Bruno Giussani … technology and society....
Bruno Giussani is a Swiss writer and author, the Co-Producer of the TEDGLOBAL conference (Oxford, UK, 12-15 July 2005), a 2004 Knight Fellow at Stanford University and an Affiliate...
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Trisha Goddard …Beyond Playschool....
Trisha Goddard is one of the most familiar faces on Australian television. Since arriving in Australia in 1985, Trisha has appeared on everything from Playschool to her own infota...
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Mark Goldstein … internationally recognized authority on ageing....
Mark Goldstein is an internationally recognized authority in the field of aging and its implications on the workforce and the marketplace. Those implications are far-reaching and a...
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Robert Goodman … economic consultant for Putnam Investments....
Dr. Robert Goodman is an Economic Consultant for Putnam Investments. He is a member of Putnam’s Business Advisory Group, a panel of experts on economic, business and personal finan...
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Mikhail Gorbachev …last President of the Soviet Union (USSR)....
The last President of the Soviet Union and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Gorbachev began the greatest programme of change in the last fifty years. He introduced radical economic...
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Amanda Gore …achieve peak performance...
Amanda Gore maintains that most of us know what we want to do - we just don't do it! To stimulate us into action she offers specific strategies to motivate us to approach our lives...
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David Gower …outstanding cricketer and communicator....
From his striking Test debut in 1978 against Pakistan at Edgbaston, hitting his first delivery in Test Cricket for an elegant four, to his untimely retirement, David Gower was one ...
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Susan Greenfield … director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain....
Baroness Susan Greenfield, Fullerian Professor of Physiology and Comparative Anatomy at Oxford University, heads a team of scientists who are focused on the genetics of Parkinson's...
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Fred Grosse …dollar productive behaviour....
Dr Frederick Grosse is an internationally recognised authority in the fields of personal relationships, organisational development, management and leadership. He is best known as a...
My life has certainly changed for the better since that first seminar back in 2000. My net income this year has gone up 5 times since 2000 and my projection for the next year is 7 ...
Bob Werner
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Richard Hadlee …cricketing legend....
One of cricket's undisputed legends, Sir Richard Hadlee made his first class debut in 1971 replacing his injured brother Dale, and quickly stamped his mark with a hat trick against...
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Dorinda Hafner …international TV celebrity, businesswoman and author....
Dorinda Hafner is a breath of fresh air. Be in her company for more than a minute and you wonder what your life was like before you met her!
Dorinda is an international TV cele...
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Julia Hailes ...one of the principle opinion-formers on sustainable business development....
As a non-Executive Director of Jupiter Global Green Investment Trust, Julia Hailes is one of the principle opinion-formers on sustainable business development. The co-founder of Su...
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Ken Hames …the jungle of Borneo and the Jungle Janes....
Ken Hames served in the British Forces for almost 30 years, and is one of the few elite British Officers to have worn the red beret of the Parachute Brigade, the green beret of the...
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Richard Hames …futurist, author and corporate philosopher....
Dr Richard Hames is a strategic foresight practitioner and one of the world’s most influential intellectuals. As founder of globally distributed think-tank The Hames Group, Richard...
Richard’s ability to rapidly understand our culture and impart a strategic thinking skills-set to groups with little previous exposure to this were crucial to our very survival.
Datacraft Technologies
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Mark Victor Hansen … reshaping what is possible in our lives....
Many people go through life and never experience their true calling. Mark Victor Hansen is a man who is one of the few to find his absolute life's work. For more than 20 years, Mar...
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Ronald Heifetz ... leadership can be taught....
Ronald A. Heifetz, founding director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, is renowned worldwide for his seminal work on...
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Cameron Herold … innovative business leader....
Cameron Herold is one of Canada's most innovative business leaders and was a leading force behind one of the most successful new business ventures of the last decade. He has been i...
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Allan Heyl … surviving the un-survivable....
A truly unique story from the only survivor from the notorious 'Stander Gang'!
If anyone should know just how much crime does not pay, or why the choices one makes as a young p...
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Michael Hill …high profile jewellery retailer....
