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SPEAKERS BY TOPIC: Culture

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Michael Lee, MBA, CSP
California USA -- 5.0k to 10.0k
Michael D. Lee, MBA is the first Asian American to earn the Certified Speaking Professional in the 25-year history of the National Speakers Association. He speaks on diversity and culture around the world and has authored numerous books on the subject.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Nick Leeson
Galway IRELAND -- 20.0k to 25.0k
Nick Leeson is one of the world’s most sought-after speakers. Curiosity, intrigue and sympathy have been the various reactions to this man's incredible life story. The collapse of Barings and Nick Leeson's role in it is one of the most spectacular debacles in modern financial history.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Doug Lipp
California USA -- 10.0k to 15.0k
Doug Lipp, an internationally acclaimed expert on customer service, leadership and diversity, motivates and challenges audiences around the world as a consultant and speaker. Doug has spent over 25 years working from the front lines to the boardrooms of corporations around the world.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Kelly McDonald
Texas USA -- 5.0k to 10.0k
Kelly McDonald is a marketing and advertising expert with 20 years of ad agency experience, on both the General Market and Latino sides of the business. She worked in top positions for several global ad agencies, including Young & Rubicam, TBWA Chiat/Day and Temerlin McClain before making the move to Latino advertising and marketing. Working with clients such as Nissan, Toyota, Subaru, Kimberly-Clark, Bank One Alltel and Budweiser, Kelly has helped clients grow business by targeting U.S. Latinos strategically and creatively.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Hamish McRae
London England -- 15.0k to 20.0k
Hamish McRae is the business and finance editor of The Independent, one of Britain's leading newspapers. He is also the author of The World in 2020: Power, Culture, & Prosperity. McRae shows audiences not only where we will be in the next twenty-five years but how we will get there. He offers a bold vision of a world in which the best predictor of economic success will be not technological achievement but rather a nation's creativity and social responsibility. The emergence of culture and values as a source of competitive edge for industrialized nations signals a profound shift in world order. Hamish McRae demonstrates how changes in demography, the environment, the role of government, technology, and natural resources, as well as the costs of social disintegration, will contribute to this new competitive landscape.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


John Naisbitt
Vienna Austria -- Contact for fee schedule
John Naisbitt is often called the global philosopher among futurists. With his “astonishingly precise predictions” (Financial Times) and inspiring message he is one of the most sought after speakers in the world. He has experience in top management, in politics -- as assistant secretary of education to President John Kennedy and special assistant to President Lyndon Johnson -- and as an entrepreneur. His picture of the future is not only formed by the research he does. He has traveled the world since the late 1960s, keeping in close connection with corporations and people in different fields of endeavor. He has spoken to virtually every major corporation, to many several times. His cultural life and residence in the United States, Asia and now Europe keep him directly in touch with a changing economic environment -- experience that is reflected in the books he has written.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Jeffrey Pfeffer
California USA -- 15.0k to 20.0k
Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, where he has taught since 1979. He is the author or co-author of eleven books. Dr. Pfeffer is a member and Fellow of the Academy of Management and a member of the Industrial Relations Research Association. He has won the Richard D. Irwin award for Scholarly Contributions to Management as well as several awards for books and articles.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Lou Pritchett
South Carolina USA -- 15.0k to 20.0k
Lou Pritchett an acclaimed author, dynamic teacher and one of the world's most highly rated speakers. He is acknowledged in numerous books and periodicals and by savvy and successful corporate executives everywhere as the foremost leader in change management. Author of the best-seller, Stop Paddling, Start Rocking the Boat, Pritchett explains how to survive and succeed by leading change in an unforgiving world of global economic revolution. His wealth of knowledge comes from years of experience in management positions, including president and general manager of the company's Philippines Manufacturing Corporation. In 1989, he retired from his post at P&G to spread the Gospel of Change. Over the last eight years, Pritchett has become one of America's most popular speakers on customer partnering, change management and the growing importance of the human factor in the tidal wave of 21st century technology.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Jeremy Rifkin
District of Columbia USA -- 25.0k to 30.0k
Jeremy Rifkin, president of the Foundation on Economic Trends, is the author of sixteen books on the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, the workforce, society, and the environment. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages and are used in hundreds of universities around the world. His 1995 book, The End of Work, is an international bestseller that is widely credited with helping shape the current global debate on technology displacement, corporate downsizing and the future of jobs. His 1998 bestseller, The Biotech Century, addresses the many critical issues accompanying the new era of genetic commerce and is the most widely read book in the world on the biotech revolution. Mr. Rifkin�s 2000 bestseller, The Age of Access, explores the vast changes occurring in the capitalist system as it makes the transition from geographic markets to e-commerce networks and from industrial to cultural production.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Larraine Segil
California USA -- 15.0k to 20.0k
Alliances between companies have become a major strategic tool for gaining an advantage in today's business world. In her book, Intelligent Business Alliances, Segil explains her unique "Mindshift" method for analyzing corporate and individual personality types which can help managers lead, forecast and avoid problems due to miscommunciations or mismatched values. She also offers practical recommendations for building an effective alliance team. An international business expert, Segil also looks at international alliances and how companies can adapt their management styles to succeed in local cultures. She examines the new reality of competing globally and the critical communication skills needed for success in building bridges between different cultures.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Hermann Simon, PhD
Massachusetts USA -- 20.0k to 25.0k
Hermann Simon is an international authority on business strategy, marketing, pricing, and global competition. His books include Hidden Champions: Lessons from 500 of the World's Best Unkown Companies and Power Pricing: How Managing Price Transforms the Bottom Line. Simon heads a strategy and marketing consulting firm with officies in both Germany and the US and is a visiting professor at London Business School. His articles and books have been published in 15 languages and he has served on the editorial boards of many management, marketing, and scientific journals. As a member of the supervisory boards of trustees for numerous corporations and foundations, Simon has gained wide experience in corporate governance. He has been a consultant to major corporations throughout the world including Siemens, Mercedes-Benz, General Motors, Hewlett Packard, Glaxo-Wellcome, Kodak and Shell.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Allen Sinai, PhD
Massachusetts USA -- 10.0k to 15.0k
Over the years, Dr. Sinai has been consulted by various administrations from both political parties on key economic issues. He was an invited presenter at the December 1992 Little Rock Economic Summit and has been consulted by various Clinton Administration officials. He also was consulted by the Bush and Reagan Administrations and has met with officials in numerous state governments. He meets regularly with senior level policy makers in other countries and has testified before the U.S. Congress. Dr. Sinai is a recognized expert on the Federal Reserve and monetary policy, both as a scholar and in forecasting Federal Reserve policy.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Rajendra Sisodia, PhD
Massassachusetts USA -- 15.0k to 20.0k
Rajendra S. Sisodia is professor of marketing and founding director of the Center for Marketing Technology at Bentley College. He has a Ph.D. in marketing and business policy from Columbia University. He has published nearly 100 articles in journals such as Harvard Business Review, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Business Strategy, Journal of Business Research, and many others.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


