I'm an author and own a consulting practice focused on mentoring CEOs of technology based start-ups where I help them demystify the "fuzzy front end" of their businesses with an emphasis on converting their innovations into profitable enterprises.
I also created and teach people how to become entrepreneurs via a course sponsored by a local university, where I'm an adjunct professor titled "Applied Innovation: A Path to Entrepreneurship. I've demonstrated that innovation is a discipline that can be learned and mastered. Further, I have deep expertise in specialty chemical technologies especially within the lubricant additive space.
I previously served as the CEO of a high technology start-up commercializing light-based technology for labeling surfaces of products such as produce, wood and meats replacing physical adhesive stickers and inked based dyes.
Our technology is FDA approved and permanent allowing products to be traced and protected against counterfeiting and helping insure the food supply is safe by making the products traceable. We help companies protect their brands from thief and misuse.
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"10 Secrets for Raising Innovative Children" describes what parents can do to help their children build upon their natural tendencies to be innovative while offering a buffer to the potential damage they'll experience when they begin their formal education at age 5. There is significant evidence that from age 5 to age 20 the typical person experiencing the traditional US educational system will lose almost all of their capabilities for being innovative.
"10 Keys To Unlock Your Innovative Self" offers the reader a short, simple, easy and fun treatment teaching anyone how to use the basics of innovative behaviors for becoming a more effective problem solver leading to a higher quality of life. Specifically, this treatise touches on why every human being is an innovator at birth, how we can maximizes, this natural trait, the importance of curiosity, imagination, inquiry, methods of learning, the importance of play and passion and how to use the scientific method while being careful of formal education.
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