Let Storm put your audience on the leading edge of

the global restoration economy at your next event.

Global Economic Crisis keynote (30 minutes, no PowerPoint)

Local, state, & national policy/strategy recommendations for accelerated recovery.

This fast-moving, thought-provoking talk answers 3 questions that are on the minds of both political and business leaders:

1. How can communities revitalize themselves out of their crisis, when their nation--and most of the world--is in a financial crisis that makes money harder than ever to find?

2. How can federal governments at least double the regenerative growth fostered by their economic stimulus budgets?

3. How can real estate investors and redevelopers predict in which communities revitalization is about to happen, so their projects will benefit from a rising local economy?

This is Storm's newest talk, first presented at the historic City Club of Cleveland on July 17, 2009.

Places To Invest keynote (60 minutes, with PowerPoint)

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 regenerative growth in communities and regions 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 60-minute talk with PowerPoint. This is a new talk, first offered in 2009.

Green Revitalization keynote (60 minutes, with PowerPoint)  

How to attract restorative investments & partnerships to grow your economy, increase your quality of life, & enhance your environmental health simultaneously.

This highly entertaining talk is based on Storm's landmark new book, reWealth!, (McGraw-Hill, 2008), the first book on green revitalization.  Storm will emphasize different aspects of the book, depending on the interests of your audience. 

For communities, there are two major aspects to the talk: 1) telling stories of other communities that were in similar or worse shape than your community, and how they came back from these "near-death" experiences, and 2) How your community can become a magnet for public and private investment that restores your economy, quality of life, and environmental health.

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 how your discipline (designers, planners, natural resource managers, redevelopers, etc.) can harness the proven recipe for rapid, resilient renewal.  He reveals the 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. And all can be used as business development strategies for practitioners and firms that wish to restore the world for a living.

Restoration Economy keynote. (60 minutes, with PowerPoint)

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 and 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 book-related talks differ from 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 knowledgeable concerning 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 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)