1 Frederick's Place
London EC2R 8AE
UK
Mark Stevenson is the author of the critically acclaimed An Optimist’s Tour of the Future and (amongst many other things – see below) the founder of The League of Pragmatic Optimists.
In this rollercoaster two-part evening Mark will 1) talk us through what the revolution we are living through means for our future careers and 2) explain the eight principles that will help us navigate change (not just survive but prosper and do good) – and how we can embed them in our daily lives.
About Mark Stevenson:
Mark is the author of the critically acclaimed (and many times translated) An Optimist’s Tour of the Future. His next book. We do things differently, arrives in bookstores sometime in 2015
He is regularly asked to talk to both private and public audiences on matters of technology trends, future narratives, institutional innovation, complexity, belief systems and learning. Engagements include The Economist, The US National Space Symposium, IBM, and Oxford University.
He is co-founder of Flow Associates, a learning agency which develops optimum environments for creative innovation tied to critical thinking. The company has offices in London and Delhi and works with cultural institutions, government bodies, corporations and schools. Recent clients include The Smithsonian Institute (Washington D.C.), Audi HQ (Ingolstadt), and The British Library (London).
He is also futurologist-in-residence at investment analyst company Primary Energy Research and sits on the advisory boards of Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Earth Challenge, the crowd-investing company Trillion Fund and Pearson College.
He is the founder of The League of Pragmatic Optimists – an organisation that creates meeting places in cities and towns across the globe “where people who want to make the world better can meet, generate ideas and projects, get inspiration and a recharge, find collaborators and have their neurons tickled in the cause of improving the story of humanity.” The organisation currently has chapters in the UK, Spain and New Zealand.