In 1991, Erin Brockovich was a single mother with small children. She uncovered evidence that the Pacific Gas and Electric Company had been aware of the danger of a chemical it had allowed to leak into the groundwater around Henkley, California. In 1993 she put together over 600 plaintiffs and partnered with a powerhouse law firm to win the suit. Eventually the case lead to a $333 million judgement, one of the largest legal settlements in U.S. history, against the utility company.

“Inspiring!”-Julia Roberts – (Julia played the part of Erin in the self-titled Hollywood Blockbuster)

In detail

Erin Brockovich grew up in Lawrence, Kansas, and completed one year at Kansas State University. She received an associate’s degree from a Texas business college. No longer a file clerk, Erin now serves as director of environmental research at Masry and Vititoe.

What she offers you

Erin Brockovich delivers her irrepressible spirit and down-to-earth wisdom in a stunning trove of stories, lessons, and motivational strategies audiences can use to summon their inner strength and free the winning forces that lie within us all.

How she presents

Erin is a truly remarkable speaker and her presentations are highly entertaining, captivating, motivating and above all inspiring.

Take it From Me Life’s a Struggle But You Can Win

Environmental Issues

Inspiration and Motivation.

2002

Take it From Me Life’s a Struggle But You Can Win

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Dame Jenny Shipley is the former Prime Minister of New Zealand and is currently a director of a number of companies in NZ and offshore. She was a driving force in the successful decade of economic and social reform in NZ and retired from NZ politics in 2002. She was an Initiator of the Education Forum for East Asia, is an active member of the World Women’s Leadership Council and is Vice President of the Club of Madrid, a group of former leaders who promote democracy and transparent economic development, globally.

“A formidable political and business leader”

In detail

Jenny was a Senior Minister in the New Zealand Government in the ‘90’s and Prime Minister from ‘97 to ‘99. She is currently chairman of Genesis Energy, Senior Money International and Mainzeal Construction. She is a Director of China Construction Bank, one of the big four former State owned banks in China. She is also a Director of Momentum and ISI. She is deeply involved in a range of philanthropic projects in NZ and offshore.

What she offers you

Jenny Shipley’s own unique story is inspirational, motivational and full of many valuable lessons derived from her own experience, her observations and rubbing shoulders with some of the world’s finest leaders. Her knowledge of China and relationships with Asia is of the highest level. Her keynote speeches are tailored to each group and encompass values, goals and new horizons.

How she presents

In her presentations Dame Shipley shows her passion for leadership and expanding performance. She is a skilled practiced orator and delivers frank, insightful and powerful addresses to audiences worldwide.

Economic and Social Reform

Relationships between China and Asia

Global Mega Trends

The Geo Political, Economic and Social Dynamics of the Developed and Developing World

The Reality of Emerging Economies

The Opportunities and Challenges for Mature Economies Worldwide

Training and Empowerment Strategies for Senior Women Executives

Mobilising and Motivating Women across the Community, in both Community and Professional Affairs

The Growing Role of Women in Public and Private Leadership

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Annie worked for Rolling Stone until 1983, and her intimate photographs of celebrities helped define the Rolling Stone lookAnnie Leibovitz is a unique photographer, the recipient of many honours, including being decorated a Commandeur in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 2006. She has covered Richard Nixon’s resignation and Barack Obama’s campaign, along with a Rolling Stones Tour, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, The Blues Brothers, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Keith Haring, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Patti Smith, George W. Bush, William S. Burroughs, Kate Moss and Queen Elizabeth.

“Annie worked for Rolling Stone until 1983, and her intimate photographs of celebrities helped define the Rolling Stone look”

In detail

When Annie Leibovitz returned to the US in 1970, she started her career as staff photographer, working for the recently launched Rolling Stone magazine. In 1973, publisher Jann Wenner named her chief photographer of Rolling Stone, a job she would hold for 10 years and going on to shoot for Vanity Fair and Vogue. She has created several influential advertising campaigns, including her award-winning work for American Express and the Gap, and has collaborated with many arts organizations. She was chosen as the official photographer of the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.

What she offers you

Annie Leibovitz’s large and distinguished body of work encompasses some of the most well-known portraits of our time. She provides fascinating insights into how she catches her subjects at their most “real” and discusses portraiture, reportage, fashion photography, lighting, and digital cameras.

How she presents

America’s most renowned portrait photographer, Annie Leibovitz’s presentations are delivered expertly using images from her unqiue persepctive.

