The Leading Speakers Bureau

Leading Authority in the field of Creative, Conceptual Thinking

Edward de Bono is widely regarded as the leading authority in the field of creative thinking, innovation and the direct teaching of thinking as a skill. He is the originator of the term Lateral Thinking which has an official entry in the Oxford English Dictionary and he is equally renowned for his development of the Six Thinking Hats technique and the Direct Attention Thinking Tools (D.A.T.T) framework.

“Implementing creativity should double the profits of any company within 5 years ”
Dr Edward de Bono has been ranked among the top 50 most influential business thinkers. In 2009 Thinkers 50, the global ranking of management gurus, placed him among the list of most influential thinkers.

[expand title=”In detail”] He was the Chairman of the Council of Young Enterprise Europe which had a membership of 1,500,000 youngsters across Europe, Israel and Russia who set up mini-businesses whilst at school. He also established the World Centre for New Thinking which acts as a platform and channel to make visible New Thinking from any source.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]The main appeal of Edward’s work is its simplicity and practicality. His instructions in thinking have been sought by governments and corporations worldwide while his programmes for the teaching of thinking in schools are mandatory in some countries. He teaches his audiences that you can solve problems not by removing the cause, but by designing the way forward, even if the cause remains in place.[/expand]
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Leading expert on Blue Ocean Strategy, Value Innovation and Defying Conventional Wisdom

Gabor George Burt is an internationally recognized expert on Blue Ocean Strategy and Value Innovation; the highly acclaimed, new approach to high-growth strategy formation and implementation. He is also regarded as a thought leader on the cognitive perspective of Defying Conventional Wisdom. Taken together, his two spheres of expertise are especially relevant in helping organizations to create successful strategies during times of economic uncertainty.

“The entire global economy requires Blue Ocean Strategy.”

Bruce Nussbaum,
Business Week

[expand title=”In detail”] Gabor George Burt is also the chief architect and original host of the Blue Ocean Executive Experience series, an exclusive immersion forum on Blue Ocean Strategy and Defying Conventional Wisdom.
He is actively involved in shaping strategy with a diverse group of international clients spanning from Fortune 500 firms to successful start-ups, as well as in his own wide-ranging application of the Blue Ocean and DCW concepts.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]An engaging and provocative presenter, Gabor George Burt aims to uncover the core concepts of Blue Ocean Strategy and the mindset of Defying Conventional Wisdom in a way that is immediately accessible for his audiences.
He is a frequent lecturer and advisor to companies on the topic of innovation and strategies that lead to uncontested market space. [/expand]
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Founder of the Third World Centre for Water Management

Prof. Asit Biswas is the founder of the Third World Centre for Water Management in Mexico. Under his dynamic leadership, the centre has established a unique international identity in pursuing cutting-edge research. In 2006 he received the Stockholm Water Prize for his outstanding contributions to global water resource issues. Prof. Biswas has been Editor-in-Chief the International Journal of Water Resources Development for the past 21 years.

He has added new dimensions to the wise use of the global water resources.

[expand title=”In detail”] Prof. Biswas acted as a Senior Advisor to Mr. Yehia Abdel Mageed, Secretary General of the UN Water Conference. During 1980-81, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). He spent 1981-1997 in Oxford, U.K. pursuing his research interests and advising governments and international organisations, he travels around the globe 10 months out of the year. [/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]With world-class research and focusing on out-of-the-box thinking, Prof Biswas offers audiences new and innovative ideas in the world of water management. He has been an advisor to six heads of the United Nations Agencies, most major bilateral and multilateral aid organisations and 17 national governments.[/expand]
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Founder of Wikipedia.org

Jimmy “Jimbo” Wales is the founder of Wikipedia.org, the free encyclopedia project, and Wikia.com, which extends the social concepts of Wikipedia into new areas. Jimmy was formerly a futures and options trader in Chicago, and currently travels the world evangelizing the success of Wikipedia and the importance of free culture

“Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing.”

