David Thornburg, Ph.D

Successful Meetings magazine lists Dr. David Thornburg as one of the top 21 speakers in the United States. Electronic Learning magazine has also listed him as one of the six most popular speakers in the area of educational technology. His dynamic, thought provoking presentations provide transformative experiences to well over 100,000 people per year. His monthly commentaries for PBS on the impact of emerging technologies on learning expand his reach far beyond the podium.

As founder and Director of Global Operations for the Thornburg Center, and as Senior Fellow of the Congressional Institute for the Future, he conducts research and provides staff development in the areas of educational futures, multimedia, communications and whole mind education throughout the Americas. He is an award-winning futurist, author and consultant whose clients range across the public and private sector.

His educational philosophy is based on the idea that students learn best when they are constructors of their own knowledge. He also believes that students who are taught in ways that honor their learning styles and dominant intelligences retain the native engagement with learning with which they entered school. A central theme of his work is that we must prepare students for their future, not for our past.