Portrait Photography

Portraiture

Reportage

Fashion Photography

Lighting

Digital Cameras

2009
A Photographer’s Life: 1990-2005

2008
Annie Leibovitz at Work

2000
Women (with Susan Sontag)

1996
Olympic Portraits

1984
Annie Leibovitz – Photographs

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Patty Maes is an Associate Professor at MIT’s Media Laboratory, where she founded and directs the Autonomous Agents Group. She currently holds the Sony Corporation Career Development Chair. Previously, she was a visiting Professor and a Research Scientist at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Pattie Maes received her Ph. D. in Computer Science at the University of Brussels.

Global Leader for Tomorrow” World Economic Forum 2000

In detail

Patty is also particularly interested in building autonomous agents that interact with people. She is one of the project leaders for the ALIVE project (Artificial Life Interactive Video Environment). This project allows a user to interact in real-time with 3D animated autonomous characters.

What she offers you

Patty offers audiences an global perspective of her ground breaking research aimed at businesses wishing to compete successfully in the 21st century economy.

How she presents

An affable and charismatic personality, the soft spoken Belgian is highly sought after by clients keen to hear her fact packed and innovative presentations.

Artificial Intelligence

Human Computer Interaction

Information Filtering

Intelligent Agents

1994
Artificial Life IV: Proceeding of the Fourth International Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (with R. Books)

1990
Designing Autonomous Agents: Theory and Practice from Biology to Engineering and Back

1988
Meta-Level Architectures and Reflection

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Kate Sweetman is co-author of ‘Leadership Code: 5 Rules to Lead By’ and an experienced leadership consultant, educator, author, editor, and speaker. Currently an instructor at MIT’s Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship, she collaborates with gifted young entrepreneurs from emerging and developing countries including India, Rwanda, Colombia, Vietnam, Venezuela, Zimbabwe and North Africa. While an editor at Harvard Business Review, Kate acquired and edited articles by top business executives, academics, and consultants around the globe on the topics of business creativity, organizational change and development, leadership psychology, teamwork, and social enterprise.

“The organization’s leadership moves from the outside in, and the individual leader’s strength moves from the inside out”

In detail

Kate Sweetman is a founding partner of Sweetman Consulting, LLC, an education and organizational development firm based in Milton, MA. In addition to her career in executive and management education, she has worked in publishing and academics. She was also a Research Associate at Harvard Business School, and later taught the Management Communications course there. Kate has a BA in English from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

What she offers you

Kate Sweetman’s speciality is crafting customized cases around issues of leadership, strategy, organizational development, and implementation that help organizations look at themselves, what they do well, and what they need to improve. She has written hundreds of cases, scenarios, vignettes, role plays, scripts and other creative materials designed to open up essential discussions around strategy, leadership, and organizational behaviours.

How she presents

Kate Sweetman’s ability to bring the best out of herself and others in front of audiences has been appreciated by clients including Citigroup, Novartis, Verizon, Johnson & Johnson, British Petroleum Exploration and AstraZeneca among others.

Talent: The Key Resource for Driving Innovation

Innovations in Your Talent Strategy Delivers Tangible Results

Innovative Strategies to Develop Effective Leaders

How Leveraging Diversity Delivers a Bigger Bottom Line

Gender Equity in Leadership

Human Resources

2008
Leadership Code (with Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood)

All managers aspire to be better leaders – but what is it that makes a leader effective? “The Leadership Code” synthesizes the best research and practice from the past 50 years to answer that question. The authors present 5 rules for great leadership applied to day-to-day actions.

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Ranjini Manian is the founder and CEO of Global Adjustments Services Pvt Ltd, India’s 15-year-old destination and cross-cultural services company. Having worked with thousands of clients from over 75 nationalities, success is immutably bound to her commitment in promoting intercultural understanding. She is the only Indian on the Women’s Leadership Board at Harvard University.

Ranjini personifies the essence of the true global Indian with “Indian Roots and Global Wings”

In detail

Ranjini Manian attained a Bachelors degree from Elphinstone College, Mumbai, and a Diploma in French Literature from the University of Sorbonne, Paris. An indelible part of her service in the last 15 years is the magazine she pioneered and continues to be the editor of: At A Glance – Understanding India was the country’s first free cultural magazine for expatriates, that even earned a congratulatory note from the then President of India, Dr Abdul Kalam.

