Thursday, November 15th 8:30 - 9:30 AM

Neil Howe, best-selling author and national speaker, is a renowned authority on generations in America . He gives readers and audiences powerful insights into who today's generation are, what motivates them as consumers and workers, and how they will shape our national future. Howe's broadly cyclical perspective—oriented around familiar generational life stories—will put "the long term" into a stunning, yet personal focus.

An historian, economist, and demographer, Howe has advised a wide variety of corporate and nonprofit audiences. He has co-authored several books on generations with William Strauss, all bestsellers widely used by businesses, colleges, government agencies, and political leaders of both parties. Their first book, Generations, is a history of America told as a sequence of generational biographies. Generations has been photographed on Bill Clinton's White House desk. Vice President Gore sent a copy to every Member of Congress, calling it "the most stimulating book on American history I have ever read."

Howe's second generations book, 13th Gen, remains the top selling non-fiction book on Generation X. The Fourth Turning forecasted a major mood change in America shortly after the new millennium—a change much like what actually happened, after September 11, 2001. The most recent Howe-Strauss book, Millennials Rising, has been widely quoted in the media for its insistence that today's new crop of teens and kids are very different from Generation X and, on the whole, doing much better than most adults think. Previously, with Peter G. Peterson, Howe co-authored On Borrowed Time, a pioneering call for budgetary reform.

Howe grew up in California , took his BA at UC Berkeley, studied abroad in France and Germany , and later received graduate degrees in economics and history from Yale University .