Michael J. Gelb

Michael J. Gelb's Key Accomplishments Include . . .
Michael Gelb is the author of the international best-seller How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day and Innovate Like Edison: The Success System of America's Greatest Inventor co-authored with Sarah Miller Caldicott, the great grand niece of Thomas Edison. 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.

More About Michael Gelb . . .
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 renowned 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.

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.

• 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

"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

"Michael Gelb is to the development of human potential what Buddy Guy is to the blues guitar, simply the best there is."

---Eddie Oliver
Sr. Partner KPMG

"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