What is Visions for Tomorrow?
Edie Weiner
Edie Weiner- Edie Weiner is president of Weiner, Edrich, Brown, Inc., a leading futurist consulting group in the United States. Formed in 1977, WEB has served over 300 corporate, academic, and government clients in identifying opportunities in the areas of marketing, product development, strategic planning, investments, human resources, public affairs and advertising. Clients have ranged from the U.S. Congress to many of the Fortune 500.
- Ms. Weiner has been in the field of issues analysis and strategic planning for over 40 years, having directed the first industry-wide futures research program, the Trend Analysis Program of the American Council of Life Insurance. She is acknowledged as one of the most influential practitioners of social, technological, political and economic intelligence-gathering.
- She was the youngest outside woman ever elected to the board of directors of a major financial institution when she joined the board of Union Mutual Life Insurance Company (now UNUM Provident Corporation). A guest lecturer at Wharton, Harvard, Brown and a number of other universities, Ms. Weiner has also published articles in The Harvard Business Review, The Futurist and The Wall Street Journal. She has co-authored four books with her partner Arnold Brown: “Supermanaging,” “Office Biology,” “Insider’s Guide to the Future” and “FutureThink.” Aside from speaking at conferences, and appearing on television and radio shows, Ms. Weiner has conducted seminars for corporate leaders and written reports on the Underground Economy, Life-Extending Technologies, New Information and Communication Technologies, The Future of Leisure, and Barter and Countertrade.
- In 1992, she founded and chaired the Esteem Teams, an innovative program, in which dozens of inner city at-risk girls were mentored by executive women. In the past, Ms. Weiner has served on numerous boards and advisory boards, including: UNUM, First UNUM, CompUSA, The José Limón Dance Foundation (Chair), EnviroSystems and FlexCorps. She currently chairs the board of ThinkQuest NYC, and is on many advisory boards, including: Boardroom Inc., the U.S. Comptroller General (U.S. G.A.O.) and the Women’s Leadership Exchange. She is a member of the board of the New York Women’s Forum, and she was the first recipient of the Fashion Group International’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award.