Benjamin Wechsler

Current

Innovation Strategist, President & Founder at Benjamin Wechsler, Inc.

Past

Project Manager of Knowledge Management at Chicago Mercantile Exchange (now CME Group)
Corporate Cybrarian at One Community, Inc. (formerly Executive Focus Group)
Education Sales Consultant at Education Access (formerly Advanced Systems and Peripherals)

Education

Southern Illinois University
Indiana University Bloomington
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Connections

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Industry

Management Consulting

Benjamin Wechsler’s Summary

Innovation Strategist & Web Consultant
Vision – Strategy - Results
Professional executive champion with extensive experience discovering new opportunities for companies to increase performance and market share. Especially adept at championing and implementing executive-level strategy. Exceptional ability to translate companies’ visions into consumable forms:
• Employees are better able to understand companies’ directions, relevance to their markets, core competencies, and missions
• Customers are better able to understand companies, relevance to them, and missions
• Companies, Employees and Customers build loyal, trusting relationships that yield results.
By aligning vision and strategy with research, existing resources, technology, and processes:
• Interactive marketing campaigns are invigorated
• Web-based applications/tools are more powerful and used
• Corporate cultures are transformed.

Certified Knowledge Manager, Hermann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI™) Facilitator, Osborn-Parnes Creative Problem Solving Facilitator

Sample Client List
H2O Partners, The Joffrey Ballet, LPGroup Marketing, LLC, Lookingglass Theatre, Chicago a cappella, Arts & Business Council of Chicago

Keynote Speaker
“Creating Your Future – Balancing Imagination, Choices and Action” with Elizabeth Monroe-Cook of Monroe-Cook Associates, for the DuPage Executives Network, College of DuPage.

Workshop Creator/Presenter
“Thinking Anew: Creative Thinking and Balancing Polarities” with Elizabeth Monroe-Cook of Monroe-Cook Associates. A workshop for unemployed executives teaching the principles of Creative Problem Solving and Barry Johnson’s Polarity Management for recreating career marketing strategies. Blogging is introduced as a means of marketing oneself as a thought leader in one’s field.

Benjamin Wechsler’s Specialties:

Knowledge Management, Learning Strategy, Creative Problem Solving, HBDI™, Innovation Strategy, Ideation, Brainstorming, Interactive Communications, Web 2.0, Thought Leadership

Benjamin Wechsler’s Experience

Innovation Strategist, President & Founder

Benjamin Wechsler, Inc.

(Management Consulting industry)

2006 — Present (3 years )

An innovative strategy consultancy helping organizations and leaders prepare and implement strategies for greater success in marketing campaigns and performance.

Benjamin Wechsler’s Education

Southern Illinois University

Master of Music , Opera and Musical Theater Accompanying , August 1984 — August 1986

Activities and Societies:

Marjorie Lawrence Opera Theater accompanist, Member of the Graduate Student Council
Indiana University Bloomington

Master of Music Education , Music Education , 1979 — 1981

Activities and Societies:

Associate Instructor, Student Opera House Manager
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Bachelor of Science in Music Education , Music Education , August 1975 — May 1979

Activities and Societies:

Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, James Scholar, President of Illinois Student Music Educators Association

Additional Information

Benjamin Wechsler’s Interests:

Music, Symphony Orchestras, Opera, Ballet, Art, Spirituality, computers

Benjamin Wechsler’s Groups:

Director of Higher Ground at Unity in Chicago, Arts and Business Council of Chicago, The ManKind Project, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Scottish Rite, York Rite