The Leading Speakers Bureau

Inspirational Business Author, Consultant and Entrepreneur

Peter Fisk is an inspirational business author, consultant and entrepreneur. His bestselling ‘Marketing Genius’ is currently being translated into 25 languages. He is an accomplished international speaker on all aspects of strategy, innovation, customers and marketing. Business Strategy Review describe him as “One of the best new business thinkers”.

“Peter was inspirational. He combined deep insight into our changing world, with practical and innovative ideas for application” The Coca Cola Company

[expand title=”In detail”] Peter Fisk is founder and CEO of the Genius Works, working with business leaders to adopt a more inspired approach to strategy and innovation, in particular through The Fast Track executive development programme. He was previously CEO of The Chartered Institute of Marketing, MD of Brand Finance, partner of The Foundation, and led the global marketing consulting practice of PA Consulting Group. He spent years working with the likes of British Airways, Coca Cola, Marks & Spencer, Microsoft, Virgin and Vodafone.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]He is thoughtful and considered, provocative and entertaining – capturing what’s hot, what works, and what’s next. He speaks on a wide range of topics – from strategy and marketing, to customers, brands and innovation – which can be tailored to the specific issues and interests of your audience. He is also an innovative conference chair, helping you to structure your conference theme, bring it all together on the day with energy and empathy, and ensure that your audience has a great experience.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Peter Fisk’s presentations are inspirational, engaging and full of “yin yang” insights into the business world, showing how to achieve extraordinary results.[/expand]
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Activist, Businessman, Musician

Bob Geldof KBE is best known for organising the 2005 Live 8 and 1985 Live Aid benefit concerts. A self-styled campaigner he is tremendously well informed on a broad range of global and national issues. Currently, he is heavily involved in the Make Poverty History Campaign, a campaign against third world poverty. In addition to his equally successful if diverse campaigning and musical achievements, he is also a proven businessman and is co-founder of Ten Alps a very successful production company. Bob was recognized by Time Magazine as one of the 2005 European Hero’s and made the front cover of their European Edition on 10th October 2005.

Outspoken and celebrated global activist

[expand title=”In detail”] Now a truly global figure, his career began in journalism before forming the rock band Boomtown Rats. The course of his work changed when he set about the huge challenge of arranging Live Aid. In 2004 he returned to Ethiopia with UNICEF reviving media and public interest in the country’s economic state. Most recently he was honoured with the 2005 Nobel Man Of Peace Award and the MTV Free Your Mind Award which he received at the European Music Awards. He was also a Nobel Prize Nominee in 2005.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]The breadth and depth of his knowledge and experience is unique and hard to replicate. He is highly entertaining and has great insight into the socio-political arena as well as leadership, communications, marketing in the global village, motivation and self-development.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Passion is undisputedly one of his strengths, but so is validity of message. His inspirational presentations are both well researched and convincing.[/expand]
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Peppers and Rogers Group

Don Peppers is a founding partner of the Peppers and Rogers Group, the world’s leading customer-focused management consulting firm. Accenture’s Institute for Strategic Change ranked him as a top thinker and writer on management topics. He was also selected as a member of the International Direct Marketing’s Hall of Fame.

“The innovator most likely to create visionary ripple effects” World Technology Network

[expand title=”In detail”] He capped his advertising career as the CEO of Perkins/Butler Direct Marketing, a top twenty US direct marketing agency. A popular voice among editors and the media, he is co-author of a series of international best sellers that have collectively sold over a million copies.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]By facilitating the identification of your most valuable customers, he sets the foundations for you to model effective customer focussed strategies. With a comprehensive path to increasing customer satisfaction you will have a crucial ingredient for developing a successful business strategy.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Clarity is the name of his game; he strips out the jargon and gives you a tailored overview of the latest thinking.[/expand]
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Global Entrepreneur, Strategic Marketing & Media Consultant

Christina Vlahova is a Strategic Marketing and Media consultant, Global entrepreneur and Marketing speaker. She is networking her business between India, Eastern Europe and Italy. Owner of Intellecta Srl – Strategic Marketing and Media consultancy, Christina has an extensive marketing experience having been marketing director of Coca-Cola and Western Union in Europe. She utilizes a lot of the online media and social networking sites to challenge our concepts of geographical distances, what is possible in the business world and how to establish new businesses.

“Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given” Deepak Chopra

[expand title=”In detail”] Bulgarian born Christina Vlahova graduated from high school in India and had her Master’s in Advertising in the US. She has lived and worked in different countries, which contributes to her understanding that the world is as distant as we make it in our own minds. Christina is a jury member of the Bulgaria Effie Awards in Bulgaria and the Moscow International Advertising Festival. One of her latest ventures includes the representation of Bollywood in Europe.[/expand]

[expand title=”What she offers you”]As a marekting speaker Christina offers you a creative approach to new media and challenges your understanding of what is possible in terms of consumer reach. She empowers small and medium businesses to become big with low-cost online techniques and ideas. In her work and presentations, she applies the traditional marketing techniques and marries that with the opportunities offered by the new media. Very creative, she has fascination for the possibility, which the online media offer to individuals and small businesses to grow.[/expand]

[expand title=”How she presents”]Christina is very practical and creative marketing speaker, providing vivid examples and generating creative ideas through her interaction with the audiences. A natural presenter, she has a calm and warm demeanor, with a clear and professional style. She is also part of our Top Women keynote speakers. [/expand]
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Authority on Developments & Trends in the Automotive Industry

Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Dudenhöffer is a recognised expert in marketing and business management and specifically development in the automotive industry. The former automotive executive has a professorship in Marketing & Management Science and is founder and director of C.A.R. – the Centre for Automotive Research – at the University of Applied Sciences in Gelsenkirchen.

One of Europe’s most experienced marketing experts in the Auto Industry

[expand title=”In detail”] After studying economics Prof. Dudenhöffen held senior executive positions at Porsche, Opel, Peugeot and Citroen. He also held a professorship at Mannheim University. Since 1996 he has a professorship for Marketing & Management Science, Department Automotive Economics & Engineering, University Of Applied Sciences, Gelsenkirchen.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]With a wealth of hands-on experience in the automotive industry and many years of research Prof Dudenhöffer demonstrates the many challenges for the automotive industry. More so he develops creative and successful marketing strategies for placing products advantageously into the market place. Additionally he shares his profound views on global trends on the future of the industry.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]A well respected speaker on national as well as international platforms his presentations are thought provoking and inspiring. [/expand]
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Global Futurist and authority on how technology is transforming business and society

Rohit Talwar is a global futurist and award winning professional speaker noted for his inspirational approach, provocative content and humour. Rohit leads Fast Future Research and has conducted in depth future studies on a range of topics. He was profiled by the Independent Newspaper as one of the top ten global future thinkers and is considered an authority on how technology is transforming business and society. Rohit also has a particular geographic interest in the emerging economies of Asia and Africa and a strategic focus on the challenges of embedding foresight in leading organisations

“A leading futurist with exceptional foresight”

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Rohit launched a personal campaign to raise one million pounds for various good causes such as the Pakistan Earthquake Red Cross Appeal where he hosted a fund raising seminar and dinner, covered across Asia by the media. Rohit authored Designing Your Future – Key Trends, Challenges and Choices, edited Achieving Transformation and Renewal in Financial Services, and contributes regularly to books and journals on futures and strategic change.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Rohit draws upon his experience and highlights how critical changes and the development of new technologies really are to global businesses. Rohit is recognized worldwide as an innovative thinker.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Rohit’s presentations are a fascinating insight into the shape of the future. He has an ability to create an engaging debate, capturing his audience with incisive thought provoking ideas[/expand]
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International Entrepreneur and Businessman

Sir Richard Branson is the eccentric and outspoken chairman of Virgin Atlantic Airways and Chairman of the Virgin Group. An experienced daredevil, Branson has raced powerboats across the ocean and has set distance records in hot air balloons. His unconventional style of living is only a part of his undeniable knack for beating impossible odds in business and in life. In his latest venture Richard Branson announced the signing of a deal under which a new space tourism company, Virgin Galactic, will license the technology behind Spaceship One to take paying passengers into suborbital space. In 2009 Thinkers 50, the global ranking of management gurus, placed him among the top ten most influential thinkers.

“Richard Branson has got the Midas Touch”

[expand title=”In detail”] Richard Branson received his education at Stowe School, where he established a national magazine entitled Student at the age of sixteen. He started a Student Advisory Centre at 17, aiming to help young people. At twenty years old, he founded Virgin as a mail order record retailer and a short while later; he opened a record shop in Oxford Street, London. In 1972, a recording studio was built in Oxfordshire where the first Virgin artist, Mike Oldfield, recorded “Tubular Bells”, later released in 1973.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]In his presentations Richard Branson talks about his business philosophies as a “transformational leader” with his unique business strategies. He stresses that the Virgin Group is an organization driven on informality and information, one that is bottom-heavy rather than strangled by top-level management.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]A charismatic and charming individual, Richard Branson talks candidly about his business ventures and the leadership skills which have made him into a truly global player.[/expand]
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Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University

Alberto Alesina is a leader in the field of Political Economics and has published extensively in all major academic journals in economics. He is also a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Center for Economic Policy Research. He has been a co-editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics for eight years and Associate Editor of many academic journals. He has published columns in many leading newspapers around the world and has visited several institutions including MIT, Tel Aviv University, University of Stockholm, The World Bank, and the IMF.

