Paul Sloane (author)

Paul Sloane

Paul Sloane
Born (1950-05-03) May 3, 1950
Johnstone, Scotland
Residence Camberley, England
Nationality British
Alma mater University of Cambridge
Occupation Speaker, Author
Website http://www.destination-innovation.com

Paul Sloane is an author and self-proclaimed paid corporate public speaker on lateral thinking and innovation. He was born around 1950 in Johnstone, Scotland and was educated at St Joseph's College, Blackpool and Trinity Hall, Cambridge where he gained a first class honours degree in Engineering. He is an author[1] of books of lateral thinking puzzles, many of the books are co-authored with Des MacHale. He worked as an employee at IBM for about 11 years. It was this work experience at IBM that gave him the "unique advantage and insight" into the concepts of corporate innovation and made him capable enough to apply for and become the UK MD for Ashton-Tate and VP International for Mathsoft. He was the head of the Innovation Unit at the British Quality Foundation. He occasionally writes on innovation,[2][3] open innovation[4] and crowdsourcing. He helped in the development of a framework of a corporate innovation camp.[5] In March 2016 he gave a Tedx Talk at Brighton University on lateral ways to break mindsets.[6] His books include The Innovative Leader,[7] The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills, and A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing. He currently lives in Camberley and is happily married with three daughters.

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ "Release on Hall of Fame Lateral Thinking Puzzles - 2 million books sold". Sterling Publishing. 4 Oct 2011.
  2. ↑ "Medicine can Teach Business and Government a Lesson in Innovation". Innovation Management. Retrieved 2016-08-07.
  3. ↑ "Learn to Think Differently". Idea Connection. Retrieved 2010-05-02.
  4. ↑ "MT Expert's Ten Top Tips". Management Today. Retrieved 2011-02-25.
  5. ↑ "Inside a Corporate Innovation Camp". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 2010-06-20.
  6. ↑ "Are you open minded?". Youtube. Retrieved 2016-04-20.
  7. ↑ "Review of The Innovative Leader". The Independent June 5, 2007.
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