Want to meet the most creative person on the planet?  His name is Josh Linkner, and he’s speaking at the Public Words Speaker Forum 2010 on June 11-12 in Boston.

Josh has started 4 Internet-based companies, sold the first 3, and built the fourth into a powerhouse presence that does 300 times more business than its nearest competitor.  The company is ePrize and it has transformed the prize and sweepstakes industry. 

At the same time, Josh has pursued a career as a jazz guitarist. In fact, he’s been playing professionally for more than 25 years, and still gets to regular gigs, even as he’s launching his next endeavor:  to save the business world from its creativity deficit. 

Josh has achieved his extraordinary success by constantly and passionately applying creativity to everything he does.  Early in its successful run, ePrize was already dominating the competition.  Josh wondered what could be done to keep the energy and enthusiasm going when the temptation to rest on the company laurels was becoming more and more tempting.  So he came up with Slither.  Slither is the company that is always one step ahead of ePrize, always making aggressively competitive moves to keep ePrize off balance, steal away its customers, and put a dent in its market share.  Of course, Slither is an imaginary company, invented to keep ePrize focused.  But it has become a fun way to come up with new ideas, stay energized, and keep growing. 

Now Josh has written a soon-to-be-released book on creativity, Disciplined Dreaming, and he’s launching a speaking career to help other companies and teams re-charge their creativity and keep ahead of their competition.  As Josh puts it, creativity is the only competitive advantage companies have left.  Everything else can be copied by a teenager with access to the Internet. 

Catch him now, while he’s still on the way up, speaking at our Public Words Speaker Forum 2010.  Check out his blog here, and see him speaking here.