David Houle (born 3 July 1948) is a futurist, keynote speaker, and author of The Shift Age.

[1] His father Cyril O. Houle was a professor at the University of Chicago in the field of adult education, who wrote 12 books and was awarded 14 honorary degrees.

He then joined the executive team that created and launched MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1 and CNN Headline News, serving in senior advertising sales capacities.

[9][10] Later in the 1990s Houle was managing director of University Access, an e-learning company based in Los Angeles.

[18] Houle was interviewed and featured on Forum, issue no.1, 2012, Deutsche Bank's in-house magazine regarding Occupy Wall Street.

Houle is also a member of The Good Future Project, a global, non-profit network of future-focused individuals and creators.

[21] Houle started his writing career in 2006 by launching his futurist blog "evolutionshift.com" with the tag line A Future Look at Today.

[23] Houle's second book, co-authored with Jeff Cobb, titled Shift Ed: A Call to Action for Transforming K-12, was published in March 2011.