Innovation Strategist, President & Founder, Web Consultant, Thought Leader
Greater Chicago Area
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- Innovation Strategist, President & Founder at Benjamin Wechsler, Inc.
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- 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
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- Southern Illinois University
- Indiana University Bloomington
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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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
Benjamin Wechsler’s Education
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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
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Indiana University Bloomington
Master of Music Education , Music Education , 1979 — 1981
- Activities and Societies:
- Associate Instructor, Student Opera House Manager
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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
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Benjamin Wechsler’s Interests:
Music, Symphony Orchestras, Opera, Ballet, Art, Spirituality, computers
Benjamin Wechsler’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- career opportunities
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- job inquiries
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
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