The Leading Speakers Bureau

Educator, Physicist, Philosopher and Management Strategist

Danah Zohar is best known for her ground-breaking work on the existence of spiritual intelligence, SQ.

She examines how SQ creates integrity, morality and individuality and the difference between competitors and winners.

Working in management education and consultancy, she was instrumental in Shell’s highly successful transformation in the United States.

Is spiritual intelligence the difference between winners and losers?

[expand title=”In detail”] A visiting Fellow at the Cranfield School of Management, she also teaches in the Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme at Oxford University.

Applying her extensive knowledge of the new sciences to practical, hands-on techniques that businesses can use, she has lectured widely throughout the world. She has worked with numerous prestigious organisations.[/expand]

[expand title=”What she offers you”]Applying her philosophy and experience of the workings of the human mind she shows you how to embrace rapid social and technological changes and use them for personal and organisational benefit.

Grasp SQ and see what underlies your values and beliefs, your sense of perception and ultimately the reasons behind your actions.[/expand]
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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.

[expand title=”In detail”] Susan leads Nextera’s strategic change management practice and her projects have covered a wide variety of industries: financial services, petroleum, manufacturing, high technology, professional services and healthcare. One of her major achievements is the complete re-shaping of a global petroleum company, reversing its declining performance through an ongoing effort aimed at reinvigorating the leadership of the organisation. In just a few months the company’s newly inspired leaders eliminated numerous barriers and unproductive work processes resulting in increased revenue and shareholder value.[/expand]
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International Speaker, Coach, Consultant, Author

Jo Salter was Britain’s first female fighter pilot flying the Tornado GR1, then one of 5 women fighter pilots in the world. As Britain’s first female fast jet pilot, Jo’s tales from such an elite world offer alternative insights into personal development, meeting challenges and succeeding in the face of adversity.
Jo Salter’s military experience is multifaceted: technical, professional, managerial and political. And 7 years of e-commerce experience and management consultancy in both the public and private sector, Associate Lectureship with the Open University Business School and flying air cadets as a volunteer pilot for the RAF at weekends.

Her military experience is multifaceted: technical; professional; managerial and political.

“One of the 50 most inspiring women in the world.” Harpers & Queen

[expand title=”In detail”] Jo has five years of e-commerce and management consultancy experience in the public and private sector as well as an MBA and an Associate Lectureship with the Open University Business School. As a combat ready pilot with 617 Squadron, the Dambusters, Jo experienced operational tours of duty and took part in large international NATO exercises around the world. She also worked in intelligence and became a fast jet instructor.[/expand]

[expand title=”What she offers you”]Her tales from such an elite world offer alternative insights into personal development, meeting challenges and succeeding in the face of adversity.[/expand]
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Fund Management Guru

Nicola Horlick is a senior fund manager and the CEO of Bramdean Asset Management LLP. Nicola has worked in the fund management industry for over twenty-five years and has participated in the growth of some of the UK’s premier asset management businesses.

“A leading fund management guru”

[expand title=”In detail”] Nicola joined SG Warburg as a graduate trainee in 1983, which became Mercury Asset Management. In 1991, she joined Morgan Grenfell Asset Management as Director and became Managing Director of the fund management division of the UK business in 1992. Over the next four years, funds under her management rose from £4 billion to £22 billion. After leaving Morgan Grenfell, Nicola took six weeks out to write her autobiographical account of her daughter’s traumatic treatment for leukaemia, revealing the real woman behind the headlines. The book was called ‘Can You Have It All?’ and the proceeds went to Great Ormond Street Hospital. In 1997, Nicola co-founded the UK arm of Société Générale Asset Management (SGAM), pulled in £7 billion worth of investments for SGAM and also took time off to have her sixth child.[/expand]

[expand title=”What she offers you”]Nicola is highly respected for having survived an extensive array of challenging experiences in her life both personally and professionally and under the intense gaze of the national media. Drawing from these experiences, Nicola provides her audiences with practical insights into the drive and energy needed to succeed in today’s world. She shares invaluable advice on leadership and the work-life balance and is immensely popular with a variety of audiences.[/expand]
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Former Norwegian Prime Minister and Former Director General of the WHO (World Health Organisation)

Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland is one of the most influential women of the late twentieth century.

