Connect Speakers Bureau | SPEAKERS

LUKE WILLIAMS

Wed, 09 May 2012 15:21:37 GMT

Luke Williams is an internationally recognized authority on Innovation Leadership. He is a Fellow at frog, one of the world's most influential innovation companies and Professor of Innovation at NYU’s Stern School of Business. He has worked with industry leaders including American Express, GE, Sony, Crocs,Virgin, Disney and Hewlett-Packard to create breakthrough product, service and business model solutions.

In order to stay competitive, business leaders need a revolution in thinking: a steady stream of disruptive strategies and unexpected solutions to stay ahead of the game. Luke Williams shows organizations exactly how to generate those strategies and deliver those solutions with his insightful and truly mind blowing presentations. Author of Disrupt: Think the Unthinkable to Spark Transformation in Your Business he is one of the world’s most respected voices on "Innovation Leadership".

RICHARD HAMES

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:36:10 GMT

Richard Hames is a futurist, best-selling author and knowledge designer. Recently declared by Forbes Asia as one of the smartest people on the planet he is considered to be among the world's most influential thought leaders and change strategists.
Richard is Founder and President of The Hames Group (a globally distributed think-tank and strategic design laboratory comprising thought leaders from all fields of human endeavour), Director of the Asian Foresight Institute in Bangkok, and a member of the elite consultant group "The Constellation." He is also a Fellow of the World Academy of Art & Science.
Richard’s work as strategic adviser to multinational corporations and governments ranges across issues as diverse as the future of energy, conflict, food security, the economy, regional development, terrorism, taxation, health care, technology and social inclusion.
An authority on the design of strategically relevant yet viable 'whole system' solutions for business and government in a globalised world, Richard has built an enviable reputation as a strategic change agent with a range of clients spanning the world and in all sectors of the economy.
"It is a rare person who is able to transform our thinking by creating a fundamentally new  vision of how things could work better. Richard Hames is one of those people."  Sir Norman Joyce, Chairman, AMI

KATIE LEDGER

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:49:53 GMT

Katie Ledger is a former UK National TV News Presenter with 15 years of broadcast experience working as a journalist for the BBC, ITN, Channel 5 in the UK and TVB in Hong Kong.

Katie now concentrates on her a career as a conference facilitator, communications consultant, author and speaker. She has facilitated hundreds of events and conferences and firmly believes in being the “voice of the audience” on stage, asking the kinds of questions that they would like to ask. She enjoys facilitating open Q&A, also utilising social media including twitter and text feedback and always makes sure the event stays to time.

Her interviews ranged from facilitating a public Q&A with David Cameron just before he became Prime Minister, to Royal Correspondent for Channel 5 News in the wake of Princess Diana’s death, to interviewing international celebrities such as Diana Ross, Jose Carreras, Director Oliver Stone, Virgin’s Richard Branson and Microsoft Boss, Steve Ballmer.

PARAG KHANNA

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:47:55 GMT

Parag Khanna is the leading next-generation voice on the future of global affairs. Named one of Esquire magazine's 75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century and at the top of Wired magazine's Smart List, Khanna was a foreign policy advisor to President Barack Obama during his historic presidential campaign. He is currently a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, the country's most innovative think tank, where he directs the Roundtable on the Future of the World Economy and advises the US National Intelligence Council's Global Trends 2030 program. He is also co-director of the Hybrid Reality Institute, a global advisory firm providing insight into the implications of emerging technologies.

JOHN MATTONE

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:26:15 GMT

John Mattone was recently named by Thinkers50.com as one of the fastest rising stars in the field of leadership development. The Thinkers50, a biennial list of the world’s top business thinkers, identifies people who are making a real difference in the world of business. John was ranked as one of the "world’s emergent thought leaders" and appears on the 2011 Thinkers 50 “Guru Radar” list.

He is recognized globally as an inspiring keynote speaker, prolific author, and highly sought-after executive coach. John is President of JohnMattonePartners (JMP), a global leadership consulting firm that specializes in executive assessment, development, and coaching.
John has over 30 years’ experience in the fields of executive development and human capital management, an entrepreneur who has built two successful human capital consulting firms, and as executive of a multi-million dollar leadership consulting firm, as a leading author known throughout the Fortune 500 for his extraordinary speaking ability.

Prior to JMP, John was the Vice President of Global Assessment Services for Linkage, Inc., where he was responsible for the firm’s global assessment practice. Prior to Linkage, John was the Senior Vice President of Sales for Drake Beam Morin, the global career and outplacement firm. Before joining DBM, John spent 10 years building his first successful consulting firm, Human Resources International.
He has consulted for more than 250 organizations and addressed more than 500,000 people in 2,000 speeches and seminars throughout the U.S., Canada and other countries worldwide. John is a prolific author having written seven books as well as over 100 professional articles and book chapters including the award-winning “The Role of Assessment in Driving Operating Results”, published in Jac Fitz-enz book “The New HR Analytics” (AMACOM, 2010) and “Predictive HR Leadership”.

