Andrew Razeghi is a writer, educator, and adviser to organizations on growth strategy, creativity, and innovation. As founder of StrategyLab, Inc., his work spans industries, from consumer packaged goods to healthcare, tourism to media, and non-profit organizations to professional sports teams. A few of his clients include Aurora Healthcare, Brinker International, Darden Restaurants, GE, GlaxoSmithKline, the Houston Texans, Motorola, Novartis, Switzerland Tourism, and World Kitchen. Moreover, Andrew speaks to thousands of people each year at trade association and organization events on topics related to creativity and innovation. Andrew has appeared in a number of media outlets including ABC-TV, Air America, The Chicago Sun-Times, China Daily, El Norte (Mexico), FAST COMPANY, NPR, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The San Jose Mercury News. Prior to joining Kellogg, Andrew taught the capstone MBA course on strategy and organization at The Graduate School of Business at Loyola University Chicago. Shortly after the fall of communism in Central Europe, he was invited to be among the first American professors to teach free market economics at The Prague University of Economics in Prague, The Czech Republic. In addition to his work as an educator and adviser, Andrew is a review panelist for The Wright Centers of Innovation at The National Academies of Science in Washington, D.C.; a Thought Leader with Knowledge Dialogue; and an Advisory Board Member of Americans for Informed Democracy (AID) – a non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization working to raise global awareness on more than 500 university campuses and in more than 10 countries. Andrew is the best-selling author of the leadership book "Hope: How Triumphant Leaders Create The Future" praised by leaders in many fields including cancer survivor and Tour de France Champion Lance Armstrong, Kinko's Founder Paul Orfalea, and best-selling authors Dr. Ken Blanchard and Dr. Jim Belasco who calls HOPE "the trailblazing management book of our time!" HOPE has also been translated into Mandarin Chinese and Korean and has been on CEO READ's best-seller list since its launch. Andrew’s book on innovation is entitled "The Riddle: Where Ideas Come From And How To Have Better Ones." In THE RIDDLE, professor Razeghi explains how the common pre-cursors to “Eureka moments” can be replicated in order to help people learn to become more innovative. FAST COMPANY magazine has selected THE RIDDLE as one of its "smart books" for 2008. Titles Hope: How Triumphant Leaders Create The Future The Riddle: Where Ideas Come From And How To Have Better Ones Topics Future, Financial, Business, Customer Service, Change, Strategic Planning Click topic above to see more speakers on that topic Speaker's Asking Fee Range $15,000 or more Click on fee range to see more speakers. This is the starting keynote fee range - other programs may be higher. State IL Click on state above to see more speakers from that state. Fees The fee range quoted means the speaker's fee starts somewhere within that range. Note that speaker's fees are subject to change and some speakers may have special fee quotes.