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About Neil Howe - Authority on Generations in America:

Neil Howe, best-selling author and national speaker, is a renowned authority on generations in America. He gives readers and audiences powerful insights into who today's generation are, what motivates them as consumers and workers, and how they will shape our national future. He is a super choice for any forward-looking organization that wants to grasp the big picture. Howe's broadly cyclical perspective—oriented around familiar generational life stories will put the long term into a stunning yet personal focus that will not soon be forgotten.

An historian, economist, and demographer, Neil Howe has advised a wide variety of corporate and nonprofit audiences, from Ford Motor Company, J. Walter Thompson, PBS, and Nike to McGraw Hill, the Marine Corps, He wlett Packard, and the U.S. Bureau of the Census. Many of these audiences are now clients of LifeCourse Associates, his consulting firm. He is also advisor on public policy to the Blackstone Group, senior advisor to the Concord Coalition, policy consultant to the Social Security Administration, and senior associate to the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC, where he helps to develop the prestigious CSIS Global Aging Initiative. His articles have appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, American Demographics, USA Weekend, and other national publications.

Howe has coauthored several books on generations with William Strauss, all best sellers widely used by businesses, colleges, government agencies, and political leaders of both parties. Their first book, Generations, is a history of America told as a sequence of generational biographies. Generations has been photographed on Bill Clinton's White House desk. Vice President Gore sent a copy to every Member of Congress, calling it the most stimulating book on American history I have ever read. The most recent Howe-Strauss book, Millennials Rising, has been widely quoted in the media for its insistence that today's new crop of teens and kids are very different from Generation X and, on the whole, doing much better than most adults think.

Howe has written extensively on budget policy and aging and on attitudes toward economic growth, social progress, and stewardship. He coauthors the Facing Facts faxletter for the Concord Coalition, an NTUF chartbook series, Entitlements and the Aging of America, and numerous studies for CSIS.

What Neil Howe Talks About:

Generations – The History of America’s Future
This keynote is for audiences interested in learning more about today’s living generations, how and why they are so different and how this follows a natural recurring pattern. Who re the G.I.s, Silent, Boomers, Xers and Millennials? Why did each of these generations turn out the way it did? What explains their attitudes and behavior? Why do some messages work with one, but not another? This presentation will help you understand what the future is likely to hold for each generation, and why.

Understanding Turnings – the Rhythms of History
Following September 11, 2001, a growing number of readers and audience questioners began asking Howe to explain the predictions he made in The Fourth Turning in 1997. Learn how and why the direction of American history is likely to change as the War on Terrorism continues. This presentation is particularly useful for contingency planning in an era when events are leading in new and uncertain directions.

Generations in the Workplace
Today’s corporate workplace encompasses at least two generations, and sometimes as many as four. In high-tech environments, young managers often have to supervise older workers. This presentation helps top-level executives, managers, and workers alike to understand how to get along, boost productivity and achieve organizational success in a work environment strained by generational personality differences.

Meet the Millennials, Today’s Post-Gen X Youth
If your organization wants deeper insights into today’s rising generation, Howe will explain the good news revolution in youth behavior. He will describe the new trend towards optimism, teamwork, safety, long-term planning, a bubble-gum pop culture and neo-traditionalism. The oldest Millennials are now in college and the military and they’ll soon be launching workplace careers. They’re not at all like other generations, and this presentation will help you find out how to connect with them.

Generations and Global Aging
Generational and Global Aging: Generational personalities play a pivotal role in how our society prepares for the future. Over the next thirty years, the population of the U.S. and other developed countries will rapidly age and the cost of senior benefits will explode-posing huge fiscal, economic and even geopolitical choices. Meanwhile, the senior lobby will be transformed by Boomer retirees and the voting and civic behavior of working-age Americans will reflect the attitudes of midlifeXers and the rising Millennial Generation. Neil Howe applies his knowledge of generations, economics and demographics to this topic.