NIALL FERGUSON

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:05:28 GMT

Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. He is one of the world's leading historians on the global economy. Controversial, expansive and eloquent, he writes and speaks about the costs and benefits of globalisation and the relations between finance and politics.

VIJAY GOVINDARAJAN

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:42:17 GMT

Vijay Govindarajan, known as VG, is the Earl C. Daum 1924 professor of international business at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. He is one of the world’s leading experts on strategy and innovation.

LUCY P. MARCUS

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:59:35 GMT

LUCY P. MARCUS won the Thinkers 50 Future Thinker Award which recognises "A Thinker who has emerged over the last two years with the potential to change the world of theory and practice”

ALAN MOORE

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:26:07 GMT

ALAN MOORE is a charismatic visionary who has a firm grasp of the significant and disruptive trends which are currently reshaping our world. Through his most recent book and project No Straight Lines: making sense of our non-linear world, he interprets these complex themes into their most salient points, taking concepts from various sources and detecting the previously hidden relationship between them.

CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:24:56 GMT

CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN is a Harvard Business School professor and advisor to some of the world's biggest companies. He believes that industry leaders get blindsided by disruptive innovations precisely because they focus too much on their most profitable customers and businesses.

DIANE COYLE

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:29:24 GMT

DIANE COYLE (OBE) former economist at the U.K Treasury, European Editor of Investors Chronicle and Economics Editor of The Independent. Presently she is Director of “Enlightenment Economics”, the consultancy company she founded in 2001, specialising in global and technological issues.

CHRIS TRIMBLE

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:21:41 GMT

Chris Trimble has dedicated the past ten years to studying a single challenge that vexes even the best-managed corporations: how to execute an innovation initiative.
His work came to fruition with the publication of his book, The Other Side of Innovation:Solving the Execution Challenge, with Vijay Govindarajan, which was released in September 2010.

KRESSE WESLING

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:09:37 GMT

WINNER OF THE
"CARTIER WOMEN'S INITIATIVE AWARD"

Kresse Wesling has a rather extraordinary passion which is waste as a result she co-founded Elvis & Kresse to make luxury goods from it.

AMAR BHIDÉ

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 9:26:24 GMT

Amar Bhidé is Thomas Schmidheiny Professor at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Previously he was Professor of Business at Columbia University. He is a founding member of the Center on Capitalism and editor of its journal, Capitalism and Society.

UMAIR HAQUE

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:52:42 GMT

UMAIR HAQUE is a consultant, author & economist. He is also a columnist and blogger for the Harvard Business Review and has been ranked by the Thinkers50 as one of the world’s most influential management thinkers. He also won "Independent voices of 2011" most influential business user of Twitter.

E-Patient Dave

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:23:07 GMT

A Voice of Patient Engagement

FRANCIS FUKUYAMA

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:02:13 GMT

Francis Fukuyama is Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), resident in FSI's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, effective July 2010. He joined Stanford from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University, where he was the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy and director of SAIS' International Development program.

ROGER MARTIN

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:35:17 GMT

ROGER MARTIN has served as Dean of the Rotman School of Management since September 1, 1998. He is the author of “The Design of Business” why design thinking is the next competitive advantage. His work on Integrative Thinking gives managers the tools and confidence to go beyond choosing from among existing models and either-or decisions, to creating superior new models.

STÉPHANE GARELLI

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 15:01:51 GMT

Stéphane Garelli is a Professor at both the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), one of the world's leading business schools, and at the University of Lausanne. He is also the director of IMD's World Competitiveness Center and is an authority on World Competitiveness: his research focuses particularly on how nations and enterprises compete on International markets.

HENRY CHESBROUGH

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 10:23:47 GMT

HENRY CHESBROUGH is the widely known visionary who created the theory and coined the term Open Innovation. Chesbrough’s recent work, “Open Services and Innovation: Rethinking Your Business to Grow and Compete in a New Era” focuses on innovation models that can truly drive transformation and growth.

HAROLD JAMES

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:18:17 GMT

“Modern management theory….treats managers…as individuals driven by isolated gain-maximizing strategies. It is diametrically opposed to the traditional German and perhaps European vision of a company as an embodiment of some over-arching value system, in which a corporation is a microcosm of a general social equilibrium.”

Harold James is a renowned historian, specializing in the history of Germany and European economic history. James is a prolific author, having published dozens of books and articles in his field. He is currently a Professor of History at Princeton University as well as a Professor of International Affairs at the University's Woodrow Wilson School.

He was educated at Cambridge University and was a Fellow of Peterhouse for eight years before joining Princeton University in 1986.

TIM CAMPBELL

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:53:39 GMT

Tim Campbell is the Chairman of The Urban Age Institute which fosters leadership and innovation between and among cities in areas of strategic urban planning, urban policy and management, sustainable environmental planning, and poverty reduction.