ThinkX Intellectual Capital Tim Hurson (born 1946) is a speaker, writer and creativity theorist living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

[1] Hurson was a founding partner of Manifest Communications, a company focussed on social change strategy.

[2] After working independently for several years, he became a founding partner of ThinkX Intellectual Capital.

[3] Hurson developed a problem-solving technique known as the ThinkX Productive Thinking Model, a six-step process that builds on the Osborn-Parnes Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Process, combining it with more rigorous engineering-based techniques such as IDEF.

His book Think Better[4] was translated into Chinese, Portuguese,[5] Korean, Spanish,[6][7] Thai, and Polish.