Todd Buchholz “lights up economics with a wickedly sparkling wit,” says the Associated Press.  He recently jousted with James Carville and Ben Stein, and Successful Meetings Magazine named him one of the “21 Top Speakers for the 21st Century.”  His editorials in the Wall Street Journal and commentaries on PBS correctly forecast the 2001 slowdown in the U.S., and the 2008 pop in commodity prices.  The New York Times has turned to him to decipher terrorist threats and the job market. Business Week raved about his book Market Shock, which warned of the quicksand facing the stock market. Buchholz entertains his audiences and shows them how to thrive in a challenging  economy, while gearing up for future prosperity.
			FROM WHITE HOUSE TO WALL STREET...    A former director of economic policy at the White House, a managing director of the $15 billion Tiger hedge fund, and an award-winning economics teacher at Harvard, Buchholz targets his entertaining remarks to the cutting edge of economics, finance, and business strategy.  He has advised President Bush, and is a frequent commentator on ABC News, PBS, and CBS, and recently hosted his own special on CNBC.  Buchholz has debated such luminaries as Lester Thurow and Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz.    He has authored numerous books that have been translated into a dozen languages and are used in universities nationwide, the likes of which include Harvard, Brigham Young and Princeton. Market Shock: 9 Economic and Social Upheavals that Will Shake Our Financial Future, was released to rave reviews and dubbed “outstanding” by the Wall Street Journal.  Buchholz is also author of the best- selling New Ideas from Dead Economists and From Here To Economy, which were lavishly praised by The New York Times and Financial Times.  His newest books are New Ideas From Dead CEOs, and a novel, The Castro Gene.    Buchholz is a contributing editor at Worth magazine, where he writes the “Global Markets” column, and he has penned articles for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Reader’s Digest. He delivered a lecture at the White House entitled “Clarity, Honesty and Modesty in Economics,” and has been a keynote speaker before such groups as Microsoft, Citibank and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.      Before joining Tiger in 1996, Buchholz was President of the G7 Group, Inc., an international consulting firm,  whose clientele included many of the top securities firms, investment banks and money managers in New York, London, and Tokyo. From 1989 to 1992 he served at the White House as a Director for Economic Policy.  Buchholz won the Allyn Young Teaching Prize at Harvard and holds advanced degrees in economics and law from Cambridge and Harvard.  He also holds several engineering and design patents and is a co-producer of the Broadway smash "Jersey Boys."

Topics:  

1) Election 2008:  The Inside Story on the White House, the Fed and Congress (to be adapted post election)
   Former White House adviser Todd Buchholz takes you on a tour of Washington power centers.  Who’s pushing the buttons on economic policy and industry regulation?  How will the winning candidate reshape the economic and business landscape?  Will Ben Bernanke working hand in hand  --or at odds-- with the next administration?  Todd Buchholz will give you the scoop on upcoming elections and help you figure out whether the shenanigans in Washington make life easier or tougher for your company?  

 2) How To Compete in A Global  Economy
   Never before have businesses felt so excruciating pressure to compete.  While riding a roller coaster stock market, firms have struggled to raise prices, even when their costs go up.  China poses a threat but also an opportunity for new sales.  Loyal customers seem ready to jump to a competitor.  How can your company or industry survive and thrive?   What will Congress do to help or hurt your industry in the coming year?  Learn how to anticipate the new trends that open up fresh opportunities for manufacturing, service and technology companies.

3) New Ideas from Dead CEOs
   Todd G. Buchholz brings to life history’s greatest CEOs—from Ray Kroc to Akio Morita, Estee Lauder to Tom Watson Sr.—and shows how their lives, leadership and lessons can inform and inspire us in today’s chaotic marketplace.  How did Sam Walton help create the “scissors economy” and go from being the owner of a single dime store to the CEO of Wal-Mart?  How did Estée Lauder, a working-class woman from Queens, convince the shoppers at Saks to buy her cosmetics?  How did the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 eventually lead to A.P. Giannini’s success as America’s greatest banker?  Todd answers these questions and shows today’s business managers how to deploy their entrepreneurial secrets to benefit their companies in today’s hypercompetitive global economy.  Todd lays out a forecast for the economy and the financial markets.  The audience will come away from the presentation with a fresh understanding of the competitive pressures we face today, and a roadmap to finding success.