Daniel W. Rasmus helped provide Sage Advice for Potential, the first in the Millennial series. Rasmus is the author of Listening to the Future, a book which explores the workplace of tomorrow through the lens of scenario planning. He is the former Director of Business Insights at Microsoft. Prior to Microsoft, Rasmus was Vice President of Knowledge Management and Collaboration at Forrester Research. He has held management positions at the Giga Information Group, Hughes Aircraft and Western Digital. He is the Chair of the National Workforce Center for Emerging Technology National Board and an advisor to the Institute for Innovation and Information Productivity. Rasmus is a Liberal Arts Fellow at Bellevue College during the 2009-2010 academic year. For more information on Daniel W. Rasmus, please visit:

Website:www.danielwrasmus.com
Blog: www.danielwrasmus.wordpress.com
Twitter: www.twitter.com/DanielWRasmus

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Rob Salkowitz is a writer and consultant specializing in the social implications of new technology. He is the author of Generation Blend: Managing Across the Technology Age Gap (John Wiley & Sons, 2008), and co-author, with Daniel W. Rasmus, of Listening to the Future: Why It’s Everybody’s Business (Wiley & Sons, 2008). He has worked with leaders in the IT industry, including Microsoft, HP, and nGenera, to forecast social and technology trends, formulate market strategy and articulate business goals. He writes a popular weekly column for the website Internet Evolution and has maintained his own blog, Emphasis Added, since 2002. Rob’s next book for Wiley focuses on how the global NetGeneration is using new technology to drive innovation and social transformation around the world.
An entrepreneur and small business owner, Rob has helped start seven companies since 1994 and is a partner in the Seattle-based communications firm MediaPlant, LCC. He serves on the board of Older Adults Technology Services, a New York-based non-profit that does technology training and workforce development for people over 50. In 2008, he was a communications consultant on Darcy Burner’s unsuccessful campaign for Congress in Washington’s 8th district.

Rob earned a BA in Political Science/International Relations from Columbia University in New York. He lives and works in Seattle, Washington.

Michael Brainard provides Sage Advice for Trust, the third in the Millennial series. As a management consultant, Brainard has designed and conducted process re-engineering and re-structuring, organizational assessments, leadership development initiatives, performance management systems, change management processes, and a variety of strategic planning initiatives. Additionally Brainard has worked as an internal and external integration leader post acquisition. As a speaker, Michael has delivered keynote talks to such groups as the Association for Corporate Growth, PIHRA, SHRM, PCMA, OCEMA, and a variety of Corporations. As a researcher, Michael has contributed to publications and presented his research findings on performance appraisal systems, telecommuting, and leadership development at a variety of professional organizations. For more information on Michael Brainard please visit:

Web: www.brainardstrategy.com

Kit Yarrow, Ph.D., is a consumer psychologist and a professor of psychology and marketing at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. She was named Golden Gate University's 2009 Outstanding Scholar for her research on Generation Y and consumer behavior. That research was the foundation for her new book, Gen BuY: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings are Revolutionizing Retail, . In a review by Publisher's Weekly, Gen BuY was described as, "a must-read for all who hope to keep their companies relevant and viable."

Kit's been a visiting professor at universities around the world - from the Helsinki School of Economics to UC Berkeley. She's consulted to businesses including General Electric, Del Monte, and Nokia. Kit's also a frequent and popular speaker on issues ranging from the psychology of Generation Y, to the use of strategic use of social media, to marketing to the post-recession consumer.

As a recognized consumer expert, Kit is often called upon by the national media to explain and predict consumer behavior. She's a frequent guest on NPR's Marketplace and on Good Morning America, and she's often quoted by publications such as The New York Times, Oprah Magazine, U.S. News and World Report, and The Wall Street Journal. Kit blogs for The Huffington Post and Psychology Today.

Email: kit@genbuy.net
Twitter: @genbuy
Web: www.kityarrow.com