Tom Kelley is the General Manager of IDEO, the widely admired design and development firm that brought us the Apple mouse, the Palm V and hundreds of other cutting edge products and services. Fast Company listed IDEO as number five in its 2008 list of The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies.
He is author of The Art of Innovation and The Ten Faces of Innovation.
Prior to joining IDEO, Tom was a management consultant for Towers Perrin, advising senior executives on organizational and operational issues in North America, Asia and Australia. Tom holds an MBA in marketing from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received the Delbert J. Duncan citation as the year's (1983) top marketing scholar as well as being named the first-ever Executive Fellow.
The Ten Faces of Innovation: Strategies for Heightening Creativity