In 1998, Gro was elected Director-General of the World Health Organization. She is one of Norway’s most respected and experienced politicians.

“One of the most influential Europeans in the last 25 years” The Financial Times

[expand title=”In detail”] Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland’s was Prime Minister of Norway on several different occasions and Chairwoman of the UN World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), now called The Brundtland Commission. She has been awarded several prestigious awards in recognition of her work, among which the Third World Prize for Work on Environmental Issues 1989, the Indira Gandhi Prize in 1990 as well as the Onassis Foundation Award in 1992 and the Charlemagne Prize of the city of Aachen.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Dr. Brundtland is a formidable speaker, who draws on her considerable expertise and own personal experiences to provide excellent observations and analysis of the current political landscape. She is also a respected author on preventative medicine, school health and growth studies. She is also part of our Top Women keynote speakers. [/expand]
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Leading Trendspotter, Futurist and Strategist

Marian Salzman is considered as one of the world’s top five trendspotters. She is the CEO of Havas PR North America, an entrepreneurial agency ranked ninth in the world. Marian was responsible for some of the most famous consumer campaigns and has executed thought leadership, reputation management and social media programs around the globe. Before heading Havas PR, she was CMO at Porter Novelli, CMO at JWT Worldwide and CSO at Euro RSCG Worldwide. She received many prestigious awards, including the the PRWeek’s 2009 PR Innovation of the Year award.

“One of the Top Five Trendspotters in the World”

[expand title=”In detail”] Marian is an advisor to the Berlin School of Creative Leadership’s MBA program, author of 14 books published in more than 20 languages and an honours graduate of Brown University for which she has served as a mentor to Brown Women in Business since 2006. Her four-part series on the brain for the Huffington Post won a 2011 Bronze SABRE award and an honorable mention from the PR News Platinum PR Awards. In addition, Marian has blogged regularly at Forbes.com, the Holmes Report, Adweek/Aol’s Fuel the Future, CNBC.com and numerous agency blogs run by @havasprus.

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[expand title=”What she offers you”]Marian has identified and taken public such concepts as Metro-sexuality. Singletons and Globesity She brings to her presentations more than a decade’s worth of experience as a consumer researcher and trend analyst as well as a reputation as one of the world’s leading futurists. Marian not only delivers practical insights, but she also offers audiences an accurate glimpse of the near future.[/expand]

[expand title=”How she presents”]Her powerful presentations are well prepared and entertaining.[/expand]
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Co-author, Blue Ocean Strategy, Distinguished Fellow and Professor, INSEAD

Renée Mauborgne is a leading authority on value innovation and wealth creation. She is professor of strategy and management at INSEAD and is also codirector of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute. Blue Ocean Strategy argues that tomorrow’s leading companies will succeed not by battling competitors, but by creating “blue oceans” of uncontested market space ripe for growth. Such strategic moves, termed value innovation, create powerful leaps in value for both the firm and its buyers, rendering rivals obsolete and unleashing new demand. Renée co-founded the Blue Ocean Strategy Network, a global community of practice on the Blue Ocean Strategy family of concepts that they created.

She stimulates creative thinking at an intellectual level with great ease.

Renée Mauborgne has been ranked among the top 50 most influential business thinkers. In 2009 Thinkers 50, the global ranking of management gurus, placed her among the list of most influential thinkers.

[expand title=”In detail”] Renée received the Nobels Colloquia Prize for Leadership on Business and Economic Thinking 2008 and is the winner of the Eldridge Haynes Prize, awarded by the Academy of International Business and the Eldridge Haynes Memorial Trust of Business International. She is the winner of Prix des Dirigeants Commerciaux de France 2009 in the category of Stratégie d?entreprise. Thinkers 50, the global ranking of management gurus, places Renee among the top five most influential thinkers in 2009. She was also selected as the highest placed woman ever on Thinkers 50. [/expand]

[expand title=”What she offers you”]Renée Mauborgne is a preeminent thought leader on business strategy, innovation and wealth creation in the knowledge economy. With Blue Ocean Strategy, Renée brings business audiences a genuinely important breakthrough in strategic business thinking, which is changing the business lexicon across the globe. Taking the ever-changing global picture, she conveys the impact that it is having, and will have, on your organisation. As competition is redefined by technology and economic factors she looks at the implications for cost and sustainability. [/expand]

