The Leading Speakers Bureau

Creative Entrepreneur

Lapo Elkann is the grandson of Gianni Agnelli. Together with his brother and sister he is the majority shareholder of the private parent company controlling Fiat Group. In 2007, he launched his own company, Italia Independent which creates unique objects, clothing and accessories. Prior to that he was in charge of Worldwide Brand Promotion for Fiat Group. In 2001, he was Dr. Henry Kissinger’s Personal Assistant.

“To be independent means to write your own story everyday”

[expand title=”In detail”] Having previously worked for Ferrari and Maserati in the Marketing Departments, Lapo moved to Fiat Auto S.p.a. in 2003, where he was in charge of the Fiat Europe Operative Marketing. Whilst in charge of Worldwide Brand Promotion for Fiat Group, he succeeded in winning back the attention of long gone younger clients bringing them to perceive Fiat as a “buddy brand” and “love mark”. He was in charge of the launch of Fiat Punto and has been involved in promoting the relaunch of the Iconic Fiat 500 Car. [/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Lauded in fashion for not only inheriting his grandfather’s great sense of style, Lapo has proven to be a visionary and dynamic entrepreneur creating his own companies. Based on his success with Fiat winning back the attention of the younger generation and the launch of the Fiat Punto he can demonstrate true entre-preneurial spirit and the importance of innovative marketing and branding.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Lapo Elkann is an enigmatic, inspiring and versatile speaker who is highly sought after by clients eager to hear first hand the fascinating secrets of his success.[/expand]
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Leading Expert on the Future of Organisations & Leadership

Margaret Wheatley writes, teaches, and speaks about radically new practices and ideas for organising in chaotic times. She works to create organisations where people are known as the blessing, not the problem. She is president of The Berkana Institute, a charitable global leadership foundation serving life-affirming leaders and has been an organisational consultant for many years, as well as a professor of management in two graduate programmes.

Meg Wheatley has given the world a new way of thinking about organisations with her revolutionary application of the natural sciences to business management”.

[expand title=”In detail”] Margaret Wheatley holds an M.A. in Communications and Systems Thinking from New York University. She has been a research associate at Yale University, a fellow of the World Business Academy and an Associate Professor of Management at the Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University, and Cambridge College, Massachusetts.[/expand]

[expand title=”What she offers you”]Margaret is a recognised expert at helping organisations who are wrestling with a common dilema — how to maintain their integrity and effectiveness as they cope with relentless pressures for speed and change in chaotic environments. She provides new insights into the nature of how people interact and shows companies exactly how to create stronger leaders and build better organisations.[/expand]

[expand title=”How she presents”]An outstanding communicator and stimulating speaker, Margaret addresses the most critical questions in today’s increasingly volatile business environment as she enlightens and challenges audiences around the globe. [/expand]
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General Counsel and Senior Vice President, Legal and Government Affairs at Apple

Bruce Sewell is highly successful lawyer who specialises in global business development, international competition and intellectual property. He is currently the General Counsel and Senior Vice President, Legal and Government Affairs at Apple. He was previously Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Intel Corporation where he supervised a team of roughly 600 attorneys and policy professionals located in over 30 countries around the world. He was recently profiled in Fortune and is also a regular contributor for the Wall Street Journal.

“One of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers” California Lawyer magazine and the legal Daily Journal (2006)

[expand title=”In detail”] Mr Sewell joined Intel in 1995 as a senior attorney assigned to counsel various business groups in areas such as antitrust compliance, licensing, and intellectual property. In 2001, he was promoted to vice president and deputy general counsel. In that role he managed Intel’s litigation portfolio, and handled corporate transactions, including M&A activities. He took over as only the third general counsel in Intel’s history in November 2004 and was appointed Senior Vice President in 2005.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Dynamic and focused Bruce Sewell offers audiences valuable insights into the intricate world of corporate responsibility. He also uses his considerable expertise to explain in plain English the legal complexities of intellectual property rights and the ins and outs of international competition issues. He shows organisations how to create and retain wealth in today’s innovation economies.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Mr Sewell enjoys using new media (audio and video) in his engaging presentations and dots the landscape with interesting visual aids.[/expand]
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The Former Chairman of Granada, Allied Domecq

Sir Gerry Robinson is a British businessman and is the former (non-executive) Chairman of Allied Domecq and the ex-Chairman/Chief Executive of Granada. He also served as chairman of the Arts Council England for several years. In January 2007 he presented a three part series Can Gerry Robinson Fix the NHS? following on from the acclaimed BBC series I’ll Show Them Who’s Boss.

