Todd Buchholz

• Former White House Director of Economic Policy and Managing Director at the $15 billion Tiger hedge fund, with deep experience in economics, finance, and business strategy.
• Best-selling author and global keynote speaker, whose books like New Ideas from Dead Economists and The Price of Prosperity are taught in top universities and have been translated into multiple languages.
• Award-winning educator and inventor, having taught economics at Harvard (winning the Allyn Young Teaching Prize), and creator of the Math Arrow, praised as “ingenious” by the inventor of the cell phone.

Economist Todd Buchholz “lights up economics with a wickedly sparkling wit,” says the Associated Press.

The former White House senior economic advisor, Tiger hedge fund managing director and best-selling author has jousted with such personalities as James Carville and Ben Stein. His lively and informative speaking engagements have earned him a place in Successful Meetings Magazine’s “21 Top Speakers for the 21^st Century, and his best-selling books on economics and financial markets have been widely translated and are taught in universities worldwide. As a frequent commentator on the state of the markets, Todd Buchholz brings his experience as a former White House director of economic policy, a managing director of the $15 billion Tiger hedge fund, and a Harvard economics teacher to the cutting edge of economics, fiscal politics, finance, and business strategy.  Buchholz is a frequent guest on ABC News, PBS, and CBS, and he recently hosted his own special on CNBC. Buchholz has debated such luminaries in the field as Lester Thurow and Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz.

Buchholz has authored numerous critically acclaimed and best-selling books on the economy and leadership, many of which he has developed into successful lectures and speaking events. His books have been translated into a dozen languages and are used in universities worldwide, including at NYU, Duke, and Princeton. Author Buchholz is praised for his examination of economics, business and entrepreneurship in the context of global society.

The Sunday TIMES (UK) called The Price of Prosperity: Why Rich Nations Fail and How to Renew Them “highly entertaining, far-sighted and enjoyably acerbic.” The Wall Street Journal named the book to its exclusive list of “Eight Summer Must-Reads” for 2016. 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 has also published 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 garnered high praise from The New York Times and Financial Times. Named by Publishers Weekly as a “top ten” book for 2011, his book Rush: Why You Need and Love the Rat Race has been praised by the Financial Times, Toronto Globe & Mail, Los Angeles Times and the BBC, among many others. Buchholz has penned articles for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Forbes, and Reader’s Digest.

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As a frequent commentator on the state of the markets, Todd Buchholz brings his experience as a former White House director of economic policy, a managing director of the $15 billion Tiger hedge fund, and a Harvard economics teacher to the cutting edge of economics, fiscal politics, finance, and business strategy.  Buchholz is a frequent guest on ABC News, PBS, and CBS, and he recently hosted his own special on CNBC.

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, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. His commentaries were closely read by officials at the Federal Reserve, Bundesbank and 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 was a fellow at Cambridge University in 2009, holds several engineering and design patents and is a co-producer of the Broadway smash “Jersey Boys.”

Buchholz is the inventor of the Math Arrow, a mathematical matrix that makes numbers more intuitive to children. Martin Cooper, widely recognized as the inventor of the cellular phone, has called the Math Arrow “ingenious.”

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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 to audiences at prestigious universities such as 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   

Prosperity Ahead — or Not?

• Discover how demographics, technology, and globalization are reshaping the economy and our future
• Pinpoint the signs of stock market rallies, and the warning signs of slumps
• Identify the political pressures on trade, debt, and interest rates from the U.S. to the E.U. to China

4 Ways to Conquer a Business Crisis

Todd unlocks the 4 strategies that keep businesses prospering when they hit an unexpected crisis. Ninety percent of the Fortune 500 list from 1955 are gone. What can you learn from the survivors? Tap into Todd’s frontline experience as White House director of economic policy and managing director of the Tiger investment fund, to get your business growing now.

• Find out how companies like Disney, Johnson & Johnson, and Audi bounced back from near-fatal hits to their bottom line
• Discover whether your company should invoke the “Clean Sweep” or “Big Bet” strategy to win back customers
• Learn whether the economy will bounce back with a V-shaped, U-shaped, or W-shaped recovery, and how to adjust
• Position your company to be, not just a survivor but a beneficiary of the economic rebound ahead
• Target the customers and entities that can spend the most—soon

How to Compete in a Global Economy

• Learn how the “scissors economy” cuts costs while creating new opportunities
• Explore the ways to build customer loyalty even when facing unforeseen competition
• • Explore how generational differences impact your workplace and your customers
  • See how psychology shapes financial and customer choices
  • Learn the three words that most excite your employees, investors, and clients Find out which countries offer the best opportunities for investment and expansionBehavioral Economics Can Work for You Finding Hope in World Politics
  • Take a world tour to the “hot spots” that are on the cusp of economic and political change
  • Understand how presidents and prime ministers  — from Washington to Beijing — make crucial decisions
  • Learn how globalization has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, while sparking protests about Brexit, NAFTA, and NATO.