
Richard Florida
Creativity, Futurists, Globalization, Innovation, Thinkers50, Trends
Travels from District of Columbia, USA
Richard Florida's speaking fee falls
within range:
$30,000 to $50,000

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Richard Florida Profile
The best-selling author of The Rise of the Creative Class, social scientist Richard Florida is one of the key forces driving urban regeneration. Renown for his cutting-edge research, he has spent more than a decade helping city planners revitalize communities and convert some of the country’s declining urban areas into inviting places to live.
Florida serves as the Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management; additionally, he is a Global Research Professor at New York University. He rose to “intellectual rock stardom” with widely read publications like The Rise of the Creative Class and Who’s Your City amongst five other titles, all of which speak about how innovators are a category in themselves.
Florida’s focus on creative and bohemian classes has generated extensive attention and action; he has been named one of the world’s most influential thinkers by MIT Technology Review, one of the world’s global thought leaders of 2013 by GDI, and one of the most followed scientists by the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science).
Florida’s most recent work can be read in The Great Reset, which examines how crises and recessions spur eras of growth and prosperity, and what we can expect for the U.S. as we move away from the 2008 Financial Crisis.
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Author and Thought Leader
Richard Florida is author of the global best-seller The Rise of the Creative Class and Who’s Your City? a national and international best seller and amazon.com book of the month. His new book, The Great Reset explains how new ways of living and working will drive post-crash prosperity.
He is author of The Flight of the Creative Class and Cities and the Creative Class. His previous books, especially The Breakthrough Illusion and Beyond Mass Production, paved the way for his provocative looks at how creativity is revolutionizing the global economy.
Florida is senior editor for The Atlantic and a regular CNN contributor. He has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Economist, The Globe and Mail and The Harvard Business Review. He has been featured as an expert on MSNBC, BBC, NPR and CBS, to name just a few.
Richard has also been appointed to the Business Innovation Factory’s Research Advisory Council and recently named European Ambassador for Creativity and Innovation.
Florida’s ideas on the “creative class,” commercial innovation, and regional development have been featured in major ad campaigns from BMW and Apple, and are being used globally to change the way regions and nations do business and transform their economies.
Florida is one of the world’s leading public intellectuals on economic competitiveness, demographic trends, and cultural and technological innovation. International diplomats, government leaders, filmmakers, economic development organizations and leading Fortune 100 businesses have benefited from his global approach to problem-solving and strategy development.
He is one of the world’s most sought after speakers on global trends, economics, prosperity, competitiveness and growth. Combining in-depth analysis, cutting-edge trends, a fascinating personal story, and just a touch of self-deprecating humor, it’s no wonder Florida was recently named one of Esquire Magazine’s Best and Brightest, alongside luminaries such as Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Sachs.
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