The Leading Speakers Bureau

Educator, Author and Consultant

Rajendra Sisodia is Professor of Marketing at Bentley University, and was previously Trustee Professor of Marketing and the Founding Director of the Centre for Marketing Technology. A leading figure in the Conscious Capitalism movement, he is also the Founder and Chairman of the Conscious Capitalism Institute. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors at Mastek, a publicly traded IT services company based in India.

“One of 2010’s Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behaviour”

[expand title=”In detail”] Rajendra has a Ph.D. in Marketing from Columbia University. He consults with and provides executive seminars for companies in the information technology, electric utility, telecommunications, real state, healthcare and financial services industries. He writes frequently for The New York Times, Financial Times, The Washington Post and numerous other publications, radio shows and television networks. His research has been cited in over sixty professional books and numerous academic articles. In 2003, he was cited as one of “50 Leading Marketing Thinkers” by the U.K.-based Chartered Institute of Marketing.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]A frequent and popular keynote speaker, Rajendra has made nearly 300 presentations at leading universities, corporations, non-profits and other organizations around the world. His research, teaching and consulting expertise spans the areas of conscious capitalism, corporate strategy and leadership, globalization, stakeholder management, marketing strategy, marketing ethics, relationship marketing, and measuring and improving marketing productivity.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]His presentations are always customised to fit the needs of the clients to whom he is speaking. His messages are powerful and effective, delivered in his professional style.[/expand]
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US Sales Guru, Leadership Expert

Brian Tracy is one of America’s leading authorities on the development of human potential and personal effectiveness. He is a dynamic and entertaining speaker with a wonderful ability to inform and inspire audiences toward peak performance and higher levels of achievement.

A dynamic and inspiring speaker

[expand title=”In detail”] Brian has a B.Comm., M.A. and is the Chairman of Brian Tracy International, a human resource company with affiliates throughout America and in thirty-one countries worldwide. Prior to founding Brian Tracy International, Brian was the chief operating officer of a development company with $265 million in assets and $75 million in annual sales. He has had successful careers in sales and marketing, investments, real estate development and syndication, importation, distribution and management consulting. He has conducted high-level consulting assignments with several billion-dollar corporations in strategic planning and organizational development.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Brian Tracy shows audiences how to make quantum leaps in productivity and performance. His key messages are:
. Manage more effectively and get better results
. Increase sales and sales management performance
. Think and plan strategically for greater effectiveness
. Master the changes caused by information explosion, technological advances and competitive pressures.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]His talks are fast-moving, informative, enjoyable and entertaining. Brian has a wonderful ability to customise each talk for his particular audience. He presents a series of great ideas and strategies with a rare combination of fact, humour, insights and practical concepts that audience members can apply immediately to get better results.[/expand]
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Innovative Management Expert and CEO of Semco SA

Ricardo Semler is the CEO and majority owner of Semco SA, a Brazilian company best known for its radical form of industrial democracy and corporate re-engineering. Mr Semler has been Vice President of the Federation of Industries of Brazil and a member of SOS Atlantic Forest, Brazil’s leading environmental defence organisation. In 2003, he founded the Lumiar School, a democratic school where children aged from 2-10 learn only about things that interest them.

“Global Leader of Tomorrow” – World Economic Forum

[expand title=”In detail”] Mr Semler’s innovative business management policies have attracted widespread interest around the world. TIME featured him among its Global 100 young leaders profile series published in 1994 while the World Economic Forum also nominated him. The Wall Street Journal America Economia, the Wall Street Journal’s Latin American magazine, named him Latin American Businessman of the Year in 1990 and he was named Brazilian Businessman of the Year in 1990 and 1992.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Known around the globe for his innovative, employee-centric management style, Ricardo Semler is a true visionary who advises businesses on how they can significantly improve performance by restructuring relationships with their people. He has been profiled in more than 200 magazines and newspapers, including a special edition of Time highlighting future world leaders and speaks regularly to business schools, businesses and groups to promote his philosophy of industrial democracy. He talks in depth about his innovative, employee-centric management style, and offers organisations practical advice on how they can significantly improve performance by restructuring relationships with their people. [/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]A brilliant communicator and inspirational individual, his presentations invariably spark creative and productive thinking about how to lead and manage.[/expand]
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Former CEO of Tesco, and One of the Most Respected Business Leaders in Europe

Sir Terry Leahy was the Chief Executive of Tesco PLC from 1997 until his retirement from the position in March 2011. Sir Terry transformed Tesco from a follower into the number one supermarket in the UK and the third biggest in the world. A creative leader, he has developed a reputation for his willingness to take risks on new products, store formats and lines of business. Sir Terry now works in Private Equity and invests in entrepreneurial businesses, and has taken the first role of his post-Tesco working as a part-time ‘senior adviser’ to US private equity firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice, helping them out with their investments.

