Sylvain Matte

Sylvain Matte is a Partner at NEW & IMPROVED in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His areas of expertise include strategic planning, organizational diagnostics and business processes re-engineering, and he also consults and trains in the areas of creative problem solving and applied relativity to business development and change management. Sylvain brings to his practice strong analytical skills and his ability to quickly assess situations, to focus everyone's energies on the real issues and to bring forth pragmatic solutions.

Some of the organizations to benefit from his facilitation and training include: Alcan Aluminum, Hydro-Quebec, National Bank of Canada, Mead Johnson, Pfizer, UniGlobal, the City of Montreal, the City of Laval and the Outaouais Transport Authority. Sylvain has also presented creativity programs to various not-for-profit organizations, including the Greater Montreal Scouting Association and the Quebec Youth Camps Association.

His background includes a degree in IT, an MBA, 14 years in an international manufacturing company, and several years as a consultant, including 3 in major technology and management consulting firms. He is also, since day one, among the Collaborators of An Idea Whose Time Has Come, a consulting and training firm helping businesses bring out creative potential and put forward innovative ideas from within. Sylvain is a faculty facilitator of the Creative Problem Solving Institute where he has been a leader since 1991 and he is a member of the Program Committee of the Creative Education Foundation.

Sylvain lives north of Montreal with his wife and adolescent son and daughter. When not working and not attending Board meetings, Sylvain loves fishing, hiking, volunteering and reading sci-fi, and he has just recently started to experiment with oil painting.