Gordon Dryden

Professional keynote Marketing and Business speaker on Communications.

Based in Auckland New Zealand.
Available locally and internationally.

Few people have packed as much experience into their lives as Gordon Dryden.   He has been an award-winning journalist, editor, publisher, prize-winning radio presenter, pioneer in participatory television, talk-radio station founder, advertising specialist, public relations consultant, sales promotions expert, marketing director, exporter, researcher, author and television producer.

He's spent over a quarter of a century studying the future of electronic communications, visiting Silicon Valley several times and researching television potential around the world.  

He has served on the Board of Directors of the New Zealand Meat Producers Board, Meat and Wool Boards' Economic Service, the American Meat Export Development Company, Vid Com (New Zealand's first specialist video company) and the publishing company he co-founded, New Zealand Trends, a pioneer in electronic technology and target marketing. 

He has also led or been the key spokesman for official trade missions to Canada, the United States of America, Hawaii, Tahiti and Fiji.

An innovative pioneer in phone-in radio, at one stage he drew each day the world's largest day time radio audience (proportionate to population),  A leading public speaker in New Zealand, he is also in demand as an International presenter.

He is the author of  "Out of the Red", which is both an autobiography and a forecast of the future.   In 1990 and 1991 he also spent several months touring the world researching and videotaping a six part documentary series "Where to Now?"  which looked at the interlocking problems of the future of education, health, social service and the future of work.

He is also co-author of The Learning Revolution, and producer presenter of 22 international television programmes on learning for the 21st century and is now available for conferences: as a keynote presenter, for workshops or any symposiums.

Gordon Dryden is a witty, highly involving, interactive presenter, interspersing factual research information with videotapes, computer generated slides and audience participation.