Educated at Lafayette College and Brown University, Mr. Ditkoff is presently a faculty member of GE's Crotonville Management Development Center and a guest lecturer at the University of New Mexico's Executive MBA program.

His clients include a wide variety of Fortune 500 and mid-sized companies who have realized the need to do something different in order to succeed in today's rapidly changing marketplace. These clients include: General Electric, Lucent Technologies, General Mills, Automated Data Processing, Con Edison, Chicago Board of Trade, Dominos, Esssroc, BSMG, Ernst & Young, TIAA Cref, Merrill Lynch, and A&E Television Networks.

At the heart of his work lies the fundamental belief that a company's most important capital asset is the collective brain power, creativity and commitment of its work force and that this asset can be significantly leveraged when people are provided with the appropriate setting, systems, tools and techniques to think (and act) out of the box.

Prior to his work as President of the change management firm, Mr. Ditkoff was a principal in Ki Learning Systems and a Senior Consultant with the Inner Game Corporation - both organizational development firms dedicated to catalyzing superior performance in the workplace.

In addition to his consulting work, Mr. Ditkoff is also an accomplished public speaker and writer. Author of Banking on Innovation, the Free the Genie series, and the forthcoming "Bringing Out Brilliance: How to Coach Others Into States of Heightened Creativity. Mr. Ditkoff has appeared on numerous radio and television talk shows, including ABC's Hour Magazine. Additionally, he is the founder of FACE THE MUSIC, the world's only (as far as he can tell) interactive corporate blues band.

He lives in Woodstock, New York, with his wife, Evelyne, and their two children, Jesse and Emilia.

Presentation Topics...

• Banking on Innovation
• Leading Innovation
• Team Innovation
• High Velocity Brainstorming
• Idea Alchemy
• Face the Music
• Idea Cafe