The Leading Speakers Bureau

Leadership Coach & Mountaineer

David Lim is best known for leading the landmark 1st Singapore Everest Expedition in 1998 (as well as the second in 2001). Partially disabled from a devastating rare nerve disorder since 1998, his comeback story of overcoming the odds made the cover of the Readers Digest magazine in 2001, and has since been translated into eight languages. He was in management at a publishing house for nearly a decade until 1998.

“…..your talk was very motivating, very moving and certainly inspiring”
Frankie Tan
President, Rotary Club of Raffles City

[expand title=”In detail”] A past President of the Asia Professional Speakers (2007-8), his work included being an adjunct lecturer for INSEAD Business School (2000-2009). David hasn’t given up climbing, and is a veteran of over 60 alpine and expedition ascents around the world, and most recently returned from the Tien Shan ranges in Kyrgyzstan, having climbed three virgin peaks. David is also an Associate Meta-Coach, certified practitioner in Neuro-Semantics and Neuro-Linguistics Programming. His coaching practice has been widely profiled in The Wall Street Journal and Singapore’s The Straits Times newspaper.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]David is a sought-after leadership coach, with expertise in negotiation skills, facilitating change, building high performing teams, and creating experiential learning programmes. These add value to any client event or sustainable change initiatives[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]David’s presentation style is breezy with lots of humour, audience-interactive and backed not only by decades of leadership achievement, but also with the rigour of an understanding of how adults learn. This makes his solutions to a presentation or event programme so very different than just hiring an ‘achiever’ type of speaker who may lack a people-development background.[/expand]

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Leadership and Management Expert

Jagdish Parikh is a Director of the Lemuir Group of Companies, a Director of the TechNova Group of Companies and Travel Corporation (India) Ltd. He is Co-founder of the World Business Academy (USA); Member, Board of Governors of the Asian Institute of Management (Manila); Founder President of the Centre for Executive Renewal (Switzerland) and Managing Trustee of the Education Foundation of India.

“Dr. Parikh combines clearly and convincingly modern western management-concepts and scientific ways of thinking with eastern philosophy”

[expand title=”In detail”] Dr. Parikh has an MBA from Harvard and a PhD in Management. He has worked in several honorary capacities for the Government of India as Chairman of FFC, now National Film Development Corporation; Vice Chairman of the Indian Institute of Travel and Tourism and in other advisory roles.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]As a Visiting Speaker at conferences including IMD (Switzerland), INSEAD (France), London Business School, Dr. Parikh shows how to bring together the often conflicting expectations managers have to face in business and in life and how to meet increasing demands. Dr. Parikh has mastered making managers think holistically.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Through his presentations Jagdish Parikh changes the lives of individual managers, helping them to better handle day-to-day pressures and to nurture a healthy degree of work / life harmony.[/expand]

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Engineer, Space Explorer and INK Fellow

Sourabh Kaushal proposed new techniques to clean space debris (The collection of objects in orbit around earth that were created by human beings but no longer serve as any useful purpose in space and threat to our satellites, ISS and also threat to the life of astronauts.) that includes De-Orbit Kit technique using micro-satellite & robotic arm, use of nanotube mesh technique using laser &nanobot, recycling of space junk and energy production from space.

“I appreciate your interest in space debris mitigation techniques and the work that you have done. You have outlines a number of possible research areas to improve these techniques and proposed new techniques”-Sir Donald Kessler, Ex- NASA Scientist.

[expand title=”In detail”] Sourabh holds Bachelors in Electronics and Communication engineering from prestigious Kurukshetra University, INDIA. He has been conducting space research over the last five years. He previously worked with Axiom Research Pvt. Lab Ltd (a Google Lunar X Prize project) as a system engineer on unmanned lunar rover mission. His research papers got selected in many international and national conferences organized by NASA, ISRO, JAXA, ESA, MICROSOFT, IEEE, AIAA, IAC and so on. His research work appreciated and recognized by the Vice President of INDIA Sh. M.H. Ansari, Ex NASA Scientist, ISRO scientist and other space agencies. He proposed some new techniques to clean space debris and also working on space elevator system. For that he received various international and national awards. Previously projects from his work in University include Programming logic controller, sound processing system, Fuzzy logic controller, AI, cansat satellite designing and launching.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]In his talk Sourabh explains his failure, struggle and success followed by reveal the mystery of space. Also the fascinating perspective why he believes imagination has not limits and doesn’t need any qualification. [/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Sourabh is an experienced space personality and his entertaining presentations are both informative and uplifting.[/expand]

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Ultimate Soldier

Captain David Blakeley was a commander in the secretive British military unit The Pathfinders, also known as ‘The Ghost Platoon.’ They are trained to freefall ‘James Bond’ style from extreme high altitude, wearing oxygen masks and special survival suits. They work in small elite teams parachuting behind enemy lines, where they carry out extremely high-risk, sabotage, kill or capture missions. Since leaving the military he has worked as a consultant to TV and Film companies and is in development to present major TV shows.

