Doug Hall Speaker Biography
Innovation, Marketing, & Leadership Guru, and Best-Selling Author
Doug Hall is an Inventor, Author, Speaker, Trainer, Bourbon Maker, and the founder of the Eureka! Ranch, a Cincinnati, OH based inventing, training and research firm that advises some of the world’s top corporations such as Nike, Walt Disney, Kellogg’s, Schlumberger, American Express and the United States Congress. Doug believes that everyone can create and take action on ideas for working smarter, faster and more creatively. The purpose of his books and consulting is to help leaders grow employee engagement in PROACTIVE Problem Solving of the flawed and ineffective work systems that get in the way of employee and organizational success. Fixing broken human work systems is the focus because Doug believes that as Dr. Deming taught, “94% of problems are due to the system, 6% are due to the worker.”
Eureka! Ranch
Doug is a chemical engineer who rose to the rank of Master Marketing Inventor at Procter & Gamble. At P&G, using early versions of his System Driven Innovation approach, his small team shipped a record nine innovations in twelve months. After ten years Doug retired from P&G and founded the Eureka! Ranch. The Eureka! Ranch offers two services: Eureka! Culture creates a culture that is fully engaged in PROACTIVE Problem Solving of flaws in existing work systems. Eureka! Inventing helps organizations invent and take action on meaningfully unique ideas for new or improved products and services. Ranch clients include such innovation thought leaders such as Walt Disney, Diagio, Nike, AT&T, Procter & Gamble, American Express and over 2,000 other large, medium and small sized organizations.
Dexter Bourbon Company
Dexter Bourbon Company with its Brain Brew Distillery Is a craft bourbon maker that Doug Co-Founded. Their flagship Dexter Three Wood Straight Bourbon (95 Rating) brings to life the taste of bourbon from the 1800’s through the use of the team’s patented WoodCraft finishing using Dexter era 200 year oak, cherry wood and maple wood. Their Dexter 1862 custom bourbon experience allows everyone to customize the taste of their bourbon to their preference just as Edmund Dexter offered customers in the mid 1800’s. Eureka! Ranch Distilled Spirits Group provides industry customized versions of Eureka! Ranch services AND the product development and production expertise of the Brain Brew Distillery.
Proactive Problem Solving
Innovation Engineering Institute is an industry/academic partnership focused on applying system thinking to innovation that Doug and the Ranch team created in partnership with the University of Maine. The IE Institute offers certifications in PROACTIVE Problem Solving and the 48 Skills that make up the IE Curriculum. It’s also taught at colleges as an undergraduate minor or graduate certificate.
Books & Media
Author & Performer Doug is a best selling author of eight books and numerous academic articles on Innovation and Courage. His Jump Start Your Business Brain book was named to Jack Covert’s prestigious list of the 100 best business books of all time. He has starred in two network television series (ABC American Inventor, W Network Backyard Inventor) and a nationally syndicated radio program (Brain Brew Radio). Doug also authored and performed a one man play, North Pole Tenderfoot on his adventure recreating Admiral Peary’s last dash to the North Pole.
Awards & Personal Life
For his pioneering work on System Driven Innovation Doug has been awarded an Honorary Doctorates from University of Maine and the University of Prince Edward Island. He has been named one of America’s top innovation system experts by A&E Top 10, Inc. Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, DATELINE NBC, CNBC and the CBC. He is a citizen of both Canada and the USA. He and his wife of 49 years split their time between Cincinnati, Ohio and Springbrook Prince Edwards island Canada.
Doug Hall Speaking Topics
Jump Start Your Business Brain
A high-energy program including keynote content and idea generation tailored to the client's goals and requirements. Steps designed to help the audience become more creative business-wise outside of the workshop walls are also covered, lending plenty of take-away in this anything but boring presentation. Win more, lose less and make more money with the blended marketing and innovation principles Doug has perfected.
Jump Start Your Marketing Brain
Doug's simple laws of Marketing Physics are laid out in simple, memorable case studies and are backed up with all the hard data you would expect from the founder of a world-renowned think-tank. Participants in this presentation filled with ideas and advice find that they are able to accomplish more in the realm of branding and understand more about the world of the everyday consumer.
Jump Start Your Creative Brain
This set of three principles will help you think quicker and smarter, giving all your business initiatives that cutting-edge credibility. Your projects will begin welcoming creative input and your team will have the tools to find a balance between the left brain and the right brain. Doug produces more cold, hard facts from personal research to fully support his dynamic tenets of creativity.
North Pole Tenderfoot
North Pole Tenderfoot is a classic story of leadership, courage and resilience. It's a re-creation of the Public Lecture that Admiral Peary performed following his historic 1909 expedition. This reality theater event features 300 stunning color images and authentic arctic audio & video. Plus, it includes never before shown audio and images of Admiral Peary from the National Geographic Archives and the Library of the U.S Congress.
Doug Hall Books
Making the Courage Connection
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Jump Start Your Brain
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Meaningful Marketing
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Doug Hall Speaker Testimonials
"It's an absolute obsession for scientific principles and hard data that makes Doug Hall different from other creativity gurus."
- | Training & Development Magazine
"America's #1 New Product Idea Man"
- | Inc. Magazine
"Hall is a damn good storyteller. But, speaking as an engineer-business analyst, he's credible because he supports his ideas with a ton of VERY HARD Data."
- | Tom Peters
"When Doug meets Disney, creativity ne'er wanes; Our team explodes when he jump starts our brain!"
- | Ellen Guidera , VP Walt Disney
