James P. Carlisle, president of The de Bono Group, has been recognized, applauded and congratulated by Dr. Edward de Bono for his extensive and successful teaching and training of the widely acclaimed de Bono Thinking™ methods. Foremost as a leader in the field of de Bono Thinking™, he has organized de Bono distributorships and trained trainers in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. And he has worked with the de Bono distributor in China (Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai) in introducing these powerful thinking methods to key companies there including Microsoft, Motorola, Air Products, Coca-Cola, Bertelsmann, Trane, 3M, Unilever, and Dow-Corning. While in China, he lectured and presented de Bono Thinking™ methods to the largest Executive MBA program in Asia, CEIBS-The China Europe International Business School.

Other clients he and The de Bono Group have worked with include Guidant, Boston Scientific, The US Army Central Electronics Communications Command, Atlas Materials, Phillip Morris, Genentech, The Orchestra Forum, Colgate, Cadmus Press, Gillette, Independence Blue Cross, Rogers Corporation, The Defense Intelligence Agency, Mars Inc., Oracle, United Technologies, Wachovia, The Betty Ford Center, Merrill Lynch, The Defense Intelligence Agency and The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.

Experienced in leading a variety of programs and processes from Executive Team/Leadership Development in his work with teams and organizations to career assessment, coaching and counseling in his work with individuals, his primary focus is developing the full creative thinking potential of organizations via their leaders and teams. With a breadth of experience in a variety of organizational settings, cultures and countries, Mr. Carlisle has more than 5,000 hours of coaching experience with executive and organizational leaders.

As one of the first twelve Master Trainers, personally certified by Dr. Edward de Bono, and one of twelve certified creativity facilitators world-wide, Mr. Carlisle brings a special perspective of experience in his program and process leadership.
A Master Trainer in the parallel thinking program, Six Thinking Hats, and in the creativity and innovation program, Lateral Thinking, he is also a trainer in DATT, a program for sharpening decision making and problem solving skills. He is listed in Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the East, Who's Who of Emerging Leaders of America and Who's Who in Religion.

In addition to granting Mr. Carlisle the privilege of the use of his name, Dr. de Bono has given Mr. Carlisle a 10/20 tribute straight out of his new book, The de Bono Code Book:

" Pat, I congratulate you. I applaud your success. What you have done is wonderful. I want you to know it is really appreciated. I wish to compliment you."

Edward de Bono (See page 195 of The de Bono Code Book for more details.)