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

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.