Doug Hall
- Leadership, Business & Employee Engagement, Innovation Culture Expert
Travels From
Ohio
Doug Hall Speaker Biography
Doug Hall is an Inventor, Author, Speaker & Bourbon Maker whose life’s focus is on helping 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.
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 and later the Dexter Bourbon Company.
The Eureka! Ranch specialty is helping leaders create a culture of PROACTIVE Problem Solving of flaws in existing work systems. In addition, the company’s legacy offering - Eureka! ! Inventing helps organizations invent and take action on BIG IDEAS for new or improved products and services. Clients include thought leaders such as Walt Disney, Nike, AT&T, Procter & Gamble, American Express and over 2,000 other large, medium and small companies.
Dexter Bourbon Company was founded to develop and monetize the WoodCraft family of technologies for: reducing capital costs by 90%, developing 60/40 winning products all while increasing speed to market by 5x. Their flagship technology demonstration brand is Dexter Bourbon (96 Rating - Double Gold Medal.)
Books, TV & Awards: He is a best selling author of eight books. He has spoken and presented at over 1,000 events over the past 40 years. 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, a nationally syndicated radio program and authored and performed a 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 & girlfriend of 49 years split their time between Cincinnati, Ohio and Springbrook Prince Edwards Island Canada.
DRIVING EUREKA! HOW EVERYONE CAN FIND, FILTER & FAST TRACK BIG IDEAS
With his legendary caffeinated energy – Doug Hall will ignite your audience to think faster, smarter and more creatively. Doug will back up his energy with hard data and practical tips from his 40+ years of experience inventing and testing over 25,000 innovations and has helped inspire over $16 billion in current innovations.
The talk is based on Doug’s 7th book, DRIVING EUREKA!. The talk and the book reveal the results of 40 years of research and experimentation so substantial that it’s become a new field of study – Innovation Engineering. You’ll learn what it takes to lead a team to innovate more and faster, how systems thinking can liberate your calendar and your people and how to set a strategy that motivates employees to deliver more.
The talk is fully customized to make it fun, mind opening and motivational for all audience.
The key takeaways are:
* How to CREATE & FIND 8X more BIG IDEAS than your competition.
* How to FILTER out the great ideas from the bad ones.
* How to FAST TRACK your big ideas, so you get to market 6X faster than your competition.
THE GRITTY REAL WORLD OF DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION – THE TRUE STORY OF BRAIN BREW VENTURES
In this entertaining storytelling session, you’ll learn the front lines account of how Brain Brew Distilling created a patent-pending breakthrough system, business model, and product innovations that beat the category leader 3-to-1. Based on this same process you will be able to reinvent your own offerings.
Doug will share how this innovation team blew up the business model by crafting a premium spirit in 40 minutes. A feat that takes the competition 18 years to do! How they used 234 quantitative research tests to go from concept to in-market in less than 6 months and many other discoveries along the way.
This is an inspiring fact-filled talk that will open minds to possibilities.
The key takeaways are:
* A mind-blowing mindset shift on market research that allows you to run 200% MORE research at 7% of the cost.
* How disruptive innovation can happen in the MOST regulated industries.
* How you can become a market leader overnight with ZERO experience.
JUMP START YOUR BUSINESS BRAIN
How to win more, lose less, and make more money with sales, marketing and business development ideas.
During this high energy keynote learn a proven system for helping teams think smarter, faster, and more innovatively while also, learning how to sell more, to more people, for more money.
MEANINGFUL MARKETING
This powerful keynote outlines a sales and marketing approach that multiplies the impact of every dollar invested and every dollar you spend by teaching you how to make meaningful connections with customers instead of using mindless marketing tricks.
