Michael Cushman & Thomas Frey

Teaches at DaVinci Institute

Michael Cushman

Michael Cushman is the Director of Vizionarium, the consulting practice at the DaVinci Institute, and has been a Sr. Fellow for more than a decade. Michael’s career focused on strategic formulation and execution within high-tech industries over several decades, from the Fortune 500 to multiple software startups, as a consultant and as an executive, on three continents. Michael has designed consulting methodologies for more than a half-dozen firms. He has won several product-of-the-year awards and holds patents in learning.

Thomas Frey

Since founding DaVinci Institute in 1997, Thomas Frey has built an enormous following around the world based on his ability to develop accurate visions of the future and describe the opportunities ahead. Having started seventeen businesses himself and assisting with the development of hundreds more, he brings a rare blend of reality-based thinking.

As part of the celebrity speaking circuit, Thomas continually pushes the envelope of understanding, creating fascinating images of the world to come. His presentations on have captivated people ranging from high-level government officials to executives in Fortune 500 companies including NASA, IBM, AT&T, Toshiba, Lucent Technologies, Boeing, Capital One, Bell Canada, Visa, Ford Motor Company, Hunter Douglas, YMCA, Times of India, and much more. Each year his talks inspire tens of thousands of people to see the future differently.