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Innovation

Shawn Achor, Ph.D , Massachusetts USA

Shawn Achor is the winner of over a dozen distinguished teaching awards at Harvard University, where he delivered lectures on positive psychology in the most popular class at Harvard. His research and lectures on happiness and human potential have received attention in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, as well as on NPR and CNN Radio. When not at Harvard, Shawn travels around the world giving talks on positive psychology to Fortune 500 companies, schools, and non-profit organizations. Shawn graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and earned a Masters degree from Harvard Divinity School in Christian and Buddhist ethics.
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Joel Barker , Minnesota USA

Joel Barker is an independent scholar and futurist. Because he was the first person to popularize the concept of paradigm shifts, he is known around the world as the "Paradigm Man." He began his work in 1975 and pioneered the concept of paradigm shifts to explain profound change and the importance of vision to drive change within organizations. His book, Future Edge, published in 1992, was listed as one of the most influential business books of that year by the prestigious Library Journal. His new book, Five Regions of the Future, with co-author, Dr. Scott Erickson, was released in June 2005.
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Rick Barrera , California USA

In 1981, Rick Barrera founded his speaking, consulting, and training firm to identify and teach the distinctions' industry leaders how to produce exceptional results. His clients loved his message and encouraged Rick to put his concepts into writing. His first three business books include:"Non-Manipulative Selling", "Collaborative Selling", and "The Dollars and Sense of Exceptional Service Delivery." Rick's most recent book "Fast Forward, How Today's Best Companies are Meeting the Need for Speed" was published in 2001.
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Arden Bercovitz, Ph.D., CSP , California USA

Arden Bercovitz, in the guise of Albert Einstein, is that something different and effective you've been looking for when you need a speaker that can motivate and maximize your peoples‚ creative innovation and catalyze change throughout your organization.
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Winston Brill, Ph.D , Wisconsin USA

Dr. Winston Brill is known internationally for his outstanding innovations. Since 1989, he has dedicated himself to understanding how people think of "great" ideas, the kind that drive innovation. His unique and practical views come from his management experiences, his interest in the arts, and his decade-long study of the human side behind the origins of hundreds of "great" ideas. Through a vibrant talk, with fascinating examples, Winston gives audiences a visceral feel of what each person needs to do to achieve innovative success.
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Wayne Burkan, MBA , Michigan USA

Wayne Burkan is a leading management consultant and thinker on organizational change, innovation, and leadership. Together, he and his colleague, Joel Arthur Barker, have done pioneering work on paradigms to help open people to change, new ideas, and more flexible workstyles. Burkan was recently invited to participate in Vice President Al Gore's "Reinventing Government" initiative. A dynamic, provocative, and humorous speaker, he has presented programs on four continents and counts among his clients such companies as Ford, IBM, Motorola, 3M, Tropicana, and Upjohn, to name a few.
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Jim Carroll, CA , Ontario Canada

Jim Carroll is one of the world’s leading futurists, trends & innovation experts. And it’s his inspirational, transformative thinking that will help you discover opportunity in an era of high-velocity change. And in his most recent keynotes and leadership sessions, he has been helping his clients meet the challenges of the economic contraction by focusing on innovation, and by aligning their strategy to fast-paced future trends.
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K. C. Chan-Herur, MBA , California USA

Chinese by birth... American by passport... global by experience. Whether your team is doing business with multinational customers in the US or around the world, author and top-rated speaker, K. C. Chan-Herur, can help make your meeting a winner. She brings global perspective, proven management experience and entertaining anecdotes to inspire her audience. Keynote programs include: Global Success, Communicating With Customers Around The World, Succeeding in International Marketing and Sales, Winning In The USA-Working With Americans, Doing Business in Asia/Europe/Latin America/North America. This multilingual global citizen has had over 15 years of speaking, marketing, management, consulting and communication experience with Fortune 500 companies (Procter & Gamble, Nestle, Sun Microsystems, Apple Computer and Am Ex.) She has worked, lived and studied in Asia, Europe, North and South America. She is the author of "Communicating With Customers Around The World."
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Clayton Christensen, MBA, DBA , Massachusetts USA

