Dennis G Shaver is Founder/CEO, Product Development Catalyst, Best-Selling Author and Business Strategy Mentor. Dennis specializes in empowering product development innovation, time-to-market and commercialization for early stage and growth stage businesses. Dennis began his career as an entrepreneur on the large family dairy farm alongside his 6 brothers. Denniss father taught the 7 brothers as a team how to be creative and innovative to effectively MacGyver things to keep the equipment and business working effectively. After graduating from high school, Dennis was hired as an hourly manufacturing employee at General Motors Corp. After receiving his first degree in business, Dennis was promoted to several GM divisions in various management capacities. Dennis also held key leadership positions at PepsiCo/Frito-Lay, A.O. Smith Corporation and The Clorox Corporation in; Engineering, Manufacturing, R&D, Business Development, and Organizational Development. Dennis also served as Founder and President for several successful entrepreneurial business startups. Denniss passion and true north is empowering others to evolve from great new product ideas into market viable products. Dennis is the author of; The Entrepreneurial Incubator, Getting your idea from Mind to Market and Invent Promote Profit helping avoid costly errors by first aligning aspiring entrepreneurial innovators mindsets for success. From there, he outlines the 7 Essential Steps and Fundamental Resources in the form of a Ready-Aim-Action method you can use to achieve market viable Products. Dennis is known for his experienced based common sense in being practical yet stir an individual or group, to bring out the best in empowering people to become a conduit to their can-do-it. Dennis speaks on a variety of topics one of which is Entrepreneurial Influence; Connecting the Dots from Kindergarten to CEO. Shifting our Mindset to Entrepreneurial thinking empowering creativity & innovation.