Scott Berkun

About

Scott is a writer and speaker. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Guardian, Wired magazine, National Public Radio, The Huffington Post and other media. He has taught at the University of Washington, blogs for Harvard Business and BusinessWeek, and has appeared frequently as an innovation expert on CNBC and MSNBC.

He is the author of three bestselling books:

• Making things happen
• The Myths of Innovation
• Confessions of a Public Speaker

He lives off book royalties and fees from speaking for hire. You can see him in action here.

Since Aug 2010, Scott also works for Automattic on WordPress.com. He worked at Microsoft from 1994 to 2003, mostly on Internet Explorer 1.0 to 5.0 (not 6).

This short interview describes him well.  You can contact him directly or follow on Twitter at @berkun.

(Photo by Halan, Press Headshot available here)

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