Gary Marx, CAE, APR, is president of the Center for Public Outreach (CPO), in Vienna, Va., an organization he founded in 1998. CPO provides counsel on future-oriented leadership, communication, education, community, and democracy. As an international speaker, workshop leader, and consultant, Marx has worked with education, community, business, association, and government leaders at all levels on four continents and in all 50 of the United States. He has been called an "intellectual entrepreneur, who is constantly pursuing ideas" and a "deep generalist." As a futurist, Marx has directed studies such as Preparing Students for the 21st Century (1996), Preparing Schools and School Systems for the 21st Century. (1999), Ten Trends . . . Educating Children for a Profoundly Different Future (2000), Future-Focused Leadership: Preparing Schools, Students, and Communities for Tomorrow's Realities (2006), and the current Sixteen Trends . . . Their Profound
