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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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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Leading Figure in the Fields of Product, Interior, Fashion, Furniture, Lighting Design, Art

Karim Rashid is a leading figure in the fields of product, interior, fashion, furniture, lighting design and art. He is best known for bringing his democratic design sensibility to the masses. He has had some 2500 objects put into production to date. His work is in the permanent collections of 14 Museums worldwide including MoMA and SFMoMA and he exhibits art in various galleries.

“Karim Rashid is one of the most gifted industrial designer’s today”

[expand title=”In detail”] Designing for an impressive array of clients from Alessi to Dirt Devil, Umbra to Prada, Miyake to Method, Karim is radically changing the aesthetics of product design and the very nature of the consumer culture. His designs of the Morimoto restaurant in Philadelphia and the award-winning Semiramis Hotel in Athens have successfully expanded Karim’s scope to include the realm of architecture and interior design. He edited the International Design Yearbook 18 in 2003 and has released two CD’s.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Karim Rashid was an associate Professor of Industrial Design for 10 years and is now a frequent guest lecturer at universities and conferences globally showing great passion in all his achievements.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]An unconventional personality, Karim Rashid delivers entertaining and captivating addresses to a wide range of audiences.[/expand]
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Branding & Marketing Pioneer and World-class Photographer

Oliviero Toscani’s internationally recognised work includes corporate images and advertising campaigns and was the creative force behind some of the most successful brands including Benetton, Esprit, Valentino, Chanel, Fiorucci. Most of the Benetton advertising campaigns were institutionals for the brand, always composed of rather controversial photography, usually with only the company logo “United Colors of Benetton” as caption. He is creating with La Regione Toscana a new research facility for modern communication called ‘La Sterpia’.

“The man behind some of the most memorable and controversial ads in history”

[expand title=”In detail”] Oliviero Toscani has worked as fashion photographer in the pages of magazines such as Elle, Vogue, GQ, Harper’s, Esquire and Stern among others. In 2005, five years after his resignation from Benetton, he sparked controversy again with his photographs for an advertising campaign for the men’s clothing brand ‘Ra-Re’. In 1993, he invented, founded, and directed Fabrica, the international center for research in the arts of modern communication. In 1990 he conceived, created and directed Colors, the world’s first global magazine, making of it a cult magazine, which set a trend for a lot of new editorial and communications projects. For his work he has won numerous awards.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]No stranger to controversy Oliviero Toscani has gained a reputation as a unique, masterful and highly creative individual. Being able to communicate in ways unthinkable to a traditional multinational corporation his presentations provide fascinating insights into the mindset of a true pioneer. Toscani’s work may be a form of cynicism, or it may be a vehicle for stirring up debate around social issues. Or it may be both.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Oliviero Toscani is a frank and passionate speaker and a truly colourful character, very comfortable with the seeming contradictions in his nature.[/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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Highly Successful Entrepreneur

Klaus Kobjoll is a highly successful and noted entrepreneur in the hotel and restaurant business in Europe. He is the owner of the established Country Hotel and Creative Centre Schindlerhof and winner of the European Quality Award for Independent SME’s 1998, Paris.

Klaus Kobjoll studied at the D.Speiser hotel school in Tegernsee, Bad Wiesee and at the Lycée Technique Hôtelier in Strasbourg, France. He also spent some time studying in England.

[expand title=”In detail”] He began his career at the age of 22 when he established himself as self-employed entrepreneur starting the “Crêperie Rennaise” in Erlangen in 1970. Throughout the 1970’s and 1980’s he opened several restaurants including a French Bistro called “Café des Arts”, a jazz cellar with live music called “Strohalm” and a restaurant called “Prison St. Michel” in Nuremberg. In 1978 he opened his first hotel “Landhotel Mörsbergei” with 19 rooms and 80 restaurant seats.

His most important venture to date, however, has been the “Landhotel Schindlerhof” which he opened in 1984 in Nuremberg. He bought the Schindlerhof property in 1988 and began to expand. In 1990 construction was completed of the “Schindlerhof Creative Centre”. In 1998, he won the highest quality prize in Europe for the “Landhotel Schindlerhof”: The European Quality Award 1998.

