The Leading Speakers Bureau

Leading Trendspotter, Futurist and Strategist

Marian Salzman is considered as one of the world’s top five trendspotters. She is the CEO of Havas PR North America, an entrepreneurial agency ranked ninth in the world. Marian was responsible for some of the most famous consumer campaigns and has executed thought leadership, reputation management and social media programs around the globe. Before heading Havas PR, she was CMO at Porter Novelli, CMO at JWT Worldwide and CSO at Euro RSCG Worldwide. She received many prestigious awards, including the the PRWeek’s 2009 PR Innovation of the Year award.

“One of the Top Five Trendspotters in the World”

[expand title=”In detail”] Marian is an advisor to the Berlin School of Creative Leadership’s MBA program, author of 14 books published in more than 20 languages and an honours graduate of Brown University for which she has served as a mentor to Brown Women in Business since 2006. Her four-part series on the brain for the Huffington Post won a 2011 Bronze SABRE award and an honorable mention from the PR News Platinum PR Awards. In addition, Marian has blogged regularly at Forbes.com, the Holmes Report, Adweek/Aol’s Fuel the Future, CNBC.com and numerous agency blogs run by @havasprus.

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[expand title=”What she offers you”]Marian has identified and taken public such concepts as Metro-sexuality. Singletons and Globesity She brings to her presentations more than a decade’s worth of experience as a consumer researcher and trend analyst as well as a reputation as one of the world’s leading futurists. Marian not only delivers practical insights, but she also offers audiences an accurate glimpse of the near future.[/expand]

[expand title=”How she presents”]Her powerful presentations are well prepared and entertaining.[/expand]
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Guru of Personal Reinvention

Watt Nicoll MP is a coach and motivator extraordinaire.

He insists on MP after his name as a public declaration of being a Motivated Person.

Motivator for the Everton Football team, he has helped take them from relegation candidates to a top 6 team in his first season.

He has developed a process of self-education and awareness, which has distinguished him as a world-class resource for the development of human potential

Innovator of developing human potential

[expand title=”In detail”] In his pursuit of excellence, he is a regular contributor to BBC Radio and subject of a BBC2 Television documentary. Also, he is a board member of Young Enterprise Scotland.

His programmes are built on the basis that successful organisations share an ability to engage high performance people within their organisations.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Shake off mediocrity and live up to your potential by taking advantage of his non-traditional training techniques.

Discover how to release untapped energy and creativity of existing personnel to uphold success and profitability.[/expand]
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Thought Leader in Innovation, Business Design

John Kao is known as an authority on the intersecting subjects of corporate innovation and transformation, digital media, design strategy, and the future of business. He has made a career out of helping organizations go from “getting” the importance of innovation to “getting innovation done.” In addition to his other accomplishments, John is an entrepreneur, best-selling author, private investor, Tony-nominated producer, and business pioneer

“The world’s leading expert on business creativity” Klause Schwab, Founder, World Economic Forum

[expand title=”In detail”] For 14 years, he taught at Harvard Business School where he developed courses, lectures and executive seminars. He was also a visiting professor at the MIT Media Lab. From 1997-2001, he was founder and CEO of The Idea Factory, known for its innovation advisory work. He is on the boards of Lion Digital Pictures, NeoSpine, Inc., and is an honorary Vice President of Arts & Business, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Art. John has collaborated with a variety of world renowned designers and his unique approach to innovation is strongly influenced by the disciplines of design.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Dubbed a “serial innovator” and “Mr. Creativity” by The Economist, John’s experience in the design field is multifaceted and he takes up the challenge of reinventing the relationship between design and business. He expertly frames the challenge faced by organisations and offers immensely practical advice on how they can regain our place as innovation leaders.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]John’s tailored speeches are famous for entertaining audiences and for their practical and original frameworks for action. John has also been known to illustrate the fundamentals of innovation (of “jamming,” in his words) by playing jazz piano in a way that provides musical examples of the innovation process at work.[/expand]
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Thought Leader of Open Innovation

As former Vice President of Innovation for Procter & Gamble, Larry Huston was responsible for the company’s global Connect and Develop program where he successfully met his objective of insourcing 50% of the company’s innovation from outside of P&G.

Larry Huston is a leading practitioner of connected innovation and is now managing partner of strategy consultancy 4INNO.

“Asking new questions is the key to truly successful innovation”

[expand title=”In detail”] Larry is recognised globally for his radical business innovation model, ‘Connect and Develop’ which turbocharged more than 250 Procter and Gamble products into the marketplace, generated billions of sales and increased the P&G’s figure of insourced innovation from 15% in 2000 to a remarkable 50% today[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Larry informs his audiences about his highly effective Connect and Develop business innovation model and he shares his invaluable insights on how to successfully revamp product innovation strategies and concept development. His extensive experience and sound advice are hugely beneficial to businesses and organisations worldwide.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Larry has a wonderfully down to earth and approachable presenting style with genuine and evident enthusiasm for his field. These characteristics mixed with his outstanding knowledge contribute to his truly unforgettable presentations.[/expand]
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Investor, Entrepreneur, Educator and Best-Selling Author

Robert Kiyosaki is an investor, entrepreneur, educator and author.

He is best known for his series of best selling motivational books Rich Dad, Poor Dad. He also writes a bi-weekly column – Why the Rich Are Getting Richer – for Yahoo! Finance and a monthly column titled Rich Returns for Entrepreneur magazine.

“With every dollar in your hand, you have the power to choose to be rich, poor or middle class.”

[expand title=”In detail”] In 1985 Robert founded an international education company that taught business and investing to tens of thousands of students throughout the world. He sold his business in 1984 and, through his investments, was able to retire at the age of 47. It was then, during his short-lived retirement, he wrote Rich Dad Poor Dad[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Robert’s perspectives on money and investing fly in the face of conventional wisdom. He has challenged and changed the way tens of millions, around the world, think about money. [/expand]

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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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Director, screenwriter, composer and actor,

Pedro Almodovar is the most celebrated Spanish diretor since Luis Bunuel and Carlos Saura. He was born in La Mancha, Spain in 1951.

At the age of 16, he moved to Madrid, alone without either his family or any money in his pocket. He had decided to study and make films. It was impossible to enter the Official film School as Franco had recently closed it. He worked in multiple and sporadic jobs but he couldn’t afford to buy his first Super-8 camera until he took a “serious” job with the National Telephone Company where he worked for 12 years as an administrative assistant. These years were in a sense, his real education. He was in touch with a social class which he would probably not have mixed with in other circumstances; the middle class Spanish family at the beginning of the age consumerism. He joined the independent theatre group “Loss Gollardos” and made Super 8 movies. He wrote for several underground magazines and also short stories, some of which were published. His luck was that the opening of his first feature film coinicided with the birth of Spanish democracy in Spain.

[expand title=”In detail”] In 1980 he launched his first feature “Pepi, Lunci, Bom … “. Since then, the world of film has become second nature to him. He writes, directs and invents stories which are alive – his films are shown all over the world.

His films include “Labyrinth of Passion”, “Dark Habits”, “What Have I Done to Deserve This?”, “Matador”, “Law of Desire” , “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” (which was nominated for an Academy Award as best Foreign Language Film), “Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!”

Pedro Almodovar is the recipient of numerous awards including the Glauber Rocha Award for Best Director, Rio Film Festival and LA Film Critics Association “New Generation” Award. However, this year he has taken the industry by storm with the Goya winning movie “All About My Mother”. The film also took two awards at the European Film Awards in 1999 – best European Film of the Year and best European Director in addition to best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival.[/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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