 Edie Weiner is president of Weiner, Edrich, Brown, Inc., a leading futurist consulting group in the United States. Formed in 1977, WEB has served over 300 clients (corporate, academic, government) in identifying opportunities in the areas of marketing, product development, strategic planning, investments, human resources, public affairs and advertising. Clients have ranged from the U.S. Congress to many of the Fortune 500. She is acknowledged as one of the most influential practitioners of social, technological, political and economic intelligence-gathering.
Ms. Weiner was the youngest outside woman ever elected to the board of directors of a major financial institution when she joined the board of Union Mutual Life Insurance Company (now UNUM Provident Corporation) at the age of 29. She has been a guest lecturer at Wharton, Harvard, Brown and a number of other universities. Her articles have appeared in numerous publications, including The Harvard Business Review, The Futurist, and The Wall Street Journal. She has co-authored four books with her partner Arnold Brown: Supermanaging (McGraw-Hill 1984), Office Biology (MasterMedia 1993), Insider¡¯s Guide to the Future (Bottom Line, 1997), and FutureThink (Prentice Hall, 2006).
In 1992 she founded and chaired the Esteem Teams, an innovative program in which dozens of inner city, at risk girls are mentored by executive women.
She serves on numerous Boards and Advisory Boards, including the US Comptroller General¡¯s Advisory Board, the U.S. Council on Competitiveness, The Women¡¯s Leadership Exchange, ThinkQuest New York City (Chair) and Boardroom Inc. In the past, she has been on the Board or Advisory Board of the José Limón Dance Foundation (Chair), UNUM Corporation, First Unum Corp., CompUSA, the Fashion Group International and Avon's Women of Enterprise Awards. Ms. Weiner is a member of the Women¡¯s Forum, the Belizean Grove, and she is the first recipient of the Fashion Group International's Entrepreneur of the Year Award (1998).
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