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Alexander Blass is an internationally acclaimed entrepreneur and innovator, and serves as President and CEO of Alexander Blass International, an executive consulting and training firm based near Washington, DC. Now 36, he is the youngest grand prize winner ever of the Daily Record's Top Innovator of the Year Award, which credited him with "revolutionizing charitable giving" in 2007. He is the inventor and founder of person-to-person giving technology on the Internet-lauded by the media as the "eBay of Giving" (Mercury News) and "Facebook Meets Pocketbook" (Baltimore Sun). Alexander is also the recipient of the Daily Record's Influential Marylanders Award, recognizing the top 50 people in the State, up to the Governor, as well as the Baltimore Business Journal's Top 40 Under 40 Executives Award. He was also honored as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Wharton School of Business.
Luke Cunliffe developed his particular training strategies and motivating expertise through combining his unique experiences as an extreme runner and highly successful business person, which he now utilises on a daily basis to motivate groups, teams and others.
Humorist Steve Altes has had an eclectic career path. Having worked as an aerospace engineer, an aide to the president, an author, and now an actor, he observes "I'm just working through the 'a' occupations first. Bee-keeper and belly-dancer are next." Whether he's a renaissance man or simply unable to hold a job isn't clear.
Garry Kimovich Kasparov was born in Baku in 1963 and who lives in Moscow is a World Chess Champion, writer, and political activist, whom many consider the greatest chess player of all time.
Ram Charan is a highly acclaimed business advisor, speaker and author.
Perhaps most well-known as the chairman and co-founder of a number of liberal nonprofit organizations and think tanks both in the UK and the US, John Blundell is a prominent speaker on political and economic subjects.
Vito Di Bari is an acclaimed futurist, author, and an authority on innovation. He is “the new European guru of innovation,” according to The Financial Times.
Daniel Burrus is considered one of the world's leading technology forecasters and business strategists, and is the founder and CEO of Burrus Research, a research and consulting firm that monitors global advancements in technology driven trends to help clients better understand how technological, social and business forces are converging to create enormous, untapped opportunities. He is the author of six books, including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal bestseller Flash Foresight: How To See the Invisible and Do the Impossible as well as the highly acclaimed Technotrends.
Adrian is probably the most entertaining and effective motivational speaker on the UK circuit. He specialises in delivering key messages on behalf of clients in a humorous and completely unique, down to earth style that audiences can easily relate to.
Douglas started his career at Look and Life in the ‘60s and ‘70s “golden age” of photojournalism. He has worked on the set of over 100 motion pictures—including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Out of Africa, Titanic, Moulin Rouge—and produced iconic images of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Jack Nicholson, Angelina Jolie, and Antonio Banderas. His books include Light Years, Legends, Body Stories, An Evening with Marilyn, and James Cameron’s best-selling Titanic. He has received numerous awards, including a Lucie for Outstanding Achievement in Entertainment Photography, 2003; Golden Eye of Russia, April 2006; and Lifetime Achievement (CAPIC) in his native Toronto, Canada, May 2006. Current projects include “Freeze Frame: An Intimate Look Behind the Scenes” and “The Women in My Life.” Kirkland’s work has been exhibited worldwide.
Karel brings meaning to mayhem with her nothing but the truth approach to business and life. An accomplished author and humorist, Karel has made radio and television appearances and she enjoys local, regional, and national publication of her articles. In addition to Hitting Our Stride: Women, Work and What Matters, she is the author of Straight Talk: Getting Off the Curb. Karel is a featured author in Extreme Excellence: Dynamic Interviews with America's Top 10 Performance Experts, and publishes a monthly newsletter-Think Forward!® read by thousands of subscribers. She is the author of the CPR for Managers Series and has created a weekly podcast series where she interviews industry experts on various topics: http://www.JustForAMomentPodcast.com and you can access her blog at http://www.HittingOurStride.net.
Dan Poynter is an author (120+ books), publisher (since 1969) and a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP). He is an evangelist for books, an ombudsman for authors, an advocate for publishers and the godfather to thousands of successfully-published books.
High Commissioner for the 'Spain' Brand. Former Inditex VP & Former CEO at Mercedes-Benz Spain & Iberia.
Mark Gallagher – former Head of Cosworth’s F1™ Business Unit, Head of Commercial Affairs at Jaguar / Red Bull Racing and Marketing Director at Jordan Grand Prix – delivers inspirational business lessons learned from a diverse career spanning almost 30 years at the forefront of Formula One.
David Magliano played a lead role in two of the highest-profile pitches of recent times: as Director of Commercial and Marketing at the England 2018 World Cup bid, and as Director of Marketing at the London 2012 organisation, which successfully bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games.
Steven W. Squyres is Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University, and is the Principal Investigator for the science payload on the Mars Exploration Rover Project. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell in 1981 and spent five years as a postdoctoral associate and research scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center before returning to Cornell as a faculty member. His main areas of scientific interest have been Mars and the moons of the outer planets. Research for which he is best known includes study of the history and distribution of water on Mars and of the possible existence and habitability of a liquid water ocean on Europe.
A Guinness world record-holding polar explorer, accomplished guide and renowned international speaker. Ann Daniels is the first woman in history, along with expedition teammate Caroline Hamilton, to reach the North and South Poles as part of all women teams.
Michael Chorost is a technology theorist with an unusual perspective: his body is the future. In 2001 he went completely deaf and had a computer implanted in his head to let him hear again. This transformative experience inspired his first book, Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human. He wrote about how mastering his new ear, a cochlear implant, enabled him to enhance his creative potential as a human being. The critics agreed; in 2006 Rebuilt won the PEN/USA Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. Shortly afterward it was reprinted in paperback under the new title Rebuilt: My Journey Back to the Hearing World.
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