BROWSE SPEAKERS by TOPIC

Please note: This is a partial list of the speakers we represent on Innovation. If you would like suggestions about speakers that match your event goals, please simply contact one of our friendly account agents toll free at: 1-877-717-5327 or email: Speaker@speaking.com.


---

Joel Barker , Minnesota USA -- 20.0k to 25.0k

Joel Barker is an independent scholar and futurist. Because he was the first person to popularize the concept of paradigm shifts, he is known around the world as the "Paradigm Man." He began his work in 1975 and pioneered the concept of paradigm shifts to explain profound change and the importance of vision to drive change within organizations. His book, Future Edge, published in 1992, was listed as one of the most influential business books of that year by the prestigious Library Journal. His new book, Five Regions of the Future, with co-author, Dr. Scott Erickson, was released in June 2005.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Rick Barrera , California USA -- 15.0k to 20.0k

In 1981, Rick Barrera founded his speaking, consulting, and training firm to identify and teach the distinctions' industry leaders how to produce exceptional results. His clients loved his message and encouraged Rick to put his concepts into writing. His first three business books include:"Non-Manipulative Selling", "Collaborative Selling", and "The Dollars and Sense of Exceptional Service Delivery." Rick's most recent book "Fast Forward, How Today's Best Companies are Meeting the Need for Speed" was published in 2001.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Arden Bercovitz, Ph.D., CSP , California USA -- 10.0k to 15.0k

Arden Bercovitz, in the guise of Albert Einstein, is that something different and effective you've been looking for when you need a speaker that can motivate and maximize your peoples‚ creative innovation and catalyze change throughout your organization.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Deanna Berg , Minnesota USA -- 2.5k to 5.0k

Dr. Deanna Berg is an internationally known consultant, speaker and coach to business organizations. She is President of Innovation Strategies International, a Minneapolis-based firm known for producing significant improvements for its clients and for unique approaches to the critical areas of change, innovation, leadership and organizational performance. Innovation Strategies has won praise from a client list that includes, AT&T, Lucent Technologies, BellSouth, Boeing, The Coca-Cola Company, MediaOne, NASA, TRW, Ford, Kimberly-Clark, Southwest Airlines, American Airlines, Northrop Grumman, 3M, NationsBank, Microsoft, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Xerox, and other major organizations throughout Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America. Dr Deanna Berg is also co-founder of OUTOVATIONTM, a Singapore-based consulting Firm.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Winston Brill, Ph.D , Wisconsin USA -- 5.0k to 10.0k

Dr. Winston Brill is known internationally for his outstanding innovations. Since 1989, he has dedicated himself to understanding how people think of "great" ideas, the kind that drive innovation. His unique and practical views come from his management experiences, his interest in the arts, and his decade-long study of the human side behind the origins of hundreds of "great" ideas. Through a vibrant talk, with fascinating examples, Winston gives audiences a visceral feel of what each person needs to do to achieve innovative success.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Wayne Burkan, MBA , Michigan USA -- 5.0k to 10.0k

Wayne Burkan is a leading management consultant and thinker on organizational change, innovation, and leadership. Together, he and his colleague, Joel Arthur Barker, have done pioneering work on paradigms to help open people to change, new ideas, and more flexible workstyles. Burkan was recently invited to participate in Vice President Al Gore's "Reinventing Government" initiative. A dynamic, provocative, and humorous speaker, he has presented programs on four continents and counts among his clients such companies as Ford, IBM, Motorola, 3M, Tropicana, and Upjohn, to name a few.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Jim Carroll, CA , Ontario Canada -- 10.0k to 15.0k

Jim Carroll is a leading international futurist, innovation and business trends expert, providing unique insight into workplace, business, economic, current event, social and cultural trends, as well as demographic, lifestyle and technology issues. He speaks and consults frequently worldwide with a wide variety of international clients, including Microsoft, American Express, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, KPMG, Monsanto, the American Academy of Ophthalmologists, IBM, the North American Newsprint Producers Association, SAP, the BBC, and many more.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

