Director of A.T. Kearney’s Global Business Policy Council Senior Advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Erik R. Peterson is a world-renowned thinker whose remarkable insights are changing the world. His dynamic presentations are eye-opening glimpses into how we can address some of the most challenging global issues of our time. In his presentations, Peterson maps key long-range trends that will transform the opportunities and risks—as well as our capacity to address them. He traces the simultaneous and significant global shifts in the areas of demography, resources and the environment, the movement of data and the development of knowledge, the global economy, technological innovation and diffusion, and the rapidly shifting geopolitics of major powers. He untangles these complex trends for audiences and examines the real-world implications—present and future—of accelerating change, mounting complexity, and abbreviated time frames. The by-product of these forces, Peterson asserts, is a compression of leadership. No matter what their field, leaders are embattled by shrinking time frames, mounting complexities, and polarized positions. The result: A crowding out of long-term vision and action. In a twist from many business strategists, Peterson urges his audiences to think at once tactically and strategically. He argues for leaders to forge short-term cooperation with other sectors by adapting new structures, coordinating within all levels of management, and providing forward-looking leadership.
Predicting and Preparing for Change. As the director of A.T. Kearney’s Global Business Policy Council, Erik Peterson advises the world’s top CEOs and business-minded thought leaders. His work is dramatically shifting perspectives on how to develop solutions to some of the world’s most pressing issues. Prior to joining A.T. Kearney, he served as Senior Vice President at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and as Director of Research at Kissinger Associates.
Looking at the Future Today. The author of numerous publications, Peterson is now completing a book on global strategic trends and their effects on governance structures in societies across the world. Recent writings include “Race to the Future” (The Age, November 20, 2009), “The World is Dry” (SAISphere, May 2008). Peterson currently serves on several advisory boards and judging panels, including the X PRIZE Foundation, the Center for Global Business Studies at Pennsylvania State University, the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, and the Gerald R. Ford Foundation prize in national security reporting. In past years, he has served as a fellow of the World Economic Forum and a member of the forum’s Global Risk Network.
Peterson received his M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, his M.A. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and his B.A. from Colby College. He holds the Certificate of Eastern European Studies from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and the Certificate in International Legal Studies from The Hague Academy of International Law (The Netherlands).
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Beyond the Points of No Return. The staging point of this presentation is that we stand at a remarkable historical moment at which we see simultaneous and significant global shifts in the areas of demography, resources and the environment, the movement of data and the development of knowledge, the global economy, and the geopolitics of major powers the world over. Erik Peterson untangles these complex trends by looking at the key inflection points that are driving the sweeping change in each of these areas. He then addresses the "So what?" question by examining the real-world implications—present and future—of accelerating change, mounting complexity, and abbreviated time frames.
Four Strategic Narratives into the Future. Over the past six months, the volcano in Iceland, the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the Eurozone debt crisis, the "flash crash" in Wall Street, and the Korean Peninsula crisis all reflected the complexities of risk management. Looking even further into the future, Erik Peterson scans the risk-management horizon by outlining four worlds of potential global change: (1) "Left Behind," an examination of government systems that are increasingly embattled; (2) "Resource Crash," the food-water-energy pressures that are on the horizon; (3) "Technology Renaissance," the rapid innovation and diffusion of breathtaking technologies that improve the human condition and improve the physical environment; and (4) "Geopolitical Scramble," the accelerating shift in political and economic power across the world. All of these are narratives—not predictions. But by visiting divergent futures, each one forces leaders to stress-test existing assumptions, conclusions, and strategies.
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