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 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”.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.