This document summarizes an interactive two-day innovation workshop hosted by Gerald "Solutionman" Haman at Northwestern University in Chicago on various dates in March through June. The workshop teaches tools and techniques to increase thinking power and apply the innovation process to real-world challenges. Participants will learn 50 innovation strategies, use creative thinking tools, and network with an online community of over 1,000,000 innovators. Early bird discounts are available for individuals and teams to earn a high return on investment from applying the workshop lessons.

1. Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, Downtown Chicago
ACCELERATING INNOVATION
and KnowBrainer Creative Thinker Training
TM
Featuring New
KnowBrainer
2019 Tools
Experiential Training Facilitated by
Gerald “Solutionman” Haman
Founder, InnovationTraining.com, SOLUTIONSpeople and Thinkubators
March 26-27, April 9-10, May 6-7 and June 19-20
Interactive 2-Day Workshop Experience

2. You Will Learn
to Quickly Think
Outside the Box
ACCELERATING INNOVATION

3. Training Goals
1. Learn New Tools and Techniques to
Increase Thinking Power
2. Apply Innovation Process to Real-World
Goals Challenges and Opportunities
3. Develop Success Plans to Apply Workshop
Learning After Training
4. Grow Your Networks of Great Thinkers
Who Have Graduated from the Training,
and People in Our Linkedin Communities

4. Attend Training Experienced by 50,000
People in 100 FORTUNE 500 Companies
Accelerating Innovation created business solutions worth
millions of dollars in new revenue and cost efficiencies, as well
as billions worth of new accounts. Training is a one-of-a-kind
program that generated a 75% increase in innovation
knowledge and a 30% increase in innovation ability.
Association for Talent Development (ATD)
Formerly ASTD - Learning Excellence Award
I highly recommend Accelerating Innovation if you want to
jump start your organization on producing innovative
products or services.
Dan Love, President, Medline
We have regained our industry leadership position for
innovation as a result of the Accelerating Innovation training.
Gary Peterson, Vice President, Life Fitness

5. Agenda Inspires Learning & Interaction
PREWORK Prior to Training
Innovation Needs and Opportunities Assessment
Coaching Webinars
DAY 1: CREATING - 8:30am – 5:00pm
Morning: Investigating Needs
Collaborate to Innovate, Part 1
Communicate to Innovate
Questionate to Innovate
Afternoon: Creating Ideas
Stimulate to Innovate
Ideate to Innovate
Decorate to Innovate
Relate to Innovate
Evening: Networking Dinner (Optional)
DAY 2: INNOVATING - 8:30am – 5:00pm
Morning: Evaluating Solutions
Collaborate to Innovate, Part 2
Concentrate to Innovate
Afternoon: Activating Plans
ReActivate to Innovate
Appreciate to Innovate
Celebrate to Innovate
FOLLOW-UP After Training
Solution Activation Opportunities Survey
Coaching Webinars

6. Get Innovation
Tools to Stimulate
Your Whole Brain
ACCELERATING INNOVATION

7. Fill Your Tool Box with Innovation Tools
GET TOOL COLLECTION VALUED AT OVER $1,100 THAT INLCUDES:
- KnowBrainer™ Innovation Tools (New 2019 Version)
- KnowBrainer iMUSIC™ (3 -Volume 2019 Collection)
- KnowBrainer Brain Training™ HD Videos (6 -Volume 2019 Collection)
- Rocketbook™ Idea Collection System and App
- Brainy Thinkers™ Team Building Game
- Worksheets for OrganizingThinking
- 4-Column and 4-Quadrant Planners
- Question Collector and Idea Exchanger
- eTemplate Worksheets
- Microsoft Word
- PowerPoint
- Google Docs
- Innovation Question Banks™
- Meeting and Event Design Questions
- New Product Development Questions
- Strategic Planning Questions
- Experience Economy Book Questions
- App Subscriptions
- Spotify Premium
- Blinkist Book Summaries
- Creative Whack Pack

