“The dramatic challenges facing our world will not be solved through traditional linear thinking. They will be solved through bold leaps of insight and imagination. Our goal is to help liberate all the innate creative genius the world has yet to know.”
Mitchell Rigie & Keith Harmeyer
SmartStorming Developers
The People Behind SmartStorming ®
The SmartStorming ® Principals, Mitchell Rigie and Keith Harmeyer, have a combined 50+ years experience working in the fields of strategic marketing communications and personal development. They have personally experienced thousands of brainstorming sessions and have witnessed first-hand how frustrating and unproductive the process can be.
SmartStorming ® technology is the result of their personal experience and expertise, as well as extensive research and practical application in the areas of innovation, peak creative performance and interpersonal communication.
Mitchell Rigie
A top creative professional for over 25 years, Mitchell’s expertise spans the fields of art, design, communications, strategic marketing, and human development. He is a thought leader in the emerging field of peak creative performance; his “Creative Flow Principles” have helped thousands of creative professional in different industries achieve higher levels of productivity.
As a Vice President and award-winning creative supervisor for advertising agencies including Saatchi & Saatchi and Foote Cone Belding, and as a consultant for Grey Worldwide, he has managed creative teams in the development of campaigns for Fortune 500 clients including: Johnson & Johnson, American Express, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, and General Electric.
Mitchell is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and Coach University, the world’s leading training organization for professional coaches. He also serves as a member of the Board of Trustees for the Rhode Island School of Design.
Keith Harmeyer
Keith’s professional background includes over 25 years in advertising and strategic marketing; sales and business coaching; and advanced presentation and communication skills training – – including his proprietary system for highly persuasive presentation and interpersonal communication, The SuperSkill ® .
As a marketing and creative executive at agencies in the Omnicom and Publicis networks, as well as founder and principal of his own marketing communications firm, Keith created countless successful brand marketing programs and business presentations for many of the world’s best known and most successful companies, such as American Express, JPMorgan Chase, Sony, Time Warner, ABC, Disney, Philips, Fujifilm, Conde Nast, Sports Illustrated, GlaxoSmithKline, Roche, McDonald’s, Footlocker and many others. He has also coached and trained numerous business leaders on their sales and presentation techniques, utilizing his proprietary system for persuasive communication.
Keith is a graduate of Loyola University and Tulane University, both in New Orleans, LA, and of Coach University, the world’s leading training organization for professional coaches. Formerly, he was the Executive Vice President, Marketing & Creative Services, at C2 Creative in New York City.
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