5.10.11 Leadership Expert Lance Secretan to Address World Future Society Meeting in Vancouver

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Lance Secretan, award-winning columnist, Fortune 100 CEO, and author of such books as Inspire! What Great Leaders Do, will address the World Future Society's annual meeting in Vancouver this July.

The event, WorldFuture 2011: Moving from Vision to Action, will take place at the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre hotel in Vancouver, Canada, on July 8-10, 2011. WorldFuture 2011 serves as the annual meeting of the nonprofit World Future Society, but registration is open to the public.

Secretan advises 30 of Fortune's magazine's "Most Admired Companies," and 12 of Fortune's "Best Companies to Work for in America." The magazine Leadership Excellence ranked him among its top "100 Most Influential Thinkers on Leadership.".

WorldFuture 2011

Founded in 1966 as a nonprofit educational and scientific organization in Washington, D.C., the World Future Society has members in more than 80 countries around the world. Individuals and groups from all nations are eligible to join the Society and participate in its programs and activities.

The Society holds a two-day, international conference once a year, where participants discuss foresight techniques and global trends that are influencing the future. Previous conference attendees have included future U.S. President Gerald Ford (1974), Massachusetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy (1975), behavioral psychologist B.F. Skinner (1984), age-wave expert Ken Dychtwald (2005), U.S. comptroller general David M. Walker (2006) and inventor Ray Kurzweil (2010). Others in attendance typically include business leaders, government officials, scientists, corporate planners, and forecasters from across the globe.

Other speakers at this year's event include longevity expert Aubrey de Grey, senior analyst of the GAO applied research methods group Nancy Donovon, and Ramez Naam, author of More Than Human.

More information can be found at the World Future Society Web site, www.wfs.org or by calling 301-656-8274.