Speaking Topics
Harry can customize speaking topics to inspire, challenge, or inform your audiences. Reach out and ask about the theme or topic you would like him to cover. With 30 years of experience in the agri-food sector, farming 2000 acres, 25 years as a business strategy consultant, and numerous board positions, Harry has knowledge and experiences to connect with diverse audiences.
Regenerative Agriculture
Harry will paint a vision of how regenerative agriculture represents an incredible opportunity for farmers and the ag sector to capture additional revenue and create a new positive narrative around the environmental impact of agriculture. Topics Harry can cover include:
- What is “Regenerative” Agriculture?
- Why Regenerative isn’t Organic 2.0
- Carbon markets
- Soil sequestration
- How to prepare now to take advantage of the opportunity
- BioChar
- Enteric (ruminant) methane
- Biodigesters
- Measurement technology
- Other topics as requested
Strategic Planning in the Current World
Harry brings 25 years of experience in business strategy development. He started his career in the late 1990s when Y2K was the large existential threat that organizations were facing. For over a decade Harry has been working with a global team to develop tools and methods to help organizations and companies embed consideration of environmental and social impacts in their strategic planning processes. He can cover topics such as:
- Backcasting from the future you want as a tool to chart a path forward
- Potential business models for a circular economy
- The Flourishing Business Canvas tool for strategic planning
- The real purpose of strategic planning
- Other topics as requested
Technology and Trends in Agriculture
Get a window into the technologies and trends that are shaping the future of agriculture from a 30 year veteran of primary production. Harry shares his views on whether tech is hype or high potential on topics of interest to your audience. Choose from the list below or make your own suggestions for topics you would like to see covered:
- Robotics
- AI (Artifical Intelligence – not Artificial Insemination)
- Fueling the equipment of the future
- Precision Fermentation
- Biologicals
- Enteric Methane Reduction
- Carbon Sequestration
- Nitrogen Management
- Autonomous Equipment
- Food Nutrient Density
- Indoor “Vertical” Farms
- Data generation and management
- Carbon measurement
- Other topics as requested
