Thomas J. Lombardo

Thomas Lombardo, Ph.D. is the Director of the Center for Future Consciousness and The Wisdom Page, the Managing Editor of the online journal Wisdom and the Future, and Professor Emeritus and retired Faculty Chair of Psychology, Philosophy, and the Future at Rio Salado College, Tempe, Arizona. He is an Executive Board member and Fellow of the World Futures Studies Federation, a special honor given to members who have made a globally recognized original contribution to futures studies. He has published eight books and over fifty articles, and given an equal number of national and international presentations covering such topics as the future of education; utopian and dystopian futurist thought; wisdom and character virtues; the evolution of science fiction; the future evolution of consciousness; contemporary theories of the future; and the heightening of future consciousness.

Dr. Lombardo is an award-winning educator with over forty years of experience as a university and college professor. He has served as an academic dean; department chairperson; clinical therapist and chief psychologist; and director of professional staff development. He is an editorial board member of the Journal of Futures Studies and served on the editorial board of the World Future Review. He is also a member of the Association of Professional Futurists and numerous other futurist organizations. He was awarded futurist “Educator of the Quarter” by FUTUREtakes. His online journal Wisdom and the Future has been given “The All-Star Award.” His AcademiaEdu online site has consistently ranked in the top one percent of Web page visits.

Dr. Lombardo’s books have been praised by numerous world-recognized futurists, and have received laudatory reviews in many journals and professional magazines: His companion volumes The Evolution of Future Consciousness and Contemporary Futurist Thought, published in 2006, have been described as “awesome,” “heroic,” “brilliant,” “encyclopedic,” “a masterpiece,” and “a maturing of future studies.” His next books, Wisdom, Consciousness, and the Future and Mind Flight: A Journey into the Future, both released in 2011, have been described as “profound, deeply important, and truly remarkable.” His new book, Future Consciousness: The Path to Purposeful Evolution, has been described as a “masterpiece” and “truly breathtaking.” He is presently working on a new book series, Science Fiction: The Evolutionary Mythology of the Future, which has been hailed as “a brilliant piece of work” and “a ‘must-read’ in the study both of science fiction and the future.” Dr. Lombardo is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and University of Minnesota and a graduate fellow of Cornell University.