Bio
Bio
PROJECT7 UPDATE: Eric will be attempting to climb Denali in June of 2022
Eric Pilon-Bignell is a best selling author, adventurer, speaker, and pragmatic futurist. Eric grew up just south of Toronto, Canada. His recent book, Surfing Rogue Waves is now available. The book presents a gripping and insightful framework on how to pick up a board and surf the rogue waves of the 21st century. Eric’s love of being active and outdoors led him to use the parallels between life and surfing as a metaphor for how we can deal with the changes happening around us.
Eric is a pragmatic futurist focused on addressing disruption by increasing the creative capacity of individuals, teams, and organizations to ignite change, innovation, and foster continuous growth. Eric has an undergraduate degree in engineering, an MBA in Information Systems, and a Ph.D. in Global Leadership. His doctoral work primarily explored complexity sciences centered on executive cognition and their use of intuitive improvisation, decision-making, artificial intelligence, and data-based decision models.
Eric founded PROJECT7, an initiative to raise awareness and money for research on brain-related illnesses. When he is not working with clients, researching, or writing, he can be found in the mountains or on the water. Eric is currently working and living with his wife and dog in Chicago, Illinois.
No more watching from the shore. No more excuses. The decisions and actions we take today, no matter the size, will ultimately determine the fate of humanity. With the book, Eric hopes to engage more people in the greatest conversations of our time. For it is riding this surf where we find our way to a flourishing future that is more ethical, all-encompassing, and sustainable. Surf’s up!
“The word that comes to mind with Eric is that he is natural, he is imperfectly perfect, in a sense that he has had his struggles but he lives his life with adventure, and he is an intellect at the same time. Yet, he doesn’t try to hide that he has issues just like everybody else. Usually when you see people write books like this they have to give us the aura that they are perfect and they got it all figured out. Eric, who is an extremely smart guy, doesn’t put off that vibe. But he has written a great book that I have now read and I must tell you that he is asking really insightful questions, the books analyzation, and the facts and data that he puts into it is fascinating and I really enjoyed reading it. I enjoyed talking to him as well”