Dr Edward de Bono’s thinking skills for business and education success. Five workshops for business, political and education leaders to increase individual and group performance.

Edward de Bono is regarded as one of the world's most outstanding thinkers in the field of direct and explicit teaching of constructive and creative thinking as an explicit skill. This best selling author of 68 books who has worked in 45 countries is referred to as a creative genius. His techniques can change an entire company's or school's performance by teaching children, students and employees to THINK in a more efficient manner. The essence of Dr. de Bono’s work has been to produce thinking techniques that are simple, practical and effective. An example of this is the Six Thinking Hats method, which is now being widely used by major corporations and schools because of its simplicity and its power to change thinking behavior in a team and individual performance.

His books have been translated into 34 languages. These include Lateral Thinking for Management, Six Thinking Hats, Serious Creativity, and Teach Your Child How to Think. He has degrees in medicine, physiology, and psychology.  His medical background in biological information systems inspired and enabled him not only to teach thinking but also to design thinking methods. Dr de Bono was a Rhodes scholar and has held faculty appointments at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London, and Harvard.

His lectures have tantalised and intrigued audiences worldwide.  His sense of humour not only entertains but also makes his points memorable. Dr. de Bono has been the keynote speaker at many corporate and government events. Corporations that have invited him to speak have also invited their suppliers and vendors to attend so they all would be Thinking “on the same level”.

His methods are now mandatory on the school curriculum in many countries and widely used in others. Over 7.5 million students and 500,000 people have used de Bono Thinking Systems worldwide.

His instruction in thinking has been sought by many organisations; IBM, Prudential, GM, Ford, BT, Boeing, NTT[Japan], NOKIA[Finland],
Mondadori[Italy], Total[France], Siemens[Germany], Ericsson[Sweden] and many others.

The appeal of Dr de Bono’s work is its simplicity and practicality. It can be used by four year olds, senior executives, special needs, gifted, talented, deprived children and students.

Dr de Bono is currently the chairman of the council of Young Enterprise Europe which has a membership of 1,500,000 youngsters across Europe, Israel and Russia who set up mini- businesses while at school.

There is even a planet named after him so DE73 became E.de Bono.

The Edward de Bono Foundation is an internationally recognised organisation with specific expertise in the field of direct and explicit teaching of constructive and creative thinking as a skill.

A unique five-day series of workshops on creative and constructive thinking based on de Bono Thinking Systems. Dr Edward de Bono, leading international authority on creative and constructive thinking will open the UK Foundations offices at Manchester Business Park and will speak about de Bono Thinking Systems on Tuesday Morning 17th April 2007 by invitation only.