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.)