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Paul J. H. Schoemaker, Ph.D.
Executive Chairman
Paul J.H. Schoemaker, Ph.D is an internationally renowned thought leader in the fields of strategy and decision making. He speaks frequently at conferences, offers seminars around the world, and has appeared on radio and television. He has shared stage billings with President Bill Clinton, Warren Buffet, Rudolph Giuliani, Jack Welch, as well as other public leaders. He is a leading scholar and visionary author, an entrepreneur in both the business and the philanthropic sectors, and has been an adviser to more than 100 companies and non-profit organizations around the world (for details see www.paulschoemaker.com). His hobbies include tennis, golf, and piano. He lives with his wife and kids in Villanova, PA and Ft. Lauderdale, FL while retaining roots in Holland, his native country.
Professor Schoemaker is the author of Decision Traps (Doubleday 1989) and its sequel Winning Decisions (Doubleday 2001) which together have sold well over 100,000 copies. He is also the coauthor of Wharton on Emerging Technologies (Wiley 2000), Profiting from Uncertainty (Free Press 2002), Peripheral Vision (Harvard Business School Press 2006) and Chips, Clones and Living Beyond 100 (Pearson Ltd 2009). He is presently completing a new book titled Brilliant Mistakes, a topic he was recently interviewed about on CBS’s Sunday Morning. Schoemaker has written over 100 academic and applied papers, which have appeared in such diverse journals as the Harvard Business Review, the Journal of Mathematical Psychology, Brain and Behavioral Sciences, and The Journal of Economic Literature. His writings have been translated into twelve languages and the ISI citation index ranks him in the top 1% of scholars worldwide in business and economics.
Dr. Schoemaker also serves as Research Director of the Mack Center for Technological Innovation at the Wharton School, where he is a professor teaching strategy and decision making part-time. For twelve years, he was a professor at the University of Chicago, where he did leading academic work in the Center for Decision Research covering behavioral economics as well as strategy. Schoemaker is the founder and executive chairman of Decision Strategies International, Inc, a consulting and training firm specializing in strategic management, executive development and multi-media software (see www.thinkdsi.com). The company’s clients include 8 of the 10 largest corporations worldwide, as well as many of the Fortune 100. He also co-founded Strategic Radar, a technology-platform company that helps organizations track changes and scan for weak signals in their external environment (see www.strategicradar.com). Schoemaker is a social entrepreneur as well via the Decision Education Foundation (www.decisioneducation.org) which teaches decision making skills to adolescents, in partnership with many US high schools around the country.
Executive Chairman
Paul J.H. Schoemaker, Ph.D is an internationally renowned thought leader in the fields of strategy and decision making. He speaks frequently at conferences, offers seminars around the world, and has appeared on radio and television. He has shared stage billings with President Bill Clinton, Warren Buffet, Rudolph Giuliani, Jack Welch, as well as other public leaders. He is a leading scholar and visionary author, an entrepreneur in both the business and the philanthropic sectors, and has been an adviser to more than 100 companies and non-profit organizations around the world (for details see www.paulschoemaker.com). His hobbies include tennis, golf, and piano. He lives with his wife and kids in Villanova, PA and Ft. Lauderdale, FL while retaining roots in Holland, his native country.
Professor Schoemaker is the author of Decision Traps (Doubleday 1989) and its sequel Winning Decisions (Doubleday 2001) which together have sold well over 100,000 copies. He is also the coauthor of Wharton on Emerging Technologies (Wiley 2000), Profiting from Uncertainty (Free Press 2002), Peripheral Vision (Harvard Business School Press 2006) and Chips, Clones and Living Beyond 100 (Pearson Ltd 2009). He is presently completing a new book titled Brilliant Mistakes, a topic he was recently interviewed about on CBS’s Sunday Morning. Schoemaker has written over 100 academic and applied papers, which have appeared in such diverse journals as the Harvard Business Review, the Journal of Mathematical Psychology, Brain and Behavioral Sciences, and The Journal of Economic Literature. His writings have been translated into twelve languages and the ISI citation index ranks him in the top 1% of scholars worldwide in business and economics.
Dr. Schoemaker also serves as Research Director of the Mack Center for Technological Innovation at the Wharton School, where he is a professor teaching strategy and decision making part-time. For twelve years, he was a professor at the University of Chicago, where he did leading academic work in the Center for Decision Research covering behavioral economics as well as strategy. Schoemaker is the founder and executive chairman of Decision Strategies International, Inc, a consulting and training firm specializing in strategic management, executive development and multi-media software (see www.thinkdsi.com). The company’s clients include 8 of the 10 largest corporations worldwide, as well as many of the Fortune 100. He also co-founded Strategic Radar, a technology-platform company that helps organizations track changes and scan for weak signals in their external environment (see www.strategicradar.com). Schoemaker is a social entrepreneur as well via the Decision Education Foundation (www.decisioneducation.org) which teaches decision making skills to adolescents, in partnership with many US high schools around the country.