Lindsay is the founder of Creative Edge Associates, an upstate New York firm dedicated to helping organizations tap the enormous creative potential of their people. He is the author of two books, Get Out of Your Thinking Box; 365 Ways to Brighten Your Life and Enhance Your Creativity and The Whack-A-Mole Theory; Creating Breakthrough and Transformation in Organizations. Two new books are forthcoming, Organizational Mental Floss; 21st Century Thinking for Organizations and Quotations To Tickle Your Brain.
Formerly a creative thinking expert and futurist at Kodak, he taught creative thinking and future scouting processes to hundreds of people and facilitated ideation sessions at all levels within the company. Just prior to leaving he designed and set up the Kodak Humor and Creativity Room designed to provide a place for people to bring out their creativity and humor and apply it to their work.
He has been on NBC Today and CNBC and featured in the Wall Street Journal and is a popular speaker on topics related to creative thinking. His clients include organizations of all types and sizes to include several Fortune 100 companies.
Lindsay is a Mechanical Engineer with an MBA and a former associate of Joel Barker’s Infinity Limited Institute. He is also past President of the Western New York Futurists chapter of the World Future Society, the Rochester Professional Consultant’s Network, and Director of the Institute of Industrial Engineers. He is a currently a member of the National Speaker’s Association, ASTD, an associate of the Innovation Network and a colleague of the Creative Education Foundation. His innovative work as a futurist combined with a vast knowledge of creative thinking and organizational change process has resulted in some very unique and powerful techniques to help organizations create futures they never thought possible. Those who hear him speak sometimes refer him to as an “affordable Tom Peters” because he challenges their thinking in ways that are thoroughly entertaining and fun.
Lindsay and his wife of 36 years, Jan, live in West Henrietta, New York near Rochester. His three children are following their careers in Massachusetts and California. When not speaking and writing you can usually find him shopping for new jazz and classical CD’s, playing racquetball, reading, gardening, or playing with his 5 year old Golden Retriever, Molly.

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