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About
Todd Buchholz “lights up economics with a wickedly sparkling wit,” says the Associated Press. He recently jousted with James Carville and Ben Stein, and Successful Meetings Magazine named him one of the “21 Top Speakers for the 21st Century.” His editorials in the Wall Street Journal and commentaries on PBS and CNBC correctly forecast the inflation surge of 2021-2023, the 2014-15 collapse in crop and energy prices, the 2008 surge in commodity prices, the downgrade of the U.S. debt rating. The New York Times has turned to him to decipher terrorist threats and the job market. The Wall Street Journal named his newest book The Price of Prosperity a “must-read.” Buchholz entertains his audiences and shows them how to thrive in a challenging economy, while gearing up for future prosperity.
From White House to Wall Street. A former director of economic policy at the White House, a managing director of the legendary $15 billion Tiger hedge fund, and an award-winning economics teacher at Harvard, Buchholz targets his entertaining remarks to the cutting edge of economics, finance, and business strategy. He insights have been widely cited by leading Democrats and Republicans. Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers said about Buchholz’s New Ideas from Dead Economists: “If you read only one economics book this year, read this one.” Buchholz is a frequent commentator on ABC News, PBS, and CBS, and recently hosted his own special on CNBC. Buchholz has debated such luminaries as Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitzand has appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher. He is also the inventor of the Math Arrow, which makes mathematics more intuitive for children. Martin Cooper, inventor of the cellphone calls the Math Arrow “ingenious.” Buchholz has served as a fellow at Yale and at Cambridge University.
Buchholz’s books have been translated into a dozen languages and are used in universities worldwide, including Harvard, Duke, and Princeton. The Sunday Times called The Price of Prosperity: “highly entertaining, far-sighted, and enjoyably acerbic.” Market Shock: 9 Economic and Social Upheavals that Will Shake Our Financial Future, was released to rave reviews and dubbed “outstanding” by the Wall Street Journal. Buchholz is also author of the best-selling New Ideas from Dead Economists, New Ideas from Dead CEOs, From Here to Economy, and Lasting Lessons from the Corner Office, which were lavishly praised by the New York Times and Financial Times. Publishers Weekly named his book Rush: Why You Need and Love the Rat Race a “top ten” book, and has been praised by the Financial Times, Toronto Globe & Mail, L.A. Times, and the BBC, among many others.
Buchholz has penned articles for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and the Washington Post. He delivered a lecture at the White House entitled “Clarity, Honesty and Modesty in Economics,” and has been a keynote speaker before such groups as the Fresh Produce Association, the Meat Institute, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, and the US Chamber of Commerce.
Before joining Tiger, Buchholz was President of the G7 Group, Inc., an international consulting firm, whose clientele included many of the top securities firms, investment banks and money managers in New York, London, and Tokyo. Buchholz has served at the White House as Director for Economic Policy, and as an adviser to the Federal Reserve Board and the Bank of England. Buchholz won the Allyn Young Teaching Prize at Harvard and holds advanced degrees in economics and law from Cambridge and Harvard. He also holds several engineering and design patents and is a co-producer of the Broadway smash “Jersey Boys” and the new musical “Glory Ride.”
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AGRICULTURE: PROSPERITY AHEAD — OR NOT?
Todd Buchholz, former White House Director of Economic Policy and winner of Harvard’s annual teaching prize, will take you on a fascinating tour of future trends and challenges facing your business and the economy:
• Can the economy get back on a prosperity track with low inflation and a strong job market?• How will demographics impact agriculture?• How can companies and communities find and maintain their best workers amid a worldwide labor shortage?• Will energy prices continue to rise?• How can the ag industry take advantage of new moves in world trade?• What do the latest gyrations in the stock market and interest rates mean for family farms?As author of the acclaimed New Ideas from Dead CEOs, Todd will weave in stories of the greatest business leaders of the last century, who built lasting relationships with their customers and with their colleagues. From Ray Kroc and Sam Walton to AP Giannini (who turned a dockside lending window in San Francisco to the nation’s largest bank), Todd will offer powerful lessons to ag leaders today.
Todd has spoken before numerous agriculture groups, including Farm Credit Services, Co-Bank, Soybean Council, Sunkist, the Produce Marketing Association, and the Meat Institute. Governors of Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming have called upon him to keynote their annual trade conferences.
HOW TO TACKLE AND EMBRACE AI
AI is disrupting the way we do business, even faster than the Internet, the PC, and television did in past decades. Former White House Director of Economic Policy Todd Buchholz, author of Market Shock and New Ideas from Dead CEOs, tackles the startling implications of AI technology — when to harness it, and how to discern hype. As finance, tech, and industrial firms like Morgan Stanley, Apple, and Tesla rush to file patents, Todd explains where the AI revolution is going and how AI will impact inflation, oil prices, and interest rates. A former managing director of the legendary Tiger hedge fund, Todd’s writing on technology and the economy have been praised in the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times, and he has been featured on media programs from ABC to the BBC. Organizations like the Pentagon and Goldman Sachs have placed Todd’s works on their recommended reading lists, and Todd has delivered provocative and insightful keynotes before the world’s leading companies, and audiences at Stanford, Harvard, and Cambridge, among others.
