Thomas J. Buckholtz

Summary

Thomas J. Buckholtz helps people innovate. Tom has made crucial contributions to innovations in business, government, and technology and for society and the environment. He strives to foster further success globally and locally. Dr. Buckholtz anticipates people’s making significant, widespread gains in effectiveness by using Direct Outcomes checklists. These straightforward tools impart the essence of win-win innovation successes. People can easily learn, benefit from, and propagate the tools (for example, via the book "Create Crucial Insight"). Tom Buckholtz and Direct Outcomes bring perspective from the following endeavors. * Lead a $1 billion business unit. Create lines of business. Meet profitability goals. * Serve as a corporate officer for startups. * Pioneer 3 information technologies. * Establish 3 information-technology marketplace business practices. * Save $100 million per year for a $6 billion company. Increase productivity, innovation, and teamwork. * Serve as chief information officer (CIO) for a $10 billion enterprise. * Serve as co-CIO for the 4,000,000-person Executive Branch of the United States federal government. * Develop leading-edge business, engineering, and scientific software. * Preserve 7 kilometers of Pacific Ocean coastline. * Establish a worldwide Rotary International service program. * Improve governmental service (from all levels of government) for the American public. * Develop a “grassroots” line-of-business for a United States political party’s National Committee. * Author “Information Proficiency: Your Key to the Information Age” and “Create Crucial Insight: Use Direct Outcomes checklists. Think well. Do great.” * Complete executive business administration programs at Stanford University and the University of Michigan. * Earn a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley. * Earn a B.S. in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology.