Connect Speakers Bureau, Source of Global Business Thinkers on
Leadership, Innovation, Economics, Globalisation, Technology & The Future
Recently described as one of the century’s most insightful corporate philosophers and by Forbes Asia as "one of the smartest people on the planet". Richard Hames is an organisational designer, social entrepreneur, futurist, speaker and best selling author. He is widely considered to be among the world's most influential thought leaders and change strategists. An architect of mindful evolution, Richard works at the interface between organisations and society. Using various forms of enquiry he helps us cut through the fog of our current paradigm. By asking challenging questions wisdom is liberated, leading to the deep renewal of worldviews, strategies, structures and practices.
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 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 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 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.
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.
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 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.
A Voice of Patient Engagement
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.
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.
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.