CFI Trainers

is the founder of Creative Focus Inc., a market research company and the Creative Focus Institute Workshops, a program designed for the changing needs of today�s companies.� Some of the client companies Creative Focus serves are BellSouth, Scientific Atlanta, Delta Air Lines, Attorney�s Title Insurance Fund, BDO Atlanta, Mohawk Industries and a host of other corporations. Harry is a trainer, facilitator and consultant in the field of Innovation and Creativity.

is Associate Professor of Marketing & Professional Sales at the Coles College of Business, Kennesaw State University. His teaching responsibilities lie with the Human Side of Enterprises & includes Marketing, Leadership, Sales, Organizational Learning, & Team Development. He has over 20 years of marketing, sales and training experience and has worked for and consulted with fortune 200 companies including Syntex Pharmaceuticals, Shaw Industries, Post Properties, Dupont, Allied Chemical, and Kroger

has been training adults and presenting to all types of audiences for over 25 years. He has designed and delivered programs on presentation and training skills, workforce learning, sales, creativity and performance improvement, presenting at numerous conferences around the globe. His techniques have been used with great success by such notable clients as General Electric, U.S. Airways, Chrysler, Time Warner Communications, AIG Insurance, Comcast Cable, Starbucks Coffee, HBO and FedEx.

is known for her upbeat, engaging training style. She has led improvisational theater classes and creativity workshops for the last twenty-three years, has developed creativity-stimulating training programs for business and education, and has been creativity consultant to several school systems. She has discovered striking parallels between directing a group of talented yet individualistic performers and managing a team of talented yet individualistic employees.

Outward Bound instructor, Colorado Mountain School; Classroom teacher, Telluride, Colorado; Guest lecturer at Northwestern University, Kellogg Graduate School of Management; Ten years of consulting in creative process and team effectiveness.

has spent thirty years in various technical occupations solving problems, developing new products, bringing fun and sharing knowledge with people. He is a Colleague with the Creative Problem Solving Institute in Buffalo and enjoys teaching Creative Problem Solving Tools and Techniques to international students of all ages and backgrounds.

is the president of Growth Curve Associates, a creative leadership firm based in Thetford, Vermont. He provides consulting, training and coaching services to ignite the creative potential of people at work. For the past 9 years he has assisted individuals and organizations to create clear and measurable results in the areas of innovation, leadership, teamwork, customer service, change management and workplace Spirit. Alex has served as a faculty member for 9 years at the Creative Problem Solving Institute in Buffalo, New York and he is a facilitator of the Leadership Institute in Norwich, Vermont.

is an internationally recognized consultant on improvement and innovation. The developer of the concept of DirectedCreativity�, his work with leaders can be described as �helping organizations think better.� He is the author of dozens of journal articles and three books: Quality Improvement Tools; Creativity, Innovation and Quality; and Edgeware: Insights from Complexity Science for Health Care Leaders.

Professor of Marketing at the Goizetta School of Business at Emory University. She has in addition worked full time in Corporate Component Procurement for IBM Corporation; in Litigation Consulting for Price Waterhouse; and in Strategic Planning for Unilever, PLC. Reshma currently conducts research and teaches in the areas of marketing strategy implementation, relationship marketing, marketplace learning, and integrated marketing communication.

is an international workplace creative thinking consultant who focuses on the S.P.R.E.A.D.ng of Cre8ng and Creative Thinking throughout workplaces of his clients. He has 20+ years of research & consulting experience with businesses, industrial corporations and governmental agencies. He serves on the faculty of a mix of leadership and executive development institutes.

has worked as a strategic planning and marketing consultant to major organizations for over 25 years. He has helped public and private organizations create innovation strategies, marketing campaigns, and workplace transformation programs. He has trained thousands of executives in improving their thinking and communication skills. Tim spends much of his time delivering his popular keynote presentations on CQ: The Keys to Unlocking Creative Intelligence.

is a market research consultant on the topics of creativity & innovation. He trains organizations in creativity methods and facilitates immersive product development brainstorming sessions. In addition to being an award winning television producer (Emmy, ACE) and a successful entrepreneur in the software industry, he was a stand up comedian and continues to practice improvisational comedy with Players Workshop of Second City in Chicago.

is Associate Professor of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of London, and is a registered architect in Greece, where he also teaches regularly at the National Technical University of Athens. His research deals with spatial layouts at the scales of buildings and cities. He has published widely on the organization of space, its social functions, behavioral implications and cultural meaning.

is a Senior Partner at New & Improved, LLC, where he works with organizations to create teams who can work together productively to create innovation. Called an �Innovation Guru� by Investor�s Business Daily. He is a regular instructor at the Creative Problem Solving Institute and the Innovation Network Convergence and was co-chair of Convergence in 2004.