“ANZ would like to thank you, Michael, for your contribution to our cultural transformation journey to perform, grow and breakout.”
– Special award from ANZ Bank.
Since 1985, Michael’s client list reads like a Whos Who of national and international leaders and enterprises.
Here are a selection from the past 20 years:
Based in New York for 14 years (1974-1989), the United States government described Dr Hewitt-Gleeson as a “national asset”. In 1968-69 he served with the Australian Task Force in Viet Nam and has been an international consultant on innovation and strategy to eminent leaders like Jack Welch of General Electric, Edward de Bono and The Mayor of New York and by organisations from The United Nations, The White House and the US State Department to IBM, Fujitsu and St Kilda Football Club.
World leaders who have become interested in the Newsell strategy and Michael’s other ideas on thinking, selling and leadership:
• Professor Robert Hayes of Harvard Business School said:
In business, moving from CVS to BVS should be the constant.
• His Honour Ed Koch credited with being one of New York’s greatest Mayors wrote:
I look forward to learning more about your interesting approach to sales.
• Andrew A Anspach CEO of The Algonquin in New York wrote:
Being thoroughly pragmatic as well as intellectually innovative makes Newsell especially exciting and provocative. Its immediate impact was to get me thinking more creatively about a sales effort we were about to initiate here.
• Fred Herman, author of KISS: Keep It Simple Salesman and acclaimed by Earl Nightingale to be “America’s Greatest Sales Trainer”, wrote:
In my opinion, Michael has worked a miracle!
• Dr Paul MacCready Jr is the inventor of the Gossamer Albatross. As the father of man-powered flight he was named Engineer of the Century. DrMacCready was among the first to attend Michael’s lectures in Los Angeles in 1981. He had this to say:
When first watching a School of Thinking class in action I was amazed that something so simple and so much fun could be so quick and effective in developing a person’s ‘thinking muscle’. We all, as individuals and caretakers of our precious earth, need these thinking skills.
• The Honourable Robert Hawke, Rhodes Scholar when serving as Prime Minister of Australia said after attending Michael’s lecture:
There’ll be no stopping us now!
• His Excellency Sir Ninian Stephen when serving as Governor-General of Australia said on hearing Michael’s Bi-Centennial Address in Canberra:
That was the best keynote address I have ever heard.
• The United Nations. 3 November 1982. Michael was invited to give the Pacem in Terris Address at the United Nations in New York which he titled: HOPE: Lateral Thinking and World Peace.
• Jack Welch turned GE into the world’s most valuable company:
Michael, you are a friend of our company. I wish I had a management team that really understood your CVSTOBVS equation. It’s the value-added role in the management process.
• Peter Vidmar USA 1984, two Olympic Gold Medals wrote:
I listen to your brain software tape in the car. Gymnasts are judged on Risk, Originality and Virtuosity. We call it ROV. So rember! CVS to BVS plus ROV!
•Roger von Oech author of ‘A Whack on the Side of the Head’ said:
Michael has summed it up with CVS to BVS.
• GQ Magazine, Cover Story (January 1985 wrote
Michael–scientist and lecturer–is an international mover and shaker.
• USAir Magazine feature story about Michael Hewitt-Gleeson and Edward de Bono and the popular outreach of the School of Thinking wrote:
The School of Thinking is the McDonald’s of Thinking!
• Linus Wright when Superintendent of the Dallas Independent School District wrote:
This is what I’ve been waiting to see in this district for the past three years.
• Dan Fauci, Founder of The Actors Institute in New York said:
Michael’s technology is fantastic!
Since 1985, Dr Hewitt-Gleeson has lectured extensively throughout the world and his consultancy has been sought by many kinds of organizations including:
IBM, GE, BMW, ANZ Bank, Vodafone, Telstra, Australian Institute of Company Directors, Sydney Chamber of Commerce, Sabco, Aussie Bodies, Elders Real Estate, Zurich, Polk Automotive, Australian Unity, Equitable Life, Borg-Warner, Saudia Airlines, Norwich Union, Monash University, Royal Australian Air Force, General Motors, Mobil, the United Nations, the United States Army, USMC, US State Department, The White House, NASA, Coca-Cola-Amatil, SmithKline Beecham, Scania, Hewlett-Packard, JLW, The Actors Institute (New York), Lenox Hill Hospital, Australian Institute of Management, Singapore Institute of Management, Victorian Hospitals Association, University of Melbourne, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, McLuhan & Davies (Toronto), The Gallup Poll (Princeton), Cognitive Research Trust (Cambridge UK), Young Presidents’ Organisation (Houston), The Executive Connection (Sydney) etc.