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Strategic Forecaster and
Life Styles Editor, The Futurist
David Pearce Snyder has been in the forecasting business for
over 30 years, during which he has built an impressive track record with his
private and public sector clientele, while compiling a multi-million item data
base of trends and projections. Snyder uses this data base to create detailed
scenarios — "instant pre-plays" — of the most probable
combinations of economic, technologic and social realities that specific
industries, institutions, or individual communities or nations are likely to
encounter during the next 5 to 15 years. Drawing on his nearly 20 years
experience as Life Styles Editor of The Futurist magazine, David
enriches his statistical projections and expert forecasts with insights and
anecdotes of the human comedy, creativity — and distress — arising from
society's adaptation to changing economic circumstances and new technology.
Snyder’s scenarios of the reliably forecastable future
serve as "reality checks" for his clients and audiences, helping them
to distinguish the short-term fads in their operating environments from the
long-term realities, and to separate conventional thinking from strategic
thinking, while identifying the best practices and crucial commitments for
companies, communities or countries to adopt in order to ride the roller coaster
of revolutionary innovation and change to success and prosperity in the 21st
Century and the Information Age.
David Pearce Snyder has appeared on NIGHTLINE and the TODAY
SHOW, and on CNN and MSNBC. He is Principal Partner of The Snyder Family
Enterprise, a 30-member virtual consultancy that scans the print media for
worldwide trends, developments and forecasts. Mr. Snyder and his partner, Dr.
Gregg Edwards, Director of the Academy for Advanced and Strategic Studies, have
authored dozens of articles and reports on the future of major institutions and
industries, plus two books of unparalleled accuracy on the future of the United
States: Future Forces (1984), and America in the 1990's (1992),
both published by the American Society of Association Executives, Washington,
DC.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Education:
Antioch College
BA in Government, 1961
University of California at Irvine - RAND Corp.
Graduate Certificate in Operations Research/Systems Analysis, 1969
Born:
August 2, 1938, Indianapolis, Indiana
Married:
Susan Davis Snyder, February 21, 1959
Children:
Catherine Louise (Chandler)
James Gregory Snyder
Matthew Pearce Snyder
Fields of Specialization:
The Information Revolution
Productivity Improvement & Human Resource Management
The Workforce and the Workplace
Social & Institutional Adaptation to Change
Effective Educational Reform
Strategic Decision-Making and Scenarios
Professional Employment:
1975 to Present
1975 to Present
1974 to 1982
1972 to 1974
1968 to 1969
1964 to 1965
Professional Activities:
1993 to Present
1988 to Present
Member, Board of Directors, Institute for Science, Engineering and Public
Policy, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
1986 to Present
Member, Board of Directors, Academy for Advanced and Strategic Studies,
Washington, DC
1984 to 1992
Member, Board of Visitors, School of Human Ecology, University of
Maryland, College Park
1979 to Present
1975 to 1981
1971 to 1979
1970 to 1974
Past & Present Clients
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY
ALTA Communications/Gerber
American Century Investments
& J.P. Morgan
American Express/World
Travel Council
American Marketing
Association
American Resort Development
Association
American Society of Civil
Engineers
American WaterWorks
Association (AWA)
CardTech/SecurTech
California Credit Union
League
Con Edison of NY
Employers Reinsurance Group
Frederick Maryland Chamber
of Commerce
Houston Industries
Hughes Aircraft Employee
Federal Credit
Institute for Science,
Engineering & Public Policy
Institute of Museum and
Library Services
International Quality &
Productivity Center
InterNET Services
Corporation, USA
Marriott Executive Seminar
National Association of Area
Agencies on Aging
National Association of
Health Care Facilities Authorities
National Association of
Higher Education Facilities Authorities
National Institutes of
Health Federal Credit Union
National Restaurant
Association
National Rural Economic
Developers Association
Paine Webber
Reliant Energy
Remmele Engineering
Soap & Detergent
Association
Society of Automotive
Engineers, Inc.
Society of Consumer Affairs
Professionals
Specialized Carriers and
Rigging Association
Tucker Anthony Financial
Services
Tennessee Valley Authority
Union Planters Bank
VA, MD & DE Association
of Electric Co-ops
Washington State Dietetic
Association
Water Environment Federation
Young Executives
Organization — Winnipeg Chapter
EDUCATION
American Association of
School Administrators
Association of California
School Administrators
Association of Education
Publishers
Baruch College, New York
City
Cardinal Stritch University,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Delaware Principals Academy
Evergreen Washington School
District
Garden City Kansas Schools
Humboldt County California
Office of Education
Harford County Maryland
Community College
Instructional Systems
Association
Lenawee Michigan
Intermediate School District
Los Angeles County Office of
Education Technology for Learning
Rose Hulman Institute of
Technology
Wake County North Carolina
Schools
West Virginia Department of
Education
FEDERAL & STATE GOVERNMENTS
California Joint Powers
Insurance Authority
California League of Cities
California Public Employers
Labor Relations Association
California Society of
Municipal Finance Officers
City of Santa Ana California
Council of Former Federal
Executives
League of Arizona Cities and
Towns
League of California Cities
National Aeronautic and
Space Administration
The Retired Offers
Association
U.S. Bureau of Land
Management
U.S. Office of Personnel
Management
United States Postal Service
- Advanced Leadership Program
U.S. Postal Service —
Field Policy & Programs
Vigo County Indiana Public
Library
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