About

A Globally Recognized Innovator & Intrapreneur

Twice recognized by the Edison Awards for innovation in collaboration across markets and industries, and for learning design, Jean Egmon is unceasing in her quest to innovate and thrive, and help others do the same.

ABOUT JEAN EGMON

Innovator, inventor, founder, professor and "intrapreneur"

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Introducing Dr. Jean Egmon: A seasoned consultant, accomplished author, visionary innovator, distinguished professor, and the driving force behind a successful consulting business, Third Angle Inc., for over three decades. Dr. Egmon's expertise lies in identifying and harnessing a company's most valuable but untapped resources to foster growth and innovation.
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‍Prior to Hidden Treasures, Jean co-authored The Prepared Mind of a Leader: Eight Skills Leaders Use to Innovate, Make Decisions, and Solve Problems. She has also authored many articles during her tenure as professor at Northwestern University and the Kellogg School of Management.

For over 30 years, Jean has partnered with business leaders to create new businesses, and new ways of doing business that catalyze and sustain growth and thriving for their companies and the people involved. As Founder and CEO of Third Angle, Inc. Jean and her world class team work across industries, functions, company size and age to catalyze new growth and excavate hidden value.

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Publications & Speaking events

Throughout her notable career, Jean has forged partnerships with industry titans such as NASA, ExxonMobil, and Abbott (to name a few), catalyzing groundbreaking enterprises and practices that drive growth and activate content value in some of the world's most influential institutions.

Request Jean to speak, host purposeful workshops, or organize a custom event

‍‍Tap Jean and her rich knowledge-base and humor to: ‍

kick-start new ventures
seed new strategies
establish a shared vision
reward, uplift and unify employees
collaborate with customers and other stakeholders

A sample of Jean’s talks include:

Developing the Edison, Indiana Jones, and St. Paul leaders in You and Your Company
Finding your Vinny’s: Recognizing Unusual Suspects and
Other Sources of Hidden Value
Corralling Value and Other Habits of Cultural Cowboys™
Consistency of Marketing and Advertising Performance:
Utilizing First Principles of Complexity and Network Science
Santa Claus: A Prime Example of Re-use, Commonalty and Modularity

Jean Egmon, a Cultural Cowboy

‍‍Cultural Cowboy™ is an image that depicts Jean, her team members, and her most gifted clients. Cultural Cowboys™ are people who live and work out of the norm, spotting, appreciating, and leveraging assets and opportunities, that most people miss, to create win-win growth and energize businesses and people to thrive.

They blaze new trails of value by cleverly recognizing and combining different forms of capital as a play of supply and demand.

Jean’s multi-disciplinary background includes cognitive, network and complexity sciences with specialty applications for starting new businesses and for revitalizing languishing ones.

Hidden Treasures

The Power of Hidden Treasures

How to Break Through Growth Barriers, Catapulting Your Business from Surviving to Thriving

Discover the power to ignite your business in Dr. Jean Egmon's new book, The Power of Hidden Treasures: How to Break Through Growth Barriers, Catapulting Your Business From Surviving to Thriving". Packed with essential models, real-world examples, and practical tools, this book guides leaders and enthusiasts alike in unleashing hidden potential within their enterprises.

Dr. Egmon, an accomplished "intrapreneur" and professor, showcases remarkable executives who have used these strategies to thrive in business and life. Uncover and harness your company's hidden assets, and watch it flourish with Hidden Treasures.

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