Speakers

Dr Michael Hewitt-Gleeson

Company: Newsell

Position: Director

Dr Michael Hewitt-Gleeson holds the world's first PhD in Lateral Thinking for discovering a brand new strategy for selling.

Michael has returned to Australia having been an international consultant on business development strategy to a veritable Who's Who of the world's movers and shakers. Michael's advice on business development has been sought by Jack Welch of GE, Edward de Bono, Seth Godin, the Mayor of New York and the Australian Sports Commission, Telstra, IBM, BMW and AMP.

Newsell is now being used every day in the marketplace by thousands of leading sales people and their managers around the world. 

Michael has taught more people how to sell than any Australian in history. He was also the co-founder of the School of Thinking, with Edward de Bono, in New York in 1979. School of Thinking lessons are now exported to over 43 countries every day and have already reached over 80 million people worldwide since 1979. Based in New York for 14 years, the United States government described Dr Hewitt Gleeson as a "national asset".

He was recently honoured by the Premier of Victoria as a Melbourne Ambassador and has been appointed as a Visiting Academic Fellow in Innovation Thinking at LaTrobe University. He also is an advisor on Leadership and Learning to Melbourne Grammar School.