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Marco Marsan 
Marco posing for the Lions Way cover.Born Marco Marsan
25 June 1957
Windsor, Ontario, CanadaOccupation Novelist, Marketer Nationality American
Canadian
ItalianNotable work(s) The Lions Way
Think Naked
marcomarsan.comMarco Marsan (born June 25, 1957 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada) is an American author and innovation consultant.[1] He wrote the novel The Lion's Way, and the non-fiction works: Who are you when Nobody's Looking and Think Naked: Childlike Brilliance in the Rough Adult World.[2] He was named one of America's Top Out of the Box thinkers by the Mazda Corporation in 1999.[3] Marco Marsan has also made appearances on The View[4] and The Montel Williams Show.[5]
Marco is a veteran of the United States Air Force, serving in 1975-76 as an intelligence specialist. He graduated from Finneytown High School in 1975 where he led his team to the Ohio State soccer championship in 1974[6], the same high school that Jeffery Imelt[7], CEO of General Electric and Brad Alford[8], CEO of Nestlé graduated from and then attended the University of Cincinnati where he would attain a Bachelors degree in Business in 1983.[9] He lives in Las Vegas, Nevada with his wife Vanessa and two sons Shane (born in 1988) and Rocco (born in 2007).[10]
Marco is a citizen of Canada, Italy and the United States. His father Mario Marsan (an Italian immigrant in 1958) is credited with having invented the design for the hourglass shape of the disposable diaper in 1964 while working for Procter & Gamble[11] and his uncle, the famed opera singer Italo Tajo[12], was featured on several recordings with Luciano Pavarotti, Jose Carreras and Placido Domingo.[13]
Marco was awarded the “Top5 Speaker in Innovation / Creativity” designation in 2010 by Speakers Platform,[14] as well as taught classes on innovation and entrepreneurship at both Xavier University's Williams School of Business and University of Cincinnati's Lindner School of Business.[15]
Marco was credited in the Guinness Book of World Records for over 4 years with having created the world's largest Chicken Dance in which 43,000 participants danced at Cincinnati, Ohio's Oktoberfest on Sept 9, 1992.[16]
Contents
Published works
- Who Are You When Nobody's Looking (1999) ISBN 978-1862045934
- Think Naked (2003) ISBN 978-1588720429
- The Lion's Way with Peter Lloyd (2008) ISBN 978-1-929774-46-3
Blog
Marsan also has a blog called "The Extra Piece of Chicken" that contains short videos about companies who, "under-promise but over-deliver"[17]
References
- ^ AEI Speakers Bureau
- ^ Greenleaf book group
- ^ Contact Talk Radio
- ^ Video of Marco Marsan on The View
- ^ Video of Marco Marsan on The Montel Williams Show
- ^ [1]
- ^ Jeffrey R. Immelt
- ^ [2]
- ^ Cincom.com: News & Events
- ^ Speakers Platform
- ^ http://news.google.com/patents?id=U_kxAAAAEBAJ&zoom=4&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q=&f=false
- ^ [3]
- ^ Italo Tajo
- ^ http://www.speaking.com/speakers/marcomarsan.php
- ^ [4]
- ^ [5]
- ^ http://www.extrapieceofchicken.com/
External links
Categories:- 1957 births
- American business writers
- American people of Canadian descent
- University of Cincinnati alumni
- Living people
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