Gregg Easterbrook

What's next? This is the big question for business in a global economy, and it's a question that Gregg Easterbrook confronts with careful optimism. The author of seven books, including the recent Sonic Boom, Easterbrook provides a guide for what to expect - and how to cope - with the chaotic, unpredictable, stress-inducing, well-informed, prosperous, and very smart future that is coming. Easterbrook is a contributing editor of The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, and The Washington Monthly, and a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution. He approaches the arc of progress not with starry-eyed over-confidence, but with the belief that we will all benefit from the growth of technology, the spread of communication, and the rise of productivity. The availability of information means more ideas, and the speed of economic growth means more possibilities. Exclusively represented by Leading Authorities speakers bureau, Easterbrook believes that organizations that embrace this pace of change will have unlimited potential for success.

Embracing Change. Easterbrook's presentations use striking facts and sharp anecdotes aimed at puncturing common misconceptions about economic change. He reveals how the rapid reconfiguration of resources can benefit all sorts of unexpected people and places. He believes that creativity and innovation must be allowed to grow and thrive, because economic growth is produced by new ideas. And while he allows that growing prosperity will also result in growing anxiety, such a by-product does not diminish his optimism about the coming economic boom.

A Rare Sense of Humor. As the contributing editor of The Atlantic, Easterbrook's primary contributions focus on national politics and policy. He has also written, often with a rare sense of humor, on a wide range of topics including weapons systems, labor negotiations, poverty, electric power, and the search for extraterrestrial life. Easterbrook's writing has also appeared Newsweek, Wired, The Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times, and he writes the "Tuesday Morning Quarterback" column for ESPN.com. Previous books include The Progress Paradox and A Moment on Earth: The Coming Age of Environmental Optimism. Easterbrook was a distinguished fellow of the Fulbright Foundation.