Gerald “Solutionman” Haman created his first “thinking tool” when he was just six years old and has continued to create and collect innovative and creative thinking tools for over 40 years. More than 120,000 people in over 50 countries have benefited from his award-winning inventions and tools. People call him “Solutionman” because he likes to help people quickly develop breakthrough solutions using innovation tools. Haman is one of Linkedin.com’s most popular “community organizers” who started innovation groups with more than 100,000 worldwide members.

Solutionman founded SolutionPeople®, started the Thinkubator® in Chicago, was an adjunct professor of innovation at Northwestern University, and started InnovatorsDigest.com. He may have one of the world’s largest collections of “thinking tools” that he stores at his Thinkubator. Solutionman started the Innovation Tool of The Month Club™ to share the tools he discovered from his global network of “Innovation People” in order to empower more people to realize their full creative potential.

Formerly with Procter & Gamble and Arthur Andersen, Haman is the award-winning inventor of the KnowBrainer Innovation Tool® that has proven to increase creativity by over 500%. He also created the world’s first innovative thinking programs for iPods and iPhones, and FlashBrainer™ and Innovation Activator™ innovation software programs. The popular KnowBrainer was featured the best-selling book, Creating Customer Evangelists. Haman set a world brainstorming record by facilitating a Thinkathon® for 8,000 people at the Singapore Stadium. Haman set the record by leading the audience to generate over 454,000 ideas in less than than 60 minutes.