8. Plan to Apply Training to
Real-World Opportunities
1. Innovation Performance Improvement
2. Sales, Marketing and Revenue Growth
3. New Product and Service Development
4. Experience, Meeting and Event Design
5. Human Resources and Talent Development
6. Business Development
7. Branding and Brand Management
8. Leadership Development
9. Design Thinking
10. Association and Conference Design
11. Teambuilding and Collaboration
12. Strategic Planning
13. Business, Start-up and Technology Planning
14. Career, Life Planning and Personal Growth
15. Customer Service Improvement
16. Organizational Culture Development

9. Learn to Fill
Innovation Pipelines
with Creative Ideas
and Innovative
Solutions

10. 50 Things You Will Learn from
the Innovation Training
26. 8 Innovation Conversation Questions
27. How Music Can Inspire Better Thinking
28. Why Creativity Decreases as
Aging Increases
29. Why Creativity Should Increase as
You Get Older
30. Top 10 Songs that Inspire Creativity
and Innovation
31. Time Management for Creative People
32. How to Better Understand Needs, Wants
and Wishes
33. Top 10 Investigation Questions
34. How to Quickly Generate Bright Ideas
35. Idea Exchange Brainstorming Technique
36. Top 10 Creative Questions
37. How to Select the Best Solutions
38. Top 10 Evaluation Questions
39. 7 Most Common Evaluation Criteria
40. 10 Most Frequent Objections to Ideas
41. 8 Great Questions for Selling Ideas
42. Top 10 Most Persuasive Words
43. How to Be More Interesting
44. How to Get Things Done
45. Top 10 Action Planning Questions
46. How to Remember What You Learn
47. How to Organize Your Ideas and Plans
48. How to Continuously Innovate
49. 7 Ways to Increase Your ROI
(Return on Ideas)
50. How to Celebrate Innovative Thinking
1. How to Be a More Innovative Networker
2. 8 Questions Every Networker Should Ask
3. How to Design Environments and Spaces
that Inspire Creativity and Innovation
4. 8 Questions to Decorate to Innovate
5. How to Communicate to Innovate
6. 4 Primary Types of Innovation
7. Top 5 Blocks to Innovative Thinking
8. 8 Words Every Innovator Should Know
9. How to Ask More and Better Questions
10. 5-Step Question Banking Method
11. How to Create Innovative Cultures
12. 7 Qualities of Successful Dream Teams
13. How to Stimulate Brains to Think Better
14. 20 Most Common Thinking Tools and Apps
15. How to Master KnowBrainer Tools
16. How to Accelerate Innovation Processes
17. 4-Stage Accelerated Innovation Process
18. New 3Rs 3-Step Process
19. 2-Step Ideate and Filterate Process
20. 2-Phase M-Curve Process: How Time
the Impacts Value of Ideas
21. 3 Ways to Optimize Every Process
22. How to Kick Start Innovative Thinking
23. 6 Best Investigative Questions
24. Powerful Question Collection Techniques
25. 88 Great Meeting Planning Questions
ACCELERATING INNOVATION