“A true hero with an exhilarating leadership story”

[expand title=”In detail”] David led the most audacious mission of the Iraq War, commanding a nine-man patrol going deep behind enemy lines – subject of his Sunday Times Bestselling book, ‘Pathfinder’, which has featured in all major British media as “the untold story of a secret elite British unit”. Surrounded by thousands of enemy forces and abandoned by coalition command, they were left to fight their way out of the enemy’s backyard. Miraculously, they did so, without losing a single member of their patrol. At 21 years of age David was promoted to be the youngest Captain in the British Army, going on to serve in Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Iraq. After a serious injury on a mission behind enemy lines, David was told that he would be invalided out of the military. He left the military in 2006, but not before regaining full use of his limbs and 100% physical fitness. [/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]David demonstrates, using practical methods and techniques, what individuals and organisations need to do to integrate to help them moving forward to a unified goal successfully. He shares extreme credible experiences, mind-sets and techniques which people can use to improve their performance and go beyond any boundaries.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]David is a dynamic and naturally gifted storyteller and his action packed, spellbinding stories are guaranteed to captivate, inspire and stir the imagination of audiences.[/expand]

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Mr. Unleash Your DNA Human Potential Development Expert, TV Host

Reg Athwal has spent many years building businesses and specialising in human capital management and human potential development. He is a pioneering television show producer and host of the Talking Tycoons show in the Middle East, where he interviews serial entrepreneurs, leaders, pioneers and billionaires.

Reg was invited to strategically advise the Young Arab Leaders Organisation of the Middle East, assisting the government and leading CEOs in the UAE with the Showcasing Leadership Initiative

[expand title=”In detail”] Reg regularly writes articles for the Forbes sister publication Your Business in the Gulf Region and the Market500 publication for CEOs in Europe. One of his key achievements includes being the opening keynote speaker and chairman of the first ever congress and official opening of the multi-billion dollar Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi, UAE. He has built numerous start-up companies in the UK, India, UAE and Bahrain and worked with over 20,000 CEOs in 38 countries. In 2008 he launched OneTVO – Middle East’s first pure online television platform.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Reg is truly a great thinker of our times, who shares his proven formula and ideas to deal with adversity and tough times, whilst keeping team morale high and focused for the coming year. [/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]He has a warming and energetic professional delivery style, backed with extensive business expertise and substance and is really able to engage with his audiences at all times.[/expand]

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CEO Rolls-Royce Motor Cars

Torsten Müller-Ötvös is the man behind one of the world’s most iconic luxury brands. He has been at the Rolls-Royce Group for more than 20 years holding a number of top management positions before he was appointed Global CEO in 2010. He was also instrumental in brand and product management for MINI between 2000 and 2003.

“Rolls-Royce has been a motoring icon for over 100 years” Torsten Müller-Ötvös

[expand title=”In detail”] Torsten Müller-Ötvös is an economist who started at BMW as a trainee. At the age of 37 he became the youngest manager ever to be appointed to the BMW top leadership group. He was Vice President – Brand Strategy, Product Management MINI. Under his leadership the relaunch of the MINI has been widely recognised as one of the industry’s most successful and innovative launches. In addition, he was Senior Vice President – Marketing and Brand Leadership and Senior Vice President – Product and Service Management before he took the position of the Chief Executive Officer. [/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Torsten Müller-Ötvös delivers unique insights and solutions for those who want to place their companies successfully in the ever-changing global markets. He draws from his own experience leading Rolls-Royce to establish itself very successfully in fast-growing emerging markets. He is a brilliant and focused leader with a great understanding of market demands and customer needs.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]His extraordinary leadership skills and talent as a communicator make Torsten Müller-Ötvös a highly sought-after speaker at prestigious events around the globe.[/expand]
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Vision Coach and Author, Chief Vision Officer of Ideas Group

Camil El Khoury is vision coach, author and speaker with an extensive background in business consulting and training. He is Chief Vision Officer of ideas group, a global learning and development consultancy that works with organizations to facilitate and sustain their performance. Camil has helped public, private and non-governmental organizations build capabilities of growth in more than 80 countries. He is also a distinguished writer and regular contributor to articles and newsletters across the world.

“My mission is to make a positive difference in the lives of as many people as possible”

[expand title=”In detail”] Camil co-founded “MENA networks” in 2006, a growing IT networking solutions organization that was awarded 4 Government contracts in the West Indies and Southern Africa. He also founded “Ideas Real Estate” in 2008, a private real estate investment fund with a portfolio of over US $ 7 Million in the first year. While with FranklinCovey he worked on human capital growth with respected organizations in the private sector helping them get the best out of their people and strengthening their competitive position and profitable business expansions.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]In his presentations Camil El Khoury links real life examples with his concepts and helps clients become high performance organizations and foster a sustainable growth. He has a strong Marketing background having developed several strategy implementation techniques that have proven successful in highly competitive markets. [/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Camil El Khoury is an energetic and motivated speaker who believes that having fun in everything helps not only achieve but exceed the desired results. He thoroughly enjoys coaching individuals and teams to unleash their potential.[/expand]

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Professor of Leadership at INSEAD