What she offers you

Ranjini Manian’s deep knowledge of the Indian ethos, her excellent orientation and communication skills and understanding of world cultures, continually proves to be the perfect combination in helping audiences understand the nuances of Indian culture for personal, as well as business needs. An accomplished author, she writes regular columns in leading business dailies and is a highly sought-after speaker. She shares insights about Indian culture, particularly in the context of foreign businesses operating in India.

How she presents

Ranjini Manian is a clear and warmly communicative speaker and a multicultural expert at sharing her knowledge with business professionals. She is known to be an anecdotal and entertaining speaker with practical advice to make you “India credible” and ready.

The Indian Ethos

The Nuances of Indian Culture

Global Adjustments

India’s Advancements

2007
Doing Business in India for Dummies

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Josephine Green is an internationally aclaimed speaker in the field of social and cultural change and innovation having been Senior Director of Trends and Strategy at Philips Design from 1997 to 2009, responsible for research into Society, Cultures and People and its implementation into the Strategic Futures Programme. She pioneered the Strategic Futures Program that helps companies and organizations think about and implement a human focused approach to innovation and growth. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the European Futurists Conference Lucerne and has worked both in international sales and marketing and in futures and social research for advanced strategy.

“Josephine promotes new thinking & new knowledge in the specific field of Social Foresight for Strategy & Innovation”

In detail

Josephine Green studied History and Politics at Warwick University, England. She has consistently worked with customers to introduce new thinking and sustainable development into their culture and processes. She has given many international presentations, and lectures at a number of universities’ masters and executive courses.

What she offers you

A consultant for a number of European Futures programmes and advisory boards, Josephine Green promotes working in emerging social space both as an opportunity and as a necessity and sees design and the new technologies as important enablers towards more social and sustainable solutions for the 21st century. Her main focus is on the critical transformation we are experiencing as we journey from one way of thinking, of being and of doing (the techno-industrial era) to another (the socio-ecological era).

How she presents

An inspiring speaker, Josephine Green’s passion is now in promoting new thinking and new knowledge in the specific field of Social Foresight and Innovation which she does in a clear and frank manner.

From Pyramids to Pancakes

Engaging with the Future Differently

New Thinking: Challenging Preconceptions

Social and Cultural Innovation

Creativity, Innovation and Leadership

Gender

Social Foresight for Strategy, Innovation & Brands

People and Trends

Visiting Professor at Glamorgan University. Advisory Board of the Glamorgan Business School, Cardiff

Research Consultant at The Glasgow School of Art

Senior Advisor at The Young Foundation, London

Advisory Group member StraX, Helsinki

Expert on a number of European Futures programs

Member of the European Professional Women’s Network and The Women’s International Network

Advisory Board member of the 20-first

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Christina Vlahova is a Strategic Marketing and Media consultant and a Global entrepreneur, networking her business between India, Eastern Europe and Italy. She is the owner of Intellecta Srl – Strategic Marketing and Media consultancy. Christina has an extensive marketing experience having been marketing director of Coca-Cola and Western Union in Bulgaria, Austria and Italy. She currently utilizes a lot of the online media and social networking sites to challenge our concepts of geographical distances, what is possible in the business world and how to build new businesses.

“Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given” Deepak Chopra

In detail

Bulgarian born Christina Vlahova graduated from high school in India and had her Master’s in Advertising in the US. She has lived and worked in Austria and Italy, which contributes to her understanding that the world is as distant as we make it in our own minds. Christina is a jury member of the Effie Awards in Bulgaria and the Moscow International Advertising Festival. One of her latest ventures includes the representation of Bollywood in Europe.

What she offers you

Christina offers you a creative approach to new media and challenges your own understanding of what is possible. She empowers small and medium businesses to become big with low-cost online techniques and ideas. In her work and presentations, she applies the traditional marketing techniques and marries that with the opportunities offered by the new media. Very creative, she has fascination for the possibility, which the online media offer to individuals and small businesses to grow.

How she presents

Christina is very practical and creative in her presentations, providing vivid examples and generating creative ideas through her interaction with her audiences. A natural presenter, she has a calm and warm demeanor, with a clear and professional style.

Building Your Personal Image Online: Individual Branding

Social Media as a Business Building Tool

Online vs. Offline Media: How the Future of Media Planning is Changing

From Advertiser to Media Owner: Why Pay for Advertising, When You Can Have Your Own Media?

Would Social Networking be a Substitute for Conventional Marketing in the Future?

What Does it Take to be a Global Entrepreneur?

