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Biography in three lengths, talk topics, interview questions, a photograph and a one-page sheet. Written to be used as it is.
Download the one-sheet (PDF)Press and speaking: [email protected]Ihsan Beezer examines what happens before a decision becomes a choice.
- Work
- Writer, researcher, entrepreneur
- Research
- Doctoral candidate in strategy and entrepreneurship, Rutgers Business School
- Founder of
- IHSAN Advisory; Black Laptops (launching January 2027)
- Earlier
- Founded and led 7Wmedia for a decade
- Press and speaking
- [email protected]
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Ihsan Beezer is a writer, researcher and entrepreneur, and a doctoral candidate in strategy and entrepreneurship at Rutgers Business School. He is the founder of IHSAN Advisory, a private firm that examines consequential decisions before commitment, and of Black Laptops, a media and membership venture for Black builders.
Medium
Ihsan Beezer is a writer, researcher and entrepreneur whose work begins with a question: how does the way we see a situation shape what we believe is possible? He is a doctoral candidate in strategy and entrepreneurship at Rutgers Business School, where his research examines how emerging ventures and the people behind them are interpreted, evaluated, and granted or denied legitimacy.
He is the founder and principal advisor of IHSAN Advisory, a private firm that examines consequential decisions before commitment, and the founder of Black Laptops, a media and membership venture for Black builders, launching in January 2027. Earlier, he founded and led the strategy and marketing firm 7Wmedia for a decade.
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Ihsan Beezer is a writer, researcher and entrepreneur whose work begins with a question: how does the way we see a situation shape what we believe is possible? He is a doctoral candidate in strategy and entrepreneurship at Rutgers Business School, where his research examines how emerging ventures and the people behind them are interpreted, evaluated, and granted or denied legitimacy.
He is the founder and principal advisor of IHSAN Advisory, a private firm that examines consequential decisions before commitment, and the founder of Black Laptops, a media and membership venture for Black builders, launching in January 2027. New podcasts under his ThinkerBuilder Media banner are in development.
Earlier, he founded and led 7Wmedia, a strategy and marketing firm, for a decade. His career has also included investment banking at Credit Suisse First Boston in New York, teaching English at Shanghai University, training financial professionals at Thomson Financial, and consulting in Goldman Sachs' Investment Banking Division. He spent four years as a Princeton University Administrative Fellow at the Keller Center and taught at Morehouse College.
ThinkerBuilder is the name for his approach: thinking that reaches the world, and building with thought behind it. His public home is IhsanBeezer.com.
Each can be a keynote, a lecture or a conversation.
The choice before the choice
A decision rarely begins with a blank page. Long before anyone chooses, a situation has been named, some options have been made visible, and other possibilities have been left outside the frame. Ihsan talks about where decisions actually start, why the naming matters more than the options, and what leaders can examine before they commit.
Why smart people misread consequential decisions
Capable teams rarely fail for lack of analysis. They misread the situation: the assumption nobody stated, the category doing quiet work, the question nobody asked. Ihsan explains what an independent examination of a decision looks at, and why the person closest to the decision is often the worst placed to see it clearly.
ThinkerBuilder: a scholar who builds, a builder who thinks
Investment banking in New York, teaching in Shanghai, a decade founding and leading a firm, doctoral research on entrepreneurship. Ihsan talks about what moving between worlds does to the questions you ask, and why he thinks the next generation of public thinkers will be people who build, and builders who think.
Starting points for hosts and editors. Others are welcome.
- You say a decision rarely begins with a blank page. What is already on the page before anyone starts deciding?
- What does it mean to examine a decision rather than advise on it?
- You refuse implementation and strategy formulation. Why is refusing work part of the offer?
- Your firm publishes a starting fee of USD 50,000. Most firms hide their prices. Why show yours?
- You use no testimonials and no client lists. How does a buyer learn to trust you?
- What did investment banking teach you about how big decisions actually get made?
- Wall Street, Shanghai, your own firm, now doctoral research. What did moving between worlds change about the questions you ask?
- Your research examines how new ventures get judged and granted legitimacy. Where are founders most often misread?
- You are building several public ventures while completing a doctorate. How do you decide what not to do?
- What is a consequential decision from your career that you examined carefully, and what did the examination change?
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Ihsan Beezer