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Working out of the US for a while

Ross Dawson, September 21, 2007 11:40 PM US PT

I’m going to be spending the next few weeks based out of New York, around some stints in Silicon Valley, LA, and a day in Boston. My primary base is Sydney. When I used to be based in Tokyo and London and spend a lot of time on planes, I thought that if I were going to be travelling lots, I’d like my home base to be somewhere I loved. In other words Sydney, my very favorite city in the world out of the many that I have lived in and visited. However the nature of my work is that I have to work all over the place. A few years I go was speaking and working all over, part of the period when I racked up keynote speaking engagements on six continents. However I knew that wasn’t sustainable, and so I decided to focus on the US and Australia. I set up a subsidiary of Advanced Human Technologies in the US and got a US work visa, and have since largely split my work between Australia and the US, with just a few projects pulling me briefly to Asia and South Africa.

Now that I am married to the wonderful Victoria Buckley and my gorgeous daughter Leda recently turned one, when I travel I endeavor to be back within a few days or so, leading to some pretty intense itineraries. On one occasion last year when things were rather hectic, I flew over 40 hours to hop to Miami for 20 hours to do a keynote and get back home for the weekend. So it’s fantastic when we can all travel together, leading to a more leisurely approach. This means that with the whole family I’ll be able to work with the US as home base for a while. It’s tough to be based in more than one country, but if we can regularly all get over here for a bit, it’s an ideal situation. Victoria is also moving towards getting the right distribution setup for her jewellery in the US, so that fits perfectly.

I’m organizing a Living Networks lunch in Boston on October 3 – drop me a line if you’re interested in joining a few die-hard network enthusiasts. I might organize a casual catch-up in New York too – if so I’ll blog about it. Maybe see you en-route!

Ross Dawson is globally recognized as a leading futurist, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, strategy advisor, and bestselling author. He is Founding Chairman of four companies: professional services and venture firm Advanced Human Technologies, future and strategy consulting group Future Exploration Network, leading events firm The Insight Exchange, and influence ratings start-up Repyoot.

Ross is author most recently of Implementing Enterprise 2.0, the prescient Living Networks, which anticipated the social network revolution, and the Amazon.com bestseller Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships (click on the links for free chapter downloads). He is based in Sydney and San Francisco with his wife jewellery designer Victoria Buckley and two beautiful young daughters.