K. C. Chan-Herur, MBA , California USA -- 5.0k to 10.0k

Chinese by birth... American by passport... global by experience. Whether your team is doing business with multinational customers in the US or around the world, author and top-rated speaker, K. C. Chan-Herur, can help make your meeting a winner. She brings global perspective, proven management experience and entertaining anecdotes to inspire her audience. Keynote programs include: Global Success, Communicating With Customers Around The World, Succeeding in International Marketing and Sales, Winning In The USA-Working With Americans, Doing Business in Asia/Europe/Latin America/North America. This multilingual global citizen has had over 15 years of speaking, marketing, management, consulting and communication experience with Fortune 500 companies (Procter & Gamble, Nestle, Sun Microsystems, Apple Computer and Am Ex.) She has worked, lived and studied in Asia, Europe, North and South America. She is the author of "Communicating With Customers Around The World."
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Clayton Christensen, MBA, DBA , Massachusetts USA -- Contact for fee schedule

Clayton M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, with a joint appointment in the Technology & Operations Management and General Management faculty groups. His research and teaching interests center on the management issues related to the development and commercialization of technological and business model innovation. Specific areas of focus include developing organizational capabilities and finding new markets for new technologies.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Peter Cochrane, OBE, BSc, MSc, Ph.D., DSc, CGIA, FREng, FRSA, FIEE , Suffolk Great Britain -- 25.0k to 30.0k

Peter Cochrane is a futurist and strategist for technology-driven business who invests his own time and money as an agent of change and creator of new ventures. Peter is brilliant at explaining the impact and opportunities of new technologies and their applications to both technical and nontechnical audiences. An internationally sought after speaker, Peter has authored over 600 papers and articles and numerous books on business, management, technology, the future, and living with rapid change. His latest book, Uncommon Sense: More Tips for Time Travelers, describes the impact on business, society and individuals of the current shift from a stable and linear world to one that is non-linear and chaotic. Peter co-founded ConceptLabs, a new style laboratory/incubator fi rm that identifi es and helps develop new technologies for commercial applications.


Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Sue Cook , California USA -- 10.0k to 15.0k

Sue Cook is president of Think Customer, a ground-breaking consulting practice pioneering innovative strategies to create customer-obsessed organizations and is the co-author of Turned On: Eight Vital Insights to Energize Your People, Customers and Profits. Cook is considered an expert in building customer satisfaction and loyalty, inspiring innovation, and coaching top leadership. As a leading consultant to America's top companies, she helps senior executives find ways to drive the voices of their customers into their businesses, people, and systems strategies. For the last three years, Cook has worked with the Air Force Medical Service Surgeon General to incite a service revolution in 78 medical facilities worldwide. She co-founded the Leadership Forum 2000 with Marriott Hotels to conduct Leadership Forums behind the scenes of organizations such as Harley-Davidson, Southwest Airlines and Microsoft.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

John DiFrances, PMC , Wisconsin USA -- 10.0k to 15.0k

With his broad business experience, John has worked with numerous major international corporations, middle market and small companies, government agencies, non-profits, foundations, and academic institutions. John has the "vision, values, and experience" to speak on many strategic business and organizational issues. His perspective in addressing each topic centers around the paradigms he has developed for four critical strategic aspects of all organizations -- Leadership, Innovation, Synergy, and Negotiation. In this manner, John is able to integrate each topic into a cohesive framework by which organizations can develop from being Successful and Good to Significant and Great!
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Mitchell Ditkoff , New York USA -- 5.0k to 10.0k

Educated at Lafayette College and Brown University, Mitchell is presently a faculty member of GE's Crotonville Management Development Center, and Bell Atlantic's Marketing Institute. At the heart of his work lies the fundamental belief that a company's most important capital asset is the collective brain power, creativity, and commitment of its work force; this asset can be significantly leveraged when people are provided with the appropriate setting, systems, tools and techniques to think (and act) out of the box.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Allen Fahden , California USA -- 5.0k to 10.0k

