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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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Roger Von Oech is a highly-sought keynote speaker and expert covering such topics as creativity, innovation, strategy, critical thinking, disruption, strategy, and business. 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.
Roger Von Oech is hired to speak at events and conferences where he can give expertise on important global business affairs. He is an internationally recognized leader in stimulating creativity and innovation, having spent four decades enhancing the creative skills of more than a million individuals around the globe.
Roger von Oech is an author, inventor, and keynote speaker. His seminars and products have enriched the creativity of many millions of people around the world. His seminars and products have enriched the creativity of many millions of people around the world.
Roger is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate from Ohio State, and earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University in the “History of Ideas.” He enjoys Masters swimming, making geometric sculptures, and reading history and science.
He is known for the creativity classic A Whack on the Side of the Head (translated into 25 languages), the award-winning Ball of Whacks creativity toys, and his Innovation In Industry conferences.
While working at IBM as a marketing representative, Roger learned that even great ideas won’t get very far if you can’t sell them, and that many people develop tunnel vision and thus miss a lot of good ideas around them. These two are the main reasonings behind his presentations on innovation and creativity.
Roger’s creative thinking books “A Whack on the Side of the Head” and “A Kick in the Seat of the Pants” have activated the creative juices of millions around the world. In his latest book “Expect the Unexpected”, he applies 30 of Heraclitus’s epigrams as springboards to dazzling creativity.
Treating each saying as an inexhaustible source of inspiration, he supplies amusing anecdotes, mind bending riddles, hidden jokes and intriguing questions designed to topple old habits of thought and fire the imagination. Roger von Oech holds a degree in History and Philosophy from Ohio State University and a Ph.D from Stanford University.
His accomplishments and accolades include:
- Have keynoted and presented creative thinking seminars on six continents to over a million people
- A leader since 1977 in stimulating creativity and innovation in business
- Clients have ranged from IBM, Apple, Disney, Google, and AT&T to Procter & Gamble, Microsoft, Kraft, Lockheed Martin, NASA, Sony, and the United States Olympic Committee.
- Author of four books on creative thinking including the classic two-million-selling “A Whack on the Side of the Head” (translated into 25 languages), “A Kick in the Seat of the Pants,” “Expect the Unexpected or You Won’t Find It,” and “The Creative Contrarian.”
- Creator of the iPhone/iPad App: Creative Whack Pack http://j.mp/cwpap (a former #1 seller in the Business category)
- Creator of the “Creative Whack Pack,” and Innovative Whack Pack” card decks. “A Creativity Workshop in a Box.” (million-sellers)
- Inventor of the prize-winning “Ball of Whacks: A Creativity Workshop in a Ball”; holder of U.S. Patent 7,247,075
- Inventor of the “X-Ball: A Creativity Workshop in a Ball”
- Inventor of the “Star-Ball: A Creativity Workshop in a Ball”
- Created and Produced 7 large conferences dealing with “Innovation In Industry” and “Success In Software,” in Palo Alto, California (1981-85 featuring speakers such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Bob Metcalfe, Nolan Bushnell, Alan Kay, Ted Leonsis, Ed Catmull, John Doerr, Carver Mead, Al Shugart, and Gene Amdahl)
- Have appeared on ABC’s 20/20, the Today Show, and in Fortune, Forbes, BusinessWeek, and USA Today.
Types of Programs Roger offers:
Depending on what your specific objectives are, the number of participants, and the length of time given to the session, the program can be a two-day seminar for fifteen people, a half-day workshop to fifty people, or an hour presentation to five thousand people. Here are some examples of different speaking & seminar situations with which Roger has been involved:
— A television network trying to think up new program ideas;
— A greeting card company looking for ways to incorporate technology into their products;
— A computer company interested in decreasing the length of time needed to complete software projects;
— The exploration division of an oil company wanting to think of alternative ways to interpret seismic data;
— The finance department of a beer company wishing to develop ways to serve its in-house clients more effectively;
— A retail chain wanting to get a glimpse of what the “kitchen of the future” will look like; and,
— A pharmaceutical company exploring the cancer market for new product opportunities.
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Roger Von Oech’s speaking fees can vary depending on the type of event you are producing and where it is located.
His speaking fee can also vary depending on whether you need them to deliver a live or virtual presentation.
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