Paul Sloane (author)
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Paul Sloane
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| Born |
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 corporate public speaker on lateral thinking and innovation. He was born in 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 of books of lateral thinking puzzles, many of the books are co-authored with Des MacHale. He worked at IBM in the UK for 11 years where he came top of Sales School and was part of the team which launched the IBM PC in the UK. He became Marketing Director and then Managing Director for Ashton-Tate UK and VP International for Mathsoft. He was the head of the Innovation Unit at the British Quality Foundation. He writes extensively on innovation,open innovation and crowdsourcing. He helped in the development of a framework of a corporate innovation camp. In March 2016 he gave a Tedx Talk at Brighton University on lateral ways to break mindsets. His books include The Innovative Leader,The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills, A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing, and Think like an Innovator. He lives in Camberley and is married with three daughters.
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