Closing Keynote - Business Alert: Gale Force Demographic Wind Gusts Ahead!

Seven powerful demographic trends—analogous to gale force wind gusts in an adverse weather event—constitute potentially powerful disruptors of business and commerce in the years ahead. Four of the gale force demographic disruptors—slowing total and foreign-born population growth, white population loss, and declining fertility—have evolved over the past several decades. Th remaining three—deaths of despair, involuntary retirements, and declining labor force participation—are rooted in recent crises that have created a major demographic depression in the U.S. Failure to address these forces has enormous implications for talent recruitment, development, and retention, prime drivers of U.S. business competitiveness in an ever-changing and increasingly diverse global marketplace.