Michael Hill is Chairman and Managing Director of one of New Zealand’s most successful retail companies - Michael Hill Jeweller. Thirteen years ago, the first Michael Hill Jeweller...
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Peter Hillary …climbing your own Everest....
Presentations on challenges, change, achievement and survival
Peter Hillary’s life is a testament to setting goals and achieving them. His skill, driving ambition, and good judg...
“We have received a great deal of feedback regarding you representation and there is no doubt that your presence and the quality of your presentation added to the evening's profile and success”.
Horwath & Horwath
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Fred Hilmer …the business of media....
Fred Hilmer, AO is a challenging and powerful businessman whose thoughts on business and society can be quite provocative. He is the former CEO of Fairfax Holdings and currently De...
Fred was very well-received by the delegates… we thought he had excellent content in terms of his messages.
Investec Bank
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Tom Hopkins ...world-renowned master sales trainer....
Tom Hopkins is world-renowned as a master sales trainer. The proven-successful selling strategies and tactics he teaches today turned his failing sales career into a record-setting...
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John Howkins …business and communications....
John Howkins is executive chairman of Tornado Productions Ltd , which provides webcasting to corporate and media clients. He is also a director of ITR Ltd, Equator Group plc, Telev...
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Sohail Inayatullah … international authority on futures studies....
Dr. Sohail Inayatullah, a political scientist, is Professor at Tamkang University, Taipei (Graduate Institute of Futures Studies), Visiting Academic/Research Associate at Queenslan...
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Edward A. Jacobson ...psychologist, business coach and consultant....
Edward Jacobson, Ph.D., is a psychologist, business coach, consultant and public speaker based in Madison, Wisconsin. Ed works with individuals and organizations to help them to id...
I’ve been extraordinarily touched by Ed in three separate day-long workshops on Appreciative Inquiry and financial planning. Each time I have received new and deeper insights, bett...
Center for Financial Planning, Inc.
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Azim Jamal … thought provoking and inspiring speaker and a visionary....
Azim Jamal is the Chief "Enlightening" Officer of his company, a professional inspirational speaker and a bestselling author. He was born in Tanzania and educated in Kenya, UK and ...
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Clive James … journalist, poet, novelist and reviewer....
Clive James was born in Sydney in 1939. He was educated at the Univeristy of Sydney where he was literary editor of Honi Soit and wrote for various university magazines. He was a c...
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Michael Johnson … the world's greaest ever 200m/400m sprinter....
The best 200/400 meter sprinter in the history of the sport of track & field. Johnson’s progressions through the ranks of track and field were swift and stunning! A dual event worl...
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Dewitt Jones …behind the lens....
Dewitt Jones is one of America's top professional photographers with a career stretching over twenty-five years. As a motion picture director, he had two films nominated for Academ...
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Michio Kaku … vision of the future....
Dr. Michio is the Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics at the City University of New York (C.U.N.Y). He graduated from Harvard University in 1968 (summa cum laude and 1st i...
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Dean Karnazes ...ultramarathon man....
Speaker, Bestselling Author, Athlete, Entrepreneur...
Dean Karnazes was named by TIME magazine as one of the “Top 100 Most Influential People in the World” in 2006. The January...
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Moira Kelly …Australia's Mother Teresa....
Moira Kelly is the Executive Director of The Children First Foundation, which was established in July 1999 to support Moira’s humanitarian work. Moira is truly one of a kind, a rar...
She spoke with a lot of passion and had some great stories.
AMP
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Paul Kennedy …one of the world’s most provocative historians....
One of the world’s most provocative historians, Paul Kennedy has ignited international debates with his admonitions about the challenges confronting humanity in the 21st Century.
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Akhtar Khan …presenter of BBC World's FASTTRACK....
Since August 2003, Ahktar Khan has presented BBC World's FASTTRACK, a weekly global round-up of travel news for both leisure and business sectors.
In addition to fronting...
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Robert E (Bob) Kowalski … author of the world's biggest selling health book in publishing history....
Bob Kowalski is the author of the world's biggest selling health book in publishing history "The 8 Week Cholesterol Cure". More than 3 million copies have been sold in 23 languages...