“The Customer Must Come First”

[expand title=”In detail”] Sir Terry joined Tesco in 1979 as a Marketing Executive, was appointed to the Board of Directors in 1992 and by the time he was 40 he had worked his way up to become Chief Executive in 1997. In March 2008 he was nominated by Retail Week as Retail Leader of the Year. From 2005 to 2010 he was voted as Britain’s Most Admired Leader by Management Today and in 2004 he was named European Businessman of the year by Fortune Magazine. In 2010 he received the Daily Telegraph’s Award for a Decade of Excellence in Business a Lifetime Achievement award from Director Magazine and was voted Business person of the Year by the Sunday Times.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Sir Terry explains to audiences the importance of knowing what the different jobs entail, what consumers are buying and what people want. He shows how through creative leadership he enabled Tesco to successfully take risks on new products, store formats and lines of business, including expanding the company’s non-food product line.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Highly modest and intensely private, Sir Terry Leahy provides fascinating insights and shows why he is Britain’s most admired business leader and retail expert.[/expand]
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Human Capital Management Expert

Rajeev Peshawaria is the CEO of the ICLIF Leadership & Governance Centre which provides executive education, advisory services and executive coaching to professionals and board directors in Asia, Middle East and Africa. Prior to joining ICLIF in April 2010, Rajeev spent twenty-two years at blue chip corporations and in his two most recent corporate positions he was the Global Chief Learning Officer at Morgan Stanley and The Coca-Cola Company. He was awarded Asia’s Emerging CEO of the Year at the 2nd Middle East Business Leaders Summit in association with the Federation of GCC Chambers in 2011.

“Leadership is a Special talent that goes far beyond just being a boss”

[expand title=”In detail”] Before joining Coca-Cola, Rajeev was the head of Asia and Europe of the Pine Street Group, Goldman Sachs’s famed leadership development institute. For twelve years before Goldman, Rajeev held several positions at American Express finally ending his tenure there as the global director of Leadership Development programs. In the early years of his career, Rajeev was a currency trader with American Express and HSBC. Rajeev earned an MBA from Webster University, Vienna, Austria, and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Bombay, India. [/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Rajeev Peshawaria provides simple but powerful insights about the difference between leading and managing while becoming a highly-effective leader and peak performer. He has extensive global experience in leadership development and coaching senior management teams in their efforts to streamline business strategy, organisational architecture and culture. [/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Rajeev’s presentations are powerful and effective, delivered in a personal, yet highly professional style.[/expand]
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Everest Expedition Leader, Author & President of One Step Beyond WorldWide

John Amatt is an expert on change management, motivation and teamwork. He is Founder & President of One Step Beyond WorldWide, an innovative educational and motivational company. He was leader of an early climbing expedition to Western China, perhaps the highest peak in the world to have been ascended and descended entirely on skis.

Described as “The World’s Best Adventure Speaker”

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A native of Great Britain, for the past 35 years John has been a resident of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. He is the Founder of the Banff Mountain Film Festival, widely recognized as the world’s premiere showcase of adventure documentary films and member of the Advisory Board of the Banff Centre for Mountain Culture. He is renowned in the international mountaineering community for making the first ever climb of Europe’s highest and steepest mountain face – the 5000 foot “Vertical Mile” Troll Wall in Norway. More recently, he was the principal organizer and a leader of Canada’s first successful expedition to reach the top of the world – the 29,035 foot summit of Mount Everest – a climb that was televised live throughout Canada and on ABC Nightline in the United States.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]John Amatt is the perfect speaker to assist your team in navigating through the turmoil of today’s global economic crisis. His mission is to encourage people to push beyond self-imposed limitations, to be more personally accountable for the results of their own actions, and to embrace effective teamwork by valuing the contributions of others. He has spoken to over 1,800 corporate and professional organizations representing audiences of nearly a million people in 46 countries world wide.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]John Amatt is a team player with a reputation for professionalism and cooperation, consistently delivering ‘the goods’. He motivates and inspires using anecdotes from his expeditions to remote regions and previously unclimbed peaks.[/expand]
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World Expert in Asset & Liability Management, Professor of Banking & Finance at INSEAD

Prof. Dr. Jean Dermine is director of the INSEAD Strategic Management in Banking programme.He serves as director of the Centre for International Financial Services, as member of the board of the BSI Gamma Foundation, and as member of the advisory board of the European Capital Markets Institute (ECMI).

