Speakers...
Malcolm Gladwell
Understanding Success, Decision Making & Trends
New York Times Best-Selling Author, The Tipping Point, Outliers & Blink
- The Laws of Epidemics: How the trend process works and the best way to make it part of your business strategy
- The New Influencers: How consumer choices are increasingly driven by socially influential people
- The Leavers of Change: A road map for businesses trying to promote internal institutional change and strengthen corporate culture
- The Stickiness Factor: Creating effective and memorable communication
- The Intuitive Manager: How to make decisions correctly in the blink of an eye
Lightning doesn’t strike twice—it strikes three times. Or at least it did in the case of Malcolm Gladwell, the man who singlehandedly invented a genre of nonfiction that has hatched a thousand followers.
- Newsweek
Michael Eisner
Creativity In Leadership & Partnerships
Former CEO, Walt Disney Company & Best-Selling Author, Working Together & Work in Progress
- Why Great Partnerships Succeed: What works in business and what doesn't work
- The Creative Economy: How an intangible asset like creativity can make a dramatic impact
- Leadership: Succeeding by failing and other paradoxes
- The Power of Ideas: How to recognize the rewards of creative risk
- The Furious Pace of Change: Keeping your company nimble and agile
You can't help but be intrigued by the magic that is Disney. Michael Eisner's story is fascinating!
- Jeff Bezos , Founder & CEO, Amazon.com
Simon Sinek
Inspiring Performance
Professor, Columbia University & Best-Selling Author, Start With Why
- It doesn't matter what you do, it matters why you do it
- How to be open to new ideas and look at old ideas through a new lens
- Understand that success is a team sport and that employees are the backbone of any business
- Why some people and organizations are more innovative, more profitable, command greater loyalties from customers and employees alike and, most importantly, are able to repeat their success over and over
- Those who inspire think, act and communicate from the inside-out of The Golden Circle
Simon’s candid perspective and clear insight will foster the success of our newest senior leaders for many years and made our important forum an outstanding success.
- General Norton A. Schwartz , Chief of Staff, United States Air Force
Nilofer Merchant
Collaboration & Strategy
CEO & Chief Strategist, Rubicon & Best-Selling Author, The New How
- Conqueror: Eliminate the organizational "Air Sandwich" of strategic failures
- Dragon Slayer: Name issues to gain power over them
- Brave Hearted: Overcome the fear of ambiguity in complex problem solving, with tools of discovery
- Hero Enabler: We think of Batman with the cape but under-credit Alfred, who enabled the crusader
- MurderBoarding: Collaboration must include a way to fight fair and make tough choices
Collaboration is a powerful competitive weapon; Nilofer shows you how to use it to win markets.
- Mark Interrante , VP Content Products, Yahoo!
Mitch Joel
Managing in a Connected World
President, Twist Image and Best-Selling Author, Six Pixels of Separation
- The way consumers buy has changed. The way we manage must change too
- The conversation is everywhere (not just at the water cooler)
- There is no online, offline and mobile. There is one-line of connectivity
- Employees don't just trust their peers. They trust anybody with a published opinion
- Consumers talk. All over the place about you and how you run your company
- It's the small conversations that have the biggest impact
Mitch Joel’s presentation helped us to see that we needed to change the paradigm of how we interacted with our customers. His ideas and insights have led us to new concepts in the development of our brands.
- Pfizer
Tite has the right universal touch, handles physical comedy effortlessly and never heads for the bog to make his audiences laugh. We did. Here's a young man on the move, for all the right reasons.
- The Edmonton Journal
