James P. (Pat) Carlisle, President of The de Bono Group, LLC 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. He was recently recommended by Dr. de Bono to the newly elected President of the United States, Barack Obama. Foremost as a leader in the field of de Bono Thinking™, he has organized de Bono distributorships and trained trainers in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Portugal. 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.

 

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, Simplicity, Leading High Performance Thinking and Six Value Medals. 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. He is also President and Chairman of the Board of The Edward de Bono Graduate Institute.

Recent Conference Presentations by James P. Carlisle

TRIZCON-TRIZ International Conferences 2007 and 2008
Speaker and Presenter on Integrating TRIZ and de Bono Thinking

R&D Development Innovation Summit: Natick, MA 2008
Integrating Edward de Bono Thinking Methods, R&D and Innovation

Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Babson College, Wellesley, MA 2009
Thinking as a Barrier to Innovation and Entrepreneurship

The International Conference in Strategic Innovation and Future Creation:
A European Union Conference in Malta 2009
Edward de Bono Thinking Methods, Innovation and Future Creation

 

 

A partial listing of clients he and The de Bono Group have worked with include Research in Motion (Blackberry), MTV (Viacom), F5 Networks, Boston Scientific, The Martin Agency, The US Army Central Electronics Communications Command, Phillip Morris, Nestle USA, Genentech, The Marketing Store, The Orchestra Forum, The Naval Surface Warfare Center USN, Highmark, Siemens PLM, Gillette, Independence Blue Cross, IDG, IMS Health, Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, The Methodist Hospital in Houston, CHI-Catholic Health Initiatives, The Corporate Executive Board, BP Exploration, Babson College, Motorola, The Defense Intelligence Agency, Mars Inc., Oracle, United Technologies, Wachovia, The Betty Ford Center, Merrill Lynch, and The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.

 

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.)