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Jean-Claude Larréché …highlights the capability gap....
Professor Jean-Claude Larréché is Chairman of Alfred Heineken, Insead. Voted ‘Marketing Educator of the Year’ by Club 55, Professor Larréché has devised the corporate competitive f...
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Steve LeFever …practical financial anaysis....
Steve LeFever is a national leader in the development of practical financial programmes and training. His dual role as a successful entrepreneur and as a commercial banker gives hi...
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Martin Lindstrom … one of the world's leading branding experts....
Whether you're kicking off a major conference or rolling up your sleeves in an executive work session, Martin Lindstrom will shake up the audience, fill the participants with ideas...
We truly enjoyed Martin Lindstrom’s brilliant workshop and took away so many good and inspiring ideas.
Disney Channel
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Ivan Louw …take control of your life....
Ivan was hijacked in Pretoria while on a business trip. Next to a deserted road on the outskirts of Pretoria, two of the hijacker's accomplices met up with them. Ivan was forced to...
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Ian Lovett … unconventional and highly profitable banker....
Ian is the Deputy Chairman of Dunbar Bank, part of the Zurich Financial Services Group of which he is a Director. Apart from running what is an unconventional and highly profitable...
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Calvin Mackie … a spokesperson for change....
Calvin Mackie earned a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Morehouse College in 1990. He earned a Master of Science i...
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Frank Maguire … absolutely, positively overnight....
Francis X. Maguire's great gift is his ability to find the hidden treasures in every endeavour's most important asset, its people. One of corporate America's proven achievers and i...
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Edwin Maher ...international news presenter....
Edwin Maher won a loyal following largely because of the eccentricity of the pointers he used to indicate weather patterns; from ice sculptures to carrots. He is now in Beijing whe...
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John Maxwell … entrepreneur, author, and dynamic speaker....
As a cutting-edge entrepreneur, best-selling author, and dynamic speaker, Dr. John C. Maxwell has cultivated an extensive following among the most highly respected and influential ...
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Steve McDermott ...one of Britain’s most sought after speakers....
How do you best describe Steve McDermott? Clients say he is highly motivational, memorable, energetic, charismatic and side splittingly funny. Steve’s presentations, however, not o...
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Mark McGregor …helping others achieve their goals....
Mark McGregor grew up in the sport sector. After playing hockey for many years through minor, junior and university ranks, he became a hockey coach in Germany and in the Swiss Nati...
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John McKean … advance your understanding of customers....
John McKean is a best selling author and Executive Director of the Center for Information Based Competition, which provides thought-leadership to help businesses advance their unde...
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Peter McLaughlin ...one of the top 100 most innovative executives in America....
Peter is the co-author of "Mentally Tough: The Principles of Winning at Sports Applied to Winning in Business", and the author of "CatchFire: A 7-Step Program to Ignite Energy, Def...
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Danny McMaster …outstanding impressionist and comedian....
Danny McMaster is one of Australia's best impressionist/comedians. Danny is also a singer, songwriter, compere and voice-over expert with almost 20 years experience. Any sporting f...
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Hamish McRae …the world in 2020....
Hamish McRae is one of Europe's leading futurists. He is the author of the acclaimed work on the future "The World in 2020: Power, Culture and Prosperity".
Hamish McRae was nam...
An engaging and entertaining speaker, credible and authoritative.
BBC
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Frank Miles …courage is facing life....
A professional variety comedian with numerous television and Las Vegas credits, Frank Miles died in a hang gliding accident and was revived by emergency room doctors. Courage - he ...
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W. Mitchell …soars above the rest with grace, good humour and gumption....
"The Man Who Would Not Be Defeated" is an apt title for W. Mitchell's book. It is also a good description of his life as he delivers his spellbinding message about "Taking Responsi...
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Kevin Mitnick … the world's most famous hacker....
With more than fifteen years of experience in exploring computer security, Kevin Mitnick is a largely self-taught expert in exposing the vulnerabilities of complex operating system...
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Graham Molitor … expert futurist and lawyer....
