Dr Ken Hudson
Dr. Hudson in a previous life worked in marketing for many large organisations (Citibank, Dunlop Slazenger and American Express–where he was a Marketing Director. After successful stints in advertising and management consulting, Ken went back to university to gain a PHD in Organisational Creativity (UWS) to sit along with his B. Bus (UTS) and MBA (UNE).
He formed his own business called Ideaspace in 2001 and worked with leaders of many of the world’s leading brands e.g. DuPont, Unilever, Heinz, Citibank, 3M, PayPal, Ebay, and Dell. As a result of this experience he wrote his first, best-selling book called The Idea Generator, 2007 (Allen & Unwin) which outlined 60 practical and effective tools he has developed.
Whilst running his creative thinking workshops and lecturing at the University of Technology, Sydney, he discovered that many participants (or post-graduate students) did their best work when they did it at an express pace. Rather than filtering ideas and solutions participants are able to unlock their amazing unconscious mind and magic seems to happen.
On the back of this powerful discovery, Dr. Hudson formed The Speed Thinking Zone and has dedicated his business to helping everyone achieve ‘twice as much–in half the time’. His second book The Idea Accelerator: How to solve problems faster using speed thinking (Allen & Unwin) is out in July 2008. If you would like to book Dr. Hudson for a Speaking, Facilitating or Consulting Assignment please send him an email on: kenhudson [at] thespeedthinkingzone [dot] com or call 61 2 9665-6762.