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About Dr. Alan Gregerman - Innovation and Leadership Speaker:

Dr. Alan S. Gregerman is President and Chief Innovation Officer of VENTURE WORKS, Inc., a consulting firm based in the Washington, D.C., area that helps leading companies to develop winning strategies and create successful new products, services, ventures and new ways of doing business. His customers are a wide range of Fortune 500 corporations, growing firms, entrepreneurial start-ups and nonprofit organizations. Some of them include Discovery Communications, Raytheon, GlaxoSmithKline, Marriott, Lockheed Martin, Verizon, AMS, and CITIBANK.

Alan is a internationally-known expert on business strategy and innovation. In the past fifteen years he has helped over 300 teams to create important innovations-with a 90% success rate. He is also an award-winning teacher and public speaker who has been called the most creative person in the Mid-Atlantic and the Robin Williams of business consulting. His book, Lessons from the Sandbox, provides a powerful formula for business success based on the magic of childhood.

Before starting VENTURE WORKS Alan was Director of Entrepreneurial Services for a national consulting firm, Special Assistant for Operations at the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the first Visiting Scholar in Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth at the Library of Congress. He has also worked as a mapmaker and a subway mechanic.

Alan earned his B.A. in geography, magna cum laude, from Northwestern University, and his M.A. in economic geography and Ph.D. in urban and technological planning, with highest honors, from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In his free time, he is President of the Board of the Human Services Institute where he is involved in efforts to break down the barriers that separate people with disabilities from leading normal everyday lives.

What Dr. Alan Gregerman Talks About:

Based on Alan Gregerman's acclaimed book Lessons from the Sandbox, these programs have earned great reviews from business and civic leaders, entrepreneurs, and educators, and have been featured on National Public Radio, ABC World News, CNN, Fox News Network and in Business Week and the Washington Post. They are ideal for audiences interested in the keys to innovation and business growth, success in sales and marketing, getting the most out of people, thinking creatively, building a stronger sense of enthusiasm in the workplace, and balancing work and life. And, they are packed with a great mix of powerful ideas, practical guidance and motivation.

Keynote Programs Include:

Bringing Out the Genius in All of Your People
This dynamic session takes a very humorous, serious, and surprising look at the real keys to bringing out the magic in everyone in your organization. It begins with a simple premise-that everyone has the ability to make a major contribution to your company's bottom-line performance. But somewhere between the sandbox and the world of work most of us lose the knack for leaping tall buildings in a single bound. So join Dr. Alan Gregerman, renowned authority on strategy and innovation, on a journey to the playground for some amazing lessons about motivation, commitment, taking initiative, being brilliant, and just plain having fun... lessons we all knew naturally when we were kids. Then learn how to apply these lessons to improve your results.

Childhood Lessons for Business and Adult Success
This presentation takes a look at thirteen areas critical to business and adult success in which kids offer fresh and powerful ideas. Join Dr. Alan Gregerman, renowned authority on business strategy and innovation, on a magical trip to the playground for some amazing lessons about leadership, learning, enthusiasm, commitment, focus, asking a few million questions, working together, thinking creatively, and just plain having fun... lessons we all knew naturally when we were kids. Then learn how to apply these lessons to improve your bottom-line performance.