Excelsior Learning

Dan Coleman, the founder of Excelsior Learning and author of Bursts of Fresh-Squeezed Ideas is consistently praised by his clients as a knowledgeable and highly energizing speaker who brings fresh content, practical tools and unique learning methods to deliver training that sticks. Prior to founding Excelsior Learning, Dan led national account sales and negotiation teams at AT&T and American Greetings, and was a senior manager with Accenture. He is a leading authority on how to use creative-thinking tools and practices to strengthen innovation productivity. Over the past eighteen years, Dan has trained thousands of people in his non-traditional custom-designed programs. Speaking & Training Topics: Get Creativity Fit is a fast paced hands on program designed to foster creative thinking and taking action – NOW! In this program you will meet the Beyonders that use their powers to conquer the Resistors that attempt to block creative thinking and action. Through the use of dynamic, powerful and easy to use Break-Set-Thinking practices you will encounter immediate learning – and apply it in real time to generate an abundance of ideas to solve individual or team specific central challenges. Negotiate @ Aspiration Point...or Nothing is an energizing program that accelerates Collaborative, Competitive, and People-Centered negotiation skills through a creative-thinking approach to negotiation. In this program, participants apply a rich mix of researched-based, practical, and highly effective negotiation strategies, and tools. Dan has a B.S. from State University of New York and is working toward an M.A. in Creative Studies at the Center of Applied Imagination at Buffalo State College. He will publish a new book on creativity and innovation in 2020: What’s Stopping You? Risks I Wish I'd Taken...And Still Can! Representative Clients: American Greetings Praxair Applied Industrial Tech. Procter & Gamble Asurion Rinnai Diebold Inc. ShurTech Brands FEDEX Custom Critical Swagelok GOJO Industries Therma-Tru Moen Incorporated Wilton Brands I really enjoy developing and delivering high-energy, fast-paced, hands-on customized programs featuring the use of powerful Break-Set-Thinking tools and techniques. It is rewarding to work with individuals and teams and assist them in applying tools against their most pressing challenges; generating novel ideas; and integrating the best of them into workable concepts. Secondly, I get a lot of satisfaction in using my high energy level to create an atmosphere that is fun, and sparks collaboration and innovation so that participants are quickly able to break existing thinking and perceiving patterns - and develop new, novel idea combinations.