The Leading Speakers Bureau

Leading Strategist for the ‘Next Economy’

Robin Wood is currently Managing Director of the White Space Partnership and Business Development Director of V3World. His colourful international career as a lawyer, banker, IT strategist and strategic planner for multinational organisations such as Citicorp and Trustbank, has led him to become one of the world’s outstanding catalysts for businesses to prosper in the connected economy.

Both descriptive and prescriptive, he shows business leaders how to create an environment of flexibility and innovation, manage complexity and prepare for the dawn of collaborative capitalism. His 10 rules for the “Next Economy” provide the key to success in an interconnected global market. For over 20 years he has helped senior executives at Fortune 500 companies scan the horizon for new opportunities, develop new plays and transform their organisations.
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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?
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Internationally Renowned Authority on Strategy

Vijay Govindarajan is an internationally renowned authority on strategy execution, strategic innovation, industry transformation, and global strategy and organization.
He is the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business at the Tuck School and founding director of Tuck’s Center for Global Leadership. He is also the faculty co-director for Global Leadership 2020, Tuck’s executive education program that focuses on global management and is taught on three continents. In 2009 he was elected Fellow of the Strategic Management Society (SMS).

“One of the top five most respected executive coaches on strategy” – Forbes

Vijay Govindarajan 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.
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One of the World’s Leading Wine Authors and Oeonologists

Hugh Johnson is considered worldwide as the leading wine author. The two exceptional successes of his amazing career are ‘The World Atlas of Wine’ which is celebrating its quarter century and the annually updated ‘Pocket Encyclopedia of Wine’ now in its second decade.

With his extensive knowledge and his outstanding talent Hugh’s strength is taking the incredibly complex subject of wine and making it accessible to any audience.

International Wine & Spirit Competition 1998 Communicator of the Year.

In detail
Hugh Johnson began acquiring his knowledge of wine as a member of the Wine and Food Society at Cambridge University. In 1963 he succeeded André Simon as editor of ‘Wine and Food’. With the publication of his first book ‘Wine’ he established himself, at the age of 27, as one of the subject’s foremost writers. Hugh regularly publishes articles in the most prestigious magazines worldwide. He was feature writer for Condé Nast Magazines, Editor of the Wine and Food Magazine, Wine Correspondent for the Sunday Times and Wine Editor of the New York Cuisine Magazine. Currently Hugh is President of The Sunday Times Wine Club and The Hugh Johnson Collection Ltd.
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Author

Alistair McAlpine has conducted a lifelong love affair with Australia – he’s bought large chunks of it, developed some and turned others into a zoo and nature parks, and has travelled much of the length and breadth of the Continent.

Arriving in Australia in his early twenties as a junior member of the English family building conglomerate McAlpines, he soon became involved in building Perth’s first luxury hotel, the famous Parmelia, and other projects followed. He was a pioneer of ‘eco-tourism’ with his development of Broome, creating the world-famous Cable Beach Club and also a remarkable zoo, which rapidly became known for the success of its breeding programs for the world’s endangered species.
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International Leading Authority on Corporate Stress

Carole Spiers is a motivational speaker, BBC broadcaster and author. With 20 years as a top industry guru on stress management and wellbeing, Carole’s energy and dynamism extends to providing professional comment to the media, print and countless radio interviews and is a weekly columnist for Gulf News. She has a unique credibility as a leader of personal empowerment.

“She mesmerises her audience through the brilliant use of theatre and anecdotal stories that invariably enthral them.” Alan Bentley, Harrow Business

In detail
Carole is a vice president of the International Stress Management Association (UK) for whom she created and established the UK’s highly successful media campaign – National Stress Awareness Day. She is also PR consultant to the London management team of the Professional Speakers Association. She regularly speaks for leading corporations from Unilever to Walt Disney, and Panasonic to the Bank of England.
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Head of Sotheby’s International Wine Department

Serena Sutcliffe is one of the world’s most admired and respected wine experts. Joining the wine trade in 1971, she passed the Master of Wine examination at first attempt, only the second woman to obtain this qualification. From 1977-1990 she was in the international wine consultant business in conjunction with husband, David Peppercorn. In 1991, she joined Sotheby’s as a senior director, a member of Sotheby’s European Board, and Head of Sotheby’s International Wine Department.

“Chevalier dans L’Ordre National de la Legion d’Honneur” France 2006

In detail

Serena Sutcliffe has been a member of the Wine Committee of the International Wine & Food Society, the Education Committee of the Institute of Masters of Wine, the International Committee of the British Gastronomic Academy, and a committee member of the Journal of Wine Research published by the Institute of Masters of Wine.
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