Your speaker today can be

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Your speaker today can be
Dr. Robert Alan Black
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Who?
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Alan
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Robert
Alan
Black,
Ph.D, CSP
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I was born in Detroit, Michigan 1972 moved to
Palm Beach, Florida 1979 to Athens, Georgia to
work on my Ph.D.
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I have been making presentations, speeches
consulting since 1976
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Among some clients I gained a nickname.
Hoola Hoop Man
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I have been working since.
1960 - today!
47 in 47
1 day to 22 yrs
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Apprentice mechanical draftsman Architect
(2) Architect-own firm Architectural designer
(4) Architectural draftsman (9) Architectural job
captain (5) Architectural project architect
(2) Blueprint boy Busboy Calculus tutor Candy
Sales Cleaning crew member Freelance
Cartoonist College professor (2) Consultant Drafts
man-mechanical (2) Freelance advertising
designer Freelance art director Freelance display
artist Freelance writer Geometry tutor Graphics
and signage designer Interiors-party designer
Interior designer Janitor at a church Janitorial
service employee Kitchen helper Math tutor Model
maker Newspaper boy Physics tutor Shoe
salesman Signage designer Sign Tile
estimator maker Soap salesman Speaker Tile floor
estimator Trainer TV News writer TV News
editor TV News weekend desk editor Volunteer
construction worker (Habitat for
Humanity) Volunteer gifted education
teacher-elementary school Volunteer gifted
education teacher-middle school Window Display
designer
47 in 47
chronological order beginning in
1960... Freelance cartoonist and sign maker
during high school Blueprint boy first college
summer Junior draftsman second college
summer LIT-Math tutor during undergraduate
program LIT-Physical tutor during undergraduate
program LIT-Calculus tutor during undergraduate
program LIT-Writer on college paper LIT-Cartoonist
on college paper LIT-Bus boy LIT-Kitchen
help LIT-Shoe salesman one Easter
vacation WXYZ-TV News writer WXYZ-TV weekend desk
editor Tile estimator WXYZ-TV editor summer of
65 Mechanical engineering draftsman Siegel
draftsman Rogvoy draftsman Rogvoy designer Confer
designer Confer model maker De conti draftsman De
conti designer Design House designer Restaurant
display Chris restaurant Restaurant display
other restaurant Window display fabric store
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Winner of the Employee of the month award 272
months in a row since June 1984
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8 careers mostly simultaneously.
Licensed Architect
College Professor
Interior Designer
Signage Graphics Designer
Television News writer editor
Freelance Writer
Cartoonist
Creative Thinking Consultant
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My clients have included
1976 to today
Fortune 100 to 10,000 to 20,000
businesses Government agencies Police/Fire/Emt
depts Volunteer Leadership groups, Universities
Creativity conferences around the globe
3,200presentations
speeches
programs
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Duck Head Apparel, Bibb Manufacturing, Thiele
Kaolin, Coloplast, Ferrosan, Danisco,
Novo, SIM
General Motors, Nestle, Johnson
Johnson, CertainTeed, Kimberly Clark , American
Management Association, Battelle Institute,
Gillette-Stationery Division, Warner Robins Air
Force Base, Fort Gordon, Fort Benning, Fort
Stewart police departments in ... Athens, Forest
Park, Rome, Lawrenceville, Georgia Police Chiefs
Assn's Command College Georgia Public Safety
Training Center AIA, ASID, ASTD, CSI, HFMA, MGMA,
SRCUS CEF/CPSI/CREA/JCC/ACA/IN
Sample Client List
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Since 98
I have been wandering the globe
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Hungary
Thailand
Taiwan
Russia
Japan
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I have presented in
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Korea
Turkey
Taiwan
South Africa
Have taken 8 trips around
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Alan
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Have been called
A colorful white man named
Black!
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My professional focus is to help clients develop
Skills of Productive Leading
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• Generate ideas for clients
• Facilitate idea generation for clients
• Teach clients to do both

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Contact information
Robert Alan Black, Ph.D., CSP Cre8ng People,
Places Possibilities P. O. Box 5805 Athens,
Georgia 30604 alan_at_cre8ng.com http//www.cre8ng.c
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My lifes
passion
purpose
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S.P.R.E.A.D. Cre8ng Creative Thinking
Throughout workplaces Around the globe Wherever I
However I can

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I do this through Keynote speeches, Workshops, Tr
aining Programs, Consulting Writing the
Internet.