The Leading Speakers Bureau

Head of Research and Networks at IJ Partners & Former Head of Global Risk – World Economic Forum

Thierry Malleret is an economics and strategy expert. He is a senior partner at IJ Partners, an investment company founded for entrepreneurs and families. Until 2009, he was managing partner at Rainbow Insight, an advisory boutique which he founded, providing tailor-made intelligence to investors. Previously Thierry headed the Global Risk Network at the World Economic Forum, a network that brings together top opinion and policymakers.

“A highly respected Head of the Global Risk Network of the World Economic Forum”

[expand title=”In detail”] For a number of years in succession, Thierry has conceived and put in place the programme for Davos and spoken at global, industry and regional events. His previous experience was in investment banking, as a Chief Economist and Strategist of a major Russian investment bank, think tanks and academia, both in New York and Oxford and in government, with a three-year spell in the Prime Minister’s office in Paris. He has appeared on numerous network television programs, including CNN and CNBC.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]He demonstrates how strategies can be developed to seize opportunities from risks and to uphold sustainability. He also is an accomplished speaker whose addresses have covered a wide range of economical subjects.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]In an easy and relaxed way, he conveys complex issues with great transparency.[/expand]
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Former Wal-Mart Executive

Michael Bergdahl is a full-time motivational speaker, author and writer. Bergdahl worked in Bentonville, Arkansas for Wal-Mart, as the Director of “People” for the headquarters office, where he worked directly with Sam Walton. It was Sam Walton who gave Bergdahl the nickname, “Bird Dawg”! He has recent experience as a turnaround specialist, successfully working with American Eagle Outfitters & Waste Management & is considered an authority on Wal-Mart.

“A storyteller who weaves entertainment into his motivational business messages”

[expand title=”In detail”] Michael began his career in an entrepreneurial, highly successful, family-owned newspaper publishing business in Houston, Texas. In his next position, he got his hands dirty on the manufacturing side of the petrochemical industry in J. M. Huber Corporation’s, Carbon Black Division in Baytown, Texas. He was later recruited by Frito Lay (a subsidiary of PepsiCo) to assume a position in their sales organization.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]He will enhance the content of your meetings by communicating the sales, service and employee performance expertise to your audience that he gained from his experiences working in Consumer Packaged Goods at Frito-Lays, Discount Retailing at Wal-Mart and Speciality Retailing at American Eagle Outfitters. Michael Bergdahl is the ideal choice for keynotes, breakouts and workshops.[/expand]
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Founder and Director of the Lean Enterprise Academy

Daniel Jones is Founder and Director of The Lean Enterprise Academy where the main thrust of his work has been to develop and help to implement the ’Lean Business System’. Based on ‘Lean Thinking’ principles learnt from Toyota, this starts by defining customer value, which then leads to the reorganisation of every step required to design, order, build, deliver and maintain this value across all the organisations involved.

Professor Jones has helped to establish a global network of institutes dedicated to researching, educating and publishing action-oriented knowledge on the Lean Business System

[expand title=”In detail”] After a research career at the National Institute for Economic and Social Research in London and the Sussex European Research Centre and Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex University he was appointed Professor of Manufacturing Management at Cardiff University Business School in 1989, where he was the founding Director of the Lean Enterprise Research Centre (LERC) from 1994 to 2001.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Daniel is dedicated to helping corporations to identify and achieve first-class performance levels throughout the globe. In his enlightening presentations he shows decision makers how, by implementing ‘Lean Thinking’, firms can do more with less, respond more quickly to customer needs, create more rewarding jobs for employees and reduce their impact on the environment.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]An experienced speaker, Professor Jones’ presentations are filled with actionable information and are invaluable for all businesses wishing to apply the innovative approaches in making the transition to ‘Lean Management’.
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British Politician and Renowned Businessman

From 1991 until 2000, Archie Norman was Chief Executive and then Chairman of Asda, the large supermarket chain, and was credited with turning it around and making it the second largest in the UK, before its sale to Walmart in June 1999. He helped form the think tank Policy Exchange. In 2002 he joined Energis as Chairman having led a consortium of banks in the purchase and refinance of the UK arm from the administrators of Energis Plc.

“Archie is without doubt one of the UK’s most respected retail executives”

[expand title=”In detail”] Mr Norman was elected as Conservative Member of Parliament for Tunbridge Wells in the 1997 general election. Whilst in Parliament he served as a shadow minister from 1999 until 2001, when he returned to the backbenches. He stood down as MP at the May 2005 general election. He has also previously been a Member of the HM Government Deregulation Taskforce (1993-1997) and a Member of the Anglo-German Deregulation Taskforce in 1995. [/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]A remarkable and successful businessman, Archie has held a number of prestigious positions for major blue-chip companies. Drawing on his experiences he is able to show decision makers how to design effective business strategies to improve performance, to successfully motivate the workforce and to effectively deal with change.[/expand]
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Authority on EU Enlargement and the Strategic Relevance of the Euro

Lode Beckers is an international financier and banker. After a 28-year corporate banking career with Citibank in 7 countries, Lode became a board member in two private banks – in Belgium and France -, while founding LOBO N.V., a fund management firm and consulting firm focusing on Euro-related strategic and organisational matters.

