The Leading Speakers Bureau

One of the Nobel Prize-winning Canadians on the IPCC, Expert on Pandemic Influenza

Dr. Kirsty Duncan is internationally recognized as a leading expert in the area of pandemic influenza, environmental change, and the impact on human health. In 2008, Dr. Duncan was formally recognized as one of the Nobel Prize winning Canadians on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. She is a professor of Health Studies at the University of Toronto and is the current MP for the Liberal Party of Canada in the Toronto riding of Etobicoke North.

“A leading expert on health issues”

[expand title=”In detail”] Kirsty earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Medical Geography in 1993 and went on to gain recognition for her groundbreaking efforts in leading an expedition to uncover the cause of the 1918 Spanish influenza, history’s greatest killer. Amongst her many accolades Kirsty has been nominated for ‘Canada’s Top 40 Under 40’ in 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2001. As well as being nominated for the prestigious Order of Ontario in 2000 and 2001, she appeared in the millennium edition of Canada’s Who’s Who in 1999.[/expand]

[expand title=”What she offers you”]In her presentations, Kirsty Duncan describes common responsibilities of corporate social responsibility, and then focuses on crucial global environmental issues and health concerns, and where business can make positive changes to society. She explores emerging threats-such as, the Swine Flu outbreak in Mexico, Ebola hemorrhagic fever in Africa, Variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease in the United Kingdom, and West Nile virus in the United States-the possible reasons for their emergence, and what can be done in the fight against these diseases.[/expand]

[expand title=”How she presents”]Kirsty Duncan’s emotive and passionate style of delivery is highly inspirational and motivating. Her presentations serve as an excellent tool for decision makers from the world of business. She is also part of our Top Women keynote speakers. [/expand]
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Professor of Global Strategy & Bestselling Author

Pankaj Ghemawat is one of the new generation management gurus who throws new light on corporate behaviour and particularly its global aspect. He is also one of the best keynote speakers of all times. He is currently Professor of Global Strategy at the IESE Business School which is ranked as one of the top 3 business schools in Europe and also writes a blog on global strategy, ‘What in the World’ for Harvard Business Online. He has written several award winning publications on Business Strategy including the bestseller ‘Redefining Global Strategy’.

What our clients say after booking Pankaj Ghemawat:

“Pankaj did really good job. During the event, everyone was dazzled by his performance.”

[expand title=”In detail”] Professor Ghemawat earned his PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University. He then worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company in London before joining the Harvard Business School in 1983. In 1991, he was appointed the youngest professor in HBS’s history and in 2006 he joined IESE. In October 2008 he was appointed Fellow of the Strategic Management Society (SMS). He has received numerous awards including the 2008 Irwin Outstanding Educator Award from the Academy of Management, the first European Business School Professor to receive this award.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you as a keynote speaker”]Pankaj Ghemawat challenges current thinking on globalisation and explains to audiences his controversial theory as to why he believes ‘the world is not flat’ and why we are living in an era of ‘semi-globalisation’. By basing his research on real-world case studies and with a mastery of economic data, Pankaj Ghemawat offers CEOs and business leaders refreshing and effective strategies for sustained business development in today’s volatile economic climate.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents as a keynote speaker”]An astute commentator on global trends and current core competences, Pankaj Ghemawat delivers informative and well balanced presentations which offer essential insights and thought-provoking impulses for today’s decision makers. He is also part of our Most Popular keynote speakers list and Top Indian keynote speakers.[/expand]
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Actress, Television Host & Former Miss World

Diana Hayden has modelled for various international brands such as L’Oreal and has served as host for an array of international events, including The Laureus World Sports Awards in Barcelona and the Ad Awards (India’s most prestigious Advertising Awards). She was the Special Guest and Host of the Red Cross Ball in Monaco and has also been a guest and Good Will Ambassador at venues ranging from the Cannes Film Festival to the White House State Dinner.

“A remarkable role model”

[expand title=”In detail”] In 2005, Diana hosted an exclusive three-month series on the History Channel, Biography with Diana Hayden. In 2006, she was signed by the Avalon Aviation Academy as the face of the Academy and currently serves as a celebrity guest lecturer for airline personnel training programs. Actively involved with charities around the world, Diana is especially focused on issues affecting women and children. She has helped raise millions of dollars for organizations such as Variety Club, Lifeline, Alert India, and CAP, of which she is an Advisory Board member. Committed to campaigning for Breast Cancer Awareness and HIV/AIDS education, Diana also builds globally with Habitat for Humanity International. In 2001, she made her screen debut in the film version of Shakespeare’s Othello in South Africa.[/expand]