Clayton M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, with a joint appointment in the Technology & Operations Management and General Management faculty groups. His research and teaching interests center on the management issues related to the development and commercialization of technological and business model innovation. Specific areas of focus include developing organizational capabilities and finding new markets for new technologies.
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Sue Cook , California USA

Sue is president of Think Customer, a ground-breaking consulting practice pioneering innovative strategies to create customer-obsessed organizations. She is also is co-author with Roger Dow, President and CEO of the Travel Industry of America, of Turned On: Eight Vital Insights to Energize Your People, Customers and Profits, a pragmatic guide to build customers for life, hire and keep great people and enhance shareholder value.
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Mitchell Ditkoff , New York USA

Mitch Ditkoff is the co-founder and President of Idea Champions, a highly regarded management consulting and training firm specializing in breakthrough thinking, team development, leadership, and helping organizations establish sustainable cultures of innovation. In addition to his consulting work, Mr. Ditkoff is also an accomplished public speaker, writer, and innovator. He is the author of Awake at the Wheel: Getting Your Great Ideas Rolling (in an uphill world), Free the Genie, and The Heart of Innovation – one of the most popular innovation blogs.   He also the co-creator of Ingenuity Bank (third generation idea management software), Face the Music (the world’s first business blues band), BrainTrust (an online think tank), and The Breakthrough Café (an after hours creative thinking networking event).
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Allen Fahden , California USA

Former stand-up comic Allen Fahden is an author, speaker, and creator of the 400,000 copy best-selling “HOTS Profile.” Allen also wrote several chapters for the best-selling "The One Minute Millionaire" by "Chicken Soup for the Soul" co-author, Mark Victor Hansen. Allen has spent more than two decades working with Fortune 500 businesses to increase sales, efficiency, and morale.
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John Di Frances, PMC , Wisconsin USA

With his broad business experience, John has worked with numerous major international corporations, middle market and small companies, government agencies, non-profits, foundations, and academic institutions. John has the "vision, values, and experience" to speak on many strategic business and organizational issues. His perspective in addressing each topic centers around the paradigms he has developed for four critical strategic aspects of all organizations -- Leadership, Innovation, Synergy, and Negotiation. In this manner, John is able to integrate each topic into a cohesive framework by which organizations can develop from being Successful and Good to Significant and Great!
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Michael Gelb , New Mexico USA

Michael J. Gelb is internationally recognized as a pioneer in the fields of creative thinking, accelerated learning and innovative leadership. Companies like BP, Compaq and Microsoft rave about Michael's ability to relate executives and managers and speak directly to their concerns and daily needs in order to inspire their best work while dealing with ambiguity, change and uncertain conditions. Through seminars, workshops, keynotes or retreats, Michael can offer his services as a motivational speaker, dynamic creative spirit and his expertise in the study of the brain and genius-level thinking.
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Vijay Govindarajan, Ph.D , New Hampshire USA

Vijay Govindarajan, known as VG, is the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business at the Tuck School and founding director of Tuck's Center for Global Leadership. He is also the faculty co-director for Global Leadership 2020, Tuck's executive education program that focuses on global management and is taught on three continents. For 25 years, Govindarajan has been advancing the field of strategy execution and advising senior executives in all industries on how to modify their organizations to achieve their strategic ambitions. Reading the zeitgeist of the past three decades, Govindarajan has helped companies adapt to the global business environment and change the way they look at strategy.
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Alan S. Gregerman , Maryland USA

Dr. Alan S. Gregerman is founder and President of a consulting firm that helps leading companies develop winning strategies and create successful new products, services, ventures, and new ways of doing business. His customers are a wide range of growing firms, entrepreneurial start-ups and Fortune 500 corporations including Discovery Communications, NCS/Pearson, Tellabs, Nortel Networks, GlaxoSmithKline, Marriott, Arthur Andersen, Verizon, Lockheed Martin, DynCorp, and CITIBANK.
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Pen Hadow , Devon England

Ten years ago, Pen pioneered a specialist guide service in the Arctic and Antarctic, enabling 'allegedly ordinary' people from all walks of life - men and women, young and old, novices and disabled, housewives, corporate executives and special forces - to visit these desolate, yet captivating, wilderness environments. He personally selected and prepared the expedition teams, most of whom he led himself 'on the ice'.
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Doug Hall , Ohio USA

