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Vijay Govindarajan


Vijay Govindarajan is a renowned expert in strategy who is the Coxe Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business. He was a former Marvin Bower Fellow at Harvard Business School.

He is a prolific writer who regularly writes for publications like The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times and has won the prestigious McKinsey Award two times for the best articles written in Harvard Business Review. Forbes cited him as one of the top 5 most respected executive coaches on strategy.

Vijay is a strategic thinking speaker who has authored fourteen books and some of the major titles are ‘Reverse Innovation’ and ‘The Three Box Solution’. He has an impressive client base including corporations like Coca-Cola, Colgate, Boeing, FedEx, Sony, and New York Times.

Scott Duffy


Scott Duffy is an author, entrepreneur, and business thought leader who was cited as one of the top 10 speakers by the Entrepreneur Magazine. He is the founder of Smart Charter, an online private flight booking tool.

Smart Charter was later acquired by the Virgin Group of Aviation. He has also founded Academy Builders Inc., which is a platform that assists in the building of online schools for businesses and brands.

He is a highly-sought strategic planning speaker who was featured multiple times in media outlets like Fox News, CBS Radio, and CNBC. Yahoo! Finance named him as one of the top influential people to follow.

He is a proven author too with works like ‘Launch!’ and ‘Breakthrough’. He also runs a podcast titled ‘What Now? With Scott Duffy’.

Scott Steinberg


Scott Steinberg is a popular futurist and strategic speaker who was cited by Fortune Magazine as one of the leading experts on innovation. His writing career consists of several books like ‘Becoming Essential’, ‘Think Like a Futurist’, and ‘Make Change Work for You’.

As a business strategy speaker, he has worked with Intel, Microsoft, Sony, and American Express and has presented motivational speeches and programs in media outlets like CNN and The Today Show, which were viewed by more than one billion people globally.

He has also written columns and articles for publications like The Huffington Post, Entrepreneur, and Inc. Magazine.

Nouriel Roubini


Nouriel Roubini is an American economist who originally hails from Iran. He chairs a reputed economic consultancy corporation named Roubini Macro Associates LLC.

He also works as a faculty member at the Stern School of Business of New York University. He has prior experience as an economic advisor at World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and Federal Reserve. His areas of expertise are growth theory, macroeconomics, fiscal policy, and international finance.

He has written several insightful books like ‘Bailouts or Bail-ins?’, ‘New International Financial Architecture’, and ‘Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance’.

Ming Zeng


Ming Zeng is the Chief Strategy Officer of Alibaba Group from 2008 onwards. He is an accomplished writer with books like ‘Dragons at Your Door’ and ‘Smart Business’ to his credit.

He is considered a global strategy expert who was shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Strategy Award in the year 2019. He previously worked as acting president for Yahoo! China for one year.

He was a former professor of strategy at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, located in Beijing. He is also the founding dean at the Hupan School of Entrepreneurship.

Robin Speculand


Robin Speculand is a specialist in digital implementation and strategy. He is the founder of three corporate firms and three business associations.

He presently functions as the CEO of Bridges Business Consultancy, which supports business leaders to transform their organizations.

He has devised multiple frameworks like “Implementation Compass” and “Digital Maturity Index” that are intended to effectively monitor, assess, and train the concerned organization.

The Strategy Implementation Institute is an online learning platform co-founded by Speculand that provides certificate courses on strategy.

Matthew Le Merle


Matthew Le Merle is an expert in innovation-based strategy and the managing partner of Blockchain Co-investors, a blockchain venture fund program. He is a renowned investor with an experience of more than 30 years in Silicon Valley.

He also functions as the partner of Keiretsu, a popular venture investor. He has prior experience as a consultant and partner at companies like Monitor, McKinsey, Booz, and AT Kearney.

He has proven his abilities as a writer through books like ‘The Fifth Era’, ‘Blockchain Competitive Advantage’, and ‘Corporate Innovation in the Fifth Era’.

Peter Thiel


Peter Andreas Thiel is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist of German origin. He was the co-founder of PayPal, which is a financial service company, Palantir Technologies, which is a software company, and Founders Fund, which is a venture capital company.

He is identified as Facebook’s first outside investor. He has founded several other companies like Clarium Capital, Valar Ventures, and many more. He provides financial assistance to non-profit research on Artificial Intelligence through his foundation named Thiel Foundation.

He regularly contributes articles to publications like The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Policy Review. He has also written a bestselling book titled ‘Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future’.

Ryan Estis


Ryan Estis is a sales leader and business professional. He works as the Chief Strategy Officer of the McCann World Group, a popular advertising agency.

He also travels around the world as a motivational speaker and he was recently cited by the Meetings and Conventions Magazine as one of the best keynote speakers ever heard.

He also works as a faculty member at the Institute of Management Studies. His works were featured in Inc. Magazine, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, and Forbes. His client list includes Darden Restaurants, The Dallas Cowboys, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Liberty Mutual.

Kaihan Krippendorff


Kaihan Krippendorff is a transformation expert, strategic consultant, author, and speaker. He is the founder of a network of strategy officers named Out thinker Strategy Network. His clients are corporates like Boeing, Microsoft, Citibank, and Verizon.

