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SPEAKERS BY TOPIC: Innovation

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Ross DawsonRoss Dawson -- New South Wales Australia, 15.0k to 20.0k
Ross Dawson is globally recognized as a leading futurist, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, strategy advisor, and bestselling author. He is Founding Chairman of four companies: international consulting and ventures firm Advanced Human Technologies, futures think-tank Future Exploration Network, leading events firm The Insight Exchange, and influence ratings start-up Repyoot. Ross's frequent media appearances include CNN, Bloomberg TV, SkyNews, European Business Network, Channel News Asia, ABC TV, Today and Sunrise shows, Washington Post, CIO, Australian Financial Review, BRW and many others. Ross was recently named by Digital Media magazine as one of the 40 biggest players in Australia's digital age.
Phone: 760-673-7700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Jeff DeGraffJeff DeGraff -- Michigan USA, Contact for fee schedule
Jeff DeGraff is a world renowned thought leader, executive and innovation expert and author. With over twenty-five years of corporate leadership experience and as Clinical Professor of Management and Organizations at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, Jeff is the 'guru to the innovation gurus' at Fortune 500 companies.
Phone: 760-673-7700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Peter DiamandisPeter Diamandis -- California USA, 25.0k to 30.0k
Peter Diamandis is the founder of the X Prize Foundation, a nonprofit whose mission is simply "to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity." By offering a big cash prize for a specific accomplishment, the X Prize stimulates competition and excitement around some of the planet's most important goals.
Phone: 760-673-7700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Mitchell DitkoffMitchell 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: 760-673-7700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Tamara EricksonTamara Erickson, MBA -- Massachusetts USA, 20.0k to 25.0k
Tamara J. Erickson is a McKinsey Award-winning author and widely respected expert on collaboration and innovation–on building talent and enhancing productivity–and on the nature of work in the intelligent economy. Her work is based on extensive research on the changing workforce and employee values and, most recently, on how successful organizations innovate through collaboration.
Phone: 760-673-7700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Allen FahdenAllen 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: 760-673-7700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


John Di FrancesJohn 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: 760-673-7700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Thomas FreyThomas Frey -- Colorado USA, 15.0k to 20.0k
Thomas Frey is Google’s Top Rated Futurist Speaker and Executive Director of the DaVinci Institute, where his specialized research enables him to speak on translating trends into unique opportunities. As part of the celebrity speaking circuit, Tom continually pushes the envelope of understanding, headlining events with some of today’s most recognizable figures. Because of his work inspiring inventors and other revolutionary thinkers, the Boulder Daily Camera has referred to him as the “Father of Invention.”
Phone: 760-673-7700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Michael GelbMichael 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: 760-673-7700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Michael GerberMichael Gerber -- California USA, 30.0k to 50.0k
Business visionary, entrepreneur, author and Chairman of E-Myth Worldwide, Michael Gerber has delivered his compelling and pragmatic message to business audiences throughout the world. As thousands of business owners, managers, and entrepreneurs can attest, the message works. Gerber's "E-Myth Point of View provides people typically enslaved by a business with a way out of what he calls the "tyranny of routine" and shows them how to build a flourishing, exciting, innovative business. He is the author of three highly acclaimed books: The E-Myth: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work And What To Do About It; The Power Point; and The E-Myth Revisited.
Phone: 760-673-7700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Rowan GibsonRowan Gibson -- England England, 20.0k to 25.0k
Rowan Gibson is widely recognized as one of the world’s foremost thought leaders on business innovation. The media have labeled him “Mr. Innovation,” “the Innovation Grandmaster,” “the W. Edwards Deming of innovation” and “a guru among the gurus.” He is the internationally bestselling author of two major books on innovation and strategy– Rethinking The Future (1996) and Innovation to the Core (2008) – which have been published to date in 25 languag
Phone: 760-673-7700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Vijay GovindarajanVijay 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: 760-673-7700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Lynda GrattonLynda Gratton, Ph.D -- London England, 30.0k to 50.0k
Lynda Gratton is Professor of Management Practice at London Business School. She is considered one of the world's authorities on people in organizations and actively advises companies across the world. Professor Gratton's book Living Strategy, originally published in 2000, has been translated into more than 15 languages and rated by US CEOs as one of the most important books of the year. She serves on the advisory boards of Exult and the Concours Group and consults to a wide range of multinational companies including Shell, Unilever, Royal Bank of Scotland and HP.
Phone: 760-673-7700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Alan S. GregermanAlan 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: 760-673-7700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Pen HadowPen 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: 760-673-7700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Doug HallDoug Hall -- Ohio USA, 30.0k to 50.0k
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: 760-673-7700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Gary HamelGary Hamel -- , Contact for fee schedule
Professor Gary Hamel is one of the most successful authors on corporate strategy. As the author of concepts such as “core competence,” “strategic intent,” “industry foresight,” and “industry revolution,” Gary Hamel has changed the focus and language of strategy in many of the world's most successful companies. His success as a writer is rivaled only by his profound and prolific lecture abilities. Gary has given keynote speeches at the Microsoft CEO Summit, the World Economic Forum, the Fortune 500 CEO Roundtable and many other high profile events.
Phone: 760-673-7700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Fredrik HarenFredrik Haren -- Singapore Singapore, 15.0k to 20.0k
Fredrik Härén has quickly become one of the most talked-about names in the field of creativity. Based in Singapore, he is an accomplished author and speaker who has delivered over 1,000 presentations, lectures and workshops across 25 countries, focused on creativity, idea generation and entrepreneurship. He was voted “Speaker of the Year” in 2007 in Sweden and was nominated “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2003 by the Swedish magazine Shortcut and has received honorary mentions in the “Innovative Thinker of the Year” award, run by the Swedish Post Office's small business magazine, You & Co.
Phone: 760-673-7700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Patrick HarrisPatrick Harris -- England England, 10.0k to 15.0k
Patrick is the definitive blue-sky thinker, driven by an ultimate desire to reach practical, workable solutions. He is appreciated for his ability to inspire creativity in individuals, distil strategies into actionable plans and generate powerful momentum inside organisations. Much of his expertise and recognition emanates from his work as Director of Creaticity for the Orange Group.
Phone: 760-673-7700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Adam HartungAdam Hartung -- Illinois USA, 5.0k to 10.0k
Adam Hartung helps companies innovate to achieve real growth. He began his career as an entrepreneur, selling the first general-purpose computing platform to use the 8080 microprocessor when he was an undergraduate. Today, he has 20 years of practical experience in developing and implementing strategies to take advantage of emerging technologies and new business models. He writes, consults and speaks worldwide.
Phone: 760-673-7700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


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