Barry Minkin

Barry Minkin

CA, US
"Candidate For Guru Of The Decade": Three Decades Of Accurate Predictions ,Trend Anaylsis & Unique Global Insights

Barry Minkin, Futurist, Global Management Consultant, Best Selling Author and Professional Speaker has been featured on Larry King Live and often in Fortune. The economic newsletter Critical Factors iproclaimed "Barry Minkin is very much in the running for guru of the decade." Minkin's best selling book FUTURE-IN-SIGHT: The 100 Most Important Global Business Trends (Macmillan) has been translated into several languages. His book ECONOQUAKE: How to Survive And Prosper In The Coming Global Depression (Simon & Schuster) presents the faultlines in the economy that make an economic downturn inevitable.

With over 30 years as a global management consultant, including 10 years with Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International), Minkin has worked with scores of Fortune 500 and small growth companies across most industry sectors, as well as government and various trade associations. His insights into the company-specific factors that determine success in the real world have allowed him to accurately develop market and economic forecasts and strategies for his clients.

Barry taught: Advanced Marketing and Industry Strategy, Executive MBA Program, St. Mary’s College; Strategic Planning, Computer and Information Division, U.C. Berkeley Extension; Marketing, Canada College. He holds an MBA degree from the Bernard Baruch School of the City University of New York. He has received numerous awards, including the American Society for Training and Development Achievement Award, and a Presidential Citation for innovative employment strategies. He is listed in the directory of Merger and Acquisition Professionals, Who's Who of Dealmakers, Who's Who in the East, and Who's Who in the West.

Areas of expertise include: forecasting, acquisitions, market research, strategic planning, organization design, and innovation search for new markets. Barry is a very popular key note speaker and speaks all over the world for such organizations as: Bank of America, ARCO, DOD, Shell, The Benham Group, Harris Corporation and PepsiCo.

MOST REQUESTED TOPICS:
The Future Consumer
Barry shares with you trends and insights recently provided to the presidents of some of the world’s major corporations.

Keep the Con in Economics
Featured by the World Future Society in their national conference and book, 21st Century Opportunities and Challenges: An Age of Destruction or an Age of Transformation, this very popular address demystifies economics making it easy for anyone to understand.  Minkin pulls the curtain away from economic “wizards” like the chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank. 

Economic Forces
Economics makes the world go around. Barry will discuss how economic trends are changing and how they will impact our lives.

Econoquake
Minkin discusses how to prosper in the confusing, economic times ahead.

Future In Sight
Based on Barry H. Minkin’s best selling book of the same title, this presentation highlights the most important global trends in business, demographics, lifestyles, technology, world affairs and politics

Globalization
As the old world order changes, we see a strange new world emerging to fill the vacuum.  Barry provides insights into what has been called the most important trend since the industrial revolution.

Custom talk
Talk will be tailored to the needs of the client.

OTHER TOPICS:
New Power Tools for Market Research
Minkin shares some of the tools and techniques he developed to keep his predictions right on target. The KJ observational approach, The Light- Dark Psycho graphic, and the Econo- 2000 model are presented

FEB
(forward end of the business) the newest techniques for making your organization strategically and structurally responsive to the fast changing and confusing times ahead.

Marketing for the New Millennium
Marketing techniques and issues are changing rapidly, Minkin shares what lessons are being learned as businesses expand around the globe.

Innovation Search
Minkin shares pioneering innovation techniques that have been proven to work in the real world. Minkin can customize these tools and develop a search for new products and concepts for your organization. 

Strategic Planning
Minkin has 30 years of experience helping organizations with their strategic planning and new business development functions- Minkin helps organization learn the basics of strategic planning as well as facilitating strategic planning sessions 
 
Improve your Forecasting Tools
Using a series of group and individual exercises, Minkin hones some of the skills needed to sharpen your future insights.

Executive Level Contact Training
This is seminar on how to make executive level sales calls. Sections include, preparation, opening moves, overcoming objections, initial meeting and follow up.

