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Roger von Oech is the founder and president of Creative Think, a California-based consulting firm that specializes in stimulating creativity and innovation.

  • Roger von Oech is the founder and president of Creative Think, a California-based consulting firm that specializes in stimulating creativity and innovation.
  • A good fool needs to be part actor and part poet, part philosopher and part psychologist.
  • A Phi Beta Kappa graduate from Ohio State.
  • Roger von Oech is president of Creative Think, Menlo Park, California, and the author of A Whack on the Side of the Head.
  • Several years ago, I wrote a book called A Whack on the.

    • A Phi Beta Kappa graduate from Ohio State..

    Roger von Oech

    Roger von Oech

    Roger von Oech with the Ball of Whacks, presenting at a creativity seminar in London (2008)

    BornRoger von Oech
    (1948-02-16) February 16, 1948 (age 76)
    Columbus, Ohio, United States
    OccupationCreativity theorist, writer, speaker, consultant, and inventor
    NationalityAmerican
    EducationB.A.

    Ohio State, Ph.D. Stanford University

    creativethink.com

    Roger von Oech (born February 16, 1948) is an American speaker, conference organizer, author, and toy-maker whose focus has been on the study of creativity.[1][2][3]

    Professional life

    In 1975, von Oech earned his Ph.D.

    from Stanford University in the self-created interdisciplinary program "History of Ideas".[2] Shortly afterwards, he began providing services in creativity consulting, working with companies such as Apple, IBM, Disney, Sony, and Intel.

    In the 1980s, he created and produced the "Innovation in Industry" confere