The future of consumption is going to look a lot different than what we’ve become accustomed to in recent decades, and Rachel Botsman is the perfect guide to this emerging new set of habits and consumer preferences. An expert in the concept of “collaborative consumption,” Rachel passionately argues that the excessive consumption patterns of the past are giving away to a pattern based around mutual sharing of resources, products and services.
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The author of What’s Mine is Yours: How Collaborative Consumption is Changing the Way We Live, Rachel has quickly become a leading international expert on social innovation and futurism as it applies to the massive marketplace of new consumers. Rachel has spoken at TEDx and events hosted by prominent organizations such as Google and The Clinton Global Initiative.
Presently living in Sydney, Australia, Rachel is easily available for speaking engagements throughout all of Asia. In addition to her core concept of collaborative consumption receiving mention by Time Magazine as one of the “10 Ideas That Will Change the World,” Rachel was recently named by Monocle as one of the top 20 speakers in the world to commission for your conference.
While she is best known for her work on collaborative consumption, Rachel is a prominent future trand speaker available to speak on a wide variety of subjects related to business and social innovation, including; how participation is changing the face of corporate branding; how communities form, grow and dissolve in the digital age; the importance of trust and transparency in the modern marketplace; and what society and business will really look like in the 21st century.
To book Rachel for a speaking engagement, contact her representation at [email protected].