Scott is an author, public speaker and consultant. He worked as a manager at Microsoft from 1994-2003, on projects including (v1-5 of) Internet Explorer, Windows and MSN. His work as a writer and public speaker has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wired magazine and on National Public Radio. He is a recurring expert on the 2008 CNBC TV series, The Business of Innovation.
He started his own consulting practice in 2003. Wrote the best seller “Making things happen” (O’Reilly 2008). And teaches a graduate course in creative thinking at the University of Washington.
His newest bestseller, The Myths of Innovation, about the truths of creativity and innovation, was published in May of 2007. You can watch a video of him talking at amazon.com’s headquarters about the book.
He’s an excellent speaker for hire, and frequently performs interactive talks, workshops, and courses for organizations, conferences and the occasional living room couch.
Scott grew up in Queens NYC, studied design, philosophy and computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, graduating with a B.S. in Logic and Computation (’94). He currently lives somewhere deep in the woods outside of Seattle, Washington.
You can contact him over here.
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