WSimon Theophilus Bailey is an American speaker, author, life coach and entrepreneur. Bailey is the author of Shift Your Brilliance: Harness the Power of You, INC and Release Your Brilliance: The 4 Steps to Transforming Your Life and Revealing Your Genius to the World. Bailey was inducted into the National Speakers Association's CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame in 2015.
WChip R. Bell is an author, keynote speaker, and consultant in customer loyalty and service innovation. He is known for his pioneering work in mapping the customer journey as part of the customer service experience and customer forensics.
WMichael Bergdahl is a (former) executive, author, and professional business speaker.
WNick Bontis is a Canadian academic, management consultant, professional keynote speaker, sports management executive and author. His research focuses on intellectual capital, knowledge management and organizational learning. Bontis is Associate Professor of Strategic Management and Chair of Strategic Management at the DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is also the Director of the Institute for Intellectual Capital Research a management consulting firm and research think-tank that specializes in conducting human capital diagnostic assessments for corporate and government clients. He is also Associate Editor of the Journal of Intellectual Capital and Chief Knowledge Officer of Knexa Solutions, the world's first knowledge exchange auction.
WWillms Buhse is a German business executive, author, speaker and consultant based in Hamburg. His work focuses on innovative leadership strategies, covering as well the technical aspects of enterprise 2.0 as the philosophical aspects of change management and organizational transformation. In 2006 and 2007 Buhse was named one of the "Top 50 Most influential People in Mobile Entertainment".
WDaniel Burrus is a New York Times bestselling author, technology futurist, business adviser, author, and public speaker in the areas of business strategy, global trends, and disruptive innovation with clients that include Chase, Cisco, Lockhead-Martin, U.S. Department of Defense, Dell, Deloitte, Dow, FedEx, General Electric, IBM, Nestlé Purina, GlaxoSmithKline, Visa, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Disney, and National Restaurant Association, among dozens of others. He has written on the topics of business transformation and technology-driven trends.
WRené Carayol MBE is a Broadcaster, Leadership Speaker and Author.
WLiane Margaret Davey is a psychologist, author, public speaker, and business strategist.
WPatrick Dixon is an author and business consultant, often described as a futurist, and chairman of the trends forecasting company Global Change Ltd. He is also founder of the international AIDS agency ACET and Chairman of the ACET International Alliance.
WOlég Figóvsky — Israeli inventor, D.Sc. in Materials Engineering, academician of EAS, RAASN and REA. He was elected as the honorary professor of a few universities in Poland (WSG) and Russian Federation, chairman of the UNESCO chair "Green Chemistry". He is the author of more than 500 inventions.
WMichael L. "Mike" Fry was an American serial entrepreneur, entertainer, trainer and marketing expert. He was the original Happy the Hobo on the children's television series Happy's Place, and the creative mind behind and owner of Fancy Fortune Cookies.
WShawn M. Galloway is an American author, professional speaker and consultant. He presently serves as Chief Executive Officer of ProAct Safety, a safety consulting firm. He is best known for his books, STEPS to Safety Culture Excellence, Forecasting Tomorrow: The Future of Safety Excellence and Inside Strategy: Value Creation from Within Your Organization.
WMalcolm Timothy Gladwell is an English-born Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He has published seven books: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (2000); Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005); Outliers: The Story of Success (2008); What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures (2009), a collection of his journalism; David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (2013); Talking To Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know (2019) and The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War (2021). His first five books were on The New York Times Best Seller list. He is also the host of the podcast Revisionist History and co-founder of the podcast company Pushkin Industries.
WBrian Halligan is an American executive and author. He is the co-founder and executive chairman of HubSpot, a CRM platform for scaling companies based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is also a senior lecturer at MIT. Halligan uses the term inbound marketing to describe the type of marketing he advocates.
WBradley Inman is a journalist and entrepreneur who founded several media companies. Inman's knowledge of the real estate industry dates back to his days as a syndicated real estate columnist with the San Francisco Examiner. Inman is also the author of a novel The Right Way to Do Wrong and non-fiction books California Real Estate: the 1980s and 1990s, Real Estate Will Never be the Same and Livable Neighborhoods of the Bay Area. Inman grew up in Carlinville, Illinois and graduated from Boston University.
WJohn Jantsch is an author, speaker, and marketing consultant who specializes in assisting small businesses.
WCatherine Kaputa is an American brand strategist, speaker, and author. Kaputa popularized the topic of personal branding.
WHarvey Mackay is an American businessman, author and syndicated columnist with Universal Uclick. His weekly column gives career and inspirational advice and is featured in over 100 newspapers. Mackay has authored seven New York Times bestselling books, including three number one bestsellers. He is also a member of the National Speakers Association Council of Peers Award for Excellence Hall of Fame.
