The Leading Speakers Bureau

International Marketing Strategist, Co-Founder of the Peppers and Rogers Group

Dr Martha Rogers is an outstanding personality in the fields of managing customer relationships and interactive marketing. Together with Don Peppers she founded the Peppers and Rogers Group, a management consulting firm, recognised at the world’s leading authority on customer-based business strategy. She is co-author of the revolutionary ‘The One To One Future’ and a series of business books that further develop the unique one-to-one methodology espoused by the Peppers and Rogers Group.

Acknowledged as thought leaders around the world, Don Peppers and Martha Rogers were recognised in 2001 by the World Technology Network

[expand title=”In detail”] Martha began her professional career as a copywriter and advertising executive after her studies of Telecommunications and Marketing. She earned her Ph.D. at University of Tennessee as a Bickel fellow. She is an Adjunct Professor at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. She is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.[/expand]

[expand title=”What she offers you”]As a leading expert, visionary and educator Dr Rogers helps companies to place themselves advantageously by demonstrating the rapidly growing variations of Marketing, Customer Service and Sales.[/expand]

[expand title=”How she presents”]Martha is always guaranteed a standing ovation for her groundbreaking One to One customer relationships lectures. She is an outstanding speaker who inspires audiences at corporate events around the globe.[/expand]
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Author, Business Consultant, Innovation Expert

Robert B. Tucker is recognised internationally as a leading authority on innovation. He is an accomplished best-selling author, founder and president of The Innovation Resource, a research and management consulting firm based in Santa Barbara, California, devoted exclusively to assisting companies seeking to improve top and bottom line performance via systematic innovation. He has been a consultant and keynote speaker since 1986.

“Companies that master innovation will inherit the future.”

[expand title=”In detail”] Formerly an adjunct professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, Tucker has been studying innovators and innovative companies since 1981. As one of the thought leaders in the growing Innovation Movement, Tucker is a frequent contributor to publications such as the Journal of Business Strategy, Strategy & Leadership, and Harvard Management Update. He has appeared on PBS, CBS News, and was a featured guest on the CNBC series The Business of Innovation.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Robert’s tailor made presentations facilitate out of the box ideation sessions and enable companies to implement management systems ideally suited to their needs. He shows clients how to make innovation a systematic and ongoing process that will dominate their future. He is a much sought after keynote speaker at conventions, company management meetings, and industry conferences. Clients include over 200 of the Fortune 500 companies as well as clients in Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Australia.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]A highly accomplished speaker, articulate and to the point, Robert is highly professional and his expertise spans all aspects of e-commerce, globalisation and technology revolution.[/expand]
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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.

[expand title=”In detail”] 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.

Prior to co-founding V3, Robin was President of Federation One, Managing Director at Scient, and co-founder of the e-business group at Ernst & Young. He has deep experience in the fields of high-technology, software and e-business. A veteran of many start-ups, Robin has, to date, raised venture capital five times, successfully setting up his own first business in 1990.[/expand]
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Author, Strategist and Entrepreneur

Michael Treacy brings over 25 years of experience helping companies achieve market leadership. His ideas about customer value propositions and growth disciplines have been used by companies across the globe to reshape strategies, bolster competitive positions and dramatically improve top and bottom line performances. Mr. Treacy’s ideas have been shaped by his rich experiences as an academic at M.I.T. and as an entrepreneur who has established and led many successful firms as an expert strategist.

“Growth is the oxygen of success in business. Without it, your enterprise withers.”

[expand title=”In detail”] Michael Treacy’s business expertise stems from his substantial experience launching and running several successful ventures and is grounded in his academic days at the MIT Sloan school of Management. Currently, Mr. Treacy is the Cofounder and Chief Strategist of GEN3 Partners, a fast growing product innovator based in Boston and St. Petersburg, Russia.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]While he is well-versed in subjects that range from growth disciplines, customer intimacy, off-shoring strategies and product innovation, Michael Treacy’s keen ability to quickly diagnose the key problems of a company or industry makes him a unique and highly sought after international speaker.[/expand]
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Authority on eBusiness Leadership and Corporate Transformation

As Principal at Nextera and best selling author, Susan Annunzio has provided corporate strategy advice to companies involved in large-scale transitions. She is a sought-after advisor to senior corporate leaders around the world for her expertise in fashioning programmes that maximise success and profitability through breaking down the traditional structural and managerial barriers.

A renowned leader of change management with 25 years of experience, Susan inspires companies to transform their traditional culture into an environment ready to compete and profit in the new economy by demolishing the implicit rules that stifle employee creativity.

[expand title=”In detail”] Susan leads Nextera’s strategic change management practice and her projects have covered a wide variety of industries: financial services, petroleum, manufacturing, high technology, professional services and healthcare. One of her major achievements is the complete re-shaping of a global petroleum company, reversing its declining performance through an ongoing effort aimed at reinvigorating the leadership of the organisation. In just a few months the company’s newly inspired leaders eliminated numerous barriers and unproductive work processes resulting in increased revenue and shareholder value.[/expand]
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Expert on Effective and Innovative

Dr Brian Bates is currently the Research Director of the Christensen Foundation (Palo Alto) project on recovering the nature-based knowledge of ancient England, he is also Senior Adviser to the Ford Foundation funded project on worldwide indigenous wisdom – ‘The Council of Elders’ – working closely with tribal elders and medicine people to protect and document their knowledge. Brian was recently honored by these elders, who designated him a ‘wizard’ in recognition of his work in reconstructing the shamanic traditions of the Anglo-Saxons for application to life today.