[expand title=”What she offers you”]Highly respected not only in India, Diana Hayden is a truly inspirational individual who tells a moving and motivational ‘rags to riches’ story. Her extensive career so far includes being a Bollywood actress, charity spokesperson and ambassador and a top rated events host, which always guarantees a memorable event.[/expand]

[expand title=”How she presents”]Diana Hayden is an articulate and a warm, genuinely charismatic figure who is an experienced events professional, well used to the pressures of working in front of a live audience. She is also part of our Top Indian keynote speakers.[/expand]
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International Marketer of the Year

Bob Pritchard has over 30 years of international marketing experience across a Who’s Who of large and small businesses. This expertise and his forthright, entertaining and interactive presentations have resulted in Bob being one of the most in-demand business and marketing speakers in the world.

“One of the best business speakers in the world.”

[expand title=”In detail”] Australian born and Los Angeles resident Bob Pritchard has enjoyed an extraordinary 30 year career. His unique sales, marketing, and motivational ability has taken Bob from sharing a two room apartment as a child with three generations of family to international success as a businessman, marketer and speaker. Continue Reading »

Author & Expert on Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability

Dr. McIntosh is Professor of Human Security and Sustainable Enterprise and Director of the transdisciplinary Applied Research Centre in Human Security (ARCHS) at the University of Coventry. He is founder of the international, transdisciplinary, multistakeholder Roundtables on Sustainable Enterprise and ARCHS’ new MAs in Sustainable Enterprise and Human Security run in partnership with The Eden Project, England; the Sustainability Institute, Stellenbosch University, South Africa; and the UN University, Japan.

Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General’s Global Compact from 2000 to 2005

[expand title=”In detail”] Dr. McIntosh has a PhD from the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford. He was a current affairs film producer and journalist for BBC TV from 1985 to 1995, was the Founding Editor in 1999 and is currently General Editor of the academic Journal of Corporate Citizenship. He is Professor Extraordinary at the Sustainability Institute, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa and was the Founding Chair of envolve.co.uk. He is a Member of the Conference Board’s European Council on Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability; the UK Sustainability Development Commission Panel.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Dr McIntosh shares his significant experience in project management and film-making on corporate responsibility and sustainability with global corporations and institutions including the UN, BP, Shell, BBC, Pfizer, ABB, INSEAD, Harvard, Warwick & the UK Government. In 2007 he was highly commended in the Lifetime Achievement Awards as a Faculty Pioneer by EABIS and the Aspen Institute. He is listed as a ‘social and institutional entrepreneur’ who has ‘created the corporate responsibility movement’ in ‘The Difference Makers’ by Sandra Waddock (2008).[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Malcolm’s invaluable presentations provide analysis and ideas from various sectors. He is also a frequent presenter and facilitator at conferences.[/expand]
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Conductor, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra

Benjamin Zander has been the conductor of The Boston Philharmonic Orchestra for the past thirty years. He has been on the faculty of the New England Conservatory since 1965 and has taken the NEC Youth Philharmonic on thirteen international tours. He is also the Artistic Director of the Walnut Hill School, a high school for the performing arts. He will be the lead keynote speaker at the 2009 World Economic Forum in Davos, and has been profiled on CNN, 60 Minutes and the BBC, and in the New York Times, the London Times and the Wall Street Journal.

A radiant communicator who connects with the corporate mind

[expand title=”In detail”] Mr Zander was the 2002 recipient of the United Nations ‘Caring Citizen of the Humanities Award.’ He is highly respected in corporate and political circles, and addressed numerous prestigious gatherings of world leaders.

He wrote ‘Bridges to Possibility’ with noted psychotherapist Rosamund Stone Zander, a book dedicated to leadership and creativity. His most recent work ‘The Art of Possibility’ provides a life-altering approach to fulfilling dreams large and small.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Mr. Zander is one of the most sought after speakers in the world, giving highly effective presentations to organizations on the subject of Leadership and Creativity He employs the model of music as an analogy for corporate life.

Effortlessly translating his accomplishments, he relates to the business arena in a spellbinding performance. In doing so, he awakens your perspective on leadership, creativity, coaching and teamwork. [/expand]
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Aka Mr Body Language and Communication

Allan Pease has been known internationally as “Mr Body Language” since his definitive book with that title became a multi-million best-seller and the communication bible for organisations worldwide. He has written numerous bestsellers and has appeared on radio and television in 55 countries, including his acclaimed top-rating TV and video series on Body Language, which was watched by over 100 million people. His work has been the subject of six BBC science programs and on the Discovery and National Geographic Channels.

“Allan had us in stitches with his wonderfully fresh insights into the self-evident truths about relationships between the sexes…his keynote address was the highlight of the Annual Dinner.”