WWolfgang Messner is Clinical Professor of International Business at the Darla Moore School of Business. Prior to coming to the University of South Carolina in August 2016, he was Professor of International Management at the MYRA School of Business in Mysore (India), and Director of GloBus Research.
WColin Moon, born 8 November 1957 in London, is a British author.
WGeoffrey Moore is an American organizational theorist, management consultant and author, known for his work Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers.
WSilvina Moschini is an Argentine entrepreneur. As a businesswoman, she is the founder of Yandiki, SheWorks!, and Intuic and the president of KMGi Group. As an analyst of Internet trends, she appears on networks including CNN en Español and Nuestra Tele Noticias 24 Horas.
WKjell Anders Nordström is a Swedish economist, writer and public speaker.
WRoger von Oech is an American speaker, conference organizer, author, and toy-maker whose focus has been on the study of creativity.
WNeil Pasricha is a Canadian author, entrepreneur, podcaster, and public speaker characterized by his advocacy of positivity and simple pleasures. He is best known for his The Book of Awesome series, and "The Happiness Equation" which are international bestsellers. He is also an established speaker and his TEDx talk, "The 3 A's of Awesome", is ranked as the ninth most inspiring TEDx talk with over 3 million views to date. In total, he has sold over 1 million books. The book and TED talk are based on Pasricha's blog, 1000 Awesome Things. The blog has won three Webby Awards and ranked in PC Magazines list of top blogs and websites in 2009 and 2010.
WFrederick F. Reichheld is a New York Times best-selling author, speaker and business strategist best known for his research and writing on the loyalty business model and loyalty marketing. He is the creator of the Net Promoter System of management (NPS).
WSam Richter is the creator and founder of the Know More sales and business improvement program and he delivers motivational keynote and workshop presentations on a variety of technology, sales, and marketing topics. He uses search engines like Google combined with social media including LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and other Web-based resources as intelligence gathering and reputation management tools. As part of, and in addition to, his in-person programs, Richter teaches his innovative social selling and sales intelligence methodology via online programs.
WAnthony Jay Robbins is an American author, coach, speaker, and philanthropist. He is known for his infomercials, seminars, and self-help books including the books Unlimited Power and Awaken the Giant Within. His seminars are organized through Robbins Research International.
WMartin Roll is a Danish author, brand strategist and management consultant. Roll appears regularly in global television and print media. He holds an MBA from INSEAD where he is a Distinguished Fellow and an Entrepreneur in Residence. Roll's first book, Asian Brand Strategy, was named one of the "Best Business Books: Marketing" in 2006 by Strategy+Business. He is the founder CEO of Martin Roll Company, an advisory firm based in Singapore. He advises Fortune 500 companies, Asian firms, family-owned businesses and also served as a senior advisor to McKinsey & Company.
WKaren Ann Rubin is an entrepreneur. She joined HubSpot where she co-hosted HubSpot TV, and was entrepreneur-in-residence at Matrix Partners in 2013-2014. In 2014, she joined Quantopian as Vice President of Product Management. In 2015 she authored a study that shows that women-led companies perform better than average. She started her career in 2004 in investment banking.
WDavid Meerman Scott is an American online marketing strategist and author of several books on marketing, including The New Rules of Marketing and PR.
WRobin Sharma is a Canadian writer, best known for his The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari book series.
WBenjamin Berkley "Ben" Sherwood is an American writer, journalist, and producer who was formerly the President of Disney-ABC Television Group and ABC News.
WJames Michael Surowiecki is an American journalist. He was a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he wrote a regular column on business and finance called "The Financial Page".
WDon Tapscott is a Canadian business executive, author, consultant and speaker, who specializes in business strategy, organizational transformation and the role of technology in business and society. He is the CEO of the Tapscott Group and the co-founder and Executive Chairman of the Blockchain Research Institute. He is the former Chancellor of his alma mater Trent University, and is currently an Adjunct Professor of Technology and Operations Management at INSEAD Business School.
WJody Turner is an American entrepreneur and futurist known for her international brand insight and trend futurism research, writing and keynote presenting. In early 2020, Turner was ranked among the world's Top 50 Female Futurists by Forbes and joined global marketing agency The Marketing Arm (TMA) as Innovation Education Lead / Strategic Trendwatcher.
WGuillermo Vilarroig is the chairman and key promoter of SEMPO Spain and co-founder and current Director of San Sebastian-headquartered Web analytics and search engine visibility company Overalia. Vilarroig is known as a key speaker and participant in industry events like Search Engine Strategies, Googleplex summits, Online Marketing Expo and others. He has been featured extensively in the printed media and on national TV and is regarded as an industry pioneer in his fields of expertise.
WHilary Hinton "Zig" Ziglar was an American author, salesman, and motivational speaker.