“One of the eight best economists under the age of forty in the world and most likely to win a Nobel Prize in the future” The Economist (1990)

[expand title=”In detail”] Alberto Alesina obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1986 and served as Chairman of the Department of Economics from 2003 – 2006 and was the Taussig Research Professor of Economics from 2006 – 2007. He is a member of the Econometric Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Alberto Alesina’s offers a unique perspective on a variety of topics. He expertly points out how Europe should handle labour productivity, labour market regulation, globalization, support for higher education and research, fiscal policy, and its multiethnic societies. His wake-up call will ring loud and clear for anyone concerned about the future of Europe and the global economy.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Alberto Alesina is a highly respected, knowledgeable and provocative speaker with the ability to engage audiences worldwide. He has an informative presenting style – he is clear, direct and thought provoking.[/expand]
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International Best Selling Business Author and Acclaimed Business Strategist

Dr. David P. Norton is Founder and Director of Palladium, and co-founder of Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, an organization facilitating the global use and effectiveness of the Balanced Scorecard as a value-added management process. A frequent lecturer and writer, Dr. Norton’s work with the Balanced Scorecard has been the subject of many articles and public conferences and was selected by Harvard Business Review as one of the most influential management ideas of the past 75 years. He is also a best selling author, having published his most recent book, ‘Alignment: Using the Balanced Scorecard to Create Corporate Synergies’, in 2006.

“Superior strategy execution requires a system”

[expand title=”In detail”] He was previously the president of Renaissance Solutions, Inc., an international consulting firm he co-founded in 1992. Before Renaissance, he co-founded Nolan, Norton & Company where he spent 17 years as president, prior to its acquisition by KPMG Peat Marwick. Dr. Norton is the co-author, with Dr. Robert S. Kaplan, of numerous articles for the Harvard Business Review, as well as four books. They were ranked by the Financial Times among the top 15 business world’s most important practical and intellectual influences. In 2007 & 2009, they were ranked in the Thinkers 50, the global ranking of business thinkers.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]One of the most valuable speakers in the fields of business strategy and leadership Dr. David P. Norton reveals the key principles business leaders will need in order to create their own strategy-focused organizations. A renowned management expert and thought leader whose books have been translated into 23 languages, he draws upon his vast experience to offer audiences invaluable advice into achieving sustainable success.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]In his presentations he uses his extensive research of companies that implement the Balanced Scorecard to suggest a new performance management framework centred on strategy.[/expand]
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Business Visionary and Serial Innovator

Don Strickland is a former Senior Executive at Apple, CEO of PictureWorks and CEO of IPIX. Currently Don is the President and CEO of Strickland Associates and serves as Advising Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Imperial College London. Don Strickland has successfully built businesses internationally for both large public companies and private start ups. As a CEO he has consistently combined new technologies and business models to reinvent companies and grow stockholder value.

Expect to come away with a unique perspective on innovation, leadership and entrepreneurship.

[expand title=”In detail”] Don Strickland was the visionary behind the world’s first consumer digital camera, which he developed as Kodak’s VP of Digital Imaging and launched into the market after joining Apple. As Apple’s VP of Imaging and Publishing he led the re-architecture of Apple’s computer platform for the publishing market from traditional print media to “new media” including the Internet, music and video. He left Apple to become CEO of Silicon Valley startup, PictureWorks Technology, and was a pioneer of the Web 2.0 business model. He took the company public through a merger with IPIX, and built the market value to US$1.6 billion. He currently advises technology companies on business model innovation, leadership and entrepreneurship and serves as Advising Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Imperial College London.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you as a keynote speaker”]Don speaks on the key topics facing C-Level management and Boards of large companies. He works with the client beforehand to understand their business challenges, venue and goals. He tunes his presentation to the audience, and allows ample time for follow on Q&A and discussions.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents as a keynote speaker”]He adapts to the forum of the client, delivering high added value as a speaker, advisor or moderator. His unique insights into how business really works “from the inside” are fascinating and memorable. He is also part of our Top Leadership speakers.[/expand]
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