“Prof. Dermine provides rigorous foundations to discuss asset & liability management at a global level”

[expand title=”In detail”] As a consultant or director of training programmes, Jean Dermine worked with several international banks, investment banks, savings banks, accounting and consulting firms, national central banks, European Central Bank, Bank for International Settlements, the OECD, the World Bank, the European Commission, and the Mentor Forum for the US Supreme Court and the European Court of Justice. He has been Visiting Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, at the Universities of Louvain and Lausanne, a Salomon Center Visiting Fellow at New York University, and a Danielsson Foundation Guest Professor of Bank Management at the Göteborg and Stockholm Schools of Economics.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Jean Dermine uses his considerable experience to educate with his highly informative presentations, showing his global audiences how to acquire an overall understanding of corporate financial management. Having written numerous articles on asset and liability management and the theory of banking and as co-author of ALCO Challenge, a computer-based training simulation used in Europe, Africa, the Americas and Asia, he draws on his 25 years of research in banking and development in creating a framework that investment bankers, regulators, and risk managers use to analyze, control, and predict value and risk in banks.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]An expert in asset and liability management, European financial markets, and banking theory, Jean is much in demand at prestigious events.[/expand]
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Deputy Director General, World Nuclear Association

Steve Kidd is the Deputy Director General at the World Nuclear Association, the international association for nuclear energy based in London, having worked there since 1995, (when it was the Uranium Institute). He is a member of the International Association for Energy Economics. He acts as Secretary to many WNA working groups, notably those preparing incisive reports such as the biennial treatise on the global nuclear fuel market.

Steve Kidd expertly analyses our future energy solutions”

[expand title=”In detail”] Stephen Kidd received his bachelors and masters degrees in economics from Queens’ College, University of Cambridge. After a brief period as an economics tutor at Sheffield University, he followed a career as an industrial economist with several leading UK companies that specialised in the raw materials and engineering sectors. He practiced as an independent consultant from 1990 onwards and then joined the former Uranium Institute as Senior Research Officer in 1995. He became Director of Strategy & Research when the Institute became the World Nuclear Association in 2001 and assumed his current position in 2010.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]In his invaluable presentations, Steve Kidd addresses the political, commercial, environmental, logistical, as well as technological complex challenges facing us today and for our future. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and meetings around the world, particularly those targeted at non-specialists, where he expertly analyses the challenges faced by the nuclear power sector and provides a practical overview of where the industry is today, where it is heading, and how it can overcome the many obstacles in its path to get there. He organizes and teaches at training courses for nuclear professionals in developing nuclear countries on behalf of the World Nuclear University.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Steve Kidd is an extremely knowledgeable and informative speaker on all issues related to energy.[/expand]
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Prof. Recognised World Expert in Integrated Innovation Management

Prof. Göran Roos is one of the founders of modern intellectual capital science and a recognised world expert in this field. He is also the originator of thinking around integrated innovation management i.e. technology and design based innovation to create value and business model innovation to appropriate value. He has made substantial contributions to the thinking around strategy as well as industrial policy.

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Vice-President of Inditex, Former CEO of Iberia Airlines & Mercedes Benz Spain

Carlos Espinosa is a renowned commercial expert & state economist. He is currently Vice President of Inditex, one of the world’s largest fashion retailers and advisor to Acciona S.A., a Spanish conglomerate dedicated to engineering, construction and infrastructure. Carlos Espinosa was President and CEO of Daimler Chrysler Spain and Chief Executive Officer for Mercedes Benz Spain for more than 20 years.

“A key figure in Spanish business & politics”

[expand title=”In detail”] He has held several high profile positions including Sales Director and Vice-President of the National Institute of Industry in Spain and President of Iberia and Aviaco airlines. He was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Air Transport Association and President of the Businessmen Circle of the Spanish Association of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers and of the International Organisation of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers. Carols was Professor of Economy at ICADE, a member of NATO’s “Wisemen Group” for the analysis of European industry and consultant at the CEE for the study of the future of the aeronautic industry. He worked for the Spanish Government as Spanish Commercial Aggregate in Chicago and became the first president of Bodegas Gónzalez- Byass who wasn’t a member of the González family. [/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]One of the key figures who have shaped the Spanish business and political landscape in recent years, Carlos Espinosa addresses in his highly sought-after presentations the analysis of the Spanish economy, the internationalisation of businesses and the current sociopolitical environment. With almost 40 years experience, he has seen the positives and negatives in business and management and provides useful advice how to be less vulnerable to the crisis, how to position yourself effectively in different markets and the development of strategic sense for SMEs.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Carlos Espinosa is a powerful and informative orator with excellent communication skills.[/expand]
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