Paul Sloane is well known as a thought-provoking, entertaining and motivational speaker. He is the author of 11 books on lateral puzzles, creative problem-solving and lateral leadership. He was described in the Independent as the "King of Lateral Thinking Puzzles." He is the founder of Destination-Innovation, a consultancy that helps organisations gain competitive advantage through innovation.

Paul Sloane is well known as a thought-provoking, entertaining and motivational speaker. He is the author of 11 books on lateral puzzles, creative problem-solving and lateral leadership. He was described in the Independent as the "King of Lateral Thinking Puzzles." He is the founder of Destination-Innovation, a consultancy that helps organisations gain competitive advantage through innovation.

He gives after-dinner talks, keynote addresses, link presentations and workshops. His talks offer a unique blend of puzzling challenges and hard-hitting business messages. They are motivational, stimulating and fun but with strong take-away themes on leadership, creativity and innovation. He uses humour, interaction and real-life examples to inspire audiences to approach issues from new directions. His clients include BT, IBM, ICI, Philip Morris, Equant, Scottish Equitable and Syntegra. He is particularly popular with top-level audiences and in the fields of sales, marketing and high technology.

Paul gained a first in Engineering at Cambridge. His stellar career started in IBM where he came top of Sales School. He was part of the team that launched the IBM PC in the UK. He went on to be Managing Director of the database leaders, Ashton-Tate. He became VP International for MathSoft Inc. and CEO of Monactive Ltd.

In his latest book, The Leader's guide to Lateral Thinking Skills, published by Kogan Page, he explains how you can use the principles of lateral leadership to inspire your people to achieve breakthrough solutions and radical innovations. Previous to this, Paul had six books published, including the well received, Ten Great Ways to Crush Creativity. He has a regular column on innovation in Eurobusiness magazine.

Topics covered by Paul in his talks include: Cultivating a Climate of Creativity; The Vision, Vulture and Process of Innovation; Lateral Leadership in Sales and Marketing; The Four Golden Rules and One Magic Sentence of the Lateral Leader; and Great Ways to Crush Creativity.

Paul's motivational talks are always extremely well received. L'Oreal said of him following a recent presentation, "The content was very well received and we enjoyed a thought-provoking sequence of ideas delivered with a light and humorous approach which was much appreciated." Mobile Telecommunications giant Vodafone has been similarly impressed with Paul's approach, "Many thanks for a super talk at our seminar. The feedback has been extremely positive and you helped contribute to a very successful event."