America's #1 Idea Guru (According to Inc. Magazine, A&E Top 10 and CIO Magazine.) Long before finding acclaim as the former "truth teller" judge on ABC's American Inventor," Doug began his inventing career at age 12, inventing and selling a line of magic and juggling kits. After earning a chemical engineering degree from the University of Maine he joined Procter & Gamble where he rose to the rank of Master Marketing Inventor - inventing and shipping a record 9 innovations in 12 months. Doug's the founder and CEO of the Eureka! Ranch located in Cincinnati with offices in London UK and Monterrey, Mexico. The Ranch is an "invention & research think tank" that specializes in igniting bold thinking on new products and services for corporate clients such as American Express, Ford, Nike and Walt Disney. It seems to work - the Ranch has a world-class 88% client repeat rate and survey's indicate the average American home uses 18 products or services that Doug and his team have invented or reinvented.
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Oren Harari, Ph.D , California USA

One of the country’s foremost management consultants, Oren Harari challenges audiences around the world with insight, humor and knowledge. Dynamic and provocative, Oren Harari provides audiences with original perspectives on such management strategies as competitive advantage, organizational change and transformational leadership. Formerly a consultant with the Tom Peters group, Harari is currently a professor in the graduate school of business at the University of San Francisco, where he teaches strategic and global management.
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Charlie Hawkins, MBA , New Mexico USA

Charlie Hawkins helps people communicate their ideas to others through effective presentations and meeting facilitation skills. For nine years, he has conducted communication effectiveness seminars for MBA candidates at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, and works with executives and professionals nationwide, both in small groups and one-on-one.
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Chip Heath , California USA

Chip Heath is a Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He is the co-author of the book Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, which has been a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and BusinessWeek bestseller. Chip is also a columnist for Fast Company magazine, and he has spoken and consulted on the topic of "making ideas stick" with organizations such as Nike, the Nature Conservancy, Microsoft, Ideo, and the American Heart Association.
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Sally Hogshead , Massachusetts USA

Sally speaks extensively around the country for corporations and business groups. With a mix of inspiring ideas, groundbreaking research, and startling new ideas for success, Sally will motivate your group to reach its absolute maximum potential. As writer and creative director, Sally helps companies develop branded content, new media applications, and multi-platform advertising. Projects include a branded entertainment reality TV show, a corporate-sponsored book, and lifestyle branding for celebrity Boyd Coddington of American HotRod.
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Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ph. D , Massachusetts USA

Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, where she specializes in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights have guided leaders of large and small organizations worldwide for over 25 years, through teaching, writing, and direct consultation to major corporations and governments. The former Editor of Harvard Business Review (1989-1992), Professor Kanter has been named to lists of the "50 most powerful women in the world" (Times of London), and the "50 most influential business thinkers in the world" (Accenture and Thinkers 50 research). In 2001, she received the Academy of Management's Distinguished Career Award for her scholarly contributions to management knowledge, and in 2002 was named "Intelligent Community Visionary of the Year" by the World Teleport Association. Her current work continues her focus on the transformation of major institutions such as global corporations, health care delivery s
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John Kao, Ph.D , California USA

John Kao is known as an authority on the intersecting subjects of corporate innovation and transformation, digital media’s impact on the enterprise, and the future of business
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Robert Kriegel, PhD , California USA

Author of the national bestseller: If it ain’t broke...BREAK IT!, Dr. Kriegel has been called by U.S. News & World Report one of this country’s leading authorities in the field of change and human performance. His latest book is How to Succeed in Business Without Working so Damn Hard. His last book, Sacred Cows Make The Best Burgers, made Business Week’s bestseller list in it’s first month! A commentator on National Public Radio’s Marketplace program, Kriegel recently made two specials for PBS.
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John Krubski , Connecticut USA

Krubski is an exceptional, high-energy public speaker whose insights, perspectives and disciplines have been found useful by a range of companies including Nabisco, AT&T, Pillsbury, Brown-Forman, Anheuser-Busch, Nissan Motors, FOX Broadcasting, MCI, Charles Schwab, Chevrolet, Citibank, M&M Mars, General Cinemas, The National Home Builders Association, TGI Friday's, PepsiCo, General Foods, L'Oreal, Pfizer, Knight-Ridder Newspapers, Sara Lee, Sears, Uncle Ben's and many, many others.
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Thomas Kuczmarski , Illinois USA

