J Eric Wilson

Eric Wilson calls Kentucky his home. He is the Director of Thought Leadership at The Institute of Business Forecasting (IBF). Eric is an award-winning professional in his field of predictive analytics and business forecasting and always had writing, political science and history enthusiast, and storyteller as a hobby. He is a Thought Leader, Influencer, Accomplished Author, Public Speaker, and Dad.

- Wilson has a passion for history and politically science. Telling the human side of social movements he authored his first book, “We Surround Them; Our Journey from Apathy to Action” (Georgetown Grassroots Publications 2011).

- In 2016 Eric wrote “Cultural Cycles” (Georgetown Grassroots Publications, 2017) which was a five-year project and was the coming together of his professional life and personal passions where he uses history and analytics and most of all the readers own intuition and logic to explain the seemly rhythmic nature of history and current events.

- Eric is considered a visionary in his field of predictive analytics both as a practitioner and for his research. One of the breakthrough books in this field is “Predictive Analytics for Business Forecasting” (Graceway Publishing Company 2020) recently released and brings the advancements and future of business forecasting and planning to a new era of planners and data-junkies.

Now in the immortal words of Monty Python “And now for something completely different”

Most recently Eric collaborated with his sister on bringing to life a lovable character and humorous fictional tall tales from a time growing up in a coal camp. Although he never lived in West Virginia, he does love Pepperoni rolls and knows all the lyrics of John Denver’s "Country Roads". Taking his passion for writing, quick witted humor, ability to tell tales, and his sister craving and ability to tell stories from her life – Eric co-authored their newest book “Tall Tales from Simpler Times, Up on the Hill” (originally published, 2021 and revised edition 2023).