Dr. Ed Sobey

Want to be trained by Dr. Ed Sobey?

Don’t you think it would be a privilege if one day you get to be trained by world class experts like Dr. Ed Sobey? He came in December 2010 and again in April 2011 to train the Master Partners, the Licensees as well as their Trainers. Well he’ll be coming to Singapore again in September 2011 and make the wish of some more people come true.

That is not to say that he is has not been to Singapore before. In fact he was invited by Educare Co-operative Limited, A Co-operative of the Singapore Teachers’ Union to conduct three workshops/seminars from 12th to 15th July, 2010. They were Ingenuity: Design, Build, Test, Learn; Teaching 21st Century Skills in Science; and Green Energy Science Activities: Wind, Solar and Electric.

Who is Dr. Ed Sobey anyway? He is the founder of the Kids Invent Toy Program and the National Toy Hall of Fame in the United States.

In 2009, the National Inventors Hall of Fame moved from Akron, Ohio to the United States Patent and Trademark campus in Alexandria, Virginia and became part of the USPTO Museum. The new venue features interactive exhibits, a high definition video theatre and a portrait gallery. In the gallery historical and living figures come to life and talk about the history of invention and the USPTO. There is also a gift shop. Source: http://www.uspto.gov/about/offices/opa/museum.jsp

He is also an internationally acclaimed author, and listed in Who’s Who in America.

He is a highly successful entrepreneur and sought after educator by organisations all over the world.

He is also the President and CEO of Northwest Invention Center and The Asian Institute of Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship. He is also a Board Member of By Kids For Kids, USA.

Dr Sobey has developed and hosted kids television program on inventing – The Idea Factory.

US Senator Tom Sawyer once said: “I highly recommend this article to my colleagues and the nation. Dr. Sobey is right. It is not too late to cultivate the Edisons, the Bells, the Carvers, and Marconis of tomorrow, if we work with our children today.” -The United States House of Representatives April 3, 1990. (Article: Cultivating the Inventors of Tomorrow)

Dr. Ed Sobey has a mission. He wants to coach aspiring entrepreneurs and business owners to duplicate his success in Singapore and all over Asia, namely, Bangladesh, China, Fiji, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mauritius, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Taiwan.

Besides in the US, Dr Sobey has Franchise Partners in Canada, Hawaii, India, Australia, Nigeria…

Well, if you become a Master Partner, a Licensee or a Trainer for the Business of the 21st Century you will be trained directly by him. You will then be able to contribute directly or indirectly to the training and educating of children as well as people in the corporate world in the 21st century skills (innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship).

Source: Dr. Ed Sobey