Charlie Garland is president of The Innovation Outlet, an independent team of innovation and business strategy consultants; and senior fellow at HITLAB at Columbia University Medical Center. Garland helps drive innovation across a range of industries and organizations. He has developed an entire portfolio of innovation tools, methods, and logical models (Cognitive Buoyancy, The Innovation Cube, and more), working with business leaders to improve strategies, with doctors to reduce diagnostic errors, and with NASA to increase astronauts’ cognitive performance. He is also a certified practitioner of polarity thinking, a strategic construct for reframing and resolving chronic conflicts. Garland serves on the board of trustees of the Creative Education Foundation, and is currently researching and writing a book via InnovationInspiration.org. Garland earned his MBA from Tuck/Dartmouth and his bachelor's in engineering from WPI. He lives and works in New York City.