David Smith
California USA -- 5.0k to 10.0k
Economist, futurist and market strategist David L. Smith, an internationally known speaker and author offers penetrating insight, accurate forecasts and profitable advice regarding: U.S. and world economies, financial and investment markets, international trade, energy markets, U.S. monetary and fiscal policy , and specific industries and companies.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld, MBA
Connecticut USA -- Contact for fee schedule
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld is the Senior Associate Dean for Executive Programs at Yale University’s School of Management and The Lester Crown Professor of Management Practice as well as the Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of The Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute. This institute is the world’s first CEO College and is dedicated to the advancement of top leadership education through scholarly research and peer-driven educational forums for prominent CEOs. Previously, he was a professor at the Goizueta Business School of Emory University. There he founded the Center for Leadership & Career Studies, which he ran for eight years. Prior to this, Sonnenfeld spent ten years as a professor at the Harvard Business School. His research, publications and consulting address issues of top leadership development, executive succession, and board governance.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Joseph Stiglitz
New York USA -- Contact for fee schedule
A graduate of Amherst College, he received his PHD from MIT in 1967, became a full professor at Yale in 1970, and in 1979 was awarded the John Bates Clark Award, given biennially by the American Economic Association to the economist under 40 who has made the most significant contribution to the field. In 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his analyses of markets with asymmetric information, and he was a lead author of the 1995 Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Sally J. Walton, M.A
California USA -- 5.0k to 10.0k
Specialist in cross-cultural communication! Sally J. Walton works with you to customize a keynote, executive retreat, seminar, or ongoing learning systems. She lived in Latin America, Asia, and Europe for more than twelve years, and has worked in or visited 42 countries. Benefit from her blend of up-to-date research and real life experience! She addresses your questions and concerns. Sally's experience, humor, and commitment to client delight assure that her content-rich programs get high marks in organizations. She is the author of Cultural Diversity in the Workplace (McGraw-Hill), and I Almost Slept Through My Dream Come True (BookPartners).
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Murray Weidenbaum, PhD
Missouri USA -- 15.0k to 20.0k
An active participant in economic, tax and regulatory policy-making in Washington, DC, Dr. Weidenbaum presents his informed an often humorous analysis of the latest developments around the world. He is an advisor to top management in both business and government and a member of numerous corporate and non-profit boards. Currently, Weidenbaum holds a distinguished university professorship at Washington University in St. Louis where he also chairs their Center for the Study of American Business, one of the most influential public policy "think tanks." He is the author of numerous books including his latest "The Bamboo Network" (on China and Southeast Asia), a finalist in the 1997 global competition for business book of the year.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Marvin Zonis, Ph.D
Illinois USA -- 15.0k to 20.0k
Marvin Zonis is a Professor at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago. He also heads Marvin Zonis + Associates, a political risk consulting firm in Chicago, and is a co-founder and Chairman of DSD, a software company based in Moscow and Chicago. Zonis in an expert on the intersection of digital technologies and globalization, emerging markets, Middle Eastern politics, the oil industry, Russia, and U.S. foreign policy.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com