[expand title=”In detail”] Australian by birth, with offices in Australia and the United Kingdom, Allan divides his time between the two hemispheres fulfilling business commitments worldwide. He is a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Fellow of the Institute of Management and a Fellow of the Life Writers Association and a Paul Harris Fellow.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Some speakers motivate, some teach, and others entertain. Allan Pease does all three! Internationally renowned, the demand for Allan to present at seminars, conferences and events is huge. Presenting vital information in his unique humorous manner is the key to Allan’s success in getting the audience to retain what they have been taught. His presentations are talked about long after the dust has settled at the end of each conference.[/expand]
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Chairman of the Institute of Human Development

Adrian Gilpin is the founder and driving force behind the Institute of Human Development and its Chairman. Adrian’s work in the field of leadership development and peak performance coaching is rapidly becoming recognised by business leaders as cutting-edge. He is the co-developer of the Aspell-Gilpin Profiler – the world’s most advanced personality profiling instrument.

“Adrian Gilpin is best known for working with management teams to help them turn their organisations into an Inspired Enterprise”

[expand title=”In detail”] Adrian leads the IHD’s leadership research and programme development, mentors chief executives in the public and private sectors and coach’s top teams. He spends much of his time on conference platforms challenging the old models of corporate leadership and offering practical and inspiring alternatives for managing change in business, education and society.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Adrian Gilpin has designed and led some of the most effective and sustainable change programmes in British business and a number of organisations have retained him to coach their Managing Directors and senior executives in high performance leadership coaching. Adrian also works regularly within the public sector too and his personal passion is to impact the long term thinking about how we educate our children.[/expand]
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Former Minister of State for Trade & Investment and Former Director-General of the CBI

Lord Digby Jones became Director-General of the CBI in 2000 to serve a five-year non-renewable term of office. In an unprecedented move in 2003 this was extended at the request of CBI members. Having successfully taken the British business message to over 55 different countries he left the CBI in 2006 and joined Deloitte as Chairman of the Deloitte Industries Group and a senior adviser to the CEO. In 2007 he was named by Prime Minister Gordon Brown as Minister for Trade and Investment at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and at the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform, a role from which he recently stepped down in 2008 and was appointed the ambassador for the Government’s National Economic Council.

“The voice of British business”

[expand title=”In detail”] It was in corporate finance and client development that Lord Jones made his name and he was also involved in most of the major management buy-outs and merger and acquisition activity in the West Midlands in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 1998 he joined KPMG as Vice Chairman of Corporate Finance where he acted as close adviser to many public companies across the United Kingdom. In 2007 he was created a life peer as Lord Jones of Birmingham.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]In various roles throughout his distinguished career, he has regularly and repeatedly visited businesses around the UK and across the world, taking their views back to those who make the rules. He has appeared regularly on television, radio and in the newspapers, promoting the interests of wealth and job creation in the UK, the rest of Europe and beyond.[/expand]
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Entrepreneur & Co-founder & CEO of Axialent

Axialent co-founder and CEO Andy Freire is an inspired entrepreneur in both business and social realms. He successfully built his business from start-up to US$ 40 million in annual sales in a 30 month span and in the process creating the leading business to business e-commerce platform in Latin America. Most recently, he was chosen as “Young Global Leader 2008” by the World Economic Forum. He is the Chairman of Endeavor Foundation in Argentina and is also member of the board of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) chapter in Argentina.

Andy Freire is one of those rare individuals with exceptional entrepreneurial spirit

[expand title=”In detail”] Andy has a Licenciatura in Economics magna cum laude from the University of San Andrés in Buenos Aires and an OPM from Harvard Business School. He has been the recipient of several awards including Entrepreneur of the Year 2001 and winner of one of two prestigious entrepreneurship awards at the World Young Business Achiever contest. He also has his own TV programme on CNN. Andy previously worked in Procter & Gamble in the finance department and then founded and led Officenet, a company that revolutionized the industry of office-supply distribution in Latin America and grew from one to almost a thousand employees in a 4-year span.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Andy offers decision makers invaluable pointers designed specifically to help companies and individuals alike recognise potential markets and then focus on these markets to generate, and more importantly, maintain growth, productivity and profits. He has participated as a motivational speaker at several events worldwide including the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]A dynamic speaker Andy Freire packs his talks with essential information and useful insights designed specifically to help companies increase profits and sales. With thought provoking examples, using case studies and drawing from his own experience, Andy delivers powerful, refreshing keynotes that leave the audience with actionable recommendations on how to imbed their companies with an “entrepreneurial spirit” and unleash their people’s talents.[/expand]
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