Chad Lawson

Chad Lawson

WI, US
Tech savvy and user friendly, Chad will teach your team how to leverage creativity in order to decrease turnover, improve morale, and drive innovation.
On-site Fee (USD)
$3k+
Virtual Fee (USD)
$3k+
Travels From
  • WI, US

Chad Lawson is a life-long technologist and 20-year veteran of the I.T. world. He has worked for Fortune 500 and international companies FTD Floral Network as a system administrator, Information Resources in system security, and Apple Computer as a software developer.

For the last 10 years, he focused on training including teaching web programming to designers and training Windows experts on Mac administration. 

As the founder of Rocket Science Labs, Chad promotes the "Maker Mindset" to teach teams and organizations to leverage creativity to decrease turnover, improve morale, and drive innovation.

Chad Lawson is a life-long technologist and 20-year veteran of the I.T. world. He has worked for Fortune 500 and international companies FTD Floral Network as a system administrator, Information Resources in system security, and Apple Computer as a software developer.

For the last 10 years, he focused on training including teaching web programming to designers and training Windows experts on Mac administration. 

As the founder of Rocket Science Labs, Chad promotes the "Maker Mindset" to teach teams and organizations to leverage creativity to decrease turnover, improve morale, and drive innovation.

Leading by Failure: How A Maker's Mindset Can Elevate Your Team

Ever see a company that prided itself on innovation and passion suddenly stop being creative and instead start saying no to change and telling team members, "that's the way we've always done it"? It's likely that somewhere along the way fear of success or failure crept in and worries about the bottom line and investors took hold.

Fear and lack of innovation happens to big, small, and even Fortune 1000 companies, but how can you keep it from happening in yours?

In this keynote...

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InspirationalEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing

Define Yourself

At the age of 5 1/2 (at that age the 1/2 is important) Chad was diagnosed with Leukemia. And while he survived the disease and treatment, it was being labled "the sick kid" which began a process of living a life defined by other people: his classmates, his family, his friends, and even his own expectations of what life was "supposed to be like."

In his signature presentation, Chad takes his audience through a range of emotions as he tells how he finally learned to stop defining...
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InspirationalInspirational / Life-changingHumorous / Funny

Tech Savvy / User Friendly

During his 20+ years in the I.T. industry, Chad has seen companies suffer the same I.T. challenges over and over again. After his own personal epiphany trying to teach programming to designers, he began to wonder if all of those challenges couldn't be solved through communication and a change of perspective.

The Tech Savvy / User Friendly philosophy was born from this thought. After a year-long field test of these principles at a previous job and watching the positive impact they had, he...

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Customer ServiceAudience ActivityTechnical / SpecificHumorous / Funny
Travels From
  • WI, US
Price Range
  • $3k+
    On-site Fee (USD)
  • $3k+
    Virtual Fee (USD)
Career
  • 14 years
    Speaking
  • 34
    Events Last Year
Worked In These Countries

United States

Job Experience

Computers,

Technology

eSpeakers member since
2016
Member Of
member of Toastmasters International
Certifications & Awards
received Toastmasters - DTM Distinguished Toastmaster
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