Neil Howe

Neil Howe, best-selling author and national speaker, is a renowned authority on generations in America. Neil Howe will give your audience powerful insights into today's generation: what motivates them as consumers and workers, and how will they shape our national future? Neil Howe is an excellent choice for any forward-looking organization that wants to grasp the big picture. Neil Howe's broadly cyclical perspective-oriented around familiar generational life stories-will put "the long term" into a stunning yet personal focus that audiences do not forget.

An historian, economist, and demographer, with graduate degrees in economics and history from Yale University, Neil Howe has spoken to a wide variety of corporate and nonprofit audiences-from Ford Motor Company, J. Walter Thompson, AARP, and PBS to Merrill Lynch, the Marine Corps, the U.S. Bureau of the Census, and the Central Intelligence Agency. Some of these audiences are now clients of LifeCourse Associates, Neil Howe's consulting firm.

Neil Howe is also Advisor on Public Policy to the Blackstone Group, Senior Advisor to the Concord Coalition, and Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.  Neil Howe is an expert consultant to the Social Security Administration and has testified on entitlements many times before Congress.

Neil Howe's most recent book, co-authored with Bill Straus, is Millennials and the Pop Culture (2006), which describes the impact of today's young adults and teens on music, film, television, video games, the internet, and digital-mobile entertainments.

LifeCourse Associates has since released several application books on Millennials for the military, colleges, pop-culture producers, and the workplace. Neil Howe's four generational books are coauthored with Bill Strauss. Neil Howe's book Generations (1991) has been seen under Bill Clinton's arm, quoted by Rush Limbaugh, raved over by Tony Robbins, and used as a marketing bible for countless corporations. Vice President Gore called it "the most stimulating book on American history I have ever read" and sent a copy to every member of Congress. Newt Gingrich called it "an intellectual tour de force."

Neil Howe's 13th-Gen (1993) remains the top-selling nonfiction book on Generation X. The Fourth Turning (1997) was hailed by Dan Yankelovich as "an immensely stimulating book. We will never be able to think about history in the same way." And Neil Howe's book on today's post-X generation of kids and teens, Millennials Rising (2000), makes readers entirely rethink their views on where America's youth are heading.

Neil Howe is also an authority on federal entitlements programs. In 1988 Neil Howe coauthored (with Peter G. Peterson) On Borrowed Time, a pioneering call for budgetary reform, which was republished in 2004 as a "policy classic."

Neil Howe has produced several studies of demographic aging around the world, including "The Next 20 Years: How Customer and Workforce Attitudes Will Evolve" and "The Graying of the Middle Kingdom," which won widespread praise in China and East Asia. His articles have appeared in Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, American Demographics, USA Weekend, and elsewhere.

Neil Howe's original insights will forever change how you look at the future. As The Boston Globe wrote, "If Howe and Strauss are right, they will take their place among the great American prophets."