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Yoram Solomon (Hebrew: יורם סולומון; born January 8, 1965) is an Israeli-American innovation culture author, speaker, trainer, and thought leader. He is known for his work in the area of innovation culture, trust building, and technology forecasting.

Early life and family
Yoram Solomon was born in Tel-Aviv, Israel, to two immigrant parents from Romania. He grew up in Yaffo, and lived in Bat-Yam until his military service in the Israeli Defense Forces. He met his wife Anat in Tel-Aviv, and they were married in 1993. In 1998 they moved to Silicon Valley, where both their daughters, Maya and Shira were born. In 2003 they were relocated to Plano, Texas, by his then employer, Texas Instruments.

Education and academics
Prior to his military service, Yoram Solomon attended Ort Singalowski junior college and received his electrical engineering technician degree. In 1998, he graduated from Tel-Aviv University’s law school with a law degree (LLB). After moving to the U.S., in 2001, he obtain an MBA from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, and finally, in 2010, he graduated with a PhD in Organization and Management from Capella University. For his dissertation research, he studied the reasons people are so much more creative when they work in startups than when they work in mature companies, which was published in From Startup to Maturity. He also attended executive education programs at Stanford University and the Center for Creative Leadership.

In 2010, Dr. Solomon became an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Texas at Dallas’ Jindal Graduate School of Management’s Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. In 2017, he became an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at the Hadassah Academic College in Jerusalem, Israel, and in 2018 he became an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at the Southern Methodist University’s Caruth Institute of Entrepreneurship in Dallas.

Professional career
Right after his military service, Yoram Solomon began working as the R&D manager for an Israeli technology company in Israel, Electronics line. In 1995, he left to start his own startup company, Solram Electronics Ltd., which developed one of the early Internet telephony products. In 1998, he moved to Silicon Valley to join Voyager Technologies, a small engineering company that was an early developer of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technologies. Voyager was acquired by PCTEL in 2000. In 2002, he joined Texas Instruments in the Mobile Connectivity Solutions group, developing mobile Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, and Mobile DTV components for cellular phones. In 2008, he joined Interphase Inc. as the Vice President of Corporate Strategy, responsible for the development of penveu, an interactive display system for the education market. He left Interphase in 2015 and started Large Scale Creativity, a consulting firm focused on helping companies build a culture of innovation, and find the next big thing. As part of his professional career, he served on the boards of the Wi-Fi Alliance, the Wi-Media Alliance, and as the president of the Mobile DTV Alliance.

Personal life and community service
Yoram Solomon had his Israeli Defense Forces basic training in an artillery brigade in 1982. From 1983 to 1988 he served his active duty in the Center for Computing and Information System, Mamram. He then served ten more years as a reservist in the IDF’s 35th Airborne Brigade, paratroopers. He was honorably discharged with a rank of First Sergeant Major. He got his private pilot’s license in 1999, and volunteered to the US Air Force Civil Air Patrol from 2004 to 2006, and from 2014 to 2016, as a Transport Mission Pilot, and as an Aerospace Education Officer. In 2013, he ran for the office of trustee on the board of the Plano Independent School District. He won 35.41% of the votes, but lost to the incumbent trustee, who won 41.75% of the votes. In 2015, he ran again for the same office, but this time won the election with 40.39% of the votes against 27.04% of the votes that the incumbent trustee had. Solomon served on the school board since May, 2015.

Among other community activities, he served on the board of Plano Youth Leadership, the Texas-Israel Chamber of Commerce, the Alliance for Higher Education, the North Texas Center for Innovation and Commercialization, and the Association for Strategic Planning.

Books and articles
Solomon published his first book, Bowling with a Crystal Ball, in 2007. The book described the process he followed to initiate the work on the USB 3.0 and 3.1 specifications. The book also included seven-year forecasts of 18 different fast-paced technology trends. In 2014, he published his dissertation in the book From Startup to Maturity. On an unrelated topic, in 2012, after finding the right motivation, based on his doctoral research of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, he lost 32lb, and published that journey in the book Worst Diet Ever. Eight years after publishing his first book, Dr. Solomon checked the accuracy of his original forecasts in that book, and published the second edition of Bowling with a Crystal Ball, including his new findings, and the story behind the formation of the USB 3 specifications. In 2016, he published Un-Kill Creativity: How Corporate America can out-innovate startups. This book not only explained why people are less creative in mature companies, but also provides tools and processes for mature companies to reverse those trends. In 2017, Yoram published three books. The first, Business Plan through Investors’ Eyes, was a workbook that accompanies his online udemy course by the same name , based on his experience as one of the founding members of the North Texas Angel (investor) Network. The second, Blueprints for the Next Big Thing, is a concise tool guide for companies to build a culture of innovation and find the next disruptive product or service in their market. The third, Culture starts with YOU, not your boss! Includes nine fictional stories, inspired by true events, that demonstrate the importance of innovation culture, how it is created, and how it is destroyed in companies. In 2018, Yoram Solomon collaborated with Lori Vann, a teen non-suicidal self-injury expert, to publish Cause of Death: Political Correctness. The book demonstrated the devastating consequences of political correctness to corporate creativity and profitability, and to the loss of life. It tracks the causes of political correctness, and provides two alternative futures.

Between 2016 and 2018, Yoram was a contributing columnist to Inc. Magazine, writing a column called Non-Accidental Ideas. Starting in 2012, he also wrote many articles for the online blog Innovation Excellence, which named him one of the top 40 innovation bloggers in 2015 , 2016 , and 2017.

TEDx talks
In 2014, as part of the Leadership Plano class, Yoram was one of the organizers and the host of the first TEDxPlano event.

Resulting from the research he has done for the book Cause of Death: Political Correctness, Solomon found a surprising cause for the culture of litigation that exists the U.S. It was an event that occurred in the late 1960s. In 2018, he explained that connection in his TEDxOakLawn talk, The day that forever changed American culture.

Patents
Dr. Solomon’s first patent was issued in 1999, covering the invention of InterHome, an early Internet Telephony product created by his Israeli startup, Solram Electronics, Ltd. Since then he filed several patents related to mobile technologies while working at Texas Instruments, and finally several patents related to the invention of the penveu interactive display system at Interphase, Inc.