Michael Gelb
A pioneer in the fields of creative thinking, accelerated learning, and innovative leadership, Michael Gelb is considered the world's leading authority on the application of genius thinking to personal and organizational development. He is author of the bestsellers How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day, and Body Learning: an Introduction to the Alexander Technique and Present Yourself! Captivate Your Audience with Great Presentation Skills . Gelb once performed professional juggling with the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan.
Michael J. Gelb is the world's leading authority on the application of genius thinking to personal and organizational development. He is a pioneer in the fields of creative thinking, accelerated learning, and innovative leadership. Gelb leads seminars for organizations such as DuPont, Merck, Microsoft, Nike, Raytheon and YPO. He brings more than 30 years of experience as a professional speaker, seminar leader and organizational consultant to his diverse, international clientele.
Michael Gelb is the author of 12 books on creativity and innovation including the international best seller How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day. (1998) How to Think Like Leonardo has been translated into 25 languages and has appeared on the Washington Post, Amazon.com, and the New York Times best seller lists.
In 2007 Gelb released Innovate Like Edison: The Five Step System for Breakthrough Business Success, co-authored with Sarah Miller Caldicott, the great grand niece of Thomas Edison. As Professor Vijay Govindarajan, author of Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators noted, ?This book is a must have for anyone who wants to turn creative ideas into profitable reality.?
In 1999, Michael Gelb won the Brain Trust Charity's "Brain of the Year" award; other honorees include Prof. Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates, Garry Kasparov and Gene Rodenberry. In 2003, Michael was awarded a Batten Fellowship by the University of Virginia?s Darden Graduate School of Business. Michael co-directs the acclaimed Leading Innovation Seminar at Darden with Professor James Clawson. Michael Gelb also serves as the Director of Creativity and Innovation Leadership for the Conscious Capitalism Institute.
A former professional juggler who once performed with the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, Gelb introduced the idea of teaching juggling as a means to promote accelerated learning and team-building. He is the author of The 5 Keys to High Performance: Juggling Your Way to Success. A fourth degree black belt in the Japanese martial art of Aikido, Gelb is co-author with International Grandmaster Raymond Keene, of Samurai Chess: Mastering Strategic Thinking Through the Martial Art of the Mind. Michael Gelb is also a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique, (the method taught at The Julliard School for cultivating commanding stage presence), and the author of the classic work: Body Learning: An Introduction to the Alexander Technique. Michael's 1988 release Present Yourself! Captivate Your Audience with Great Presentation Skills guides readers to develop the communication strategies they need to generate support for their innovative ideas.
Michael has also created many best selling audio programs, include: Mind Mapping: How to Liberate Your Natural Genius, Work Like Da Vinci: Gaining the Creative Advantage in Your Business and Career and The Spirit of Leonardo.
Michael Gelb's passion for applying genius thinking to personal and organizational development is also expressed in his Harper Collins release (2002) Discover Your Genius: How To Think Like History's Ten Most Revolutionary Minds.
Published in 2010, Wine Drinking For Inspired Thinking: Uncork Your Creative Juices, offers a unique, original and very enjoyable approach to team building.
His new book, published in January 2012 by New World Library, is Brain Power: Improve Your Mind As You Age.
Michael Gelb designs and delivers programs to help you achieve the results you want. Choose from Michael's most popular programs or pick your own topics and options to create a custom program.
Discover Your Genius
In this compelling, multi-media presentation you will have the
opportunity to get to know ten of the most amazing people who have ever lived.
Each of these extraordinary individuals embodies a special "Genius"
characteristic that you will be invited to integrate into your daily life and
apply to your most important organizational challenges. Each genius will be
introduced through specially commissioned original watercolor portraits and a
brief biography illustrating the role of the key principle in his or her life
and work. You will then explore how that principle can and does relate to you
and your organization.
How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci
Thinking creatively, learning faster and leading change, these abilities
are at a premium in a highly competitive global business environment. What if
you could call on history's greatest genius, Leonardo da Vinci, to be your
personal mentor in cultivating these highly prized elements of human capital?
Anatomist, architect, botanist, city planner, chef, humorist, engineer,
equestrian, inventor, geographer, geologist, military scientist, musician,
painter, philosopher and raconteur, Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519) helped
bring the Western world out of the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance. Now,
as we move from the Bureaucratic/ Industrial Age into the
Information/Imagination Age, his approach to optimizing human potential is more
relevant than ever.
Mind-Mapping and Creative Thinking
This program is readily adaptable to specific organizational challenges.
The new skill can be taught and then effectively applied to a specific problem
in the two-day format. Graduates of this program learn and apply a new skill
that helps them generate more ideas in less time, improves
creative-brainstorming ability and develops memory power.
Five Keys to Unforgettable Presentations Audience
The effectiveness of a presentation can only legitimately be measured by
the response of the audience. Great presentations change the audience's
attitudes and behavior; but for change to occur the audience must remember your
message. Decades of psychological research have shown that there are five
principles of recall that determine what an audience remembers. In this
energizing session you will learn these five principles and receive guidance in
applying them to your presentations.
Lessons from the Art of Juggling: How to Achieve Your Full Potential
in Business, Learning, and Life
Manage complexity and thrive on chaos by gracefully keeping a number of
things "up in the air" at the same time. Approach mistakes creatively as you
learn to "let the balls drop." Use teamwork to create a cooperative learning
environment. Learn anything you want to as well and as fast as you can. Apply
the principles of accelerated learning to become a more effective coach for
your colleagues, subordinates, family, and friends. Juggle!
High Performance Leadership
What are the essential characteristics of great leaders? How can you
build an organizational culture that inspires people to give their best
everyday?
Aikido in Business and Life
How do you respond to conflict? Do your palms sweat? Does your heart beat
faster? Do you become aggressive? Do you withdraw? Do you pretend it doesn't
exist? Or all of the above? This course will teach you how to stay centered and
choose the most appropriate response. This program offers new and effective
ways of perceiving and resolving conflict. Participants learn to understand
their own styles of response to conflict and how to create win/win options. The
highlight of the workshop will be a demonstration of the martial art of Aikido
("the way of harmonious energy"), including audience participation! This unique
approach to conflict management will then be applied to real-life problems.
Samurai Chess: Mastering Strategic Thinking Through the Martial Art
of the Mind.
This unique and unforgettable program is based on the best selling book
by Michael J. Gelb and Grandmaster Raymond Keene, O.B.E.(14 times British
Champion and Chess columnist of the London Times and International Herald
Tribune). The program begins with an overview of the history of chess and the
development of the Samurai tradition. Drawing from this historical context,
participants will be introduced to the seven Samurai principles of strategy and
their relationship to chess, business, and life.
Executive Renaissance Retreat
This retreat combines highlights of Michael's most popular programs in
customized modules to meet your needs.
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