Lon Safko

Summary

Lon is serial innovator, inventor, bestselling author, speaker, trainer, consultant, and creator of the “First Computer To Save A Human Life” coined by Steve Jobs. Lon has 18 in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. along with 30,000 of Lon‘s professional papers. Lon has 14 inventions in The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Lon starred in the first ever PBS Television Special on social media, “Social Media & You... Communicating In A Digital World”. He developed the world’s first “voice recognition”, “voice synthesizing” and pioneered home automation, for the physically challenged & the archetypes for the Apple Newton and Microsoft’s“Bob” OS, and invented those pop-ups “Tool- Tips”! Brought to market the world’s first Virtual Reality OS & designed the first AI Nuclear Waste Tracking System for the U.S. Department of Energy. Founded over 14 companies, & has 3 U.S.Patents on based on “Three-Dimensional Internet Advertising”. 2017 Pulitzer Prize Nominee 22 books including “The Social Media Bible,” published by John Wiley & Sons, in its 3rd Edition, five languages & hit #1 on Amazon, exceeded $2M retail sales. His bestseller, “The Fusion Marketing Bible”, published by McGraw Hill, published in 3 languages, & hit #3 on Amazon. Lon’s most recent bestseller “The Innovative Thinking Bible, Cracking The Creativity Code” is 300 pages of innovative techniques ideas, hit #1 on Amazon. Lon is a renowned international speaker, & trainer, teaching the world’s largest companies the power of innovative thinking, & International digital communications strategies. His presentations are personalized to help corporate, government, higher-education, non-profits, and executives improve their operations and performance by cracking their innovative potential. Lon has been recognized for his innovation with such prestigious awards as; The Westinghouse Entrepreneur of the Year, Arizona Innovation Network’s Innovator of the Year, The Arizona Software Association’s Entrepreneur of the Year, twice nominated for the Ernst & Young / Inc. Magazine Entrepreneur of the Year, The Public Relations Society of America’s, Edward Bernay’s, Mark of Excellence Award. Lon's been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, PC Novice, INC. Magazine, CFO, Popular Science Magazine & the New York Times just to name a few. Lon is the first appointed Ambassador to SCORE, is a USA Today CEO Advisor, and is now listed in the Guinness Book of World Records. He even saved Betsy Ross to the history books! And... as you can imagine, Lon is a member of MENSA!