Jun 29 2009
Susan Annunzio
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Authority on eBusiness Leadership and Corporate Transformation
As Principal at Nextera and best selling author, Susan Annunzio has provided corporate strategy advice to companies involved in large-scale transitions. She is a sought-after advisor to senior corporate leaders around the world for her expertise in fashioning programmes that maximise success and profitability through breaking down the traditional structural and managerial barriers.
A renowned leader of change management with 25 years of experience, Susan inspires companies to transform their traditional culture into an environment ready to compete and profit in the new economy by demolishing the implicit rules that stifle employee creativity.
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Award winning entrepreneur, James Caan has been creating, building and selling businesses since 1985. He is presently the founder and CEO of private equity firm Hamilton Bradshaw, which he set up in 2004, which specialises in buyouts, venture capital, turnarounds, real estate investments and development opportunities in both the UK and Europe, investing up to £10 million in each individual transaction. In October 2007, Caan joined the panel in the fifth series of BBC Two’s Dragons’ Den.
René Carayol is an internationally renowned business guru and media personality. René is a regular broadcaster for the BBC and has presented the influential Pay Off Your Mortgage In 2 Years series, BBC2’s flagship business offering The Money Programme and the critically acclaimed Mind of A Millionaire and Man From The Met documentaries. He is a broadsheet columnist, a frequent voice on Radio 5 Live and a regular expert commentator on Sky News and BBC Breakfast. .
Bjørn Lomborg is adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School. He is the organizer of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, which brings together some of the world’s top economists, including 5 Nobel laureates, to set priorities for the world. Time magazine named Lomborg one of the world’s 100 most influential people in 2004. In 2008 he was named “one of the 50 people who could save the planet” by the UK Guardian; “one of the top 100 public intellectuals” by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazine; and “one of the world’s 75 most influential people of the 21st century” by Esquire.
Dave Ulrich is as a Professor of Business at the University of Michigan and a partner at the RBL Group, a consulting firm focused on helping organizations and leaders deliver value. He studies how organizations build capabilities of speed, learning, collaboration, accountability, talent, and leadership through leveraging human resources. He has helped generate award winning data bases that assess alignment between strategies, human resource practices and HR competencies.
Jeffrey Pfeffer is one of the most recognized experts in the field of organizational management. He has taught executive seminars in 27 countries in addition to lecturing in management development programs and consulting for many companies, associations, and renowned universities such as Harvard Business School. He currently sits on the board of directors for five companies and is also a member of the visiting committee for the Harvard Business School as well as on the advisory board for MTW Corporation, a software and computer consulting company.
Dr. Marshall Goldsmith is a world authority in helping successful leaders get even better – by achieving positive, lasting change in behaviour: for themselves, their people and their teams. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources – America’s top HR honour. Dr. Goldsmith is co-founder of Marshall Goldsmith Partners, a network of top-level executive coaches and he served as a member of the Board of the Peter Drucker Foundation for ten years.
Rachel Lomax is a British economist and government official who has served as Deputy Governor of the Bank of England since 2003. Before joining the Bank, between 1999-2002 she was Permanent Secretary at the Department for Transport. She was a Vice President and Chief of Staff to the President of the World Bank in 1995-6 and Head of the Economic and Domestic Secretariat at the Cabinet Office in 1994.
Larry spent 10 years as a Director of British Airways and the loyalty management company, Air Miles, in both New York and London. His roles included Director of Customer Service and Director of People and Culture (he being the first person in Britain to hold this title). He is not just a theorist, but has turned his ideas into tangible business triumphs on both sides of the Atlantic.
Shaun Smith runs his own customer experience consultancy, Shaunsmith and Co, which is firmly routed in the ‘keep it simple’ ethos. He has developed some of the latest thinking and practice around this subject, focusing in particular on how organizations can achieve brand differentiations and long-term customer loyalty through the customer experience.