[expand title=”How she presents”]Renée is a very impressive presenter-engaging, energetic and intelligent, with substantive material that can significantly impact your organisation’s performance. Candid and affable, she delivers her message with great clarity and relevance to your own situation. [/expand]
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Expert on Energy and the Environment

Claudia Kemfert is Head of the department Energy, Transportation, Environment at the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and Professor of Energy Economics at Humboldt University, Berlin. She advises EU president José Manuel Barroso as a member of the High Level Group on Energy and she is an external advisor for the World Bank, the United Nations and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

“Germany’s leading exponent of green economic policies”

[expand title=”In detail”] Prof. Kemfert was awarded from DAAD and was honoured in 2006 as top German Scientist from the German research foundation (“Elf der Wissenschaft 2006”). She is a member of renowned expert commissions, sustainability advisory councils and is a member of the editorial board of Energy Economics, Gaia and Energy Efficiency. Her research activities concentrate on the evaluation of climate and energy policy strategies.[/expand]

[expand title=”What she offers you”]With a wealth of unparalleled expertise in the social and economic effects of climate change, Claudia Kemfert offers organisations the necessary tools to expand without adversely affecting the environment. She shows decision makers how it is possible to achieve sustained growth and profits whilst simultaneously implementing “greener” business policies[/expand]
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Leading Global Futurist, Trend Forecaster and expert on Future Business and Consumer Trends

Anne Lise Kjaer is a leading global futurist who has pioneered the concept of Multidimensional Thinking – developing future concepts by analysing scientific research in conjunction with social, cultural, emotional and spiritual shifts in society. Anne Lise has an exceptional eye for ‘the next big thing’ and an original and inspiring way of translating fledgling concepts into viable commercial propositions, working with some of the world’s leading brands.

“The future is not some place we go, but one we create”

[expand title=”In detail”] Her experience across markets from food, fashion and furniture to electronics, automotive and retail gives her unique insights and a ‘bigger picture’ approach. Anne contributes to a range of European trends and lifestyles publications and has been featured in the Financial Times, The Sunday Times, The Observer, Times Magazine and on BBC R4 and Question Time and several international television programmes. She is a Copenhagen Goodwill Ambassador and an MD of the Danish / UK Chamber of Commerce.[/expand]

[expand title=”What she offers you”]Anne Lise Kjaer brings clarity to a complex world dominated by ever increasing trends that are generated by a constantly changing world and driven by consumer demands. As she embraces new thinking across a range of disciplines, this approach is combined with more creative and intuitive approaches to the future in the 21st century.[/expand]
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Entrepreneur, Model and Media Personality

Caprice became a household name around the world through her modeling and media appearances. Arriving in England from Southern California she became one of the most photographed women in the world appearing on over 300 magazine covers. Following her success as a model she added a variety of television appearances to her media portfolio. Voted GQ Magazine’s Woman of the Year and Maxim’s International Woman of the Year 3 years running she appeared in a documentary for Channel 4 “ Being Caprice “ and featured in many other prime time shows.

Caprice is an Ambassador for the Princes Trust

[expand title=”In detail”] Following her success as a Model and Media Personality Caprice moved into roles on the West End stage and received rave reviews, later she produced her own version of a popular musical in which she also starred. Recently she has become a business entrepreneur developing and financing her own range of lingerie and swimwear which achieved instant success in Debenhams stores, Next and Littlewoods plus many countries around the world. Her future objective is to achieve continuing global success with the By Caprice brand and as she develops further product ranges her determination is to be “ hands on“ in every respect of the business. [/expand]

[expand title=”What she offers you”]Caprice has developed a successful business through a close examination of the market for ladies lingerie and swimwear and the success of the business has much to do with her close attention to detail in all departments including design, distribution and finance. Her entrepreneurial attributes have convinced her to avoid licensing arrangements and continue to expand the business and the brand by continuing an innovative and creative approach to product and the efficiency of merchandising and distribution[/expand]
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