GERARD E. FISHER, MBA, Ph.D. of Founder and Senior Consultant | Extreme-Pioneer

Biography:

Gerard E. Fisher, MBA, Ph.D. has been advising major Fortune 500 organizations and many smaller and mid-sized companies on techniques for improving their innovation strategies and implementation, strategic planning, team building, marketing effectiveness, cross-team interactions, and sales and management skills for 48 years. 

His style is a unique one, developed over years of working with executives and executive teams from more than 300 organizations in 35 different industries in over 100 countries in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Latin America.  His seminar and consultation material has been translated into French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Mandrin, and Spanish.  His work involves him in programs and consultation with major parts of the organization, from the executive staff to the individual functional areas of innovation planning and entrepreneurship, engineering, research and development, marketing, sales, customer service, physical distribution, operations, and production. His broad range of expertise allows him to share with his clients a wide range of options for innovation planning strategic, team, organizational and operating practices.

In addition to his extensive consulting experience, he has owned and operated several businesses.

He has also studied organizations from an academic perspective. Jerry holds an MBA and Ph.D. in Business Administration with specialties in strategic planning, marketing, advertising, organization development, and lifecoaching from Michigan State University. Jerry has spent many years teaching team building, marketing, strategic planning and innovation management at the undergraduate and graduate level at Michigan State University, The State University of New York, Rochester Institute Technology, and the University of Dayton. 

His ideas have been featured by many national news media, including ABC, NBC, CBS, AP, U.S. News & World Report, Business Week, the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and Los Angeles Times. During his career he has had the opportunity to speak to more than 150,000 executives and has interacted on a one-on-one basis with executives from a wide variety of Fortune 500 organizations, large scale government agencies, and major national and international associations, such as Small Business Administration, Apple., American Express Company, Xerox Corporation, ATT, AOL Time Warner, Sara Lee, Conde Naste, Microsoft, UBS , Eastman Kodak Company, IBM, P & G, Pitney Bowes, Blue Cross Blue Shield, National Federation of Advertising Agencies, Radio and Television News Directors Association, National Association of Chain Drug Stores, The  Food Marketing Institute, National Association of Mass Merchants, National Association of Printers and Lithographers, National Paper Trade Association, Young Presidents' Organization, Inc., Printing Industries ofAmerica, American Hospital Association, U.S. Veterans Administration, Photo Marketing Association International, Electronic Representatives Association, Electronics Industries Association, Massachusetts Bar Association, Public Relations Society of America, International Periodical Distributors Association, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, along with a variety of medium and small-sized organizations.  He brings a unique multi-industry and multi-culture perspective to his clients. He has won many awards for his speaking talents, and use a very pragmatic and action oriented approach in his consultations and presentations.

Email:

Address:innovating.com, , Rochester, New York, United States

JONATHAN ROSENFELD of President of Innovating.com | Mid-Pioneer

Biography:

Jonathan has been working with ideas and concepts that maximize the potential for innovation success and minimize the factors that increase the chance for failure throughout his 17-year career. Jonathan is the youngest son of the creator of the ISPI™ (Innovation Strengths Preference Indicator®), Jonathan grew up with innovation and throughout his career has worked on an impressive line of innovative technologies. Jonathan Rosenfeld is a local Graduate of McQuaid Jesuit High School where he was recognized as a Rochester, Black Scholar and earned a Presidential scholarship to Ithaca College, Roy H. Park school of communications. In his senior year at Ithaca College, Jonathan was awarded American Advertising Federation’s Top 25 Students of Marketing and Advertising in the US and featured by Ad Age (a Crain's Publication). 

From Ithaca he went to NYC and embarked on a career of branding, marketing and advertising of a series of disruptive innovations. Jonathan worked for Grey Advertising, developing direct mail approaches spearheading the use of airline miles for the credit card marketing efforts for Chase Manhattan Bank and Continental Airlines. 

Banking to Automotive: After his work with Grey Advertising®, Jonathan went to Oasis Advertising™ (a boutique division of Dentsu Aegis) to help manage the Toyota USA® brand transition in synergy with the launch of the innovative automotive-hybrid technology and vehicle Toyota Prius®.

From Marketing to Celebrity Photography. Jonathan later worked as a celebrity Studio Manger and On-Location Logistics Manager for People Magazine™. During his tenue as Studio Manager, Jonathan worked directly with some of the biggest names in celebrity and talent representation, along with a spectrum of designers and stylists. Here in the imaginative and innovative stages of Masters of Craft and oversized celebrity egos, Jonathan learned high stakes publicity and creative disruption of the red carpet.

The Pharmacy Years. After his stink with People Mag, Jonathan turned his focus to pharmacy and worked for Duane Reade Drugstores in NYC as the Senior Manager of Pharmacy Marketing. While working with Duane Reade, Jonathan worked directly on creating the world’s first tele pharmacist (DRexpress), where his team was awarded the MostInnovative Pharmacy Technology Award (2007) and presented the technology to NACDS™ in Naples, FL. Additionally Jonathan spearheaded development and launch of Duane Reade’s Durable Medical Equipment sales chain wide. 

Pharmacy to Fashion. Jonathan tackled fashion and textiles as Brand Manager for Bagir International®, where he spearheaded the development of the innovative textiles of the Eco-Gir™ line of clothing. Bagir is a world leader in sustainable and eco-friendly fashions and textiles created 100% from recycled plastic bottles salvaged from the Pacific Ocean. Bagir® is the fashion house that fabricates the clothing lines of Brooks Brothers®, EL Tahari®, Banana Republic®, Cintas® and the list goes on. 

Following his work with Bagir, Jonathan returned to medicine as the Director of Marketing for the Chemotherapy Foundation™ and Mount Sinai School of Medicine™ Chemotherapy Graduate Studies where he helped manage the Chemotherapy Foundation Symposium®; North America’s largest Chemotherapy and Oncology symposium. 

Over the 15 years working with innovative projects and technologies in NYC has lead him to develop world class marketing skills and a keen insight on to how innovation becomes quantifiable gain, which Jonathan returned to Rochester NY to apply his branding, marketing and advertising skills to the Innovation Strengths Preference Indicator® (ISPI™). The ISPI™ is the world’s most widely used and validated instrument for measuring one’s Innovation Strengths and if the flagship product for Innovation.com. Innovating.com is becoming the digital home for start innovators from all sectors of industry and communities around the world who are focusing identifying the best teams for maximizing the innovation success and surviving industry disruption.

Email:

Address:innovating.com, , Rochester, New York, United States

GERARD E. FISHER, MBA, Ph.D. of Founder and Senior Consultant | Extreme-Pioneer

Biography:

Email:

Address:Rochester, New York, United States

JONATHAN ROSENFELD of President of Innovating.com | Mid-Pioneer

Biography:

Email:

Address:Rochester, New York, United States