He has prior work experience in McKinsey & Company as a strategic consultant. He was cited as one of the top 30 management thinkers by the Thinkers50 list. He is a regular contributor to magazines like Fast Company and also runs a podcast titled Out thinkers Podcast.

He is a bestselling author who has to his credit five books including an Edison Award-nominated book ‘Driving Innovation from Within: A Guide for Internal Entrepreneurs’.

Gary Hamel

Gary Hamel is a renowned business consultant and strategy expert who is a faculty member of the London Business School for the last 30 years. He also functions at the Management Lab of the Institute as the director.

He is a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review, and with a total of 20 articles, he is the most reprinted author ever been in the magazine. The Wall Street Journal cited him as the most influential business thinker in the world.

He was featured in magazines like Fortune, Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal multiple times. He is also proving his caliber as a writer, and his bestseller books like ‘The Future of Management’ and ‘Humanocracy’ were translated into more than 25 foreign languages.

Byron Freney


Byron Freney is the Chief Strategy Officer of Milk+ Honey, an organization that provides AI-enabled assistance to businesses. He joined Milk+ Honey in the year 2017.

Before joining the current firm, he worked for various consultation companies like Vital Works, Landor Associates, The Hartman Group, and Radar Communications. With an experience of more than three decades, he has created an original niche among strategic leaders and thinkers.

His prior experience spans various industries like automobile, finance, publishing, technology, and packaged goods. As a speaker, he focuses on topics like technology, communication, and creative solutions and strategies.

Paul Smith


Paul Smith is a globally popular leadership speaker and author. He has formerly worked as a consultant for organizations like Accenture and The Procter & Gamble Company. Inc. Magazine named him as one of the top 100 leadership speakers in the year 2018.

He is an Amazon bestseller author with works like ‘Sell with a Story’, ‘Parenting with a Story’, and ‘Lead with a Story’. Due to the popularity and rave reviews gained by his books, they were reprinted almost 11 times and were translated into 7 foreign languages.

He was featured in publications and dailies like Time, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Fast Company. He has an impressive client list with names like Google, Novartis, Hewlett Packard, and Ford Motor Company.

Ty Montague


Ty Montague is an author, strategic consultant, and the co-founder and CEO of co: collective, a consultant company that provides business strategies. He is also a director board member at VCU Brand center.

He has to his client list, corporate giants like YouTube, Google, IBM, MetLife, Puma, Microsoft, and ProvidenceSt Joseph’s Health. Before pursuing the consultancy career, he worked in the advertising business with companies like J Walter Thompson North America and Bartle Bogle Hegarty.

Creativity Magazine identified him as one of the 50 most influential creative people of the past 20 years. His bestseller book is titled ‘True Story: How to Combine Story and Action to Transform Your Business’.

Rowan Gibson


Rowan Gibson is the founder and President of imagination Bridge, a global Consulting agency for innovation. In 2015, he was honored with the Global leader of innovation award.

His expertise lies in areas like strategy, business, and innovation and he has shared his wisdom in these areas through his bestseller books like ‘Rethinking the Future’, Innovation to the Core’, and ‘The Four Lenses of Innovation’.

As a corporate and public speaker, he has traveled in the last five years to countless countries and had interacted with organizations like Apple, Coca-Cola, Generali Group, IBM, Microsoft, and Phillips

W. Chan Kim


W. Chan Kim is a popular business theorist who has expertise in strategy, management, and economic thinking. He presently works as a professor of Strategy and Management at INSEAD, a non-profit business school.

He is also entrusted with the responsibilities of a co-director at the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute. He also functions as a fellow of the World Economic Forum. He is the creator of the Blue Ocean Strategy which is believed as one of the best organizational strategies to create high profit and efficiency.

He has also written a book named ‘Blue Ocean Strategy’. Thinkers 50 identified him as the second most influential management thinker alive.

Renee Mauborgne


Renee Mauborgne is a distinguished fellow and an affiliate professor of strategy at INSEAD, a Global Business School with non-profit intentions. She also functions as the co-director of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute.

In 2019, Thinkers50 named her the top management thinker in the world and she was the first woman to receive that title. She was cited by The Observer publication as “the next big guru to hit the business world”.

She works as a fellow at the World Economic Forum. She was also a member of the board of Advisors of the US President Barack Obama. She was featured in various media outlets like the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and the Financial Times.

Alan Amling


Alan Amling is a popular business advisor and strategist who presently functions as a distinguished fellow at the University of Tennessee. At UT, he teaches various courses on supply chain management programs and global supply chains.

He is also a board member and advisor of Just Returns, an organization that aids retailers in terms of innovation and marketing. He also serves as the CEO of Thrive and Advance LLC, which is an agency that provides advisory services.

Before joining the current positions, he was working at the UPS for the last 27 years in various administerial and advisory positions.

Saj Nicole Joni


Saj Nicole Joni is a popular author, advisor, and business consultant who hails from America. Although she began her career in 1986 as an employee at Microsoft, she went on and found her own company named Cambridge International Group which providesadvice to various business owners across the world.

She is presently functioning as the CEO of Cambridge International Group Limited. She is also a best-selling author with books like ‘Get Big Things Donne’, ‘The Right Fight’, and ‘The Third Opinion’. She was featured in publications like Forbes, Fast Company, and The Harvard Business Review.

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