A nationally recognized expert in new products and services innovation, Tom Kuczmarski was one of the earliest champions of long-term growth strategies based on innovation rather than cost-side approaches. Tom is author of three books: Managing New Products: The Power of Innovation, Values-Based Leadership and, most recently, Innovation.
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Nirmalya Kumar, Ph.D , England England

Nirmalya Kumar is Professor of Marketing, Director of Centre for Marketing, and Co-Director of Aditya Birla India Centre at London Business School. Born in India, now a US citizen, Professor Kumar received his B.Com. from Calcutta University (graduating first in a class of 5,251 students), his MBA from the University of Illinois at Chicago (scoring a perfect 5.0 grade point average), and his PhD in marketing from Kellogg Graduate School of Management (winning the Marketing Science Institute's Alden G. Clayton Award for his PhD dissertation).
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Ray Kurzweil , Massachussetts USA

Ray Kurzweil was the principal developer of the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. Ray has successfully founded and developed nine businesses in OCR, music synthesis, speech recognition, reading technology, virtual reality, financial investment, cybernetic art, and other areas of artificial intelligence . All of these technologies continue today as market leaders. Ray's Web site, KurzweilAI.net, is a leading resource on artificial intelligence.
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George Land , Arizona USA

The author of Breakpoint & Beyond, Dr. George Land discovered Transformation Theory, a universal process of change and growth. In addition to speaking, Dr. Land consults with major Fortune 500 companies on using his exceptional Conexus process for group creative and strategic thinking.
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Dave Lefkowith , California USA

Dave "Lefty" Lefkowith is a dynamic hands-on change agent, successful as an executive, a corporate consultant, an entrepreneur and a speaker/trainer. Dave provides leaders and organizations with the practical insights they need to be successful in the 21st Century.
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Glenn Llopis , California USA

Companies, large and small, must innovate in today's "Digital Age" through this convergence of business and technology to maintain and sustain a competitive advantage in today's global market. Glenn provides powerful examples of his proven “digital business methodology” that took more than 18 years to design, implement and refine. From customer relationship management to integrated customer experience, from social networking communities that can create powerful customer alignment strategies to the birth of the IT department as a profit center, digital business platforms are creating a singular way of thinking that is too powerful to be ignored!
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Marco Marsan , Ohio USA

Founder of the nationally renowned think tank, Marco Polo Explorers, Author, Marketer and Corporate Anarchist Marco Marsan is regarded as one of America's most inventive minds. His innovative thinking techniques have helped create successful new products for Gatorade, Neutrogena, Nike, AT&T, Procter & Gamble, Quaker Oats, SC Johnson, Gerber, General Mills, Vanity Fair Apparel, Kimberly-Clark and over 200 of the Fortune 500 companies. In the past ten years, Marco has facilitated over 500 BIG IDEA sessions and has spoken to tens of thousands of people on the power of innovation and creativity in his "Think Naked" speeches.
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Ryan Mathews , Michigan USA

Ryan Mathews, founder and CEO of Black Monk Consulting, is a globally recognized futurist, speaker and storyteller. Mathews is also a best-selling author, a successful international consultant and a sought after commentator on topics as diverse as innovation, technology, global consumer trends and retailing.
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Peter McLaughlin , Colorado USA

Peter's programs stem from cutting-edge information on peak performance, including his recent research into the exciting new field of Positive Psychology. But what truly distinguishes Peter’s presentations is the way he communicates his message. Peter has a unique ability to deliver an intelligent and professional program, and to do it with the passion and humor that seizes audience attention and motivates people to make positive change. Audience participants love it! They come away with a re-inspired commitment to perform at their best, and the concrete tools to grow, develop, and win. Peter offers the following topics in keynote presentations, half-day seminars, and full-day training programs:
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James McLurkin , Massachusetts USA

