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MICHAEL HEWITT-GLEESON has personally taught more people to think than anyone in history.

28 years ago in New York, with Edward de Bono, he co-founded the School of Thinking. SOT Thinking Lessons have already reached over 80 million people worldwide since 1979.

Since 1985 he has been Principal of the School of Thinking, and, in 1995 he saw that SOT became the world’s first internet school as one of the world’s first 10,000 websites! Today there are over a quarter billion websites.

In 2007, www.schoolofthinking.org exported over one million thinking lessons to SOT members in 52 countries.

Dr Hewitt-Gleeson is one of the world’s first cognitive scientists and is the originator and author of ’software for the brain’ and he also pioneered the ‘thinking hats’ method for teaching thinking skills which has become widely used in schools and businesses around the world. Edward de Bono testifies that, “the ’six thinking hats’ method may well be the most important change in human thinking for the past 2300 years”.

AUTHOR

Dr Hewitt-Gleeson is currently writing his new book called, “The Seventh Hat for Wisdom” for publication in 2008 and also “Ten Cricket Thinking Caps, Hats, Helmets and Turbans” with Max Walker, World Series Cricket legend and author of “Caps, Hats and Helmets“.

He is also Australia’s best-selling business author of:
- Software For Your Brain
- NewSell
- The X10 Memeplex: Multiply Your Business By Ten!
- WOMBAT SELLING: How to sell by Word of Mouth.

His work has been featured in: Readers Digest (April 1983, cover story, worldwide editions), Self (cover story), GQ (cover story), The New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Los Angeles Times, IndustryWeek, Working Woman, Reason, Chemical Engineering, Personal Success (cover story May ‘91), Marketing (cover story), Boardroom Reports, BRW, Financial Review, Australian Women’s Weekly, The Australian, Herald Sun, The Age, Sydney Morning Herald etc and numerous radio and television programs worldwide and on the WWW.

CONSULTANT

Based in New York for 14 years, the United States government described Dr Hewitt-Gleeson as a “national asset”. He has been an international consultant on strategy to a veritable Who’s Who of the world’s movers and shakers.

Michael Hewitt-Gleeson’s advice on THINKING, SELLING and LEADERSHIP has been sought by leaders like Jack Welch of General Electric, Edward de Bono and Ed Koch, Mayor of New York City. By organisations from The United Nations and The White House to IBM, Fujitsu, BMW, Telstra, ANZ and sporting organisations like the Australian Sports Commission.

SPEAKER & TRAINER

Dr Hewitt-Gleeson has lectured in Australia, Bermuda, Canada, China, France, Greece, Hawaii, Hong Kong, Italy, Israel, Japan, Malta, Mexico, Monte Carlo, New Guinea, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Singapore, Tahiti, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States and daily on the WWW.

Military Training and Service

His military honours for training and service include:

  • Corps Medal, the Veterans Corps of Artillery, State of New York (New York 1990)
  • Flying Officer, Royal Australian Air Force Reserve (Melbourne 1969-1974)
  • Language Instructor, Vietnamese and Allied Cultural Association (Vung Tau 1968)
  • Australian Viet Nam Medal (Nui Dat 1968)
  • South Viet Nam Star (Vung Tau 1969)
  • Graduate, Jungle Training Centre, Canungra, Australia (Queensland 1968)
  • Officer Training Unit, Scheyville, NSW Australia (non-graduate 1968)
  • Member, (Accelerated Free Fall, 51 Seconds) United States Parachutists Association (New York 1987)
  • Member, (Australia’s Highest Bungee Jump - 18 stories/167 feet) Bungee International (Surfers Paradise 1991)

Academic and Civic Appointments

Dr. Hewitt-Gleeson holds the world’s first PhD in lateral thinking:
- Tutor: Professor Edward de Bono MD, PhD (Oxon), PhD (Camb).
- Examiner: Professor George Gallup PhD, founder of The Gallup Poll at Princeton.

Academic honours, civic and professional appointments include: