• Introduction
• What We Do
• What We Deliver
• Our Values
• Founder's Profile
• Z + Who?
• Folks We Admire

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• Andrew often speaks at
  conferences and on
  a wide range of emerging
  global trends and major
  issues in design,
  technology and business.
  
  He is represented
  by the Leigh Bureau. For
  inquiries, please contact
  Bill Leigh.

About Andrew Zolli

Andrew Zolli is an expert in global foresight and innovation, studying the complex trends at the intersection of technology, sustainability and global society that are shaping our future.

His firm, Z + Partners, helps senior leaders at some of the world's preeminent companies, institutions and governments see, understand and respond to complex change.

Andrew is alsothe Curator of Pop!Tech, the renowned thought leadership forum and social innovation network.

Andrew serves as a Fellow of the National Geographic Society, where he is leading development of a global initiative to envision new scenarios for a sustainable world in 2030 and beyond. He was also recently named the first Business and Society Fellow of the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship.

Andrew has previously served as Futurist-in-Residence at publications including Popular Science and American Demographics magazines, as well as Public Radio's Marketplace. He is also a Visiting Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.

In 2005 Andrew was named to Fast Company's Fast 50, the magazine's annual compilation of emerging business leaders. In the same year, he was named one of Red Herring's "Top 20 Under 35". Andrew's work, writings and ideas have appeared in a wide array of media outlets, including PBS, National Public Radio, The New York Times, Wired, BusinessWeek, ID, Fast Company, The History Channel and many others.

In addition to his work with larger multinational organizations, Andrew advises a number of cutting-edge not-for-profit, public policy and venture-backed startups. He currently serves on the boards of Worldchanging.com, a leading online resource tracking the future of sustainability, Blurb, a revolutionary publishing company, and BAM, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, one of the country's leading urban arts centers.

In a prior chapter of Andrew's career, he served as Chief Marketing Officer of one of the world's leading strategic branding consultancies, Siegel & Gale, where he helped develop new designs, businesses, products and services for companies such as The Weather Channel, Netscape, Kodak, American Express, Forrester Research and IBM, among many others. Andrew helped found the company's new media practice, and helped envision and develop next-generation approaches to product development, user experience, and communications. He also created and led the company's research and development lab, which explored digital user experience and interface design. Under his direction, the lab developed significant virtual reality and graphics applications for the Web. Prior to this, in the early 1990's, Andrew participated as an academic researcher in core technology and standards research and development that shaped the World Wide Web.