Thomas Frey

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Thomas Frey is an American futurist and celebrity speaker. [1]

Frey is based at the DaVinci Institute in Westminster, Colorado, which he founded and where he is currently the executive director and senior futurist. [2] [1] Before this, he was an engineer with IBM for fifteen years. [3]

He is part of the celebrity speaking circuit [2] [3] and has shared billing with Rudy Giuliani, Tom Peters and Jack Welch. [1] Frey's clients are located both internationally and in the United States, speaking to audiences of high-level government officials such as those of NASA, executives of Fortune 500 companies such as IBM and AT&T, Lucent Technologies, First Data, Boeing, Capital One, Bell Canada, Visa, Ford Motor Company and Qwest. He has travelled to South Korea, Saudi Arabia, India, Russia, Mexico and many other countries. [3] [4]

Frey has been interviewed in numerous publications such as The New York Times , The Huffington Post , The Times of India , USA Today , U.S. News & World Report , The Futurist , Morning Calm (in-flight magazine of Korean Air), Skylife (in-flight magazine of Turkish Airlines), ColoradoBiz Magazine and Rocky Mountain News . [3]

At the institute, he works to develop original research studies in areas not normally addressed by futurists. [2] He has predicted the end of traditional colleges and printed books, but not the library. [2]

Frey is the author of the 2011 book Communicating with the Future and Epiphany Z, 8 Radical Visions for Transforming Your Future, published in 2017.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Brett Greene (June 2, 2010). "Interview With Futurist Thomas Frey on the Future of Colleges and Universities". Huffington Post. Retrieved December 14, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Tom W. Sloan (July 16, 2010). "The Future of Libraries: Interview with Thomas Frey". American Libraries magazine. Retrieved December 14, 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Thomas Frey". The Harry Walker Agency. Retrieved December 14, 2015.
  4. "El Tecnológico de Monterrey llama a la transformación de la educación para enfrentar los retos del futuro" (in Spanish). December 14, 2015. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved December 14, 2015.