“Top Management Guru” The Telegraph

[expand title=”In detail”] Sir Gerry began a career in accounting aged 17 in 1965, and climbed the ranks to become the head of Granada. He steered the company through various mergers, and hostile takeovers including London Weekend Television (1993), the Forte Hotels chain (1996) and an unsuccessful attempt at acquiring Rentokil Initial in 2005.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Gerry Robinson is a subtle psychologist with a sharp eye for the necessities of successful business building. In his engaging presentations he highlights key leadership and managing skills in a clear and concise way and offers audiences the tools necessary to create and implement successful strategies.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Sir Gerry exudes warmth and good humour, but there is no doubt that this is allied to a fierce sense of discipline and resolve that forms the core of his management technique.[/expand]

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Professor at the IESE Business School

Luis Maria Huete is a leading authority on management issues and is a specialist in the creation and development of profit enhancing business strategies. He is a best-selling author and has been a visiting professor at a number of prestigious universities and business schools throughout the world. In his most recent book, ’Clienting’, Luis explores low cost systematic processes aimed at gaining the loyalty of customers.

Leading Expert in Customer Value Management Strategies

[expand title=”In detail”] With a Degree in Law (1978), Master in Business Administration (IESE, 1982) and Doctor in Business Administration (Boston University, 1988); his doctoral thesis was given an academy prize by the Decision Sciences Institute of Atlanta, Georgia, as the best doctoral thesis completed in the year 1988 in the United States.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Luis is able to offer decision makers from all fields the ideal business strategies for their organisations aimed specifically at creating customer loyalty and consequently customer driven profitability.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]An accomplished teacher, Luis is an energetic and motivating speaker who captivates audiences with his information-filled and enlightening presentations.[/expand]
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World’s Leading Futurist, a proven and powerful forecaster on the global economy

John Naisbitt is widely acknowledged as the World’s Leading Futurist. John is currently professor at Nankai University, Yunnan University, Yunnan Normal University and Tianjin University of Finance and Economics. He is also the Chairman of the Naisbitt China Institute. Based on the research of the institute, John is currently working on an analysis of China’s key economic, cultural and political transformations and their impact on the global business landscape.

A proven and powerful forecaster on the global economy

[expand title=”In detail”] He has become the global philosopher among futurists, as much in the limelight with worldwide corporations as he is a calming influence among leading politicians. He served as a presidential appointee in the John F. Kennedy administration and as a special assistant to President Lyndon Johnson. Since the global success of Megatrends and the 12 books that followed, he has travelled around the globe several times a year and has spoken to almost all the major corporations of the world. He is the recipient of 17 honorary doctorates in the humanities, technology and science.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]With his articulate and inspiring message, John has become the global philosopher among futurists. John Naisbitt’s goal is to help his audience to step back from short term disruptions, alternating favoured business theories and practices and create a picture of the fundamental restructuring that is taking place in the world today. A sense of the near future allows us to create and communicate a vision, based on the demands and needs to come.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]John Naisbitt is a highly thought-provoking speaker, who delivers far sighted and accurate predictions and offers a concentrated picture of what the future holds.[/expand]
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Foremost Futurist and speaker on the future of Business

Dr. Michio Kaku is one of the most widely recognised scientists in the world today. A theoretical physicist, futurist and Professor of theoretical physics, Michio is the co-founder of string field theory and continues Einstein’s search for a “Theory of Everything”. Seeking to unify the four fundamental forces of the universe—the strong force, the weak force, gravity and electromagnetism. He has hosted several major TV specials, such as Sci Fi Science, Time and Visions of the Future and 2057. He has written for popular science publications and several of his books are ‘New York Times’ and world-wide best sellers, including ‘Physics of the Future’, and ‘Physics of the Impossible’.

