From Chaos to Confidence!
Here are three reasons why Andy is a trusted expert for the US government, corporate executives and speaker bureaus:
1. He makes it all about the audience by researching, interviewing and discovering the unique aspects of your conference, firm and industry.
2. He delivers a customized keynote experience, giving context to why the world is changing and how it’ll impact your space.
3. He brings energy to lift any audience at any time of day, no standing behind a podium, no notes, and no downtime in his keynotes!
Andy helps clients break down the chaos and complexity of the world to comprehend its impact on their business. He does this by delivering keynotes and original research that move participants from the current chaos to confidence in the future. Andy has over 35 years of experience in the financial markets and communicating how they work to top firms in financial services, energy, agriculture, technology and the US government.
“My purpose is to simplify complexity and chaos to inspire confidence in the future.”
Bio below:
Andrew Busch was the first Chief Market Intelligence Officer (CMIO) for the U.S. government at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). As CMIO, he was charged with improving and enhancing the government’s understanding of the markets and global economy. Andy provided economic and market briefings to White House, US House and US Senate staffers on a wide range of issues including: extreme market volatility, China’s influence on the global commodity markets and the impact of Fintech & virtual currencies on market dynamics.
Mr. Busch created and directed a new research group, Market Intelligence Branch (MIB), for the agency. As CMIO, his job was to provide objective research on the financial markets and economy to the CFTC, SEC, US Treasury and Federal Reserve. Economy, Energy, agriculture, interest rates and technology (Bitcoin, blockchain, AI) were some of the areas of research covered by the team.
In his role as CMIO, he was CFTC Chairman’s liaison to the private sector and met with a wide range of market participants including proprietary trading groups, futures and swaps exchanges and Fintech startups/investors.
Seeing a need, Andrew created a communication seminar on power public persuasion for the senior leadership at the CFTC, a US government agency. It was presented to every major divsion in the agency, as well as the SEC and the US Treasury. The communication seminar enhanced the skills sets of senior management and staff to connect and persuade both internally and externally. Lawyers, economists, analysts and staff all attended.
Prior to joining the CFTC, Mr. Busch was CEO and founder of a boutique financial markets and policy research firm, Bering Productions, Inc (BPI). Before BPI, he was the Global Currency and Public Policy Strategist for Bank of Montreal (BMO) in Chicago.
Topics
Economic Stars: big themes pulling business, economics and politics
Format: 30-45 minute keynote with Q&A
This program is perfect for:
- Senior management struggling with economic and political uncertainty
- Business leaders looking for future growth and opportunity
- Managers seeking to connect their work to the economy, D.C. and technology
The audience will leave with:
- Simple framework for US economy, world economy (Brexit!) and Federal Reserve Policy
- Simple framework for understanding 2020 elections, trade and social policies
- Simple framework on tech like bockchain, AI and cyber
Hey, the business and economic worlds are complex: wouldn’t it be great if you had a simple structure to frame and understand both? Keeping things in perspective requires an ability to know what’s important and when for the US economy, US politics and technology. Using the Opportunity Money Model, Andy gives you what you need: a way to look at these and understand their influence and pull. Using the Sun (Fed), the Earth (US domestic policy) and the Moon (tech), Andy gives your audience the universe impacting business, economics and politics in a way everyone can undersand.
Good News: hope for 2019!
Format: 45-60-minute keynote with Q&A
This program is perfect for:
• Senior management struggling with economic uncertainty
• Business leaders looking for future growth and economic opportunities
• Managers trying to connect their work to bigger picture of the global economy, economy and technology.
The audience will leave with:
• Outlook for US economy, world economy (Brexit!) and Federal Reserve Policy
• Outlook for US domestic policy like trade and tax
• Outlook for disruptive technology like blockchain, AI and crypto currencies
In this time of economic, political and market turbulence, there is good news underneath the chaos. As the former CMIO for the US government, Andy sees potential for good economic outcomes and solutions coming from the turmoil. Using the Opportunity Money Model, Andy frames the chaos by the big themes driving the markets.
By using a combination of humor, anecdotes and stories from his time in the US government, he helps audiences understand the political economy and what changes will mean for businesses, jobs and lifestyles. As a journalist, an author and researcher, Andy does a deep dive on research to bring you an objective view into this world.
Lessons from the Trump Administration
Format: 45 minute keynote with 15 minutes Q&A
This program is perfect for:
- Leaders trying to overcome strucutral obstacles
- Managers trying to understand and overcome hierarchy barriers to new ideas and goals.
- Teams needing to gain access to the best and brightest inside and outside their organization for information and knowledge key to success
The audience will leave with:
- Strategies to deal with roadblocks
- Techniques to raise ideas past the ceilings in their company
- Skills to find and gain knowledge beyond Google search
I will provide a 45-minute keynote on 3 key lessons learned from working in the Trump Administration and US government. In 2017, I took a job with the Trump administration and worked at the highest level of finance within the US government directing a team of 30 researchers and advising the Chairman. Challenges of the political environment, motivating workers who can’t be compensated via bonus and understanding the incentives/lack of incentives to accomplishing big goals are all covered.
Lesson #1: there are rules, damn rules and there’s the workaround.
Every business, church or government has rules and regulations they want you to follow. How can you stay on-side and still accomplish what you want? Not accepting no, using creativity and asking questions to pinpoint the issue are key tools to creating the workaround.