People Productivity in the Real World
This is a how to approach to successfully managing and improving productivity in your organization based on real world success rather then ineffective theories

Barry Minkin, Futurist, Global Management Consultant, Best Selling Author and Professional Speaker has been featured on Larry King Live and often in Fortune. The economic newsletter Critical Factors iproclaimed "Barry Minkin is very much in the running for guru of the decade." Minkin's best selling book FUTURE-IN-SIGHT: The 100 Most Important Global Business Trends (Macmillan) has been translated into several languages. His book ECONOQUAKE: How to Survive And Prosper In The Coming Global Depression (Simon & Schuster) presents the faultlines in the economy that make an economic downturn inevitable.

With over 30 years as a global management consultant, including 10 years with Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International), Minkin has worked with scores of Fortune 500 and small growth companies across most industry sectors, as well as government and various trade associations. His insights into the company-specific factors that determine success in the real world have allowed him to accurately develop market and economic forecasts and strategies for his clients.

Barry taught: Advanced Marketing and Industry Strategy, Executive MBA Program, St. Mary’s College; Strategic Planning, Computer and Information Division, U.C. Berkeley Extension; Marketing, Canada College. He holds an MBA degree from the Bernard Baruch School of the City University of New York. He has received numerous awards, including the American Society for Training and Development Achievement Award, and a Presidential Citation for innovative employment strategies. He is listed in the directory of Merger and Acquisition Professionals, Who's Who of Dealmakers, Who's Who in the East, and Who's Who in the West.

Areas of expertise include: forecasting, acquisitions, market research, strategic planning, organization design, and innovation search for new markets. Barry is a very popular key note speaker and speaks all over the world for such organizations as: Bank of America, ARCO, DOD, Shell, The Benham Group, Harris Corporation and PepsiCo.

MOST REQUESTED TOPICS:
The Future Consumer
Barry shares with you trends and insights recently provided to the presidents of some of the world’s major corporations.

Keep the Con in Economics
Featured by the World Future Society in their national conference and book, 21st Century Opportunities and Challenges: An Age of Destruction or an Age of Transformation, this very popular address demystifies economics making it easy for anyone to understand.  Minkin pulls the curtain away from economic “wizards” like the chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank. 

Economic Forces
Economics makes the world go around. Barry will discuss how economic trends are changing and how they will impact our lives.

Econoquake
Minkin discusses how to prosper in the confusing, economic times ahead.

Future In Sight
Based on Barry H. Minkin’s best selling book of the same title, this presentation highlights the most important global trends in business, demographics, lifestyles, technology, world affairs and politics

Globalization
As the old world order changes, we see a strange new world emerging to fill the vacuum.  Barry provides insights into what has been called the most important trend since the industrial revolution.

Custom talk
Talk will be tailored to the needs of the client.

OTHER TOPICS:
New Power Tools for Market Research
Minkin shares some of the tools and techniques he developed to keep his predictions right on target. The KJ observational approach, The Light- Dark Psycho graphic, and the Econo- 2000 model are presented

FEB
(forward end of the business) the newest techniques for making your organization strategically and structurally responsive to the fast changing and confusing times ahead.

Marketing for the New Millennium
Marketing techniques and issues are changing rapidly, Minkin shares what lessons are being learned as businesses expand around the globe.

Innovation Search
Minkin shares pioneering innovation techniques that have been proven to work in the real world. Minkin can customize these tools and develop a search for new products and concepts for your organization. 

Strategic Planning
Minkin has 30 years of experience helping organizations with their strategic planning and new business development functions- Minkin helps organization learn the basics of strategic planning as well as facilitating strategic planning sessions 
 
Improve your Forecasting Tools
Using a series of group and individual exercises, Minkin hones some of the skills needed to sharpen your future insights.

Executive Level Contact Training
This is seminar on how to make executive level sales calls. Sections include, preparation, opening moves, overcoming objections, initial meeting and follow up.

People Productivity in the Real World
This is a how to approach to successfully managing and improving productivity in your organization based on real world success rather then ineffective theories