DR. EDWARD DE BONO is regarded by many as the guru for the direct teaching of thinking skills .He has written over 62 books with translations into 37 languages. He has worked steadily with major corporations and governments in over 50 countries during the past 30 years, thus building up a vast amount of practical experience in the direct teaching of thinking methods. He has taught thinking skills to corporate executives, four year olds, and Nobel Prize laureates alike.

Dr. de Bono’s background is in medicine and psychology. He was a Rhodes Scholar and has held faculty appointments at the universities Oxford, Cambridge, London, and Harvard. His medical background in biological information systems inspired and enabled him not only to teach thinking but also to design thinking methods. His description of the how the nerve networks in the brain behave as a self organizing system has led him to design the CoRT thinking Program which is the most widely used program internationally for the direct teaching of thinking as a curriculum subject.

He coined the phrase “Lateral Thinking” which has been taken up by the Oxford English Dictionary.