Lesson #2: There’s a hierarchy to everything.
Whether it’s the military or a financial group, there’s an order and hierarchy in place. For good or bad, you have to recognize the elephant in the room and understand the dynamics behind why the structure exists. How to utilize the strengths of hierarchy while creating conditions to reduce its power are key to accomplishing goals.
Lesson #3: Access to the best and brightest.
There are treasure troves of knowledge in every company, every non-profit and every government agency. Institutional knowledge and entity history are critical for understanding the rhythms and pulse of how work gets done. How to find these pockets of intelligence and how to create new lines of communication are crucial for success.
Market volatility: impact on farm business, economy and policy
Format: 45-60 minute keynote with Q&A
This program is perfect for:
- Senior Ag management struggling with economic uncertainty
- Business Ag leaders looking for future growth and economic opportunities
- Ag Managers trying to connect their work to bigger picture of the global economy, economy and technology
- Audiences trying to understand market chaos, political uncertainty and the impact on the agriculture sector
The audience will leave with:
- Leaders will understand how the Federal Reserve and US Treasury combining to create volatility with the cost of money
- Management will learn how US trade, tariffs and sanctions impact their business
- Audiences will see how technology can eclipse all other factors at key moments
Drawing from his experience as the US government’s first Chief Market Intelligence Officer (CMIO), Andrew Busch deciphers the current U.S., global and political economic landscape, explaining the key challenges facing the agriculture world today. For audiences, he answers the critical questions: why are the Ag markets volatile, how will this impact farmers and when will it end? As CMIO, he created objective research on the financial markets to the CFTC, SEC, US Treasury and Federal Reserve. As an authority on the markets, he provides policy insights for what works, what doesn’t and what to expect in the future.
Testimonials
Thank you for coming to our meeting at Pinehurst. The presentation was very well received. A lot to digest but that is the way the world is these days! The connection with Washington and the markets was both insightful and entertaining. Great feedback from our group.
– President, First Citizens Investor Services
Simply put, we were delighted to have Andrew Busch provide his keen insights into the economy, politics and market turbulence. Andy was gracious with his time with our conference attendees and was great to work with. He provided almost unlimited access to all the attendees interested in learning more and gave the conference a knowledge base to understand the markets. He was fun, entertaining and passionate on topics that can be challenging for audiences. We’d have him back anytime.
– Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, Profit & Loss
We’ve worked with Andy Busch on several conferences and he’s fantastic. He combines his unique experiences of working in US government with thirty years of analyzing the markets to give a perspective few can match. His stories, his insights, his passion drives audience participation both during and after the keynote.
– Production Manager, Worldwide Business Research
Mr. Busch was an outstanding speaker as our audience was thoroughly engaged and captivated by his fast paced, insightful and humorous presentation.
As a result of his talk, our attendees had three major takeaways. First, they were given a framework to understand the US economy. Second, they were given a detailed analysis of the 2016 US presidential election. Third, they received an outlook for the future of the industry and what opportunities lay ahead.
Our attendees asked numerous questions, and afterwards, he stayed for lunch and was kept busy with participants that wanted to know more. I believe any group would be well served with Andrew as your speaker.
– CEO, ACES
On August 31st, 2016, we had Andrew Busch present at the Agstar Financial Services Grain Vision Conference. It’s my pleasure to provide this letter of recommendation for him. In a challenging political environment, Mr. Busch provided an objective, nonpartisan analysis of 2016 Presidential race and it’s implications for the US economy.
Due to his talk, our clients had three key outcomes. First, they were given a framework to understand the US economy and how it impacted their product. Second, they were given a detailed analysis of the 2016 US presidential election and what policies will help and hurt their sector. Third, they received an outlook for future growth of agriculture and what agtech opportunities lay ahead. As a result of his talk, our clients are better prepared for dealing with the challenges and utilizing potential solutions in the industry.
– VP Treasury and Capital Management, AgStar Financial Services
Mr. Busch is an outstanding speaker and our audience was thoroughly engaged in his fascinating, upbeat and insightful presentation. Andrew’s talk, “The Political Elections Outlook for 2016,” received the highest audience satisfaction scores at the conference: 9.8 (out of 10)!
– Senior Director, Content, Vizient, Inc.
Misc.
- VIDEO 2m intro on how I help your attendees!
- VIDEO Keynote on economics, politics and the markets
- VIDEO Lessons from the Trump Administration
- VIDEO Keynote: Good News For 2019!
- VIDEO Andrew Busch at ABA National Conference highlights
- VIDEO Andrew Busch on Yahoo Finance TV
- VIDEO Andy Busch: what I can do for your attendees!
- VIDEO Andrew Busch CNBC interview on bitcoin
- VIDEO Andrew Busch on Federal Reserve policy and nominee
- PHOTO Andrew Busch Pic only
- PHOTO Andy in TV studio b4 his CNBC hit
- PHOTO CFTC Talks with Andy Busch podcast
- PHOTO Andy at recent fixed income conference
- JACKET World Event Trading
- DOC Opportunity Money Model
- DOC Using Gravity to Frame Uncertainty in the Global Economy, the Markets and Geopol
- AUDIO Andy w/Dallas Fed Pres Kaplan