Tim Hurson

Infobox Person
name = Tim Hurson


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birth_date = 1946
birth_place = Johannesburg, South Africa
nationality = Canadian
occupation = Writer, Speaker, Consultant
Founding Partner, thinkx intellectual capital
website = [http://timhurson.com Tim Hurson]
[http://www.thinkxic.com thinkx intellectual capital]
[http://tenkaizen.blogspot.com Think Better Blog]

Tim Hurson (born 1946) is a speaker, writer, and creativity theorist living in Toronto, Canada. He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and grew up in New York, USA. He is now a Canadian citizen. He was educated at The Peddie School in Hightstown, New Jersey, and went to college at Oberlin College in Ohio. [cite encyclopedia |last= |first= |author= |authorlink= |coauthors= |editor= |encyclopedia=Canadian Who's Who |title=Hurson, Tim |url= |accessdate=2007-12-22 |edition= |date= |year=2001 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |volume= |location=Toronto, Canada |id= |doi= |pages=625 |quote= ]

Tim Hurson was a founding partner of Manifest Communications, a company focussed on social change strategy. He served as its President until selling the company in 1996. [ cite journal|title=The Successors - Canada's Emerging Business Leaders|journal=Canadian Business|date=1986-01-08|first=David|last=Lees|coauthors=|volume=|issue=|pages=27|id= |url=|format=|accessdate=2008-06-17 ] [ Citation| first=David | last=Korn| coauthors=T. Hurson, J. Reynolds| contribution=Commercial Gambling Advertising: Possible Impact on Youth Knowledge, Attitudes, Beliefs and Behavioural Intentions| title=Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre| editor-first=| editor-last=| coeditors=| publisher=| place=| pages=44 (Appendix B)| date=| year=| id= | contribution-url=www.austgamingcouncil.org.au/images/pdf/eLibrary/3032.pdf| format=PDF| accessdate=2008-02-01 ] [ cite journal|title=CFCG(O) Welcomes New Faces to the Board of Directors|journal=Newslink: Problem Gambling News and Information|date=|first=|last=Canadian Foundation on Compulsive Gambling (Ontario)|coauthors=|volume=|issue=Fall 1999|pages=|id= |url=http://www.responsiblegambling.org/articles/NewslinkFall1999.pdf|format=PDF|accessdate=2008-02-01 ] After working independently for several years, he became a founding partner of thinkx intellectual capital. [ cite web|url=http://thinkxic.com/who.php |title=thinkx - who we are |accessdate=2008-02-01 |publisher=thinkx Intellectual Capital Inc. ] [ cite web|url=http://www.speakers.ca/speakerprint.asp?speakid=127 |title=Tim Hurson |accessdate=2007-12-22 |publisher=Speaker's Spotlight ]

Hurson developed a problem-solving technique known as the thinkx Productive Thinking Model, a six-step process that builds on the Osborn-Parnes Creative Problem Solving Process, combining it with more rigorous engineering-based techniques such as IDEF. [cite book | last = Hurson | first = Tim | authorlink = Tim Hurson | coauthors = | title = Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking | publisher = McGraw-Hill | date = 2007 | location = New York, New York | pages = xii | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 978-0071494939 ]

Hurson is a faculty member of the Creative Education Foundation, a founding Director of Facilitators Without Borders, a faculty member of CREA (the conference of the Creativity European Association) [ cite web|url=http://www.creaconference.com/EN/team/Tim-Hurson+66.html |title=CREA Conference: Team |accessdate=2007-12-22 ] and co-founder of Mindcamp. [ cite web|url=http://www.thinkxic.com/mindcamp/program.php?number=15 |title=Mindcamp 2007 |accessdate=2007-12-22 |publisher=Mindcamp ]

References

Further reading

*cite book | last = Hurson | first = Tim | authorlink = Tim Hurson | coauthors = | title = Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking | publisher = McGraw-Hill | date = 2007 | location = New York, New York | pages = | url = | doi = | id = | isbn =
*cite news | first=Wallace | last=Immen | coauthors= | title=Get creative: Thinking too much just hurts | date=2005-08-12 | publisher= | url =http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20050812.CACREATIVE12/TPStory/?query=tim+hurson | work =Globe and Mail | pages = | accessdate = 2007-12-30 | language =
*cite journal|title=The Successors - Canada's Emerging Business Leaders|journal=Canadian Business|date=1986-01-08|first=David|last=Lees|coauthors=|volume=|issue=|pages=|id= |url=|format=|accessdate=2007-12-30
*cite journal|title=Looking for 'sweet spot' when it comes to thought|journal=The Bottom Line|date=December 2007|first=Grant|last=Cameron|coauthors=|volume=23|issue=16|pages=1|id= |url=|format=|accessdate=2008-01-05
*cite journal|title=Why We Are Creatively Challenged|journal=Creativity in Action|date=1999-08|first=Tim|last=Hurson|coauthors=|volume=|issue=|pages=|id= |url=|format=|accessdate=2008-02-01

External links

* [http://www.timhurson.com Tim Hurson website]
* [http://www.thinkxic.com thinkx Intellectual Capital]
* [http://www.fwb.ca Facilitators Without Borders]
* [http://www.mindcamp.org Mindcamp]