Archive for the 'Leadership' Category

Mar 01 2010

President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga

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Former President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (1994–2005)

Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga proved to be the only Sri Lankan leader, in 60 years of Independence to have the courage to speak out against extremism and for building understanding and integration of all Sri Lanka communities. Currently, she is engaged in social entrepreneurship and is Chairperson of the CBK Foundation for Democracy and Justice. She serves as Advisor on Poverty Alleviation in the Clinton Global Initiative, Board Member of the Club de Madrid (the world’s largest forum of former Democratic Presidents and Prime Ministers) and Chairperson of the Sri Lanka Chapter of the South Asia Foundation.

“A great leader”

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Feb 05 2010

Robert Polet

CEO & Chairman of the Management Board of Gucci Group, Fortune Magazine’s European Businessman of the Year 2007

Robert Polet joined Gucci Group in 2004 after a 26-year career at Unilever, bringing considerable global management experience and a deep knowledge of the development of consumer brands in a multicultural environment. His dynamism has helped turn around luxury goods company Gucci Group and was named as European Businessman of the Year 2007 by Fortune magazine. He encourages the people working with him to break rules and to go outside the box.

“The man who has put the extra into extravagance”
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Jan 20 2010

Amin Rajan

Expert on Employment and Workforce Diversity

Amin Rajan is Chief Executive of the Centre for Research in Employment and Technology in Europe (CREATE) – a pan-European network of prominent researchers undertaking high level advisory assignments for the UK government, City institutions, multinational companies and international bodies such as the EU, OECD and ILO. He is also a visiting professor at the Cass Business School, London Guildhall University and at the Centre for Leadership Studies at Exeter University, and also President of the Scientific Committee at Audencia-Nantes, Ecole de Management.

“ Amin’s work has proved so influential that he now provides leadership coaching to top executives and investment specialists”
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Dec 28 2009

Henry Mintzberg

Leading Authority on Business Strategy and Professor of Management

henry-mintzbergProfessor Henry Mintzberg is Professor of Management at McGill University in Montreal, Canada and a Visiting Scholar at INSEAD in Fontainbleau, France. His entire career has focused on understanding how big business make decisions. In 2009 and 2007 Thinkers 50, the global ranking of management gurus, placed him among the list of most influential thinkers.

“Management is where art and craft and science meet”

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Dec 25 2009

Rakesh Khurana

Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Harvard Business School

rakesh-khuranaRakesh Khurana teaches a doctoral seminar on Management and Markets as well as The Board of Directors and Corporate Governance in the Harvard MBA program. Rakesh’s current research grows out of the same interests in the social context of business leadership and the allocation of leadership positions that motivated his research on the CEO labor market.

“Expert in Leadership Development”
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Dec 23 2009

Gareth Jones

Former HR Director at the BBC and Author of ‘Why Should Anyone Be Led by You?’

gareth-jonesGareth Jones is a Fellow of the Centre for Management Development at London Business School and a visiting professor at INSEAD, the international business school in Fontainebleau. His articles have appeared in the European Management Journal, Human Relations, and the Harvard Business Review. His research and consulting expertise is in the areas of corporate culture, authentic leadership and change.

“Expert on Corporate Culture and Authentic Leadership”
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Dec 21 2009

Rob Goffee

Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the London Business School

rob-goffeeRob Goffee is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the London Business School, where he teaches on the world renowned Senior Executive Programme. An internationally respected teacher and facilitator, Rob is also the Faculty Director for Executive Education at London Business School. He has taught executives from some of the world’s leading companies, including Unilever, Nestlé and Sonae. He also consults to the boards of a number of FTSE 100 companies.

“A recognised authority on organizational transformation”
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Dec 14 2009

Sir Richard Branson

International Entrepreneur and Businessman

richard-bransonSir Richard Branson is the eccentric and outspoken chairman of Virgin Atlantic Airways and Chairman of the Virgin Group. An experienced daredevil, Branson has raced powerboats across the ocean and has set distance records in hot air balloons. His unconventional style of living is only a part of his undeniable knack for beating impossible odds in business and in life. In his latest venture Richard Branson announced the signing of a deal under which a new space tourism company, Virgin Galactic, will license the technology behind Spaceship One to take paying passengers into suborbital space. In 2009 Thinkers 50, the global ranking of management gurus, placed him among the top ten most influential thinkers.

“Richard Branson has got the Midas Touch”
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Nov 30 2009

Dr. David P. Norton

International Best Selling Business Author and Acclaimed Business Strategist

david-norton Dr. David P. Norton is Founder and Director of Palladium, and co-founder of Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, an organization facilitating the global use and effectiveness of the Balanced Scorecard as a value-added management process. A frequent lecturer and writer, Dr. Norton’s work with the Balanced Scorecard has been the subject of many articles and public conferences and was selected by Harvard Business Review as one of the most influential management ideas of the past 75 years. He is also a best selling author, having published his most recent book, ‘Alignment: Using the Balanced Scorecard to Create Corporate Synergies’, in 2006.

“Superior strategy execution requires a system”
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Nov 17 2009

Don Strickland

Former Top Executive at Apple & Kodak, CEO of PictureWorks & IPIX, Pioneer of Web 2.0 Technologies

don-stricklandDon Strickland has successfully built businesses internationally for both large public companies and private start ups. As a CEO he has consistently combined new technologies and business models to reinvent companies and grow stockholder value.

“Don Strickland provides unique insights into the ‘Perfect Storm’ faced by business today”

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