Paul Sloane gained a first class Masters degree in Engineering from Cambridge University. He came top of Sales School at IBM. He went on to become a Marketing Director, Managing Director and CEO of software companies. He has written over 20 books which have sold over 2 million copies in total. His most popular books are entitled: - Lateral Thinking for Every Day - How to Be a Brilliant Thinker - The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills - Think like an Innovator - Lateral Thinking Puzzlers. Paul runs leadership, lateral thinking and innovation master classes with top corporations around the world. Clients for his talks and workshops include Nike, Unilever and Microsoft. He has been a visiting lecturer at Cambridge University, Lancaster University, Henley Business School and the Mumbai Institute of Technology. His Tedx talk is available on Youtube. It is entitled 'Are your Open-Minded?' He is a facilitator at Careers Springboard where he helps job-seekers get back into work. He has over 40,000 followers on Twitter.