A foremost authority on forecasting government policy, Graham Molitor is president of Public Policy Forecasting, and vice president/legal counsel of the World Future Society.
H...
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Craig Mudge … Professor of Innovation....
Craig Mudge has recently returned to Australia to establish the new Macquarie Institute for Innovation at Macquarie University after ten years in Silicon Valley. There he led the l...
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Kenford Nedd …humour that helps to energise leadership qualities....
A medical doctor, Kenford Nedd practices in the field of family and behavioural medicine and treats stress related disorders in both corporate and clinical settings. In his capacit...
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Kobus Neethling … outstanding scholar, writer and creative thinker...
Awarded The International Leadership Award by the Creative Problem Solving Institute (USA) – the most prestigious creativity award in the world - Kobus Neethling holds six degrees ...
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Kjell A Nordstrom … the new guru of world business....
Amid the madness and hyperbole surrounding the new economy, Dr. Kjell A. Nordström is a guru of the new world of business. The 2005 Thinkers 50, the world's first ranking of manage...
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Marvin Oka …a leader in behavioural technology....
Marvin Oka speaks of three mysteries: the mystery of air to the bird, the mystery of sea to the fish and the mystery of language to humans. Throughout Marvin’s career language has ...
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Brian Olsen …everything is possible through creativity....
The lights go down and the excited chatter subsides as the audience turns toward the spotlight on the far side of the room. Suddenly an explosion of shouts and cheers erupts throug...
Brian was a joy to work with — easygoing and professional. Our guests were surprised and amazed. The performance was something they had not experienced before.
Hilton Head Island Celebrity Golf Tournament
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Christopher Patten of Barnes ...former Governor of Hong Kong....
Former European Commissioner for External Relations and Former Governor of Hong Kong
Lord Patten of Barnes was appointed Governor of Hong Kong in April 1992, a position he held ...
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Walt Pavlo ...the inner-workings of white-collar crime....
Exclusive to Saxton in Australia and New Zealand.
Recently released from prison, Walt Pavlo is a former executive, who now specialises in speaking to corporate audiences ...
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Andrew Peacock … an outstanding career in politics and business....
The Hon Andrew Peacock AC commenced duties as Chairman of MFS Limited on 19 March 2007. Prior to that he was President of Boeing Australia, beginning July 2002.
Andrew Peacock ...
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Pelé … the greatest football player ever....
Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pelé, is a living legend and widely regarded as the best soccer player ever.
He is best known for leading the Brazilian national soc...
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Ian Percy … purpose, passion, performance...
"One of the top 21 speakers for the 21st century" - Successful Meetings magazine
Ian Percy challenges and inspires corporate and association audiences in numerous industries ar...
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John Peters … a powerful and moving story....
John came to the world's attention in January 1991, when as a POW in Gulf War I his bruised and battered face flashed onto television screens around the world. He has written two b...
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Michael Podolinsky … developing passionate leaders....
Getting Results & Growing Your Organisation. Michael A. Podolinsky is a master at Leadership Development.
He develops the people who develop people, teaching them how and where ...
Fresh, inspired, avant-garde.
3M
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Miha Pogacnik …inspiring leaders, igniting change, evoking creativity and spurring innovation....
Miha Pogacnik offers an original response to today's quest of the business world for creativity. His cutting edge approach and genius fuel organizational and individual developmen...
A great way to help management and leaders to learn to actively listen! Miha was passionate, instructive and really opened up the audience.
ABN Amro Bank
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Lou Pritchett … one of corporate America’s living legends....
Lou Pritchett is one of corporate America’s living legends—an acclaimed author, dynamic teacher, and highly rated speaker. He is recognized worldwide as the foremost leader in chan...
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Howard Putnam … former Southwest Airlines CEO....
A down-to-earth and entertaining speaker, Howard Putnam's ultimate object is the "bottom line improvement." He believes companies that place "people" as their #1 priority have the ...
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Robert Putnam … professor of peace....
Robert D. Putnam is the Stanfield Professor of International Peace in Harvard's Government Department and Director of the Saguaro Project. He has served as chairman of Harvard Uni...