Former stand-up comic Allen Fahden is an author, speaker, and creator of the 400,000 copy best-selling “HOTS Profile.” Allen also wrote several chapters for the best-selling "The One Minute Millionaire" by "Chicken Soup for the Soul" co-author, Mark Victor Hansen. Allen has spent more than two decades working with Fortune 500 businesses to increase sales, efficiency, and morale.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Michael Gelb , New Mexico USA -- 15.0k to 20.0k

Michael J. Gelb is internationally recognized as a pioneer in the fields of creative thinking, accelerated learning and innovative leadership. Companies like BP, Compaq and Microsoft rave about Michael's ability to relate executives and managers and speak directly to their concerns and daily needs in order to inspire their best work while dealing with ambiguity, change and uncertain conditions. Through seminars, workshops, keynotes or retreats, Michael can offer his services as a motivational speaker, dynamic creative spirit and his expertise in the study of the brain and genius-level thinking.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Alan S. Gregerman , Maryland USA -- 5.0k to 10.0k

Dr. Alan S. Gregerman is founder and President of a consulting firm that helps leading companies develop winning strategies and create successful new products, services, ventures, and new ways of doing business. His customers are a wide range of growing firms, entrepreneurial start-ups and Fortune 500 corporations including Discovery Communications, NCS/Pearson, Tellabs, Nortel Networks, GlaxoSmithKline, Marriott, Arthur Andersen, Verizon, Lockheed Martin, DynCorp, and CITIBANK.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Anil Gupta, Ph.D , Maryland USA -- 10.0k to 15.0k

Anil K. Gupta is one of the world's leading experts on strategy and globalization. He is the author of over sixty papers and three books: The Quest for Global Dominance (Jossey-Bass, 2001 and 2008), Smart Globalization (Jossey-Bass, 2003), Global Strategy and Organization (John Wiley, 2003). Financial Times has published four of Gupta's papers in a series on "Mastering Global Business." The Wall Street Journal also recently published an invited full-page article by Gupta titled "Getting China and India Right." His new book titled The Battle for China and India will be published by Jossey-Bass/John Wiley in 2008.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Pen Hadow , Devon England -- 20.0k to 25.0k

Ten years ago, Pen pioneered a specialist guide service in the Arctic and Antarctic, enabling 'allegedly ordinary' people from all walks of life - men and women, young and old, novices and disabled, housewives, corporate executives and special forces - to visit these desolate, yet captivating, wilderness environments. He personally selected and prepared the expedition teams, most of whom he led himself 'on the ice'.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Doug Hall , Ohio USA -- 20.0k to 25.0k

America's #1 Idea Guru (According to Inc. Magazine, A&E Top 10 and CIO Magazine.) Long before finding acclaim as the former "truth teller" judge on ABC's American Inventor," Doug began his inventing career at age 12, inventing and selling a line of magic and juggling kits. After earning a chemical engineering degree from the University of Maine he joined Procter & Gamble where he rose to the rank of Master Marketing Inventor - inventing and shipping a record 9 innovations in 12 months. Doug's the founder and CEO of the Eureka! Ranch located in Cincinnati with offices in London UK and Monterrey, Mexico. The Ranch is an "invention & research think tank" that specializes in igniting bold thinking on new products and services for corporate clients such as American Express, Ford, Nike and Walt Disney. It seems to work - the Ranch has a world-class 88% client repeat rate and survey's indicate the average American home uses 18 products or services that Doug and his team have invented or reinvented.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Oren Harari, Ph.D , California USA -- 20.0k to 25.0k

One of the country’s foremost management consultants, Oren Harari challenges audiences around the world with insight, humor and knowledge. Dynamic and provocative, Oren Harari provides audiences with original perspectives on such management strategies as competitive advantage, organizational change and transformational leadership. Formerly a consultant with the Tom Peters group, Harari is currently a professor in the graduate school of business at the University of San Francisco, where he teaches strategic and global management.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com