Creative strategies are fast becoming the key to success in business

[expand title=”In detail”] Brian Bates is the author of six international best-selling books, including ‘The Real Middle-earth’, ‘The Way of Wyrd’, ‘The Human Face’, and ‘The Way of the Actor’. He is leading the movement to recover imagination as a powerful tool in our personal and working life, and to bring it to the forefront of 21st century inspiration. Brian is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Brighton, the University of Sussex, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His work on imagination includes his directing at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. There he trained future Academy Award winners and stars including Kenneth Branagh, Ralph Fiennes, Jane Horrocks, Sean Bean and Timothy Spall.[/expand]

[expand title=”What she offers you”]His presentations focus on ways to release our full potential in seeing new and effective solutions to business issues, based on the latest research in the world of psychology and biology. Brian has developed ways to teach imagination and performance in business settings. He lectures internationally to business, arts and general audiences.[/expand]
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Leading Expert on Customer Experience Management

Lior Arussy is an author, visionary, consultant and creative catalyst. He is a pioneer of Customer Experience Management (CEM) and uses solid business strategies based on customer focus to help Global 2000 organizations and emerging businesses around the world create lasting profitable relationships with customers and employees. He received CRM magazine’s “2003 Influential Leaders” award for his thought leadership and contribution to the industry.

“Your well crafted and professionally presented presentation was one of the highest points of our event!”- C.M. Rego, Advanstar Brazil

[expand title=”In detail”] Arussy completed his undergraduate degree at Case Western Reserve University and received his MBA from Weatherhead School of Management, Cleveland, Ohio. His accomplishments have been recognized by leading analysts and press such as ABC, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Times of London, Times of India, Gartner Group, IDC, Inc. Frost and Sullivan,CRM Magazine, Business 2.0, Line 56.com, Wired, Network World and Secure Computing Magazine.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Arussy keeps his audiences entertained while challenging them to radically alter the way they approach customers and their definition of the customer’s role in the organization. Arussy presents both the methodology and principles of CEM and enlightens his audiences on how to use this to achieve an immediate return on investment and increase customer loyalty.[/expand]
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Founder of The Eden Project

Tim Smit is Chief Executive and co-founder of the Eden Project, in Cornwall. Eden began as a dream in 1995 and opened its doors to the public for an exhibition in 2000. The press dubbed it “the Eighth Wonder of the World.”

Tim is also on the Board of the Prince’s Trust Business Division, a member of the Cornwall Gardens Trust, and a Director of Kneehigh Theatre. He was also appointed Patron of the Urban Parks Forum.

“Great thinking comes from being liberated from the constraints of curriculum”

[expand title=”In detail”] Eden is rated Number 4 in the paid for Visitor Attractions. To date more than 4 million people have walked through its gateway. It is most proud that it is changing people’s perception of the potential for the application of science and indeed, the public language of science as well as living up to its mission to play a massive part in local regeneration.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]The inspirational founder of the Eden project, Tim Smit is the man some call “The Richard Branson of Cornwall”. He shows audiences how he has achieved incredible success against all odds combining vision, inspirational leadership, great marketing and brilliant planning to create a unique experience.[/expand]
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Associate Professor at the Institute of International Business (IIB) at the Stockholm School of Economics and Innovation speaker

Amid the madness and hyperbole surrounding the new economy, Dr. Kjell A. Nordström is a guru of the new world of business. The 2005 Thinkers 50, the world’s first ranking of management thinkers, ranked Nordström and his partner Dr. Jonas Ridderstråle at number 9 in the world and number one in Europe. He is presently Associate Professor at the Institute of International Business (IIB) at the Stockholm School of Economics. His research and consulting focus is on the areas of corporate strategy, multinational corporations and globalization.

“Only imagination and innovation place societies, organisations and individuals on centre-stage”

Dr. Kjell Nordström 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”] Kjell holds an Economic Licentiate degree and a doctoral degree from the Stockholm School of Economics. Kjell has been responsible for the International Business course at the Stockholm School of Economics and is one of the founders of the schools most prestigious management programs, “The Advanced Management Program – AMP”. AMP is a five-week top-management program that attracts the elite of Scandinavian executives. He is also on the board of directors of several companies.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Presenting a manifesto of what is required from organisations and their leaders, he delivers powerful and sharp messages to test your views of business. He challenges the validity of conventional approaches in today’s world, yet submits real and alternative strategies for sustainability.[/expand]
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International Drummer, Motivator, Educator

Born in L.A, Mark Schulman has developed a career as a successful and multi-faceted musician performing as a drummer for rock, pop and jazz at numerous concerts and for a huge variety of internationally celebrated artistes. His work as a first class motivator is outstanding as he communicates with audiences across the globe who are stunned by his incredible life changing seminars. Mark has gained a reputation as an outstanding keynote speaker and motivator working with a huge variety of top clients including Cisco Systems.

“A unique motivator with a unique style”

[expand title=”In detail”] Mark Schulman is a trained audio engineer and an active educator, teaching at the Los Angeles Music Academy as well as holding drumming clinics around the world. Mark is also the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Create Now!. An organization founded in 1996 created to help troubled children change their lives through creative arts mentoring.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Mark delivers powerful, fun and massively entertaining models for success, leadership and ‘stress busting’ drawing on his wealth of experiences and work with world-class artists. Mark draws on the most unique and effective motivational methods to inspire teamwork, increase productivity, reduce stress and stimulate productivity.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Incorporating interactive drumming, live video and remarkably unique concepts, Mark captures the audience with his non-stop entertainment and anecdotal stories from being on the road.[/expand]
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