Primary Job Title Founder Primary Organization SmartUp.life
Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Jonathan Littman is a skilled lecturer and facilitator who has given dozens of keynotes and seminars throughout the U.S. and Canada. Founder of Snowball Narrative, the innovation and storytelling studio, his clients include Gillette, Estee Lauder, Sony, TrendHunter, Lululemon, Genentech, Gap, and Deckers Brands. Jonathan teaches Creativity,
Innovation and Applied Design at the University of San Francisco, and has diverse experience as a consultant, educator and bestselling author . His long collaboration with IDEO produced two books, The Art of Innovation and The Ten Faces of Innovation, which have sold over 700,000 copies in 20 languages and are taught at business schools worldwide.
The author and co-author of eight works of non-fiction, Jonathan’s career began as a journalist, writing about technology and sports for Forbes, The Los Angeles Times and Playboy. A two-time winner of the Computer Press Awards, Jonathan is the winner of the Peter Lisagor Award for Exemplary Journalism and the New York Press Club Award for Best Sports Writing. Jonathan has a B.A. in Rhetoric from U.C. Berkeley.