James McLurkin is a Research Associate at the University of Washington in Seattle. His research focuses on developing distributed algorithms for multi‐robot systems, which is software that produces complex group behaviors from the interactions of many simple individuals. These ideas are not new: ants, bees, wasps, and termites have be running this type of software for 120 million years. The Swarm was originally created during McLurkinʹs five‐year tenure as Lead Research Scientist at iRobot and was the largest swarm in the world at the time. McLurkin was the 2003 recipient of the Lemelson‐MIT student prize for invention. He holds a S.B. in Electrical Engineering with a Minor in Mechanical Engineering from M.I.T., a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley, and a S.M. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from M.I.T.
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Roger von Oech, Ph.D , California USA

After earning a bachelor`s degree from Ohio State in history and philosophy, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in the "History of Ideas," he worked for IBM where he learned two important lessons: You can have a great idea, but if you can`t sell it, it won`t get very far; Many people in business develop tunnel-vision and thus miss a lot of good ideas around them. In 1977, he started his own company to stimulate creativity and
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Joseph Pine , Ohio USA

Once upon a time in a career far away, Joe Pine worked for IBM in Rochester, Minnesota. For the launch of the AS/400 computer system he created a group that brought customers and business partners into the actual development process. Because of this innovative activity, customer needs were met more exactly and quality was significantly enhanced – factors that contributed greatly to IBM winning the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in 1990.
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Miha Pogacnik , Hamburg Germany

Applying the artistry of music to the demands of business, Miha Pogacnik works with corporations around the globe to enhance understanding of change and to heighten innovation and competition. His message of celebrating meaning and renewal is a critical one in response to the current atmosphere of worldwide fear and uncertainty. As a virtuoso violinist, creative genius, and speaker, he shows us that art is a significant force for productivity, creativity, peace, and renewal; that music offers effective answers to the most pressing needs of business—including the needs for integration, quality, and meaning.
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Charles W. Prather, Ph.D , Florida USA

Charles Prather is President of Bottom Line Innovation Associates, Inc. helping organizations develop Innovation as a core competency. Many of the Fortune 100 are clients representing chemicals, paper, consumer products, high tech, government, financial services, and other segments. Charlie served DuPont some 24 years in numerous R&D and leadership positions. He was appointed Manager of the DuPont Center for Creativity & Innovation upon its formation and helped shape its direction and design its offerings. He is Senior Fellow of the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park.
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Howard Putnam , Nevada USA

As the chief executive officer of Southwest Airlines, Howard Putnam transformed a start-up carrier into one of the most profitable companies in the airline industry. Recruited to save the faltering Braniff Airlines, he became the first CEO to successfully restructure a major airline out of bankruptcy. His accomplishment became the focus of a Harvard Business School case study. For more than 30 years, Putnam played a leading role in one of the most exciting and rapidly changing industries. He earned a well-deserved reputation for his capacity to think systematically, create a vision, build a team, define a niche, and design successful strategies for managing crises. An impressive and entertaining speaker, Putnam shares his prescriptions for successful management in the Millennium.
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Freddie Ravel , California USA

Freddie Ravel, a #1 recording artist, has a fantastic interactive motivational presentation that uses music as a metaphor for understanding the dynamics of self-empowerment, communication and synergistic team building. He blends piano performance, speaking and audience collaboration to bring new ways to lead organizations to work in concert. Comparable to Roger Nierenberg and Benjamin Zander's programs - however other than Freddie, no orchestra or additional performers are needed.
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Andrew Razeghi , Illinois USA

Andrew Razeghi is a speaker and advisor on innovation, creativity, and growth strategy. He is a guest lecturer at The Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, an adjunct faculty at Loyola University Chicago and a Thought Leader with The Financial Times Knowledge Dialogue. Andrew walks the talk as an advisor to organizations on product development, strategy, and innovation. He works with clients looking to exploit their core competencies, identify new markets for existing products and new products for existing markets. He is co-author of "Kellogg on Integrated Marketing" with the faculty at northwestern and a contributing "rule breaker" to "Why Not?," a book on overturning conventional thinking by Yale Professor Barry Nalebuff. Andrew has worked with clients in industries as diverse as aerospace, consumer products, food, healthcare, retail, and media/entertainment. He has an MBA from Loyola University, a Certificate from Richmond College London and a BA in Internat
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Nancy Rosanoff , New York USA

