences especially appreciate his thorough customization of the information to their particular industry, and his focus on providing practical tips they can immediately use. Pontell presents the information in such an entertaining way that audiences often respond with sustained laughter and multiple standing ovations during the course of his keynotes. His most popular keynote topic is Generation Jones, and he also delivers keynotes about several other topics, including cultural trends and marketing to all the generations.
Pontell is globally viewed as a top marketing guru, and his advice has been sought by a wide range of large corporations. He corporate clients have included Mercedes-Benz, American Express, Johnson & Johnson, Hilton, Hewlett Packard, McDonalds, Microsoft, and Amazon.
While Pontell advises on a range of marketing issues, he is especially in demand for his advice on targeting Gen Jonesers. Pontell has been brought in to advise both conservative and liberal Presidents and Prime Ministers of several countries on how best to appeal to Gen Jones voters. He has advised numerous Fortune 500 companies on the most effective techniques for selling to Gen Jones consumers as well as for managing Gen Jones employees.
Pontell has often done on-air commentary on national and international TV networks, including BBC, CNN, NBC, Sky News, and ABC. He typically does commentary on events currently in the news, while providing a broader context. Pontell has also written for, and been written about by, many prestigious publications, including The New York Times, Newsweek, The Times of London, and the Wall Street Journal.
Statistical Rank: 9243
Direct Contact: JonathanPontell.com
International Generations Expert
TV Personality
Marketing Guru
Jonathan Pontell is a widely-acclaimed keynote speaker, TV pundit and marketing advisor.
Pontell is one of the foremost global experts on generations. He is particularly well-known as the person who identified the existence of, and coined the name for, Generation Jones. Generation Jones (the heretofore lost generation between the Baby Boomers and Generation X) is a term and concept now embraced by millions of people worldwide.
Pontell’s keynote speeches have been so well-received that they are often referred to as “legendary” and “iconic.” He has frequently been the top-ranked speaker at events he’s spoken at. Audiences especially appreciate his thorough customization of the information to their particular industry, and his focus on providing practical tips they can immediately use. Pontell presents the information in such an entertaining way that audiences often respond with sustained laughter and multiple standing ovations during the course of his keynotes. His most popular keynote topic is Generation Jones, and he also delivers keynotes about several other topics, including cultural trends and marketing to all the generations.
Pontell is globally viewed as a top marketing guru, and his advice has been sought by a wide range of large corporations. He corporate clients have included Mercedes-Benz, American Express, Johnson & Johnson, Hilton, Hewlett Packard, McDonalds, Microsoft, and Amazon.
While Pontell advises on a range of marketing issues, he is especially in demand for his advice on targeting Gen Jonesers. Pontell has been brought in to advise both conservative and liberal Presidents and Prime Ministers of several countries on how best to appeal to Gen Jones voters. He has advised numerous Fortune 500 companies on the most effective techniques for selling to Gen Jones consumers as well as for managing Gen Jones employees.
Pontell has often done on-air commentary on national and international TV networks, including BBC, CNN, NBC, Sky News, and ABC. He typically does commentary on events currently in the news, while providing a broader context. Pontell has also written for, and been written about by, many prestigious publications, including The New York Times, Newsweek, The Times of London, and the Wall Street Journal.
Ken Dychtwald
Current Rank: 3
Statistical Rank: 9031
Direct Contact: dychtwald.com
Futurist
President of Age Wave
Author of With Purpose: Going from Success to Significance
Ken Dychtwald, Ph.D. is widely viewed as the nation’s foremost authority on the lifestyle, marketing and workforce implications of the age wave. He is a psychologist, gerontologist, entrepreneur and best-selling author of books on aging-related issues, including Bodymind; Age Wave, Age Power: How the 21st Century will be Ruled by the New Old; Demography is De$tiny, and Re-Visioning Retirement, The Power Years, Workforce Crisis: How to Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills And Talent and With Purpose: Going from Success to significance in Work and Life.
During his career, Dr. Dychtwald has addressed nearly two million people worldwide in his speeches to corporate, association and government groups. He is consistently praised for his unique ability to blend cutting edge social science and marketing wizardry with world-class presentation showmanship. His strikingly accurate predictions are regularly featured in the national media, including 60 Minutes, CNN, PBS, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Financial Times, Fortune, Time, Newsweek Business Week, Inc., U.S. News and World Report.
Dr. Dychtwald is the founding president and CEO of Age Wave, a firm created to guide Fortune 500 companies and government groups in product/service development for baby boomers and mature adults.
Dr. Dychtwald has served as a fellow of the World Economic Forum and is the recipient of the
distinguished American Society on Aging Award for outstanding national leadership in the field of aging trends. American Demographics Magazine recently honored him as being the single most influential leader in understanding and marketing to aging boomers during the past quarter century.
Statistical Rank: 9031
Direct Contact: dychtwald.com
Futurist
President of Age Wave
Author of With Purpose: Going from Success to Significance
Ken Dychtwald, Ph.D. is widely viewed as the nation’s foremost authority on the lifestyle, marketing and workforce implications of the age wave. He is a psychologist, gerontologist, entrepreneur and best-selling author of books on aging-related issues, including Bodymind; Age Wave, Age Power: How the 21st Century will be Ruled by the New Old; Demography is De$tiny, and Re-Visioning Retirement, The Power Years, Workforce Crisis: How to Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills And Talent and With Purpose: Going from Success to significance in Work and Life.