Dr Hal Gregersen’s vocation is executive teaching, coaching, consulting and research, centres on leading innovation, change, and globalisation. Dr Gregersen’s forthcoming book, ‘The Innovator’s DNA’ flows from a path-breaking international research project which explores the fundamental question of where disruptive innovations come from and what roles senior executives, managers, and employees play in the creation of highly innovative teams and organisations. The insights on innovation surfaced from interviews with founder entrepreneurs and current CEOs, in-depth case studies of the world’s 25 most innovative companies and The Innovator’s DNA survey assessments of 3500 high performing entrepreneurs, managers, and inventors. He is also exploring how well the Innovator’s DNA skills may also drive social entrepreneur success

“An authority of modern leadership”

[expand title=”In detail”] Before joining INSEAD, Dr Gregersen taught at the London Business School and other highly acclaimed institutions. He has written for various global journals including the Harvard Business Review and his research has been highlighted on CNN and in Across the Board, Business Week, Fortune, Psychology Today, and The Wall Street Journal. Dr Gregersen has received several awards for teaching excellence as well as the Ascendant Scholar Award from the Western Academy of Management for research excellence. [/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Hal Gregersen expertly communicates his fascination with how leaders in business and society generate provocative ideas with powerful impact. Putting his research on leading innovation, strategic change, and globalisation to practice and steers senior executives through the complexities of modern leadership and delivers a powerful framework for transforming old patterns of action into new strategic direction, emphasizing what matters most – people. His listeners will understand the real dynamics a leader must manage by focusing on people, where the real change must occur.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Hal Gregersen’s powerful presentations are rich in content, and delivered with insightful clarity, precision and intelligent humour.[/expand]

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Record-breaking Adventurer, Corporate Coach & Sustainability Ambassador

Adrian Hayes is a Dubai based adventurer who recently became the fastest person in the world, and only the 15th person ever, to reach the ‘3 Poles’ of the Earth – walking the entire way to the North and South Poles and summiting Mt Everest. A lifetime follower of politics and international affairs, he is also an ambassador and leader on economic, social and environmental sustainability. He is a professional, ICF accredited, corporate team and executive coach, and keynote / motivational speaker.

“I took four years to prepare for this. I did not set out to fail” Adrian Hayes

[expand title=”In detail”] Adrian is a former Gurkha Officer and Special Forces soldier in the British Army, educated at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He has a CV that is full of wide ranging experiences, action and, above all, achievement – from the corporate world, the military, the coaching profession and his adventure/sporting endeavours. He is involved in three children’s charities – his fundraising campaigns, raising over US $100,000 to date. An accomplished all-round sportsman, he is a passionate multi-fitness advocate, winning the “UAE’s Fittest Man” x-training challenges in both 1997 and 2008, the latter competition including the then UK National x-training champion.
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[expand title=”What he offers you”]One of the few serious adventurers in the world with a senior corporate background, Adrian Hayes occupies a unique position in the world of being a record-breaking, adventurer who also has a senior, solid corporate background. Coupled with his coaching profession, he is therefore able to offer a range of tailor-made seminars and programmes from 20 minute after dinner speeches to 6 month team coaching programmes. For workshops and his Organisation and Relationship Systems (ORSC) programmes, Adrian conversely offers solid lessons, tools and techniques from the Coaching World, in which he has ‘walked the talk’ in his own achievements.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Adrian’s presentations are filled with real corporate applicable lessons backed up with dramatic footage of his daring escapades. Audiences are entertained as they benefit from his high content, inspirational speeches, naturally and powerfully delivered. [/expand]

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Polar Explorer, Mountaineer, Author

Tom Avery is one of only 41 people in history to have reached both the North and South Poles on foot. A veteran of over a dozen mountain and polar expeditions, he is one of the bright stars amongst the UK’s new generation of explorers. Tom spends his time giving motivational talks to businesses, writing books and raising funds for The Prince’s Trust, for whom he is an ambassador. He is also an official ambassador of the London 2012 Olympic Games and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

“Avery is shaping up to join the ranks of such British immortals as Sir Ranulph Fiennes & Dame Ellen MacArthur” The Sunday Times

[expand title=”In detail”] He began his outdoor career as mountaineer, leading expeditions to the South American Andes, New Zealand, the Swiss Alps, Morocco and Tanzania. The highlight of his career took place in 2000 when he led a ground-breaking British expedition to the previously unexplored Eastern Zaalay Mountains of Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia. In 2002 he entered the record books by becoming the youngest Briton to ski to the South Pole. In April 2005 he electrified the exploration world by recreating the American Robert Peary’s disputed Arctic expedition of 1909.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Drawing on his own experiences in the worlds of both exploration and business, Tom explains how teamwork, communication, planning, enthusiasm and individual determination are the key ingredients in achieving results in a challenging environment. [/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]As one of the freshest speakers on the circuit, Tom’s presentations are passionate, inspiring and entertaining. Illustrated with a superb collection of visuals and professional video clips, his talks bring the raw beauty of the Polar Regions to life and describe how his team battled with the elements during their record-breaking journeys.[/expand]

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