The Leading Speakers Bureau

Chairman and CEO of “Brandinsider GmbH”

Dr Peter Littmann is Chairman and CEO of Brandinsider GmbH, a strategic brand-consulting firm in Germany. From 1997 until 1999, he was Chairman and CEO of Wünsche AG, which at that time were holding brands like Joop! and Cinque. From 1993 to 1997, he was Chairman and CEO of Hugo Boss AG, a global men’s fashion design company. He is also currently Professor of Marketing at the University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany.

[expand title=”In detail”] Previously Dr Littmann spent 12 years with Vorwerk & Co., holding various positions, including Member of the Executive Board, General Partner and President. From 1978 to 1981 he was Executive Director at Rosenthal AG, Germany’s finest China producers. Prior to that, he served as President of the Carpet Division at Girmes Ltd. [/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Dr Littmann offers audiences fascinating insights into what it takes to become a global brand leader. He talks in great detail about market opportunities, how innovation and creativity can drive brand recognition and how lifestyle factors affect brand perception world-wide.

Dr Littmann’s high content innovative and engaging presentations clearly show audiences how to link strategy with innovation to create the winning formula necessary to develop markets world-wide.[/expand]
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Renowned Strategy Thought Leader, Business Professor, Author

Rumelt has been described as the “strategist’s strategist.” He has authored or co-authored numerous business publications. Best known for his work on corporate strategy, his research has covered corporate diversification strategy and sustainable competitive advantage, and more recently industry transitions and the evolution of complex industries. Richard Rumelt is currently the Harry and Elsa Kunin Chair in Business and Society at the University of California-Los Angeles.

[expand title=”In detail”] Professor Rumelt received his doctorate from the Harvard Business School in 1972, having previously earned a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley. He worked as a systems engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratories and served on the faculty of the Harvard Business School. He joined the UCLA faculty in 1976. During 1993-96 he was on long-term leave from UCLA, serving on the faculty at INSEAD, France. At INSEAD, Professor Rumelt headed the Corporate Renewal Initiative, a research-intervention center devoted to the study and practice of corporate transformation.

Between 1972 and 1976 Professor Rumelt was on the faculty of the Harvard Business School, with two of those years spent on assignment to found the Harvard-sponsored Iran Center for Management Studies (ICMS). Richard Rumelt was a founding member of the Strategic Management Society and served as its president in 1995-98. In 1997, he was appointed Telecom Italia Strategy Fellow, a position he held until April 2000. He has won teaching awards at UCLA.

In addition to his academic work, Richard has been a consultant to numerous firms, non-profit organizations, the Department of Defense, and several governments on competitive advantage, how to strengthen it, how to exploit inertia and riding waves of change.[/expand]
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Explorer, International Speaker, Author

Rona Cant is an adventurer, author and inspirational communicator and her very diverse adventures enable her to work with organisations across the world empowering their staff to have the right attitude to achieve their goals. She has worked with very diverse organisations from SME’s, CEO Groups to FTSE 100 Companies and she has inspired audiences at many Conferences to get out of their comfort zone to achieve their goals in the UK, Middle East and Australasia.

“The basis of success is belief that you can do it “ Rona Cant

[expand title=”In detail”] Rona’s journey has taken her from being a stay-at-home ‘Mum’ to business owner to single Mum to round-the-world yachtswoman, author, explorer and now inspirational Keynote Speaker – a journey beset by obstacles and challenges. She has conquered some of the most challenging expeditions in the world. Having taken part in the BT Global Challenge Round the World Yacht Race, the toughest yacht race in the world, two days later she embarked on the West Coast Trail on Vancouver Island, encountering bears and cougars. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.[/expand]

[expand title=”What she offers you”]Rona shares clear business strategies that can be utilised immediately. Her audiences are fully engaged, they understand that action is what counts not intent and they leave believing that they too can get out of their comfort zone and achieve.[/expand]

[expand title=”How she presents”]Rona uses first-hand experience to pass on the lessons she has learnt on her very diverse expeditions, so her talks and master-classes are thought-provoking and the impact is longer lasting. Rona’s talks are dramatically illustrated with images and video clips from her expeditions.[/expand]
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Founder, CEO & Creative Director of Mind Candy

Michael Acton-Smith is the CEO, Creative Director and founder of online games studio Mind Candy. The company created the online hit Moshi Monsters which has over 65m players online and is now expanding offline into books, toys, music, trading cards, TV and film. Mind Candy’s first project was a global treasure hunt called Perplex City that played out across different media including websites, text messages, magazines, live events, skywriting and multiple helicopters.

“One of the UK’s most successful web entrepreneurs”

[expand title=”In detail”] In the late nineties Michael co-founded the online retailer Firebox.com and designed the ultimate thinking man’s drinking game, ‘Shot Glass Chess’.. Within five years the company rose to No.13 in the Sunday Times’ list of the UK’s fastest growing, privately owned businesses. Aside from creating Moshi Monsters, Michael has founded networking events such as Silicon Drinkabout and Second Chance Tuesday, as well as Berwickstock, a secret music festival.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Michael shares his insights and perspectives about what it takes to be successful in business. He believes in helping business and specially in advancing the entrepreneurial spirit.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Charismatic, ultra cool and an outstanding storyteller, Michael’s speeches are full of invaluable business insights which make him a highly sought after speaker.[/expand]
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