Nancy Rosanoff is the author of THE COMPLETE IDIOTS' GUIDE TO MAKING MONEY USING INTUITION, Macmillan, 1999 , and INTUITION WORKOUT, Aslan, 1990 . As a pioneer in the field of intuition, she has trained thousands of individuals and groups to find and trust their intuitive voice for over 18 years. Her clients include: The NCAA, CMI International Group, McGraw-Hill Broadcasting, Inc., Kaiser Associates, O & R Utilities, Inc. Inset Systems Software, Marriott Hotels and Sony. In corporate settings she facilitates teams to discover successful solutions to difficult problems, conducts intuition strategic planning sessions and trains executives and managers to use intuition effectively in their decision-making. She is an associate member of the Innovation Network, on the Board of Advisors of Intuition Magazine and a past president of the New York Chapter of the National Speakers Association.
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Joel Saltzman , California USA

Joel Saltzman teaches people in business to Shake That Brain! and discover solutions for maximum profit. And it's not just "Rah, rah, you-can-do-it!" stuff. Joel reveals specific steps you can take to discover extraordinary solutions -- for increasing sales, broadening your market, and improving the health and vitality of your business and personal life. Easily. Consistently. And economically. You'll leave with a smile on your face, a bounce in your step, and the ability to generate and implement bold new ideas.
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Rick Searfoss , California USA

As one of less than a hundred people ever who have actually ever commanded a human space mission, Colonel Rick Searfoss speaks on leadership, teamwork, and personal performance with authority born of in-depth personal experience. He has piloted two Space Shuttle missions and commanded a third, with over 939 hours in space and 5400 hours flying time in 61 different types of aircraft. His first space flight in 1993 set the record for the longest duration Space Shuttle mission. In 1996 he piloted Atlantis to the Russian space station Mir.
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Jan-Benedict Steenkamp, Ph.D., MBA , North Carolina USA

Jan-Benedict E.M. Steenkamp researches global marketing; the effectiveness of such marketing strategies as branding, private labels and new products; interorganizational relationships; and marketing research techniques. He teaches in these areas and in innovation and strategy.
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Michael Tchong , California USA

Mr. Tchong has enjoyed a remarkable and distinguished career in advertising, software, publishing and the Internet. Prior to Ubercool, he founded five successful companies including MacWEEK, where his intuitive sense that the Macintosh would become the tool of choice for the graphic arts industry lifted this weekly’s annual revenues from less than $500,000 to $18 million in just four years. In 1992, he started Atelier Systems, which focused on “personal communication” software. Realizing the potential of the Internet back in 1994, Michael Tchong founded Interstellar, a consulting and publishing company, which spawned CyberAtlas, a preeminent market research site. His subsequent start-up, ICONOCAST, a bi-weekly online newsletter aimed at the emerging wave of Internet marketing, was sold in 1998.
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Marian Thier , Colorado USA

Marian J. Thier is a presenter, consultant and master coach. Her areas of expertise include: all aspects of leadership, such as change, communications, motivation and performance feedback; team dynamics; innovation and creativity, such as breakthrough thinking, creative problem solving, and fostering an open culture. Marian is the author of Coaching C.L.U.E.S: Real Stories, Powerful Solutions, Practical Tools (May, 2003), THINK TANK: The Game of Creative Problem Solving and The Journey: A Fable and Thought Expanders CD-Rom.
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Robert Tucker , California USA

Rising customer demands. Slowing growth. Commoditization of markets and product lines. New competitors. Disappearing barriers to entry. No wonder the ability to innovate has become the number one source of competitive advantage for firms. And the number one source of concern as well.

We are dedicated to helping you accelerate growth by improving your company’s total approach to making new ideas happen. As a full service consulting firm, we are devoted exclusively to innovation. Our expertise and experience spans all aspects of this specialty whether product, process, service or strategy.

The mission of The Innovation Resource (TIR) is to assist you and your firm in a powerful tool for growth, profit and competitive advantage.

