Roger Firestien is the senior faculty member at the International Center for Studies in Creativity at SUNY Buffalo State. Firestien is one of the most-experienced, skilled and knowledgeable facilitators of the Creative Problem Solving process. He has been called the gold standard of creativity training by his clients, which include Disney, Clorox, Los Angeles Times, Farmers Insurance, General Electric, General Mills, Merck, American Hospital Association, Young Presidents Organization, University of California Medical Center, US Air Force, Department of the Treasury, NASA, and many more. Firestien is the author and co-author of five books. His expert views on creativity have been reported in Fast Company and The New York Times. When he is not traveling, he lives in Buffalo, New York, and regularly works cattle on the SK Hereford Ranch near Medina, New York.