‘You have to realise that most of science is not done by direct experiment at all.’ Michio Kaku

[expand title=”In detail”] He holds the Henry Semat Chair and Professorship in theoretical physics at the City College of New York, where he has taught for over 25 years. He has also been a visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, as well as New York University (NYU). He is the author of several scholarly, Ph.D. level textbooks and has had more than 70 articles published in physics journals, covering topics such as superstring theory, supergravity, supersymmetry, and hadronic physics. [/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]AUsing the cutting edge research of today’s foremost scientists, Michio explores the science of tomorrow: computers, artificial intelligence, reshaping our genetic inheritance. He explains how science is opening entirely new avenues for society and organisations at large and provides valuable advice on how to prepare for change. Michio’s research directly impacts on the world of business, finance, and the economy. He interviewed over 300 of the world’s top scientists for his NY Times best seller, Physics of the Future, to give the most accurate description of the next 20, 50, and even 100 years.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]A mesmerising and humorous speaker, he conveys a contagious sense of the wonders of science at the most prestigious conferences world-wide. Fantastic visuals captivate audiences.[/expand]
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Author and Internationally Renowned Business, IT Strategist

Peter Keen is a professor, adviser to senior management in business and government organizations, a prolific writer and executive educator. He is regularly ranked as one of the top ten consultants in the world in IT. He is also renowned for his invaluable insights into corporate strategy, international business development and leadership issues. He is currently working closely with companies and universities in Mexico, Singapore, Australia, and the Netherlands.

“One of the top 100 business gurus in the world and thought leaders with impact”

[expand title=”In detail”] Peter has held faculty positions at Harvard, MIT, and Stanford with visiting professorships at Wharton, Duke, The University of Stockholm, Oxford University and the London Business School. He is a Professor at The Technical University of Delft, co-founder of the International Institute for the Advancement of Decision Support at the University of Nebraska and co-founder of the University of Maryland Supply Chain Management Center.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]A major area of his current research and consulting focuses on the opportunities and challenges of mobile technology: building the business models for a new generation of mobile value services, knowledge mobilization as organizational advantage, mobile supply chain management, and the use of mobile for social and economic development.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Authoritative and in depth, Peter is in great demand for his highly informative workshops and keynote lectures in which he provides practical and essential tools for business innovation[/expand]
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Authority on Western and Third World Economies

Hernando de Soto is currently President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD) based in Lima, Peru. The ILD has been described as one of the most important think-tanks in the World and Mr de Soto as the “World’s Greatest Living Economist”. In 2004 he received Cato Institute’s the Milton Friedman Prize.

The World’s Greatest Living Economist

[expand title=”In detail”] Mr. de Soto was born in Arequipa, Peru, in 1941 and did his post-graduate work at the ‘Institut Universitaire des Hautes Etudes Internationales’ in Geneva. He has served as an economist for the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, as President of the Executive Committee of the Copper Exporting Countries Organisation (CIPEC), as Managing Director of Universal Engineering Corporation, as a principal of the Swiss Bank Corporation Consultant Group, and as a governor of Peru’s Central Reserve Bank.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]As his principle activity he designs and implements capital formation programmes aimed at strengthening the economy in developing countries in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Mr de Soto is widely regarded as one of the most influential development theoreticians of the last millennium and offers corporations the benefit of his wealth of experience.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]A brilliant speaker and charismatic personality, Mr de Soto’s presentations are both entertaining and enlightening. [/expand]
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Professor of Information Management & Strategy , IMD, Switzerland

Dr. Donald Marchand is a world authority on demonstrating the business value of using information technology. His special research and teaching interests include how organizations and leaders use information and knowledge to collaborate and compete, how companies develop business models to leverage standardization and flexibility in processes and information systems locally, regionally and globally, and how leaders create organizations where people can fully share and act on what they know and discover what they do not know to learn and change closer to real time.

Champion of the formula for competitive advantage and superior business performance.

[expand title=”In detail”] A former Dean and Professor of Information Management at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University; before that, he founded and directed the Institute for Information Management, Technology and Policy in the College of Business Administration at the University of South Carolina. From 1997 – 2000, while Director of the IMD / Accenture Navigating Business Success research project, the largest externally funded Partnership Research Project at IMD, a new business performance predictor was discovered namely, ‘Information Orientation’, IO. He is Founder, Chairman and President of enterpriseIQ®, a leading business analytics company.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Donald Marchand is an international expert and popular speaker on the centrality of information management and technology to the competitive strategies of industries, companies and managers. He has been in the unique position of taking his ideas from research directly to management practice. He is a frequent and acclaimed speaker on a variety of compelling business topics at corporate seminars and conferences worldwide. Over the years, he has been an advisor and consultant to over 100 companies as well as public and not-for- profit organizations globally.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]With over 30 years experience gained in research, teaching and executive program development at IMD, he speaks in a clear and concise manner using real case studies to demonstrate the business value of using IT. [/expand]
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