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David Armistead (born 01 July 1951) is a consultant to businesses and communities seeking to thrive in the emerging new global economy, and a consultant and coach to community building leaders and entrepreneurs committed to creating paths of livelihood that produce wellbeing.
Armistead is best known for his work in the following areas:
- designing to thrive in the new economy: re-imagining wealth, capital, coordination and organization in new economy terms
- developing leaders for new economy operations: leading toward thriving and maximizing full spectrum capital returns
- thriving organization development: utilizing continuous coordination and developing self-organizing work teams and workflows
- thriving community development: using local self-reliance based growth strategies to fuel area wealth creation, cultivating local business ecosystems that provision the community to produce self-reliance
And he is also known for coining new economy related terms and concepts including community building entrepreneur and full spectrum capital, and he is a writer and presenter who frequently addresses business and community leaders on new economy issues.
He is a frequent presenter and panel member on the new economy, with recent presentations at: The Austin Forum on Science, Technology and Society (2014), NextEcon (Austin 2014), National Council on Science and the Environment – annual conference (Washington, DC 2010, 2011), TEDxAustin (2010), International Society of Logistics (Dallas 2010), Symposium on Community Social and Economic Change in the New Economy (Ball State University, Muncie IN 2011), and SXSW Interactive (Austin 2008, 2009, 2010).
Armistead is currently the Managing Principal of Source2 Consulting, a Principal at Thriving Communities Solutions, and serves on the board of directors at the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems. His work on new economy and thriving organizations and communities began in 2000 and continues. He previously worked as a business consultant at Coopers & Lybrand and then Laventhol & Horwath, performed contract international financial investigations for various government agencies and major banks, was a founder and startup VP of Business Development for Alchemy Systems, and served as President and Executive Director of Hands of the Community (non-profit).