11. Learn to Facilitate
Meetings That
Bring Out Better
Brainpower

12. Facilitated by Gerald “Solutionman” Haman
Gerald “Solutionman” Haman founded SOLUTIONSpeople, InnovationTraining.com, and the
THINKubator. Solutionman is the #1 Most Connected Innovator in the World on Linkedin. He was an
executive at P&G, Arthur Andersen and a Northwestern University professor. Over 1,000,000
innovative people belong to Solutionman's 50 Innovation Groups on Linkedin. Haman was recognized
as one of the “Most Influential People Online” by FAST Company. He created the award-winning
KnowBrainer Thinker Tool that increases creativity by over 530%. The KnowBrainer is sold exclusively
on Amazon and is available in English, Spanish, and Arabic.
Haman is recognized by clients as “Solutionman” because of his ability to help people quickly develop
breakthrough solutions. He has facilitated the creation of over 3,000,000 ideas that produced an ROI
of $2,000,000. Solutionman set the world brainstorming record by facilitating 8,000 people in a
THINKathon at the Singapore Stadium to generate 454,000 ideas in less than 60 minutes. He is
planning more THINKathons in 2020 around the world. THINKathoners will brainstorm creative ideas
and innovative solutions to create brighter futures and a better world!
Haman has been profiled in over 50 major news publications including FAST Company, The New York
Times, Chicago Tribune, Newsweek Japan, The Australian, Singapore Straits Times, China.org.cn, The
International Herald, Investors Business Daily, US News & World Report, and Training magazine.
SOLUTIONSpeople has helped over 100,000 people from 200 of the FORTUNE 500 companies in more
than 60 countries. The Association for Talent Development awarded SOLUTIONSpeople a “Learning
Excellence Citation” for their innovation training results. An entire chapter was published about
SOLUTIONSpeople's successful business practices in the book, Creating Customer Evangelists.
He earned a Masters Degree in Organizational Communications and Training from the University of
Minnesota, and a degree in Honors Program Studies from the University of North Dakota.
Previously, Gerald was a concert producer for Grammy-Award winning musicians including Air Supply,
Cheap Trick, Harry Chapin, Rush, Little River Band, Alice Cooper, The Babys. Poco, Juice Newton, Nick
Gilder, Michael Johnson, Cliff Richard, Head East, and The Manhattan Transfer. He often hosted
musicians at his THINKubator. He currently creates music with his team called The SOLUTIONators.
Haman does not play any instruments or have musical talents, but he is skilled at orchestrating
musicians. Music from Solutionman and the SOLUTIONators is available on Spotify, Apple Music,
Google Play Music, Amazon Music and Pandora.

13. Testimonials and Fan Feedback
We have regained our industry leadership position for
innovation as a result of the Accelerating Innovation training.
Gary Peterson, Vice President, Life Fitness
I attended Accelerating Innovation training and then sent the
rest of my department. Whenever I hold or attend a meeting,
people are amazed at the amount and quality of ideas that
come out it. I attribute much of that to the training.
Katie Schelp, McDonald’s
We couldn’t have been more pleased. From their energy and
openness through their fantastic tools like the KnowBrainer,
we found the tools to be powerful at bringing new ideas
and insights to the forefront quickly and keeping
us focused and engaged.
Rene Huey-Lipton, Vice President, GSD&M
The innovative approach to training combined with usable
take-away tools like the KnowBrainer, which I still use every
week, made Accelerating Innovation the most valuable
training in which I have ever participated.
Kevin Lawrence, American Express
I have been to many training workshops, but this was the
most worthwhile experience. From the moment we started,
the content was instantly engaging and connected
to my personal and business goals.
David Lifsitz, Liberty Mutual Insurance
ACCELERATING INNOVATION

14. Network with Other Innovation
Training Workshop Graduates
• Use Our LinkedinGroups.org Community to
Connect with Graduates of Our Training
• Join 50 Groups with 1,000,000 Members
• 100,000 or 10% of Group Members
Experienced Our Innovation Training
• Workshop Graduates Get Introduced to
People in Gerald “Solutionman” Haman’s
Personal Network Where He is the #1 Most
Connected Innovator on Linkedin

15. Network via Our Linkedin Groups

16. Invest, Learn and Earn a Great ROI
ROI (Return on Ideas), was a real outcome for each of our
teams. We walked away with more ideas than we could have
imagined and left the workshop with concrete ways
to implement them.
Raymond Truitt, Takeda Pharma
Registration
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Tuition
Investment
Target ROI
Financial & Time
Early Bird
1 Person
Save $1,000
$1,497
$750 per Day
$5,000 = 230%
Plus 32 Hours Saved/Gained
Regular
1 Person
$2,497
$1,250 per Day
$5,000 = 100%
Plus 32 Hours Saved/Gained
Early Bird
4-Person Team
Save $5,000
$4,997
$650 per Person per Day
$50,000 = 900%
Plus 128 Hours Saved/Gained
Regular
4-Person Team
$9,997
$1,250 per Person per Day
$50,000 = 400%
Plus 128 Hours Saved/Gained
Earn a Greater ROI and Bring an Onsite In-house Workshop to Your Organization – Phone 1-312-538-8330

17. Register Now
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Earn a Greater ROI and Bring an Onsite In-house Workshop to Your Organization – Phone 1-312-538-8330
March 26-27, April 9-10, May 6-7 and June 19-20
Northwestern University, Downtown Chicago
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