JOHN L. PETERSEN
John Petersen's professional involvements include
long-range strategic and product planning and helping leadership
design new approaches for dealing with the future. He has led
national non-profit organizations; worked in sales; manufacturing;
real estate development; and marketing and advertising, mostly
for companies he founded. He holds a degree in electrical engineering.
Petersen's government and political experience include stints
at the National War College, the Institute for National Security
Studies, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the National
Security Council staff at the White House. He was a naval flight
officer in the U.S. Navy and Navy Reserve and is a decorated veteran
of both the Vietnam and Persian Gulf wars. He has served in senior
positions for a number of presidential political campaigns and
was an elected delegate to the Democratic National Convention
in 1984.
In 1989, Petersen founded The Arlington Institute
(TAI), a non-profit, future-oriented research institute. Arlington
operates on the premise that effective thinking about the future
is impossible without casting a very wide net. The “think
tank” serves as a global agent for change by developing
new concepts, processes and tools for anticipating the future
and translating that knowledge into better present-day decisions.
Using advanced information technology, a core group of bright
thinkers and an international network of exceptionally curious
people along with gaming events and simulations, modeling, scenario
building, polling and analysis, Arlington helps equip leaders
from many disciplines with tools and perspectives on probable
futures.
John Petersen is considered by numerous influential leaders to
be one of the most informed futurists in the country. He is the
leading futurist who writes and thinks about high impact surprises
-- wild cards -- that are global in scope, potentially disruptive,
and intrinsically out of control.
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