During his career, Dr. Dychtwald has addressed nearly two million people worldwide in his speeches to corporate, association and government groups. He is consistently praised for his unique ability to blend cutting edge social science and marketing wizardry with world-class presentation showmanship. His strikingly accurate predictions are regularly featured in the national media, including 60 Minutes, CNN, PBS, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Financial Times, Fortune, Time, Newsweek Business Week, Inc., U.S. News and World Report.
Dr. Dychtwald is the founding president and CEO of Age Wave, a firm created to guide Fortune 500 companies and government groups in product/service development for baby boomers and mature adults.
Dr. Dychtwald has served as a fellow of the World Economic Forum and is the recipient of the
distinguished American Society on Aging Award for outstanding national leadership in the field of aging trends. American Demographics Magazine recently honored him as being the single most influential leader in understanding and marketing to aging boomers during the past quarter century.
Faith Popcorn
Current Rank: 4
Statistical Rank: 8875
Direct Contact: faithpopcorn.com
World Famous Trend Forecaster
Bestselling Author
Faith Popcorn, recognized as one of America’s foremost trend experts, has been hailed as “the trend oracle” by The New York Times and the “Nostradamus of marketing” by Fortune. She is a trusted advisor to the Fortune 500 and businesses around the world. Everyone from Corporate CEOs to start-up entrepreneurs consult Ms. Popcorn to gain insight into the future for their industry, their products and their lives. Ms. Popcorn removes the mystery from business, making companies who apply her trend-based methodology leaders - not followers - of the future.
Popcorn is a visionary. She correctly predicted the demand for "foodaceuticals," a word she coined in 1990 to capture the benefits-added craze seen in supermarket products today (the Being Alive™ Trend), and four-wheel drives (Fantasy Adventure™), as well as the spiritual tenor of the millennium (Anchoring™). She was the first to anticipate the explosive growth in home delivery, home businesses and home shopping (Cocooning™).
The author of The Popcorn Report and Clicking, Popcorn confirmed her standing as America’s leading trend forecaster by predicting the next revolution in American business in EVEolution: Understanding Women--Eight Essential Truths That Work in Your Business and Your Life. Ms. Popcorn’s most recent book provides readers with an invaluable, entertaining and profoundly relevant “word map” of tomorrow. Leaving no aspect of our lives untouched, Dictionary of the Future includes 1,500 new, emerging and just-invented terms in 35 diverse categories, so that readers can see the future taking shape, word-by-word, idea-by-idea.
Heralded for her extraordinary ability to forecast emerging consumer patterns, Popcorn is frequently interviewed and cited in the media – from The New York Times to The Today Show to CNN.
Prior to forming Faith Popcorn’s BrainReserve, Popcorn was an award-winning creative director at a New York advertising agency. Faith is a graduate of New York University and New York’s High School of Performing Arts.
In her speeches, Ms. Popcorn shares the advice she gives her exclusive Fortune 500 clientele. Providing a blueprint for future business growth, Faith Popcorn has an uncanny ability to “Braille the Culture” and see what products and processes will motivate consumers in the coming decade, delivering corporate road maps to profits in the future. Her presentations are interactive, guaranteed to challenge the beliefs, jump-start creativity and improve the business and personal decision-making process of virtually any audience.
Statistical Rank: 8875
Direct Contact: faithpopcorn.com
World Famous Trend Forecaster
Bestselling Author
Faith Popcorn, recognized as one of America’s foremost trend experts, has been hailed as “the trend oracle” by The New York Times and the “Nostradamus of marketing” by Fortune. She is a trusted advisor to the Fortune 500 and businesses around the world. Everyone from Corporate CEOs to start-up entrepreneurs consult Ms. Popcorn to gain insight into the future for their industry, their products and their lives. Ms. Popcorn removes the mystery from business, making companies who apply her trend-based methodology leaders - not followers - of the future.
Popcorn is a visionary. She correctly predicted the demand for "foodaceuticals," a word she coined in 1990 to capture the benefits-added craze seen in supermarket products today (the Being Alive™ Trend), and four-wheel drives (Fantasy Adventure™), as well as the spiritual tenor of the millennium (Anchoring™). She was the first to anticipate the explosive growth in home delivery, home businesses and home shopping (Cocooning™).
The author of The Popcorn Report and Clicking, Popcorn confirmed her standing as America’s leading trend forecaster by predicting the next revolution in American business in EVEolution: Understanding Women--Eight Essential Truths That Work in Your Business and Your Life. Ms. Popcorn’s most recent book provides readers with an invaluable, entertaining and profoundly relevant “word map” of tomorrow. Leaving no aspect of our lives untouched, Dictionary of the Future includes 1,500 new, emerging and just-invented terms in 35 diverse categories, so that readers can see the future taking shape, word-by-word, idea-by-idea.
Heralded for her extraordinary ability to forecast emerging consumer patterns, Popcorn is frequently interviewed and cited in the media – from The New York Times to The Today Show to CNN.
Prior to forming Faith Popcorn’s BrainReserve, Popcorn was an award-winning creative director at a New York advertising agency. Faith is a graduate of New York University and New York’s High School of Performing Arts.
In her speeches, Ms. Popcorn shares the advice she gives her exclusive Fortune 500 clientele. Providing a blueprint for future business growth, Faith Popcorn has an uncanny ability to “Braille the Culture” and see what products and processes will motivate consumers in the coming decade, delivering corporate road maps to profits in the future. Her presentations are interactive, guaranteed to challenge the beliefs, jump-start creativity and improve the business and personal decision-making process of virtually any audience.