· Discover how to harness AI to lower costs and expand markets
· Pinpoint how AI will change financial markets, disrupting inflation and interest rate expectations
· Reveal how AI will overhaul the job market, creating vast new opportunities, while also requiring retraining
· Decode when AI is used effectively versus when it’s used merely to hype
HOW TO COMPETE IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY
Never before have businesses felt such excruciating pressure to compete. The go-go days of the 1990s turned into the go-sideways days of the 2000’s. What’s next? While enjoying super low interest rates and riding a roller coaster stock market, firms have struggled to raise prices, even when their costs go up. China poses a threat but also an opportunity for new sales. Loyal customers seem ready to jump to a competitor. How can your company or industry survive and thrive? Can the Fed keep the economy recovering while Donald Trump and Jerome Powell argue over interest rates? Todd Buchholz, who led the White House Energy Strategy, will help you figure out whether OPEC and Russia can tighten energy supplies again or whether a revolution in natural gas will reinvigorate U.S. factories. Learn how the “scissors economy” opens up new business and investment opportunities. Today might be the very best—or the very worst—time to finance a loan. By “connecting the dots” of the world economy, Todd teaches how to anticipate the new trends that open up fresh opportunities for manufacturing, service and technology companies.
THE HOPE AND DANGER BEHIND WORLD POLITICS
Since September 11, 2001, the world has changed, looking even more dangerous than during the Cold War era when the Soviet Union aimed missiles at the U.S. Today, China covets Taiwan, Russia bombs Ukraine, and in the Middle East, Iran and Syria confound the experts. Todd Buchholz takes his audience on a world tour to gauge the “hot spots” that threaten us. At the same time, though, we must appreciate the successes: the countries that have turned from dictatorships to democracies; the economies that have dumped communism for capitalism. Recently, The New York Times editorial page called on Buchholz to make sense of the terrorism threat. As a former “point man” for the White House during the Gulf War, Todd Buchholz shows his audience how to handle the risks while keeping hope alive in this expansive keynote speech presentation.
BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS CAN WORK FOR YOU
Business leaders and policymakers take heed – your social, cognitive, and emotional biases (and those of your consumers) will affect your finances. Todd Buchholz examines how generational differences, habitual cognitive decisions, and work relationships all operate together to inform market decisions and public choices.
Todd takes a sweeping view of the nature of competition in business, arguing for the vitality, growth, and progress it inspires in us. Drawing on biography, he also looks into the lives of influential entrepreneurs to explain how little ideas were turned into big successes that overhauled the way business is done, providing immediately actionable takeaways.
As talented journalists such as Malcolm Gladwell and David Brooks delve into the fields of behavioral economics and behavioral finance, Todd’s analytical work offers a deeper understanding particularly suited for business people and policymakers who need to apply psychological principles to everyday life.RUSH: WHY YOU NEED AND LOVE THE RAT RACE
Todd Buchholz, author of the classic New Ideas from Dead Economists and New Ideas from Dead CEOs, reveals why we need competition to keep us going and going strong. Weaving in everything from neuroeconomics to evolutionary biology to renaissance art to General Motors, Buchholz will convince you that the race to compete has not only made us taller and smarter, it’s what we love and need. In this provocative keynote presentation, Buchholz explains why laid-back firms get entangled in their own red tape and why contented CEOs end up driving their employees to bankruptcy court. While Buchholz argues that businesses need internal competition, he shows how to inspire creative competition, rather than a shark-infested culture. This is a cutting-edge presentation that defies and shreds conventional wisdom.
NEW IDEAS FROM DEAD CEOS
Todd Buchholz brings to life history’s greatest CEOs—from Steve Jobs to Ray Kroc to Akio Morita, Estée Lauder to Tom Watson Sr.—and shows how their lives, leadership and lessons can inform and inspire us in today’s chaotic marketplace. How did Sam Walton help create the “scissors economy” and go from being the owner of a single dime store to the CEO of Wal-Mart? How did Estée Lauder, a working-class woman from Queens, convince the shoppers at Saks to buy her cosmetics? How did the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 eventually lead to A.P. Giannini’s success as America’s greatest banker? In this speech, Buchholz answers these questions and shows today’s business managers how to deploy their entrepreneurial secrets to benefit their companies in today’s hyper-competitive global economy. He uses his experience as a White House economist, Harvard scholar, and Wall Street professional to show investors what kinds of CEOs to invest with and what kinds of companies to steer away from. In addition, Todd lays out a forecast for the economy and the financial markets. Audiences come away from this keynote presentation with a fresh understanding of the competitive pressures we face today, and a road map to finding success.
CHINA: THE THREAT AND THE OPPORTUNITY
Keynote | Educational | Humorous | Technical
Everyone knows China offers one billion potential customers. But China also provides one billion workers eager to compete with American workers. The Chinese Communist Party has shed its communist ideology, but it still struggles to keep its people under control. By showing audiences how to anticipate China’s next moves, this original keynote speech presentation by Todd Buchholz will help you take advantage of the incredible business opportunities ahead while avoiding the landmines.
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Testimonials
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“Todd Buchholz was incredible and his speech was informative, educational, factual and funny. He engaged the crowd, made people laugh – but he also made us think as well.”
“Todd Buchholz was just amazing. His energy, effervescence and educational material was just what we needed to kick-off the Reinsurance Conference. He kept the audience wide-eyed for 30 minutes straight. Todd never used a single note and jam-packed us with information. I likened him to uncorking a bottle of champagne and letting the good times roll. Todd was a fountain of insightful information. All that from an economist!”
“Todd Buchholz was just amazing. His energy, effervescence and educational material was just what we needed to kick-off the Reinsurance Conference. He kept the audience wide-eyed for 30 minutes straight. Todd never used a single note and jam-packed us with information. I likened him to uncorking a bottle of champagne and letting the good times roll. Todd was a fountain of insightful information. All that from an economist!”