[expand title=”In detail”] In mid-2003, James set up the Wikimedia Foundation, a St. Petersburg, Florida-based non-profit organization, to support Wikipedia and its younger sibling projects. Wales has become increasingly involved with promoting and speaking about its projects, and to this end, he travels to conferences and Wikimedia functions, such as “Wikimeets” and Wikimania.
Inspired by the success of Wikipedia, Wales has founded the for-profit company Wikia, Inc. (separate from Wikimedia), which hosts various wikis and manages the Wikia project[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]In his presentations Jimmy discusses the philosophical underpinnings of Wikipedia, his support for the Free Culture movement, and the difficulties the Wikimedia Foundation may confront as it grows in size.[/expand]
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The World Renowned Interviewer

Sir David Frost is probably the world’s most prominent television interviewer.

In addition to hosting and creating television programmes, he is a publisher, lecturer, impresario and chief executive officer to numerous companies.

Landmark interviews have always featured in his remarkable career. Perhaps the most infamous being the Nixon Interviews, broadcast in virtually every television nation around the world.

“One-man conglomerate.”

[expand title=”In detail”] His honours include two Emmy Awards in the United States, the Richard Dimbleby Award in the UK and the Golden Rose of Montreux.

Host and co-creator of That Was The Week That Was, Breakfast with Frost, Frost on Sunday and Through the Keyhole, Sir David has also produced countless television series, written more than ten books, produced seven films, and is joint founder of both London Weekend Television and TV-am. [/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]The unparalleled pairing of his experience of worldwide affairs with his incisive but relaxed manner brings an undisputed edge to any occasion. [/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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Global Energy Economist

Philip K. Verleger Jr. is the President of PKVerleger LLC and senior advisor to The Brattle Group. He has been associated with the Fred Bergsten Institute since 1986 and is a senior fellow. He has held positions at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, the U.S. Treasury, the Institute for International Economics, Yale University, the University of California, and various firms in the private sector. He is a member of the National Petroleum Council and the Council of Foreign Relations.

“The leading specialist in the study of energy commodity markets.”

[expand title=”In detail”] The author of over 100 articles and books on energy economics, Dr. Verleger has testified frequently as an expert witness for parties in private disputes and as an independent authority to the U.S. Congress. His testimony before Congress has addressed regulation, taxation, the behaviour of markets, and most recently, mergers. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Adept at both the podium and with the pen, Philip, the author of numerous studies on international energy and petroleum issues, brings his experience and analytical prowess to bear on the conventional economic wisdom, reaching insightful conclusion others simply can’t.[/expand]
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Director at Cambridge Energy Research Associates in Paris

Jean-Marie Chevalier is currently professor of Economics at the University of Paris-Dauphine, Director of the ‘Centre de Géopolitique de l’Energie et des Matières Premières’. He is also a Director at CERA. He has worked, as an economist for Elf Aquitaine and the energy department of the World Bank. For several years, he was a member of the board of directors of the Banque Nationale de Paris.

The world’s leading expert on current global energy trends
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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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Principal Marketer

Al Ries is a leading PR and marketing authority.

Chairman of Ries & Ries, he counts numerous global organisations among his clients.

PR Week named him as one of the 100 most influential public relations people of the 20th Century.

A learned and current authority, he shares his vision through his impressive collection of authoritative publications.

‘Start narrow then expand.’

Al Ries

[expand title=”In detail”] Since co-authoring a notorious series of articles on positioning, with Jack Trout, he has published various industry classics.

Following service in the US Army his marketing career began at General Electric. He progressed to Needham, Louis & Brorby and Martseller before starting his own advertising agency, Ries Cappiello Colwell[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]In a brand conscious world, he is supremely placed to advise you on strategies that transform products and services to market leaders.

Ripe for today’s market he reveals why a narrow focus is essential to owning a category in the consumers’ mind and the potential power of your Internet brand.[/expand]
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