John Teeling
John Teeling is widely regarded as the father of the Irish whiskey renaissance. As a doctoral student at Harvard in 1970 he examined the collapse of Irish whiskey from having about 60% of world sales in 1850 and hundreds of distilleries, to becoming a monopoly in 1973 with less...
Peggy Liu
Peggy Liu, Chairperson of JUCCCE, the Joint US-China Collaboration on Clean Energy, is internationally recognised for her expertise on China‘s sustainability landscape and for fostering international collaboration with China. JUCCCE is a non-profit organisation dedicated to accelerating the greening of China, because a green China is the key to...
Oscar van Weerdenburg
Oscar van Weerdenburg is an international speaker specialising in the field of cross cultural management, leadership development and negotiation. He is a visiting professor on the Executive Education Programs of INSEAD, and has lectured at the Michigan Business School and the Rotterdam School of Management. Together with Fons Trompenaars...
Thomas Kolditz
Tom Kolditz is Director of the Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice University. Previous to July 2015 he was Professor in the Practice of Leadership and Management and Director of the Leadership Development Program at the Yale School of Management. His experience as a leader development expert spans...
Gregory Florez
Gregory Florez is the founder and CEO of V2 Performance, a premier vitality education and performance coaching firm for leaders. Through keynote speaking engagements, customized workshops/seminars, and one-on-one vitality coaching, Florez and his team have improved the health and wellbeing, work capacity and breakthrough performance of thousands of leaders...
Alan West
Admiral Lord West was First Sea Lord, the highest position in the Royal Navy from 2002-06. In 2007 he was asked by Prime Minister Gordon Brown to join the UK Government as Minister for Security responsible for national security and counter-terrorism as well as cyber and Olympic security. Lord...
Adah Parris
Adah Parris is a personal branding expert and an enthusiastic observer of people, patterns and stories. A change consultant, producer and network builder, she is particularly interested in human-centred design and storytelling as an approach to problem solving. Since 2014 she has been a speaker and workshop facilitator on...
Alberto Alessi
Born in Arona (Novara) in 1946, Alberto Alessi is President of Alessi Spa and head of Marketing Strategy, Communication and Design Management. The eldest son of Carlo Alessi he belongs to the third generation of the Alessi family, and officially joined the company in 1970, the day after he...
Adrian Bradshaw
General Sir Adrian Bradshaw was Deputy Supreme Allied Commander NATO Europe 2014-17. Bradshaw also served as Director UK Special Forces (SAS) from 2006-09. As Deputy Supreme Commander of all NATO military forces, Bradshaw was responsible for commanding operations and assurance activities on behalf of the 28 member nations and...
