Daniel W. Rasmus, is the Founder and Principal Analyst at Serious Insights. Serious Insights focuses on helping customers leverage the potential of their through better strategy, thought leadership content development and innovation. Serious Insights uses scenario planning to frame the future and create opportunities to teach agile thinking.

Rasmus is the author of Listening to the Future, which explores his futures work at Microsoft. His latest book, Management by Design, documents an innovative new methodology for work experience design.

Rasmus perviously served as the Director of Business Insights at Microsoft, a Vice President and Research Director at Forrester Research, as well as the Chief Knowledge Officer of the Giga Information Group division.

Rasmus's thoughts about the future of work have appeared in The African Business Review, Chief Learning Officer Magazine, Talent Management, KMWorld, the Harvard Business Review blog, GeekWire and iPhone Life. His views on popular culture can be found at BestEntertainmentReviews.com and PopMatters.

As an internationally recognized speaker, Rasmus has addressed audiences at Enterprise 2.0, CeBIT, UBTech, The Future of Libraries, KMWorld, SAE International, Future Trends and dozens of other conferences.  He was a delegate to China's World Cultural Forum in 2012.

Rasmus is the former Visiting Liberal Arts Fellow at Bellevue College in Bellevue, WA. where he continues to teach Social Media for Job Hunters. He also taught strategy and marketing at Pinchot University in Seattle, WA. Rasmus attended the University of California at Santa Cruz and received a certificate in intelligent systems engineering from the University of California at Irvine.