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Michael
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Michael J. Gelb's Key Accomplishments Include . . .
Michael Gelb is a renowned speaker on creativity, innovation and the author of the international best-seller How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day; Innovate Like Edison: The Success System of America's Greatest Inventor co-authored with Sarah Miller Caldicott, the great grand niece of Thomas Edison and Wine Drinking for Inspired Thinking: Uncork Your Creative Juices. Michael Gelb is also the winner (along with Senator John Glenn) of the Brain Trust "Brain of the Year" Award for 1999. Previous winners include Gene Rodenberry, Stephen Hawking and Garry Kasparov.
Michael
Gelb is to the development of human potential what Buddy
Guy is to the blues guitar, simply the best there is.
- Partner KPMG
Michael Gelb is the world's leading authority on the application of genius thinking to personal and organizational development. In his captivating keynotes, Michael Gelb, an internationally recognized author, speaker and consultant, expounds on the principles and practices described in his best-selling books to help you solve your most important business challenges. Michael Gelb teaches you to be more creative, cultivate a more innovative culture, manage change intelligently and craft your vision, mission, values and strategy...and make them real.
More About Michael Gelb . . .
A professional speaker since 1978, Michael Gelb's unique, creative approach makes his keynote presentations the highlight of every conference or event he attends. His custom workshops and seminars, organizational development and consulting projects, and team-building activities help organizations around the world, including British Petroleum, DuPont, IBM, Nike, Microsoft, and The Young Presidents Organization, achieve their key objectives.
One of the world's foremost authorities on Creative Thinking and Accelerated Learning, Michael Gelb is also a 4th Degree Black Belt in Aikido. An expert juggler, who performed with the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, Michael Gelb introduced the idea of teaching juggling as a means to promote accelerated learning and team-building.
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| Suggested Keynote Programs |
- How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci
- Innovate Like Edison
- Creative Resilience
- Discover Your Genius
- Juggling Your Way to Success
- Mind Mapping & Creative Thinking
- High Performance Presentations
- High Performance Leadership
- Aikido at Work
- Mastering Strategic Thinking
- Executive Renaissance Retreat
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| What People Are Saying |
“Michael Gelb is an astounding individual whose skills span a surprising and wide array of disciplines. All journeys of innovation must begin with – and include throughout – the skills and principles that Michael espouses. I can think of no one better qualified than him to help us in this space.”
Jim Karkanias, Microsoft Senior Director of Applied Research and Technology,
Health Solutions Group
"Our organization hired Michael because of his novel approach and unique programs inspiring innovation, creativity and leadership. We designed a 3-year program that resulted in substantially and permanently changing the culture of our 300+ person department; from executives to union employees. There were measurable, significant increases in employee satisfaction, team effectiveness and communications. Michael's programs are for business executives/leaders who truly want to leverage the creative and innovative talent in their department, division or company to improve productivity and employee retention."
--- Liz Faison, Project Director, Merck
"You
are our secret weapon in our never-ending quest to create
an innovative culture."
--- Marv Damsma
Director of Trust Investments
British Petroleum
"We
are at least twice as productive as before. We plan, document
and communicate with greater efficiency. Our organization's
productivity improvement has been phenomenal."
---Dr. Thomas
Jenkins
DuPont
"THANK YOU for an incredible day yesterday!! Everyone I spoke to last night loved the session and felt that the time spent with you was of great personal value. I came away with new ideas on how I'll live a more DaVincian life starting today! Thank you many, many times for altering your schedule to be here with us."
--- Ted Maclean, General Manager
Northeast Enterprise & Partner Group, Microsoft
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