 | Shawn Achor -- Massachusetts USA, 5.0k to 10.0k 
Shawn Achor is the winner of over a dozen distinguished teaching awards at Harvard University, where he delivered lectures on positive psychology in the most popular class at Harvard. His research and lectures on happiness and human potential have received attention in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, as well as on NPR and CNN Radio. When not at Harvard, Shawn travels around the world giving talks on positive psychology to Fortune 500 companies, schools, and non-profit organizations. Shawn graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and earned a Masters degree from Harvard Divinity School in Christian and Buddhist ethics.
Phone: 415-861-1700 ---
E-mail: Speakers@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 |
 | 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 one of the world’s leading futurists, trends & innovation experts. And it’s his inspirational, transformative thinking that will help you discover opportunity in an era of high-velocity change. And in his most recent keynotes and leadership sessions, he has been helping his clients meet the challenges of the economic contraction by focusing on innovation, and by aligning their strategy to fast-paced future trends.
Phone: 415-861-1700 ---
E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com |
 | K. C. Chan-Herur, MBA -- California USA, 10.0k to 15.0k
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 England, 20.0k to 25.0k
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 is president of Think Customer, a ground-breaking consulting practice pioneering innovative strategies to create customer-obsessed organizations. She is also is co-author with Roger Dow, President and CEO of the Travel Industry of America, of Turned On: Eight Vital Insights to Energize Your People, Customers and Profits, a pragmatic guide to build customers for life, hire and keep great people and enhance shareholder value.
Phone: 415-861-1700 ---
E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com |
 | Dan Coughlin -- Missouri USA, 10.0k to 15.0k
Dan has provided hundreds of customized presentations on business acceleration across the United States. His keynote topics include leadership, branding, sales, and innovation. For more than a decade, he has invested over 3,000 hours on-site observing and advising executives and managers in a wide variety of business functions and in more than thirty industries. He and his clients constantly worked to hone simple processes that could improve performance throughout their organizations. As a business keynote speaker, Dan combines real-life stories from his management consulting work with in-depth research of the audience he is speaking to. He then delivers penetrating and practical insights that attendees can use immediately to improve their performance and results.
Phone: 415-861-1700 ---
E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com |
 | Rob Cross -- Virginia USA, 10.0k to 15.0k
Rob Cross is a professor of management at the University of Virginia and Research Director of The Network Roundtable, a consortium of 75 organizations sponsoring research on network applications to critical management issues. His research focuses on how relationships and informal networks in organizations can be analyzed and improved to promote competitive advantage, innovation, customer retention and profitability, leadership effectiveness, talent management and quality of work life.
Phone: 415-861-1700 ---
E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com |
 | Mitchell Ditkoff -- New York USA, 10.0k to 15.0k
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 |
 | John Di Frances, 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 |
 | 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 |
 | Vijay Govindarajan, Ph.D -- New Hampshire USA, 30.0k to 50.0k
Vijay Govindarajan, known as VG, is the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business at the Tuck School and founding director of Tuck's Center for Global Leadership. He is also the faculty co-director for Global Leadership 2020, Tuck's executive education program that focuses on global management and is taught on three continents. For 25 years, Govindarajan has been advancing the field of strategy execution and advising senior executives in all industries on how to modify their organizations to achieve their strategic ambitions. Reading the zeitgeist of the past three decades, Govindarajan has helped companies adapt to the global business environment and change the way they look at strategy.
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 |
 | 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 |
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