Futurist, Author of What's Your Story (Guide to Storytelling), The Visionary's Handbook and The 500 Year Delta. Accomplished business owner and executive integrates social, technology, governance, value proposition and scientific trends. 

"One of the 21 best speakers in America": Successful Meetings Magazine  

Watts Wacker is one of the most celebrated and influential minds in modern business.  Mr. Wacker -- lecturer, best-selling author, political commentator and social critic -- is one of the world’s most respected futurists.  His uncommon versatility and vision has allowed him to help the world’s top corporations and organizations navigate the sea of change that is taking hold in the new millennium.  He has been the futurist at SRI International, the legendary Menlo Park think tank, and spent ten years as the resident futurist at the preeminent social research organization, Yankelovich Partners. With over a decade as a corporate executive and owner/operator of two radio stations, Watts has a firm grounding in everyday management challenges.

   Each of his speeches are highly tailored, often drawing on six drivers of the future: social agenda, governance, value proposition, technology, arts and culture and the dominant science.  Watts often is closely involved in the creative production of major events, a major asset for event planners.

   Here is some of his national recognition:

·        "One of 21 socially important people we selected to make a prediction for the 21st century." ...The Science Channel

·        "On our list of the 50 most influential business thinkers in the world"  ...Financial Times

·        "A skilled raconteur" …Fortune Magazine

·        "The inheritor of the Marshall McLuhan tradition" …Wired Magazine

·        "He is one of the 21 best speakers in America" …Successful Meetings Magazine

·        "When we asked ourselves who was the best speaker we had had in the last 10 years? ... Watts Wacker was the answer." ...Public Relations Society of America

   Mr. Wacker has focused his attention on creating a new kind of think tank and he describes himself as a twenty-first century alchemist as well as… "a cross between James Brown and the unknown comic, (the hardest working nobody in the business.)"  His speaking style has created many references to Mr. Wacker as being one of the best storytellers alive today. His book, The 500 Year Delta was an international bestseller having been translated into ten languages and was an "editors choice" top five selection on the Amazon.com book list for 1997.  Watts' second book, The Visionary's Handbook is required reading at many of the world's finest business schools and received outstanding reviews.  Both books were coauthored with Jim Taylor. Watt’s newest book, What’s Your Story, shares his proven strategies to build sales and brands with storytelling.

   Mr. Wacker has edited several books and is a contributing writer to the world-wide best selling Business: The Ultimate Resource.  His recently released Deviant's Advantage, coauthored with Ryan Mathews, has received tremendous response having been featured in Time Magazine, The New York Times and The Harvard Business Review among many others. Additionally, Watts is a contributor to the recently released Financial Times Handbook of Business Version 3.0. 

   Mr. Wacker was the original consulting pollster to the Fox News Division and directed the Time Magazine Poll. At Yankelovich Partners, he also managed the preeminent trends prediction service in the United States, for ten years.  Mr. Wacker’s previous experience also includes management positioning in the health, beauty, toy and food industries.