Oliver Burkeman
Burkeman is a journalist running a popular weekly column in The Guardian and online, and is a winner of the Foreign Press Association’s Young Journalist of the Year award. He is the author of The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking (2012), which explores the upsides...
Rolf Dobelli
Rolf Dobelli founded WORLD.MINDS, a community of the world’s most famous and distinguished thinkers, scientists, artists and entrepreneurs including Nobel prize winner Kurt Wuthrich, Nassim Nicholas Taleb (The Black Swan), Matt Ridley (The Rational Optimist), philosopher Daniel Dennet and many others. Earlier in his career, Dobelli joined Swissair as...
Michael Owen
England’s youngest ever goal scorer, Michael Owen has carved out an impressive career for himself. Enjoying his most prolific years whilst playing for his boyhood club of Liverpool, Owen received the coveted Ballon d’Or in 2001 for his magnificent performances for club and country, eventually amassing 89 senior international...
Will Hutton
Will Hutton is currently Principal of Hertford College,Oxford, a post he took on in 2011. Previously to that he was executive vice chair of The Work Foundation, the most influential voice on work, employment and organisation issues in the UK. Regularly called on to advise senior political and business...
Bill Robb
An engaging, passionate speaker, Dr Bill Robb has been assisting organisations and their people meet the challenges of clarifying strategy, improving productivity, overcoming morale problems and turning around failing projects and departments for over twenty-five years. He has a strong academic background (two masters and two doctoral degrees) but...
Steve McMahon
Steve McMahon was Kenny Dalglish’s fi rst signing as Liverpool manager in September 1985 and went on to win three league titles and two FA Cups with the Reds. All in all, combative mid elder McMahon played 277 games for the Reds, scoring 50 times. Bob Paisley perhaps encapsulated Steve’s dynamism...
Kerry Johnson
Kerry Johnson is known as “America’s Business Psychologist” and is a best selling author and speaker based in California. He is well known for discussing topics such as “How to Read Your Consumer’s Mind” and “How to Increase Your Business by 80% within 8 weeks”. Not only does he...
Sanjeev Madhok
Lt Gen Sanjeev Madhok, PVSM, AVSM, VSM, is the former General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Army Training Command in the Indian Army. In his capacity as the Commander-in-Chief, he addressed a wide spectrum of core issues, spanning from concepts and doctrines to training for combat readiness and infrastructure development....
Jimmy Choo
British shoemaker Jimmy Choo lent his name to the line of elegant women’s footwear that quickly developed a cult following in the 1990s, despite their exorbitant prices. But there are actually two designer-shoe companies that bear his name— his own custom atelier in London, and the wholesale business with...
Helen Clark
Helen Clark was the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme from April 2009 until April 2017 and was the first woman to lead the organization. She was also the Chair of the United Nations Development Group, a committee consisting of the heads of all UN funds, programmes and...
