Bryan W. Mattimore specializes in ideation and innovation process, front-end marketing research, branding, creating and developing new products and services, and innovation strategy planning. He is cofounder and "Chief Idea Guy" of the Growth Engine Company, a fifteen-year old innovation agency specializing in creative problem solving, and strategic leadership innovation. Prior to co-founding Growth Engine, he was president of the Mattimore Group, a twenty-year-old company specializing in ideation facilitation and creativity.
Mr. Mattimore has facilitated over a thousand brainstorming sessions, moderated over five hundred creative focus groups and consumer ethnographies, and managed over two hundred successful innovation projects, leading to over $3 billion in new sales for a wide variety of Fortune 500 clients including AT&T, BNY Mellon, Eaton, Ford, Kraft, LVMH, Merck, Pepsi, SONY, and Unilever.
He has worked with Accenture, AstraZeneca, AT&T, Black & Decker, BNY Mellon, City of New York, ConEdison, Danaher, Dun & Bradstreet, Eaton, Esselte, Essilor, Ford, Grumman Data Systems, IBM, ITT, Johnson and Johnson, Lexis-Nexis, Lockheed Martin, Lucent, LVMH, Microsoft, Pepsi, Philips, Proctor and Gamble, Sony, State Farm, Time-Warner, United Technologies and Unilever.
He speaks frequently to organizations and associations on innovation and best practices. He has addressed or co-chaired conferences for the Industrial Research Institute (IRI), Product Development Managers Association (PDMA), American Marketing Association (AMA), American Society of Training and Development (ASTD), Visage, Young President's Association (YPA) and the World Innovation Forum.
He has authored articles and webinars, and three books on business creativity and innovation process: Idea Stormers, How to Lead and Inspire Creative Breakthrough; 99% Inspiration, A Real World Guide to Business Creativity; and 21 Days to a Big Idea. He is also the inventor of the creativity training game, Bright Ideas.
Mr. Mattimore graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College, where he majored in psychology.