With 30 years' experience, Joe Flower has emerged as premier thought leader on the deep forces changing healthcare. He speaks around the world, helping audiences inside and outside healthcare to understand their healthcare systems and seize new opportunities. Among Flower's many clients are the World Health Organization, the Global Business Network, most U.S. state hospital associations, the U.K. National Health Service, as well as many of the provincial associations and ministries in Canada. He has worked with many companies on change and the future, including the U.S. Department of Defense, Airbus and ArianeSpace, and a number of governments in China. Joe Flower continues to explore the future of healthcare with an extraordinary variety of other players across healthcare - professional associations, pharmaceutical companies, device manufacturers, health plans, physician groups, and numerous hospitals.

Flower is the author of hundreds of articles. For over 20 years he was a contributing editor and regular columnist at the Healthcare Forum Journal. When the Healthcare Forum became the Health Forum of the American Hospital Association, he went on to a regular column in Hospitals and Health Networks Online. For 12 years he has written a regular column for Physician Executive, the Journal of the American College of Physician Executives. He is the author, as well, of a number of seminal articles of the Healthy Cities/Healthy Communities movement.

Flower was a contributing writer for Wired Magazine in its early years and a columnist for the pioneering health websites DNA.com and HealthCentral.com.

His research into the nature of change in organizations and people led to interviews with the top thinkers on organizational change, from Peter Drucker to Peter Senge and Ari de Geus. He went deeper, into the study of chaos and systems theory, Eastern thought and martial arts, eventually earning a black belt in Ueshiba Aikido.

Flower was a founding member of the International Health Futures Network and the principal author of the landmark forecast, “Technological Advances and the Next 50 Years of Cardiology,” Journal of the American College of Cardiology (vol. 35, no. 4, 2000).

His other writings include:

• China’s Futures Global Business Network 2000 (co-author)
• The 21st Century Healthcare Leader Jossey-Bass 1999 (co-author)
• Japan’s Futures, Global Business Network 1998 (Executive Editor)
• Leading Change: A Key Challenge for Board-Management Teams, The Governance Institute, 1998
• The Encyclopedia of the Future MacMillan, 1996 (co-author)
• Best Practices in Collaboration to Improve Health: Creating Community Jazz, (principal co-author), The Healthcare Forum and the California Wellness Foundation, 1996
• Prince of the Magic Kingdom: Michael Eisner and the Re-Making of Disney John Wiley 1991
• Age Wave Random House 1989 (co-author)