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Mary Quin …covering business and social issues....
Mary Quin is perhaps best known as one of a group of 16 tourists taken hostage in Yemen by local militants. Mary’s dramatic escape during a gun battle between the militants and the...
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Wolfgang Riebe …remembering the magic of life...
Wolfgang is the most successful South African magician in the history of the country. He is the first and only South African magician to have been invited to appear at Hollywood an...
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Jeremy Rifkin … technology displacement expert....
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, s...
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Ken Robinson … innovation in business and education....
In today's business and educational environments, creativity and innovation are more important than ever. More and more success is determined by our ability to come up with new ide...
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Mary Robinson … former President of Ireland....
Former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson was the first woman elected to this office. As Ireland's Head of State, Ms. Robinson represented her country internationally, developing ...
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Martin Roll … strategic brand management....
Martin Roll is founder and CEO of VentureRepublic, the leading strategic advisory firm on Branding Excellence to corporate boards and top-management in multiple industries across A...
Martin Roll is not only an accomplished speaker and presenter on a topic in which he demonstrates thorough knowledge; he is as well a talented moderator of panel discussions - not ...
A Lammin, Vice President & MD, Asia, Business Week
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Eric Rush …one of the world's foremost Sevens rugby players....
Eric started first-class rugby with Auckland as an explosive flanker with more pace than most backs.
After transferring to North Harbour he got more regular match play and was s...
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Catherine Samson …trained in a multitude of communication techniques....
Catherine Samson is a humour, laughter and communication specialist, counsellor, workshop facilitator, comedienne, writer, artist and professional motivational speaker. Catherine c...
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Mark Sanborn ... team building and customer service expert. ...
Mark Sanborn is known internationally as "the high content speaker who motivates." He presents 90-100 programs every year on leadership, team building, customer service and masteri...
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Michael J. Sandel … author, academic, professor and philospher....
Michael Sandel, one of America’s leading public intellectuals, is Professor of Government at Harvard University. He teaches courses on contemporary political philosophy, the histo...
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Ziauddin Sardar …writer, broadcaster, futurist and cultural critic....
Writer, broadcaster, futurist and cultural critic, Ziauddin Sardar was born in Pakistan but educated and brought up in Britain. He has worked for the British science journals Natur...
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John Ralston Saul …distinguished novelist, essayist, historian....
Essayist and novelist, John Ralston Saul was born in Ottawa, in 1947. He was educated in the public school systems of Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario before receiving an Honours B.A...
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Charles M. Savage …President, Knowledge Era Enterprises....
Dr. Charles M. Savage, President and Mentor, Knowledge Era Enterprises, Inc., helps companies discover the tremendous potential of knowledge era enterprising. He consults and speak...
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Robert Savage … leadership in a networked world....
Bob Savage is one of Australia's most authoritative speakers on global IT strategy. With 35 years international experience with IBM in marketing, finance, software development and ...
You delivered exactly the presentation we discussed, and our delegates appreciated your experience and point of view on technology and partnerships.
Rothschild Australia Asset Management Ltd
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Don E. Schultz …integrated marketing communications....
Professor of Integrated Marketing Communications at the Northwestern University, one of America's leading private research universities, Don E Schultz is also a highly-respected co...
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Peter Schutz … former president and CEO of Porsche AG....
Peter W. Schutz was born in Berlin, Germany on April 20, 1930. After leaving Germany in March of 1939, his family settled in Chicago, Illinois where Peter grew up and received his ...
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Peter Senge …transform your business to a learning organisation....
Peter Senge is the director of the Centre for Organisational Learning at MIT's Sloan School of Management, founding partner of Innovation Associates in Boston, and the author of Th...
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Diana Ser … popular journalist and presenter....
Diana Ser has over a decade’s experience in the television industry, spanning broadcast journalism and entertainment. She’s best known for being presenter and producer of Channel N...
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Anand Sethi … the secrets of doing business in India....
Dr Anand Sethi is a remarkable man who brings a wealth of experience and knowledge about India to Australia. After graduating from the world famous Indian Institute of Technology (...
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