Innovation is a multifaceted, multidimensional discipline. It encompasses strategy, marketing, products and services, and organizational behavior. That’s why TIR is organized to bring you a full range of solutions. For your project, we tailor a
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Jack Uldrich , Minnesota USA

Jack Uldrich is the president of The NanoVeritas Group, a consultancy that focuses on helping businesses, venture capitalists, and governments understand, evaluate, prepare for, and profit from nanotechnology. Clients include leading venture capital firms, law firms, governments and Fortune 100 companies.
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Jonathan Vehar , California USA

Jonathan Vehar works with organizatoins to create Innovation Teams that achieve success. Subject matters about which he trains includes creative problem solving, meeting facilitation, strategic planning, and creative customer service. He was formerly the Director of Training and Consulting for the Creative Education Foundation. His programs regularly create breakthrough ideas and solutions that pay for the training programs.
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Jimmy Wales , Florida USA

Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales is an American Internet entrepreneur best known for founding Wikipedia, as well as other wiki-related projects, including the charitable organization Wikimedia Foundation, and the for-profit company Wikia, Inc.
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Nicholas J. Webb , California USA

Nick Webb is a master inventor. He holds 18 patents and has another 20 currently pending. His products, many of which are tools and systems for the medical industry, produce millions of dollars in sales annually and have created several companies. He is lively speaker and workshop leader, who combines his own personal experience of "having been there" with a proven strategy for increasing profits and market share through the use of invention programs. He shows why, in this highly-competitive global economy, invention must become everybody's business.
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Richard Worzel, CFA , Ontario Canada

Leading forecaster and futurist Richard Worzel challenges organizations to examine the future and plan for it. Changes in politics, technology, leadership, demographics and economics are altering the face and pace of business. Those who are prepared will prosper, while most organizations will flounder or fall by the wayside. Worzel can equip your organization with the ability to understand the changes to be faced in the years ahead, and the tools to leverage those changes to revolutionize and dominate your industry.
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Steve Wozniak , California USA

A Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for the past three decades, Steve Wozniak helped shape the computing industry with his design of Apple’s first line of products the Apple I and II and influenced the popular Macintosh. In 1976, Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Computer Inc. with Wozniak’s Apple I personal computer. The following year, he introduced his Apple II personal computer, featuring a central processing unit, a keyboard, color graphics, and a floppy disk drive. The Apple II was integral in launching the personal computer industry.
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Mike Wuergler , Utah USA

Prior to Franklin Covey, Mike was an executive in the motion picture and television industry, serving as President and CEO of a publicly-traded company; Chief Operating Officer of the American Television Network; COO of Alternative Network Television; and, President of ComWorld International. He was a television producer for Walt Disney Productions and a member of Disney's Show Development Team. After Disney, he produced feature films and was nominated for an Emmy for directing a television special saluting the troops of Desert Storm. Mike spent the last two years helping to create leadership workshops as the Director of Media and Operations.
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Joyce Wycoff , California USA

Joyce Wycoff is the founder and executive director of the Innovation Network, an international professional association of change agents forging the revitalization of organizations through the powerful use of Creativity, Innovation and Group Thinking Skills. Wycoff has a broad background in management and marketing and consults with organizations to improve their abilities to solve problems, manage projects and
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Gary Yamamoto, Ph.D., B.S.E.E , Arizona USA

Gary K. Yamamoto, B.S.E.E., Ph.D. is the founder and CEO a management consulting and speaking firm that specializes in professional and personal development. Gary is an author, speaker, seminar leader, and consultant who has been speaking and consulting since 1972.
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Keith Yamashita , California USA

Keith has been featured in FORTUNE magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Fast Company magazine in recognition for his work for HP, Nike, PBS, and others. Keith is a strategist and writer with years of experience in helping CEOs turn their companies around. He has a strong background in launching new companies and brands, as well as transforming large, multinational companies. He has worked with CEOs and executive teams at companies including America Online, Apple Computer, Herman Miller, Hewlett-Packard, Gap Inc., IBM, PBS, and Saturn, among others. He has published in The Harvard Business Review and is a regular contributor to Harvard's Strategy and Innovation publication, edited by Clayton Christensen. He has lectured at Stanford University and the Yale School of Management, and is also a frequent public speaker at conferences. Keith has authored two books: Unstuck and 15 Things Charles and Ray Eames Teach Us. He holds a BA in Quantitative Economics and an MA in Organizati
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