Klaus Kobjoll is the co-founder and honorary chairman of the “Landidyll” co-operative hotel project, currently with 70 member organisations in Germany, Austria and France. He is a regular lecturer in Marketing at courses for a hotelier’s degree at the Swiss Hotelier’s Association (SHV).

He is also a member of the German Hotel and Restaurant Association (DEHOGA) and is the first full member of the Swiss Hotelier’s Association (SHV).[/expand]
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Professor of Marketing and Best-Selling Author

Jagdish Sheth is a renowned scholar and world authority in the field of marketing. His insights on global competition, strategic thinking and customer relationship management are considered revolutionary. He is currently the Charles H. Kellstadt Chair of Marketing in the Goizueta Business School at Emory University and is one of only four Americans ever honoured with the Viktor Mataja Medal from the Austrian Research Society in Vienna for his contributions to advertising and consumer research.

“Rated as one of the ten top marketing professors in the US”

[expand title=”In detail”] A prolific author, Jagdish Sheth has published more than 200 books and research papers in different areas of marketing and business strategy. Many of these are considered classic references. Prior to his present position he was a distinguished faculty member at the University of Southern California, the University of Illinois, Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has received numerous awards and recognitions including the Richard D. Irwin Distinguished Marketing Educator Award and the Charles Coolidge Parlin Award which are the two highest awards given by the American Marketing Association.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Jagdish Sheth’s timely advice promises to aid business leaders looking to develop immediate and long-term strategies for improving their competitive position. His well-founded knowledge on strategic thinking, customer relationship management as well as his experience about how to do business in India and China is invaluable for businesses world-wide.[/expand]
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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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Leading Strategic Advisor on Branding Excellence

Martin Roll is founder and CEO of VentureRepublic, the leading strategic advisory firm on Branding Excellence to corporate boards and top-management teams in multiple industries across Asia Pacific and Europe. Martin brings 15 years of senior experience from the global advertising industry, and he also served as Chief Marketing Officer for a global technology company and a healthcare company. He holds an MBA from INSEAD and divides his time between Asia and Europe.

“Martin was instrumental in supporting our initiative, and particularly in focusing the audience”
Andrea Ragnetti, Chief Marketing Officer, Royal Philips Electronics

[expand title=”In detail”] Martin Roll is Visiting Professor in Strategic Brand Management at the China European International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai recently ranked the top Executive Education in Asia by Financial Times. He is guest lecturer at INSEAD, and he also lectured at The Danish Marketing Association, the Danish Design Academy and the Copenhagen Business School.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Martin delivers the combined value of an experienced international branding strategist, a senior advisor to boards and management teams and an internationally renowned speaker and sought-after workshop host.[/expand]
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World leading expert on Branding

Martin Lindstrom is a world leading expert on branding. He is also one of the most requested Marketing keynote speakers. Since defining ten revolutionary branding rules he has provided brand building advice to a host of international organisations. His latest book ‘Buy.ology’ looks at how the brain interprets branding. TIME magazine announced that Martin Lindstrom one of the world’s 100 most influential people of 2009.

A master on the power of Brands

[expand title=”In detail”] Until 2001 he was world-wide Chief Operating Officer for BTLookSmart. He is founder and CEO of ZIVO, Australia/Asia’s largest Internet solution company, and co-founder of BBDO Interactive Europe -later renamed Framfab- Europe’s largest Internet solution company. He is also a member of several international boards including Wotch, Hitwise and eKit.com. Martin has published a number of books that have focused on Branding notably ‘Clicks, Bricks and Brands’ and more recently ‘Brand Sense’, which looks at the correlation of how our 5 senses influence our buying decisions.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you as a keynote speaker”]Martin Lindstrom has been on the speaking circuit for a number of years. A visionary and an educator in the rapidly growing field of on- and off-line branding, he unveils how to use emerging techniques for building strong, international brands. From his latest work, the concept of sensory branding, the untapped branding potential, you will learn how to identify the next generation of brand building as well as the required step by step actions on how to establish a solid sensory branding strategy.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents as a keynote speaker”]His high energy and brain power are truly infectious. You will be roused into action by his stimulating presentations. He also delivers consultancy packages, in-house training and 1 to 1 consultancy. He is also part of our Most Popular keynote speakers list[/expand]
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