Dewitt Jones

Dewitt Jones

Author of The Nature of Leadership, Dewitt Jones is an award-winning film director and photojournalist. Dewitt has been a photographer for National Geographic for over twenty-five years. In his new program "Extraordinary Visions", Dewitt explores the life perspectives he has learned living his vision of celebrating what is right with the world.


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Dewitt Jones, award-winning photojournalist and film director, is one of America's top professional photographers with a career stretching over twenty-five years. As a motion picture director, he had two films nominated for Academy Awards before he was thirty. Twenty years as a freelance photographer with National Geographic earned him a reputation as a world-class photojournalist.

Turning to advertising, Jones rose to the forefront of corporate creative marketing photographing national advertising campaigns for Dewar's Scotch, Canon and United Airlines.

Jones has published nine books, including his most recent book, The Nature of Leadership, which was created in collaboration with Stephen R. Covey, author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. He is recognized as a world-class lecturer. His knowledge of the creative process, his relaxed and genuine style and his ability to communicate make his presentations truly outstanding. Dewitt challenges each of us "to celebrate what's right with the world".

In addition to his popular "Clear Vision: Putting Your Creativity to Work" program, Dewitt now has a second presentation. In "Extraordinary Visions", Dewitt explores the life perspectives he has learned living his vision of celebrating what is right with the world. He gives his audiences the creative tools they need not only to find their own vision but to make it a reality. He helps them soar from imagination to ImaginAction - and to do it with grace, passion and joy.

Dewitt Jones is a cum laude graduate of Dartmough College with a B.A. in Drama, and holds a Masters Degree in film making from UCLA.

Dewitt Jones' keynote presentations leave audiences spellbound! Using his own extraordinary photographs as examples, Dewitt explores the fundamentals of creativity, what they are, how they exist in each one of us and how we can learn to use them every day.

With each slide and each story drawn from his long career with National Geographic, he illustrates the techniques he uses to bring vision into reality and provides his audiences with the tools to access creativity in every part of life: Focus, Clear Thinking, Not Being Afraid to Make Mistakes, Reframing a Problem Into an Opportunity, Finding More Than One Right Answer, Being a Good Listener, Patience, Intuition.

Dewitt makes creativity understandable and accessible. His programs will leave your audience energized and inspired with their own creative potential!

Clear Vision
In his keynote presentation, award winning photographer Dewitt Jones explores the fundamentals of creativity - what they are, how they exist in each of us and how to remove the blocks that keep us from accessing them. Using his own exceptional photographs as examples, Dewitt helps his audiences see the world with new eyes and rediscover their own creative gifts.

Extraordinary Visions
Where do we find the vision to take our lives to the next level? How do we summon the passion to keep "raising the bar"? How can we make our life less of a struggle and more of a joy? For photographer and creativity expert, Dewitt Jones, the answers to these questions lie in the images we hold about ourselves, our future and the way in which we grow.

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