About Jeffrey Paul Baumgartner

Jeffrey has led an eclectic life rich in experience, including...

• A degree in fine arts in London.
• Being an artist.
• Certification to teach English as a foreign language.
• Teaching in several countries.
• Setting up three companies on two continents.
• Reinventing two of those businesses.
• Writing regular columns for two leading Asian magazines.
• Launching one of Thailand's first Internet companies.
• Conceiving and overseeing the development of many companies' first web sites.
• Overseeing the development of the first original Thai language CD-ROM.
• Successfully marketing small businesses on-line in the mid 90s.
• Advising the European Commission on promoting e-commerce to small and medium sized businesses.
• Being an e-business consultant.
• Inventing Jenni innovation process management software.
• Launching the Brussels Imagination Club (together with Andy Whittle).
• Writing the book The Way of the Innovation Master.
• Writing magazine articles, book chapters and a business encyclopedia entry.
• And more. More than he can remember actually.

Unlike your average consultant, Jeffrey's experience does not include:

• An MBA
• Working at IBM
• Regular haircuts

Please bear this in mind if these things are important to you in a consultant/trainer/adviser/software provider.

Jeffrey has worked with organisations as diverse as The Nation Publishing Group, Coldwell Banker, Business Venture Promotion, Thai Danu Bank, The European Commission, Toyota, Yamaha, Canon, PepsiCo, Southeast Water, Powercor, Dexia and countless more, big and small. He has worked and lived in the USA, UK, Portugal, Germany, Thailand and Belgium.

Presently, Jeffrey is focusing on advising and training individuals, teams and organisations on how to improve their creative thinking skills in order to solve problems and enable their companies to innovate more effectively. But more than anything else, Jeffrey would like to work with you! So contact him to chat about how you, your colleagues and he can do great, creative things together.

Jeffrey is based in Erps-Kwerps (near Brussels and Leuven) Belgium. He is a single father with two incredible children. He also maintains a personal, and slightly odd, web site here.

Jeffrey's publications include:

• The Way of the Innovation Master (Book) December 2010

• "Open Innovation for Small Companies", article in Management Today magazine, July 2011 (Link to on-line version here)

• "Use Both Sides of Your Brain", article in Innov8t Magazine, May 2011 (Link to on-line version here)

• Report 103, web based journal on business creativity and innovation, 2004-present.

• “Idea Management”, Chapter in Wiley International Encyclopedia of Marketing, edited by by N. Jagdish Sheth and Naresh K. Malhotra, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

• “The Corporate Innovation Machine”, Chapter in Ideas, Creativity and Innovation, Edited by P.S. Gopalakrishnan, ICFAI Press, 2008

• “Innovation in the Service Industries”, Chapter in Innovation in the Services Sector, Book edited by Simantee Sen, ICFAI Press, 2008

• “Innovation in the Service Industries” Article in Effective Executive magazine, November 2006

• Don't Panic Do E-commerce – a Beginner's Guide to European Law Affecting E-commerce, (Book) (co-author), European Commission Press, 2001

• Ask Dr. Ecommerce -- an e-commerce advice web resource, 1999-2001 (see archived version here)

• Monthly business advice column in Business Review magazine, 1992-1996

• Monthly business astrology column in Business Review magazine, 1994-1996

• Fortnightly personality quiz column in Nation Junior magazine, 1992-1996

In 2011, Jeffrey is also appearing at these events and more:

• He will speak at the South Africa Innovation Summit in Johannesburg (30 August-1 September).

• He will facilitate a hands-on, interactive workshop on Non-Verbal Brainstorming at the 12th European Conference on Creativity and Innovation in Faro, Portugal (14-17 September).

• He is to be found every second and fourth Wednesday of the month at the Brussels Imagination Club, where he occasionally experiments with new ideas. Jeffrey (together with Andy Whittle) is the co-founder and co-manager of the club.

• Your event? Contact Jeffrey to make arrangements!