Chris Middleton Speakers Profile

Speakers Profile Chris Middleton Founder & MD, Futures Coaching

About Chris Middleton

25 years strategic marketing and corporate planning experience

“ Chris has deep expertise around futuring, socio-cultural trends and consumer mindsets & is able to bring this complex data into effective guidance.” (Jim Fleming, Head of Innovation, Visteon)

Chris speaks around the world – from Toronto to Taipei, Paris to Prague. His style is engaging, informal and straight talking. Audiences particularly appreciate his fresh perspectives and the way he focuses on business implications and ideas generation

Chris is the founder of Futures Coaching, a network of international futuring specialists

An Inspiring Trends Thinker * two blogs * press articles * live media interviews * coaching book

A Leading Consultant

Experienced Speaker & Facilitator

ICSC Conferences

AESGP

France Telecom/Orange University

Accor Hotels Academy

Taiwanese Development Council

Jones Lang LaSalle Retail Conference

Merck Latam Conference

Cancer Research UK Talking Heads

Topics

'Future Shock' wake-up call for leaders

The future of a sector/brand

Key trends and business impacts

How your target will change

Strategic blindspots and taboos

Organising to anticipate the future

10 Year Industry scenarios

Creating the future through innnovation

How the post recessionary world will be different

Rejuvenating thinking and team's mental maps

Feedback "Chris led the interactive session at which innovative step change initiatives for brand building and commercial activities were developed by 60 senior Merck attendees. Most have since been implemented with significant addition to revenues. He has carried out similar programmes for Merck CH in Latin America and Asia with similar results." (Chris Zanetti, VP EMEA, Merck CH) "Chris has a great ability to use trends as an inspiring catalyst for helping companies generate ideas to build their brands. He also is a rare trends dude in that he is practical as well: he has his "head in the clouds, feet on the ground." (David Taylor, Brandgym) "It was a pleasure to work with Chris and I recommend him as a dynamic speaker. Our [international] delegates found him easy to follow and feedback was that he delivered a frank and challenging presentation; not afraid of highlighting future dangers." (Micheala Hamm, Meeting Associate, International Council of Shopping Centres) "Thank you for your engaging and challenging contribution. As always, well prepared and presented and added a different dimension." (Vince Prior, Retail Director, Jones Lang LaSalle) "I really appreciated having you at the Brand Forum and I think you did a great job. I was impressed not only by your overall presentation and material, but also how you managed to place it into the Taiwanese context." (Magnus Lund, MD, Leap2Market) "Chris is an inspriring, positive person, that can easily draw people in from very different cultural backgrounds and get them thinking about the future." (Petra Meyer, VP Global Marketing, Merck CH)

Contact [email_address] + 00 33 1 3908 0542 + 00 33 6 8404 1235 www.futurescoaching.com http://futurescoaching.typepad.com http://we-rejuvenate.blogspot.com