Over the past 6 years, trade and industry federations, governments and leading corporations frequently called upon Lode’s expertise in assessing the impact of the Euro on business with European trade partners and in the European Single Market area.

[expand title=”In detail”] Currently Lode is chairman and Managing Director of a Brussels-based consulting firm advising companies on strategies to adopt following the introduction of the Euro and the emergence of an effective single market in Europe. In addition he is one of the members of the EU-chartered Groupeuro’s group of experts mandated by the EU Commission to inform various professional audiences of the effects of the single European currency.

While acting as a presenter and company director, Lode Beckers continued to be a board member of the American Chamber of Commerce in Belgium. He also held teaching assignments at the Universities of Leuven, Paris X (Nanterre), and St. Petersburg (Russia). Lode holds Law and Political Science degrees from the University of Leuven. He is an alumni of Wharton’s International Forum and obtained an AMP certification from INSEAD (Fr.).[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Since Lode started his consulting firm LOBO, he has contributed to the success of over 300 conferences, corporate off site meetings, and seminars. His lively presentation style and his long-standing personal expertise have made him a highly rated guest speaker and discussion panel director at major corporate gatherings or client events.[/expand]
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Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School

Prof. Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor and a Novartis Fellow at Harvard Business School. Currently, he teaches in Harvard’s comprehensive general management executive education programs. His current research focuses on understanding the drivers of entrepreneurship worldwide.

In 2007, he was nominated to be a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum

[expand title=”In detail”] Prof. Khanna has served as course head of the strategy course in the Harvard MBA program, and chaired the executive education program on Strategy, Leadership and Governance. He is actively involved in mentoring startups in Asia. His scholarly work has been published in a range of journals over the past fifteen years, he is also serving as a co-editor of several prestigious economics and management journals. His first book, ‘Foundations of Neural Networks’, has been translated into Italian and Japanese, and is widely used as a reference text in engineering and applied science departments.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Serving on the advisory boards of several multinational and emerging market companies in the financial services, automotive, life sciences and agribusiness sectors, Tarun Khanna has experience in a wide variety of industries. Providing valuable insights into emerging markets, strategy and leadership and business in China and India, Professor Khanna is in great demand with audiences worldwide.[/expand]
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Global Business Specialist

John A. Caslione is a global business specialist.

He is founder, president and CEO of Andrew-Ward International, Inc. – a global marketing and sales organisation – that supports organisations with their global business strategy.

Currently, he also lectures on the global economy and global business development at Institute for Management Development, IMD, in Lausanne, and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

He shows you how to take advantage of global opportunities.

[expand title=”In detail”] Furthermore, he is co-founder and co-managing partner of GCS Business Capital GmbH, which specialises in advising European and Chinese small and medium size enterprises, SMEs, in globalising their business. The University of New York is where he gained his Bachelors of Science and MBA, and he gained his Doctorate of Law from Illinois Institute of Technology.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Combining case study examples with his wealth of experience he shows you how to address the most challenging of global business issues. Thriving in the global business market is broken down into what, how and when. He looks at what your competitive advantage is, how to develop a global strategy and when, where and who your marketing messages should reach.[/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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Guru of Personal Reinvention

Watt Nicoll MP is a coach and motivator extraordinaire.

He insists on MP after his name as a public declaration of being a Motivated Person.

Motivator for the Everton Football team, he has helped take them from relegation candidates to a top 6 team in his first season.

He has developed a process of self-education and awareness, which has distinguished him as a world-class resource for the development of human potential

Innovator of developing human potential

[expand title=”In detail”] In his pursuit of excellence, he is a regular contributor to BBC Radio and subject of a BBC2 Television documentary. Also, he is a board member of Young Enterprise Scotland.

His programmes are built on the basis that successful organisations share an ability to engage high performance people within their organisations.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Shake off mediocrity and live up to your potential by taking advantage of his non-traditional training techniques.

Discover how to release untapped energy and creativity of existing personnel to uphold success and profitability.[/expand]
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Thought Leader of Open Innovation

As former Vice President of Innovation for Procter & Gamble, Larry Huston was responsible for the company’s global Connect and Develop program where he successfully met his objective of insourcing 50% of the company’s innovation from outside of P&G.

Larry Huston is a leading practitioner of connected innovation and is now managing partner of strategy consultancy 4INNO.

“Asking new questions is the key to truly successful innovation”

[expand title=”In detail”] Larry is recognised globally for his radical business innovation model, ‘Connect and Develop’ which turbocharged more than 250 Procter and Gamble products into the marketplace, generated billions of sales and increased the P&G’s figure of insourced innovation from 15% in 2000 to a remarkable 50% today[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Larry informs his audiences about his highly effective Connect and Develop business innovation model and he shares his invaluable insights on how to successfully revamp product innovation strategies and concept development. His extensive experience and sound advice are hugely beneficial to businesses and organisations worldwide.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Larry has a wonderfully down to earth and approachable presenting style with genuine and evident enthusiasm for his field. These characteristics mixed with his outstanding knowledge contribute to his truly unforgettable presentations.[/expand]
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