Doug Hall

Inventor, Founder of Eureka! Ranch, Whiskey Innovator

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Doug Hall Biography

Doug Hall has been an inventor for over 50 years, starting with a "Learn to Juggle Kit" that he created and marketed at age 11. He holds a degree in chemical engineering and started his career in the Brand Management department at Procter & Gamble, where he rose to the position of Master Marketing Inventor, shipping a record 9 products in 12 months. Hall's innovative approach was significantly inspired by his father's work with Dr. W. Edwards Deming, focusing on the application of systems thinking to innovation.

After a decade at P&G, Hall retired to found the Eureka! Ranch, an invention and innovation education company. Under his leadership, the Eureka! Ranch has become a pivotal platform for innovation education, serving as the master distributor for Innovation Engineering courses, Jump Start Your Brain LMS content, and tools to a wide range of clients including corporations and educational institutions.

Hall's exploration into the whiskey industry led him to establish Brain Brew Custom WHISKeY, where he pioneered a patent-pending process that crafts premium spirits in 40 minutes, significantly reinventing traditional bourbon crafting and marketing methods.

An acclaimed authority in his field, Hall has been recognized as one of America’s top innovation experts by several prestigious publications including Inc. magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and CNBC. He has been conferred honorary doctorates from the University of Prince Edward Island and the University of Maine for his groundbreaking research in transforming innovation from an art into a science.

In addition to his entrepreneurial and educational pursuits, Hall has contributed to various media, co-hosting programs like ABC's "American Inventor" and hosting "Brain Brew Radio." He has also chronicled his adventurous expedition in the Arctic through his book "North Pole Tenderfoot."

Hall is an accomplished author with multiple influential books, including "Jump Start Your Business Brain," recognized as one of the 100 Best Business Books of All Time, and "Driving Eureka!" which encapsulates his 40 years of research into making innovation a systematic process.

Residing in both Canada and the USA, Doug and his wife Debbie actively support their communities through their Planet Eureka! Foundation. His keynotes are renowned for being customized, high-impact, and packed with the latest data and research, designed to energize and educate audiences on creating, communicating, and commercializing new ideas in ways that are both fun and highly interactive.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 03/22/2024.

Doug Hall Speaking Topics

  • MEANINGFUL MARKETING

    This powerful keynote outlines a sales and marketing approach that multiplies the impact of every dollar invested and every dollar you spend by teaching you how to make meaningful connections with customers instead of using mindless marketing tricks.

  • JUMP START YOUR BUSINESS BRAIN

    How to win more, lose less, and make more money with sales, marketing and business development ideas. During this high energy keynote learn a proven system for helping teams think smarter, faster, and more innovatively while also, learning how to sell more, to more people, for more money.

  • THE GRITTY REAL WORLD OF DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION – The True Story Of Brain Brew Ventures

    In this entertaining storytelling session, you’ll learn the front lines account of how Brain Brew Distilling created a patent-pending breakthrough system, business model, and product innovations that beat the category leader 3-to-1. Based on this same process you will be able to reinvent your own offerings.

    Doug will share how this innovation team blew up the business model by crafting a premium spirit in 40 minutes. A feat that takes the competition 18 years to do! How they used 234 quantitative research tests to go from concept to in-market in less than 6 months and many other discoveries along the way.

    This is an inspiring fact-filled talk that will open minds to possibilities. The key takeaways are:

    • A mind-blowing mindset shift on market research that allows you to run 200% MORE research at 7% of the cost.
    • How disruptive innovation can happen in the MOST regulated industries.
    • How you can become a market leader overnight with ZERO experience.

  • DRIVING EUREKA! How Everyone Can Find, Filter & Fast Track Big Ideas

    With his legendary caffeinated energy – Doug Hall will ignite your audience to think faster, smarter and more creatively. Doug will back up his energy with hard data and practical tips from his 40+ years of experience inventing and testing over 25,000 innovations and has helped inspire over $16 billion in current innovations.

    The talk is based on Doug’s 7th book, DRIVING EUREKA!. The talk and the book reveal the results of 40 years of research and experimentation so substantial that it’s become a new field of study – Innovation Engineering. You’ll learn what it takes to lead a team to innovate more and faster, how systems thinking can liberate your calendar and your people and how to set strategy that motivates employees to deliver more.

    The talk is fully customized to make it fun, mind opening and motivational for all audience. The key takeaways are:

    • How to CREATE & FIND 8X more BIG IDEAS than your competition.
    • How to FILTER out the great ideas from the bad ones.
    • How to FAST TRACK your big ideas, so you can implement them 6X faster than your competition

  • IGNITING INNOVATION IN YOUR PEOPLE, PROJECTS AND CULTURE!

    Everyone wants to do great work and innovate, but do they know how? In this engaging talk, you’ll learn how to ignite innovation across your organization. Built on research from 40+ years, $25 Million in research, 25,000 ideas and 1,000s of Fortune 500 teams – Doug Hall will give you specific things you can do today to ignite innovation in your own work and think faster, smarter and more creatively.

    This session is high energy and action packed with ah-ha’s and Eureka! moments that will have you questioning everything you thought you knew about innovation. Doug completely customizes the presentation to make it fun, mind opening and motivational.

Doug Hall Videos

  • Doug Hall - Educating to Innovate in the Future - 2019 P&G Alumni ...
  • Inventors Fight Against Doug Hall | Backyard Inventors | Spark ...

Doug Hall Books

  • North Pole Tenderfoot: A Rookie Goes on a North Pole Expedition Following in Admiral Peary's Footsteps
    North Pole Tenderfoot: A Rookie Goes on a North Pole Expedition Following in Admiral Peary's Footsteps
  • Jump Start Your Brain
    Jump Start Your Brain
  • Jump Start Your Marketing Brain: Scientific Advice and Practical Ideas
    Jump Start Your Marketing Brain: Scientific Advice and Practical Ideas
  • Jump Start Your Business Brain:  The Scientific Way To Make More Money
    Jump Start Your Business Brain: The Scientific Way To Make More Money
  • Meaningful Marketing with CD (Audio)
    Meaningful Marketing with CD (Audio)
  • Making the Courage Connection: How People Get from Fear to Freedom and How You Can Too
    Making the Courage Connection: How People Get from Fear to Freedom and How You Can Too

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Doug Hall is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as MEANINGFUL MARKETING, JUMP START YOUR BUSINESS BRAIN, THE GRITTY REAL WORLD OF DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION – The True Story Of Brain Brew Ventures, DRIVING EUREKA! How Everyone Can Find, Filter & Fast Track Big Ideas and IGNITING INNOVATION IN YOUR PEOPLE, PROJECTS AND CULTURE!. The estimated speaking fee range to book Doug Hall for your event is $20,000 - $30,000. Doug Hall generally travels from Cincinnati, OH, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Kenneth Rethmeier, Patrick Galvin, Saj-Nicole Joni, Seth Mattison and Robert Kriegel. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Doug Hall for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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