Bob Deutsch
About Bob Deutsch
From contributing to Military Review ("The Droning of Strategic Communications and Public Diplomacy", Sept/Oct 2009), Joint Force Quarterly magazines ("Ambassadors to the World", Jan 2010), to speaking to the USG Intragency Committee of Strategic Communications (published in Vital Speeches of the Day, December 2009) to portraying a college professor in a McDonald's commercial, cognitive anthropologist Dr. Bob Deutsch breaks the mould.
The founder and president of consulting firm Brain Sells (www.Brain-Sells.com), Boston, MA, Bob has worked in the primeval forest and on Pennsylvania and Madison Avenues. His focus, since the mid-'70s, when he was living with pre-literate tribes and chimpanzees, has been to understand how leading ideas take hold in cultures.
Since opening Brain Sells, in 1990, he has applied this understanding to how people attach to products, persons and performances. He is fond of saying, "Reasoned judgment about attributes is not the issue. The brain evolved to act, NOT to think." Brain Sells' retail clients include: TJ Maxx, Marshall's, Home Goods, Radio Shack, Sephora, Verizon stores, McDonald's, Dunkin Donuts, and Toyota.
You can count on the good Dr. for one to two posts monthly.
You can link to his website www.Brain-Sells.com. He should soon have a blog to link to as well.