Glen Hiemstra is the founder and owner of Futurist.com, a company that focuses on the dissemination of information about the future and how to create it. An internationally respected writer, blogger, futurist speaker, consultant, and expert on future trends and long-range planning, Glen has advised professional, business, and governmental organizations for two decades. He is the author of Turning the Future into Revenue: What Businesses and Individuals Need to Know to Shape Their Futures (John Wiley & Sons, 2006). Previously, he co-authored Strategic Leadership: Achieving Your Preferred Future.

Glen works with many leading companies, including Microsoft, Boeing, Hewlett-Packard, Insight.com, Ernst & Young, PaineWebber, State Farm, ShareBuilder, Novartis, Russian Railroad, Home Depot, Grainger Inc., Ace Hardware, John Deere, and state and federal agencies. He has also served as a technical advisor for futuristic television programs and appears in publications such as BusinessWeek, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, US News & World Report, The Futurist, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Times.

Each month, visitors from more than 120 countries come to Futurist.com. Futurist.com produces regular short videos for the Web on a variety of future topics. Currently, the online video program called FutureTalks - a series exploring the future of media with Glen and Swiss-based media futurist Gerd Leonhard, produced by the Conversations Network - is available at iTunes. Glen is also joint-venturing with Gerd on a regular online video series, Whereisitgoing.com.

You can follow Glen at futurist.com/blog and at twitter.com/glenhiemstra.