Emmy® Award winner and media research industry leader, Bill Harvey has been lauded as a visionary and technological pio¬neer of the changing mediascape over the last 35 years. With an imaginative, unorthodox mind for research, innovation and invention, Bill started his career in the media business. He predicted today's media reality with his MediaWorld 1990 report to the industry and in his widely-read Media Science Newsletter, and he invented media research tools and measurement systems, including some now written into FCC regulations. Bill became a leader in the field as media morphed into being more interactive, putting the viewer in charge. In 2022, Bill received an Emmy® Award for the pioneering development of technology. Considered the dean of living media scientists, Bill in 2008 received the Advertising Research Foundation's Great Mind Award, and in 2014 he became the first recipient of the ARF's Erwin Ephron Demystification Award. He holds four issued US patents and has consulted for over a hundred Fortune 500 companies. Bill first experienced the Zone-that space where innovative and successful ideas and actions flow effortlessly-as a young child.
The son of legendary orchestra leader/emcee Ned Harvey and former Ziegfeld Follies showgirl Sandra Harvey, Bill started performing on stage at age four, dancing with showgirls and exchanging lines with comedic greats like Jack E. Leonard. He liked this feeling of being "on" and wanted to learn how to be "on" more often-and so began his lifelong quest to understand how to bring on higher states of consciousness and to help others do the same. Earning his degree in philosophy, Bill founded the Human Effectiveness Institute, with the goal of sharing the consciousness techniques he had learned and developed. Bill's ideas didn't all come from the inside, as he was inspired by something that Milton Berle once told him: "Always steal from the best, kid." His ideas were further inspired by Alan Watts, Buddhism, and Zen, and by his parents and his adopted older brother, the multitalented Bill Heyer, second trumpet in Ned's band. Bill lives with his wife Lalita in New York's beautiful Hudson Valley.