Paul Sloane

Hello. I am Paul Sloane. I help people and teams to use lateral thinking to overcome their problems and challenges.

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Paul Sloane is a professional keynote speaker and expert facilitator on innovation and lateral thinking. He helps clients improve idea generation and creative leadership. He has published over 20 books on lateral thinking puzzles, innovation, leadership and problem solving and these books have sold voer 2 million copies. Paul Sloane also acts as link presenter at conferences and facilitator at high level meetings such as a corporate advisory board. Previously he was CEO of Monactive, VP International of MathSoft and UK MD of Ashton-Tate.

Author at Sterling Publishing and Kogan Page

1990 - August 2012

Author of books on lateral thinking puzzles, leadership and innovation including: Lateral Thinking Puzzlers The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills The Innovative Leader How to be a Brilliant Thinker

CEO at Monactive

June 2001 - October 2002

CEO of venture capital backed publisher of innovative software asset management tools.

VP International at MathSoft

February 1993 - June 2001

Responsible for all international operations of MathSoft Inc vendor of mathematical and statistical software tools. Major markets included Japan, Germany, France, Australia, Italy and Scandinavia.

UK MD at Ashton-Tate

November 1983 - November 1991

I was responsible for all sales, marketing, services and technical support for Ashton-Tate in UK and Nordic territories.

PC Software Marketing Manager at IBM

January 1974 - November 1983

Responsible for marketing and sales of IBM PC software products.

Professional Speaker & Expert Facilitator on Innovation & Lateral Thinking for Leaders at Destination-innovation

November 2002

We help organizations improve innovation. We provide talks, workshops and innovation audits.

Trinity Hall, Cambridge

1969 – 1972

MA

Lateral thinking, creativity, innovation, puzzles, chess, tennis golf, speaking, facilitating, conferences, writing.