If the economic & real estate crisis has your audience in a funk, Storm's keynotes are the antidote.

In such times as these, what subject is of more relevance than how to invest in real estate with more safety and profitability, or how to reliably stimulate community revitalization?

Places To Invest keynote.

How real estate investors (individual & institutional) and redevelopers can find the safest and most profitable opportunities in today's global economic crisis.

This powerful and timely talk addresses a key aspect of real estate strategies that is too often ignored: how to avoid choosing the wrong community, or the right community at the wrong time.  Investors have many tools that help them evaluate properties, and that help them design the best use for those properties.  But property values aren't generated in a vacuum: the rising or declining fortunes of the surrounding community can heavily impact ROI. Now, a method of forecasting the immediate future of communities has been developed.  For the first time, real estate professionals can make decisions that take into account the renewal capacity of a city or region. Your audience can be among the first to learn how to use this exciting new tool, via a 30-minute or 60-minute keynote. This is Storm's newest talk, first offered in 2009.

reWealth! keynote.  How to attract restorative investments, projects, & partnerships to revitalize your community, organization, or profession.

This highly entertaining talk comes in 30-minute and 60-minute versions. It's based on Storm's landmark new book, reWealth!, (McGraw-Hill, 2008).  Storm emphasizes different aspects of the book, depending on your audience. 

For general audiences, he focuses primarily on the stories of people who are restoring the world for a living, whether as entrepreneurs, professionals, or investors.  He'll help your members renew their lives & careers via the fast-growing "reconomy".

For professional audiences, Storm focuses more on the "recipe for rapid, resilient renewal".  He reveals the proven strategies  and policies that reverse environmental, infrastructure, economic, and social crises.  He'll reveal how to build a "renewal engine", the most powerful community revitalization organization. Renewal engines make communities magnets for renewal funding, especially via the new breed of public-private partnerships.  All of these tools and concepts apply to rural or urban areas in both industrialized and lesser-developed nations.

Restoration Economy keynote. Discover the most powerful and positive trend of the 21st century.  Based on Storm's 2002 book, The Restoration Economy, this talk reveals the latest updates on his thinking on the subject, and the latest examples of these trends in action.    

This is the groundbreaking 60-minute talk that--along with publication of The Restoration Economy--established Storm as the global advocate of restorative development.   The Restoration Economy was the first book to document the 8 giant, fast-growing industries that are renewing our natural and built environments. Together, they form the multi-trillion-dollar global "restoration economy."  The restoration economy is the largest and fastest-growing realm of opportunity for investors, developers, schools, non-profits, entrepreneurs, and community leaders. This talk is appropriate for either general or professional audiences.   It's packed with dramatic before-and-after photos that show why our children can expect a healthier, wealthier, more beautiful world. 

How do the two talks relate to each other? The Restoration Economy talk is primarily about the ingredients of revitalization: the disciplines and projects that are renewing our natural and built assets. The Rewealth talk is about the recipe that turns those raw ingredients into revitalization. In other words, it's more about processes and programs, rather than projects. Both are loaded with exciting real-world trends and success stories.  Each briefly summarizes the key insights of the other talk.  Storm is also a leading expert on restorative biofuels (energy production that restores polluted/degraded land or water), and can fit this subject into either of the above talks if desired.

3-Hour Intensive: For a deeper learning experience, Storm offers a 3-hour "Intensive."  It starts with an extended (2-hour) version of his Rewealth keynote.  It's followed by a 1-hour Q&A/discussion session that allows your audience to explore the material in depth.  The Intensive can be free-ranging, or can be focused on any specific community or organizational challenge you wish to address. 

You can also use the Intensive to generate extra revenue at your event.  For example, you can have Storm keynote your conference with the Restoration Economy talk.  You could then offer this 3-hour Intensive as a separate-registration event later in the conference, since it features the material from Storm's most recent book.  

All-day Workshop: Storm also conducts 6-hour (plus lunch) workshops. This is the ultimate regenerative learning experience.  The workshop starts with the 1-hour Restoration Economy talk, followed by a 1-hour discussion.  The first half of the extended, 2-hour  Rewealth talk follows.  Lunch would then be served. After lunch would be the second half of the extended Rewealth talk, followed by a 2-hour discussion.

The discussions following each talk can be focused to accomplish agenda you wish, from an informal Q&A to a facilitated session designed to create a work product, such as a community vision statement, a strategic plan outline, improvements to public policies, etc.

For instance: In late 2007, a college client used the first half (Restoration Economy) of the workshop to stimulate a general discussion the school's overall strategy vis a vis the growing trends of natural resource restoration and community revitalization.  In the afternoon, they followed the second talk (Rewealth) with breakout sessions that generated ideas for curricula and research programs.

You can offer this workshop as a revenue-generating, separate registration event, or as a next-day follow-up to Storm's keynote.  Your audience will leave with powerful, practical detailed knowledge and insights that they can immediately put to use.  They'll learn the details of the "recipe for rapid, resilient renewal", as well as a wealth of revitalization-related designing, funding, and public-private partnering do's & don'ts.  

Why choose an Intensive or a Workshop? Since 2002, Storm has been deeply immersed full-time in restoration, revitalization, regeneration, redevelopment, etc. projects all over the world.  These have included just about every project type imaginable, from large-scale river restoration on public and tribal lands, to reuse of individual buildings and remediation of brownfields, to greater metropolitan area renewal, to national environmental and economic growth policies. These extended sessions are your opportunity to tap that deep, broad, and unique experience.

How are the above keynotes and workshops customized?  Three ways:

1. Storm's two 60-minute standard keynotes both have about 2 hours of potential material. He selects only the 50% of slides that are of most interest to your audience.

2. Storm's slides are primarily photos and other graphics: very little text. What he says about those slides is honed specifically to your audience.

3. If your program doesn't allow for the full 60-minute keynote--or if you prefer a talk without slides--Storm will create a fully customized talk from scratch.  Such presentations are full-fee only, and are not eligible for the sliding scale pricing.

The above talks, Intensive, and Workshop can be further customized to focus more heavily on certain subjects of particular interest to your audience, such as:

• Economic stimulus strategies

• Natural resource restoration

• Community & regional revitalization

• Building economic growth without ugly sprawl or unsustainable resource extraction

• Our global economic, environmental, technological, & sociological future

• New & emerging business & investment opportunities

• Visions & plans for integrated post-catastrophe recovery

• Public policy to renew natural, built, & cultural environments

• Strategies for local, regional, national, & global economic development

• Renewal of community assets (heritage, brownfields, infrastructure, & culture)

• Renewal of planetary assets (ecosystems, watersheds, fisheries, agricultural lands)

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News

The upcoming annual Places To Invest report is announced. If your community is serious about revitalizing now, you need to know about this report.

Resolution Fund, LLC is now offering 1-day seminars with Storm in Washington, DC (plus optional 90-minute 1-on-1 consultations). Learn more and register now.

You can now receive Storm's global nature restoration & community revitalization news on Twitter, free.

 

"A new breed of public-private partnerships is emerging.

They are revitalizing communities worldwide in a spectacular manner. 

Let me show your audience how to create Renewal Partnerships." - Storm

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