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As a keynote speaker, he knows how to command a stage where he can deliver a powerful presentation that will captivate your audience.
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Michael Gelb is a highly-sought keynote speaker and expert covering such topics as creativity, innovation, disruption, strategy, and change management. He is a best-selling author, consultant, media pundit, and thought-leader who has spoken at many conferences around the world where he gives leaders the skills they need to deal with fast, big changes in society, the workplace, and education.
Michael Gelb is hired to speak at events and conferences where he can give expertise on important global business affairs. He is the most knowledgeable person using strategic thinking to help people and businesses succeed. He is a pioneer in creative thinking, fast learning, and innovative leadership. Gelb runs workshops for DuPont, Merck, Microsoft, Nike, Roche, and YPO, among others. His clients worldwide benefit from his over 35 years of experience as a professional speaker, seminar leader, and organizational consultant.
One of Michael Gelb’s 14 best-selling books on creativity and creation is How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day. (1998) After it was translated into twenty-five languages, How to Think Like Leonardo was chosen by the Washington Post, Amazon, and the New York Times as one of their best-selling books.
In 2007, Gelb and Thomas Edison’s great-niece Sarah Miller Caldicott wrote a book called “Innovate Like Edison: The Five-Step System for Breakthrough Business Success.” Vijay Govindarajan says that everyone who wants to turn creative ideas into practical realities should read the book Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators by Professor Vijay Govindarajan.
Michael Gelb, along with Prof. Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates, Garry Kasparov, and Gene Roddenberry, was named “Brain of the Year” by the Brain Trust Charity in 1999. Michael was given a Batten Fellowship by the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia in 2003. Michael and Professor James Clawson work together to run the well-known Leading Innovation Seminar at Darden. Michael Gelb also worked at the Conscious Capitalism Institute as the Director of Creativity and Innovation Leadership from 2008 to 2012.
Gelb, who used to be a professional juggler and has played with the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, was the first person to think of using juggling training to help people work together and learn quickly. The 5 Keys to High Performance: Juggling Your Way to Success is the name of his book. Gelb has a fifth-degree black belt in the Japanese martial art of aikido.
He wrote the book Samurai Chess: Mastering Strategic Thinking Through the Martial Art of the Mind with International Grandmaster Raymond Keene. Michael Gelb is also the author of Body Learning: An Introduction to the Alexander Technique. He is also a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique, a method for developing a commanding stage presence taught at The Juilliard School. Present Yourself!
Came out in 1988. The book Captivate Your Audience with Great Presentation Skills helps people learn the communication skills they need to get others to agree with their ideas. Michael has also made several best-selling audio programs, such as The Spirit of Leonardo, Work Like Da Vinci: Gaining the Creative Advantage in Your Business and Career, and Mind Mapping: How to Free Your Natural Genius.
In his book Discover Your Genius: How to Think Like History’s Ten Most Revolutionary Minds, published by Harper Collins in 2002, Michael shows how excited he is about how genius thinking can be used to help organizations and people grow. Wine drinking for inspired thinking: uncork your creative juices is the title of a book published in 2010 and details an innovative, original, and genuinely enjoyable approach to team building.
Michael released his book titled Brain Power: Improve Your Mind as You Age in January 2012. (Bibliography of the New World)
Sounds True is the publisher of his most recent book, Creativity On Demand: Ignite and Sustain the Fire of Genius.
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