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Irene Tinagli’s work focuses on policies for innovation, creativity and regional development. She has worked as a consultant for the Department of Social and Economic Affairs of the United Nations, for the European Commission, and for regional governments and development agencies in various European countries.

Irene Tinagli works on two levels: macro and micro”

In detail

Irene Tinagli holds a Master of Science in Innovation Management and Policies and a PhD in Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University. She has authored and co-authored international publications including ‘Europe in the Creative Age’ (with R. Florida) and ‘Understanding Knowledge Societies’ (with J. Szeremeta) and is an editorialist for the Italian newspaper La Stampa… Her research focuses on the social and economic conditions that lead to creativity and innovation. At the macro level she explores the geographic distribution of human capital and innovative activities and investigates the sources of regional growth, innovation and competitiveness. At the micro level, she explores the psychological mechanisms that attract and retain people in one place and that stimulate them to undertake more creative / innovative activities.

What she offers you

Irene Tinagli’s research is focused on the concept of innovation in social contexts, cities and regions, comparing global trends and local systems. Her invaluable presentations examine how countries and cities are adapting to the 21st century global economy, probing the opportunities and challenges that Europe faces in the global competition for creative and talented people. Her professional activities range from consulting, research projects, to training, executive education and speaking engagements, as well as participation to advisory boards and scientific committees.

How she presents

Irene Tinagli’s expertly delivered presentations are high in content, clear and informative.

Competing in the Creative Age: Attracting, Leveraging and Managing Talent

City and Regional Competitiveness: the Spatial Dimension of Talent Attraction and Creativity

Sustainable Growth in the Creative Age: Challenges & Strategies

The Experience of Living in Cities: the drivers of of City Satisfaction

Understanding Knowledge Societies

Contexts for Creativity: Building Innovative and Stimulating Environments

2008
Talento da svendere
2005
Understanding Knowledge Societies
2004
Europe in the Creative Age (with Richard Florida)

2010 – Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum
2003 – Highest Distinction, Master Graduation Award, Heinz School of Public Policy
2003 – Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society membership for academic merits
2001-2002 – Fulbright Scholarship, Italian Fulbright Commission
2002-2003 – Graduate Studies Scholarship, Bocconi University
2001-2002 – Michael Vinciguerra Fund Scholarship, Italian Fulbright Commission
1997-1998 – Best Graduate Award, Bocconi University

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Milena Kaneva is a journalist who has covered humanitarian crises and genocide (Rwanda), shooting reports in Eastern Europe, Africa, South America and Asia. Her exclusive interview with Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Prize laureate kept under house arrest by the military dictatorship, connecting her to Burma forever. In 2000 she produced her first long-form documentary, The Initiation, about female genital mutilation in Mali, and won first prize at the Festival of Due Mondi. She has become an activist herself, creating the “Freedom from Fear Foundation” to expose human rights problems, to promote and help causes around the world.

“If people around the world know the truth, there is a chance for change. Milena’s film makes it happen!” Vaclav Havel

In detail

Bulgarian born Milena Kaneva studied acting at the Sofia Theater and Film Academy. She moved to Italy in 1987, before the fall of the Berlin wall and began a career as a journalist and producer with the news agency WTN, later APTN. The documentary Total Denial was written, produced and shot by her, the result of six years of hard work in the jungles of Burma and the US Courts. It won her the Vaclav Havel Human Rights award in 2006 and has been shown in more than 50 festivals around the world. She is producing and directing her latest documentary “Freedom from Fear” about the non violent fight for democracy of the Buddhist monks and the Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.

What she offers you

Milena Kaneva talks about her firsthand experience in gathering testimonies of slave labour, rape and the female genital mutilation. With her chameleon like capacity to transform from actress, to journalist, producer and director, camerawoman and editor- she inspires young people to try and achieve what seems “impossible”.

How she presents

In her highly sought-after presentations, Milena accompanies her speeches with excerpts from her films and video material and anecdotes about her totally independent filmmaking.

Human Rights and the Non-violent Struggle for Democracy in Burma

Totally Independent “Guerilla” Filmmaking

How to Cross the Line from Filmmaker / Journalist to Human Rights Activist: “How One Person Can Make a Difference?”

Corporate and Social Responsibility – Landmark Case “Doe vs.Unocal”, and Chevron in Equador and in Nigeria

Host

Awards

Moderator

2010
Producer and Director
“Freedom from Fear”

2007/2009
Producer and Director “Total Denial”

1999/2000
Producer and Co-director of “The Initiation” feature documentary on Female Genital mutilation in Mali, Africa

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