John Chen

CEO Geoteaming

  • Seattle WA

Author 50 Digital Team Building Games Wiley and Sons May 2012 - Expert in using techology for team building for results!

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Biography

* 2012 Author of 50 Digital Team Building Games - Wiley & Sons
* 950+ Team Building Events
* 50,000+ Team Building Particpants
* 2010 MPI Supplier of the Year
* 2008 Training Magazine Top Young Trainer
* 2008-2006 PSBJ Top 25 Fastest Growing Minority Owned Company
* 2002 BBB Innovative Business Practices Award
* 2001 PSBJ Top 40 Entrepreneur Under The Age of 40
* 2 US Patents
* Used Team Building to Ship Microsoft Exchange, selling over 100M client licenses

John Chen is the CEO of Geoteaming, infusing team and leadership skills through technology and adventure. Combining 14 years of corporate team building with 10 years of Microsoft experience, John creates innovative corporate team building and leadership programs that create human change. For 10 years at Microsoft, he helped ship 10 product including leading 8 teams to collaborate to ship Microsoft Exchange which sold 100 million client licenses and earned 2 US Patents. Geoteaming™ is a GPS-Powered Team Building event that uses a unique Competitive-Collaborative design to show collections of teams how to collaborate at a higher level. John continues to innovate with customized training and facilitations with the latest emerging technologies. John has been recognized as a Puget Sound Business Journal Top 40 Entrepreneur Under The Age of 40, with the BBB Innovative Business Practices Award, the 2008 Training Magazine Top Young Trainer Award, 2010 MPI Accredited Trainer and won the 2010 MPI Supplier of the Year. His clients include Booz Allen Hamilton, Microsoft, Adobe, Boeing, Motorola and REI. You can reach John via email at john@geoteaming.com or telephone 877.652.0875.

Industry Expertise

Social Media
Information Technology and Services
Hospitality
Entertainment
Computer Gaming
Corporate Training
Computer Software
Professional Training and Coaching
Training and Development
Talent Management

Areas of Expertise

Team Building
Social Media
Technology
Team Performance
Leadership
Motivation
GPS
Experiential
Sales
Training

Accomplishments

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

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Education

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

Affiliations

  • EO - Entrepreneur's Organization
  • American Society of Training and Development
  • MPI Washington State Chapter

Event Appearances

Title

WA DECA Fall Leadership Conference - 1750  Bellevue, WA

2011-10-24

Title

EO Houston - 700  Houston, TX

2011-04-07

Sample Talks

OpTEAMize

Team Building For Performance – John will present an experience that gets teams of 4-8 people to improve their performance on a task over 50%. A task that normally takes 2 minutes, John can get a team, using 6 key steps, to complete in under 30 seconds. Fast, fun, experiential and effective this is a great 1 hour keynote that people will be buzzing about.

Geoteaming *** TOP HIT ***

GPS Powered Team Building

Over 950 events!

Geoteaming is a high tech treasure hunt that teaches team building AND cross team collaboration skills

The hunt is on. Your team advances through the brush, hearts pounding, silent with
anticipation as they close in on the cache. One team member decrypts a clue from her PDA, while another indicates potential locations on an aerial map. A burst of radio chatter relays vital information from a remote squad. Your GPS unit clicks off the quickly closing distance — three hundred feet. Two hundred. One hundred. Suddenly, from the corner of your eye, you spot it. You grab your digital camera and squeeze off a shot as a shout goes up from the team: “We found it!”

• Teams explore the competitive/collaborative paradox and the alliances that can be
made in order to achieve the highest results.
• Our expert facilitators lead a debrief on how to transfer learning from the event back
to the work environment.
• The Geoteaming course is highly customized, with an eye to maintaining the integrity
and language of your company’s goals and vision.
• Objectives are posed to stimulate creative and critical thinking to generate solutions.
• Provided equipment: GPS, Digital Cameras, Pocket PCs, Radios, aerial maps.

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.

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Style

Availability

  • Keynote
  • Moderator
  • Panelist
  • Workshop Leader
  • Host/MC
  • Author Appearance

Fees

$1000 to $45000*Will consider certain engagements for no fee