Speaking Topics (Selected)

Experience, Observation, Motivation

Mike Huestis is a public speaker and writer on strategic, technical, and motivational topics, as well as being an executive mentor. He is a seasoned global strategist and practitioner of data science since 1983. Speaking from experience: having current roles at the Board level and from numerous past executive level positions in global commercial organizations and the United Nations. Speaking from Observation: having engaged professionally, across 12 countries and 5 continents. Personally: he is a cancer survivor; has RA; recently survived quadruple bypass surgery; is a photographer; outdoor enthusiast; and past “hot-dogger” and freestyle skier. Speaking Motivationally: through all of this, Mike has learned that no problem is completely intractable, and that everyone matters.

Motivational Topics

• Overcoming Fear with Commitment • Consulting and Sales • Self-Betterment / Making a Major Change • Getting Fired / Getting Restarted, It’s an Opportunity • It All Comes Down to People • How Decisions Really Get Made • Stress – Imagined or Real • The Way People Think, … or Not

Strategic Topics

• Metropolitan Futures • Science Fiction and Future Reality • Smart City / Planet • Cities as Organisms - “It’s Alive!” • The Long View of Societies and Civilization • Really Long Term Trends (Pick One) • Why Do the Barbarians Always Win? • Cycles of Life and Death in Almost Everything

Technical Topics

• Data Science – What Is This and Where Did It Come From? • Analyze Everything • How to Monetize Research • High Dimension Data Sets • Big Data Vs. Appropriate Data • Cybersecurity - It’s Soooo Many Things! • The Myth of Predictive Analytics • What Is a Technical Topic?

E. Michael Huestis

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Speaking Topics (Selected)

Experience, Observation,

Motivation

Mike Huestis is a public speaker and writer on strategic, technical, and motivational topics, as well as being an executive mentor. He is a seasoned global strategist and practitioner of data science since 1983. Speaking from experience: having current roles at the Board level and from numerous past executive level positions in global commercial organizations and the United Nations. Speaking from Observation: having engaged professionally, across 12 countries and 5 continents. Personally: he is a cancer survivor; has RA; recently survived quadrupal bypass surgery; is a photographer; outdoor enthusiast; and past “hot-dogger” and freestyle skier. Speaking Motivationally: through all of this, Mike has learned that no problem is completely intractable, and that everyone matters.

Motivational Topics

Strategic Topics

E. Michael Huestis