Medard Gabel
Medard Gabel is the CEO of
BigPictureSmallWorld and
BigPicture Consulting,
and is the author of six books on global problems, resources
and strategies, the global energy situation, the global food situation,
the U.S. food system, planning, and multinational corporations.
BigPictureSmallWorld is dedicated to providing quality educational,
training, and consulting programs that inform, inspire, and empower.
They
work with schools, colleges, corporations, and organizations around the
world. Their mission is to turn information overload into sensible
knowledge that leads to effective action. More specifically, they seek
to
motivate and excite students, executives, and others about the wonders
and challenges of the global predicament and how we can participate in
shaping the world to match our values. They use simulations, games, web
movies, lectures, assemblies, teacher development, consulting, books,
and curriculum materials toward this purpose.
Medard authored
Energy, Earth, and Everyone: A Global Energy Strategy for Spaceship
Earth,
Ho-Ping—Food for Everyone,
Planning Diseases,
and the innovative Amazon download
Where to find 4 billion new customers: expanding the world’s
marketplace; Smart companies looking for new growth opportunities should
consider broadening their ideas about customers, and he
coauthored
Global Inc.: An Atlas of the Multinational Corporation and
Regenerating America: Meeting the Challenge of Building Local
Economies.
Medard has conducted workshops, consulted, and given lectures
for over 400 corporations, colleges, universities, high schools,
organizations, and governments throughout the world — including the
U.S.
Congress, United Nations, GM, IBM, and Motorola.
He is the former executive director of the World Game Institute, a
