Last activity: Jul 08, 2008
Chas Martin
Creative Director - Facilitator - Trainer
InnovativEye
Portland, Oregon 97221
What Chas does
Question everything. I explore ways to improve whatever I touch.
Website: Chas Martin - InnovativEye
- InnovativEye Innovation Program
- Six Thinking Hats Trainer
- Scenario writing
- Situational strategist
- New opportunity, product, service, process concepts
- Innovation facilitator
- Creative team builder/leader
What Chas does best
Help people expand their realm of possibility and think differrntly.
Create change, by reframing questions, challenging assumptions, and opening doors to new ideas. Guide individuals and teams to envision innovative possibilities. Generate concepts and scenarios for new products, new markets, new services and new processes for clients seeking breakthrough strategies.
What does Chas need?
Connections. A consultant's value is directly proportional to his/her connections.
Education
Pratt Institute
Experience
Martin has provided creative leadership for a wide range of organizations, including SAS Institute, Sprint, U.S. Marine Corps Center for Business Excellence, Parker Brothers Games, Cutter Laboratories, and Tektronix. Additional projects include HP, InFocus, and Intel. He has also assisted multiple startups in defining potential, expanding options and achieving goals.
As an art director, writer, and eventually creative director, his career path has taken him from marketing communications to interactive entertainment to online and classroom education. These paths converge as a foundation for resourcefulness and imaginative problem solving.
As a team builder, leader and mentor, he encourages inclusion of diverse personalities, values and perspectives within project teams. Through informal, sometimes unstructured activities, he inspires intersectional thinking, parallel thinking and lateral thinking to achieve unconventional results.
Chas's location
Portland, Oregon 97221
