John Chen

1,750 Geoteaming Goose Chase Event

Used cell phone technology to run a 1,750 person team building event at the 2011 WA DECA Fall Leadership Conference in Bellevue, WA, generating over 3,900 photos in 2 1/2 hours!

700 Largest Geoteaming Event for EO Houston

700 Entrepreneurs from around the world gathered in Houston and we led one of the most creative team building events ever seen in Houston.

2011 Co-Chair for MPI’s Cascadia Educational Conference

• 2011 Co-Chair for MPI’s Cascadia Educational Conference with 98% approval rating, $250k in-kind and cash budget, $32k profit, highest # of meeting planners and the first ever Hosted Buyer Program

University of California at Santa Barbara

Bachelor's of Science

Computer Science

1990

Outstanding Computer Science Student
President - Engineering Student Council
President, Vice President and Treasurer - Association for Computing Machinery
Competed in ACM Regional Programming Contest 2 years in a row
Sponsored Amateur Skateboarder

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WA DECA Fall Leadership Conference - 1750  Bellevue, WA

2011-10-24

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EO Houston - 700  Houston, TX

2011-04-07

Goose Chase

Goose Chase is a cell phone photo scavenger hunt that focuses on team creativity and use of technology. You complete missions on your Apple, Blackberry or Droid phone and you get Facebook-like status updates and a real-time high score list! 1,750 participant event completed and can be facilitated remotely, saving you travel and expenses.

Customized Missions - At the event teams will be given a custom Hunt ID and Password to reveal your customized ‘Missions’. Each Mission is worth more or less depending on distance and/or difficulty and can highlight a particular team skill.

Teamwork and Photos – Teams strategize which missions they can complete and then they’re off! They complete each challenge and take photo evidence to complete a mission.

‘Facebook’-like Status Updates and Real-Time High Score List – Game play is enhanced as every team update is sent to every team and a real-time high score is updated each time a Mission is completed. This gives instant feedback to teams to alter their strategy immediately and see a result.

Facilitated Learning, Instant Scoring and Digital Slideshow – When teams return, an expert facilitator will help the teams realize the learning lessons from the event and how it applies to work. Then team results will be announced and team awards will be presented. Finally, your event will end with a digital slideshow set to music to highlight the day’s learning. Your photos will be transferred to you after the event is complete.

YouTeams

iPad2 powered team building event that teaches your team to create videos that go viral.

During this 4 hour team building event, each team is equipped with an iPad2 and learns the 7 keys to videos that go viral. Then each team has 2 chances to write, direct, film, edit and upload a video in 60 minutes or less.

Using the power of iMovie and your team's resources, the result is that you'll have 2 new videos per team AND you'll be teaching a valuable communication skill as over half the traffic on the internet is now videos.

Digital Team Building

Do you work with distributed teams? Are you having challenges with your virtual teams? Do you want to build stronger teams with your younger, tech-savvy employees?

Based on his May 2012 book with Wiley & Sons, 50 Digital Team Building Games, John Chen will get you to experience at least 3 creative ways to use technology for team building that will build commuication, trust and results at a higher level.

John Chen is the Award Winning CEO of Geoteaming specializing in corporate team buidling through technology. He's the MPI Supplier of the Year, Training Magazine's Top Young Trainer and the PSBJ Top 40 Entrepreneur Under The Age of 40 with clients that include Microsoft, Booz Allen Hamilton and REI.