Books: The 31 Practices , My 31 Practices
Books: Corporate Reputation
Books: Wild Knowledge
Books: Corporate Reputation
Books: The Mango Story
His second field is Training: he is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, and is a Training Director for the CIM, specialising in Persuasive Storytelling, Behavioural Economics and “Insightment”.
Thirdly, Tas is a Lecturer at Bucks, Nottingham Trent and Beijing Normal Universities, teaching MA and BA advertising and marketing courses.
Books: The Storytelling Book
Books: Freestyle Decision Making
Books: BE
Books: The Productivity Habits
Books: Purpose
Books: Champagne and Wax Crayons
More recently, he was a Vice President of JP Morgan Chase Bank in its Treasury Services Division.
Books: The Board Game
Books: The Environmental Capitalist
Books: Crowdfunding Intelligence
Books: The Financial Wellbeing Book
Books: In the shower with Picasso
Books: The Challenger Spirit
Books: Work/Life Symbiosis
Books: The man from Zara
Books: The Commando Way
Books: Disruption Denial
Books:Beyond Default
Books: The Feedback Book
Books: Be a Mindsetter
Diana is Director of Not Knowing Lab, an international consulting practice focused on building the capability of organizations and individuals to successfully navigate uncertainty and complexity. She consults to senior executives in a range of commercial, government and community organizations around the world.
Books: Not Knowing
Books: Business is Beautiful
Books: How to buy a gorilla
Books: Sweet Success
Mark read Economics and Management and gained a PhD in Organizational Behaviour both from the University of Cambridge. He started his career with Scientific Generics, a technology consulting company, followed by Powergen (now Eon) and moved into consultancy, spending nine years with Accenture. Mark ran several start-up businesses and has held Partner roles in KPMG, Aon and Fujitsu. He combines consultancy with leadership development, teaching and writing, and is one of the first UK Gurus of the Futureworld Organization (www.futureworld.org).
Books: Perform to Win , My Steam Engine is Broken
Books: Creative 4cast
Books: Corporate Reputation
Books: The Strategist’s Analysis Cycle Toolbook, The Strategist’s Analysis Cycle: Handbook
He is a visiting lecturer at the University of St. Gallen with a focus on marketing, and a Director of the AlpEuregio.BusinessClub, a non-profit organisation.
Books: Rethinking Luxury
Francisco has lived and worked in China for over 5 years and has extensive knowledge of the legal, economic and social environment in this country. He has specialized in foreign investment in China, mergers and acquisitions, corporate and commercial contracts, as well as in Chinese investments overseas. Francisco frequently participates as a speaker in seminars and conferences on foreign investment in China and collaborates with several governmental institutions on advising them about the Chinese legal framework. He has taught several university courses on China, including the International MBA Update organized by the Instituto de Empresa and is currently the Vice-President of the Spanish Chamber of Commerce in China.
Books: The prisoner and the penguin
He is the former CEO of Alitalia. He continues to be an important advisor and influence in the aviation industry today.
Books: Shaking the skies
Books: Party Marketing
Books: The Mango Story
Books: Dedication
Books: Pushing the Boundaries
Books: The Meeting Book
He’s written copy in every major medium and for some of the best-known brands in their sectors – including Avis,Barclays, Dyson, Macmillan, Nando’s, National Geographic, Oxfam, Sky and Zurich. He has a degree in psychology, is a regular conference speaker and awards judge, and runs training days on creativity and copywriting. He even writes a blog that people actually read.
Books: Copy Righter
They work with clients all over the world, including many FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 companies.
Books: How to win a war
Books: MARTketing
Books: Business is beautiful
Books: Target
Books: Beyond the mirage
Books: The Wanda Way
After MBA and PhD studies in Vienna, Paris and at Harvard Business School in Boston, JR Zyla worked for almost 12 years in the investment banking industry, predominantly in London. In 1990 he moved into management consulting and in 1997 became CEO and key shareholder of Odgers Berndtson Central Europe (formally Ray & Berndtson CEE), the leading executive search company in the region.
In 2009 JR Zyla merged his company with Heidrick & Struggles, the world’s largest leadership advisory business, where he still serves as a partner, on a part time basis.
Jochen coordinates the firm’s annual Best Innovator Competition globally. He has published numerous articles on innovation management and is a frequent conference contributor.
Jochen earned graduate degrees in business administration from Erasmus University Rotterdam and the London School of Economics, where he earned the additional Community of European Management Schools (CEMS) degree for his work abroad
Books: Masters of Innovation
Books: Adaptive Capacity
Books: Perform to Win , My Steam engine is broken
Books: Inside the Middle Kingdom , Notes from a Beijing coffeeshop
Books: Made With
Books: It’s the people
Books: The Reason
Since 2004 she has worked on projects related to China where she actively collaborates with the All China Women’s Federation, the Chinese Women Entrepreneurs Association and the Chinese Women Entrepreneurs Chamber of Commerce.
Books: China New Leaders
Kai initiated the firm’s Best Innovator Competition and the Best Innovators Club, and for the past eight years has been a key collaborator with the EU Commission’s IMP³rove initiative.
He is the author of numerous articles and books, including German-language versions of Innovation Management and Best Innovators—Successful Strategies of Innovation Leaders.
He also chairs executive roundtables and is a frequent presenter at business and industry conferences. Kai earned a doctorate in mechanical engineering from the University of Hannover and a degree in business administration from the University of Braunschweig.
Books: Masters of Innovation
Books: Executive Function
Books: The Human Way
Books: The Diagrams Book, The Ideas Book, The Smart Thinking Book, The Business Bullshit Book
You can find out more about Khurshed’s work and get in touch with him at www.relume.co.uk or @relume1
Books: In the shower with Picasso
He has authored a number of books on marketing strategy, technology, financial markets, general economics and the future, which between them have been published in 11 languages and more than 50 editions. He has been a frequent participant in international media, including TEDTalks. Lars was listed in The Guru Guide to Marketing as one of the world’s 62 leading thinkers of marketing strategy.
A Danish national, Lars lives in Switzerland with his family. His main hobbies include sailing, skiing and collecting Italian sports cars.
Books: The Creative Society
Books: The JD.com Story
He works with executive teams around the world, focusing on organizational agility and decision making, delivering systemic analysis, advising on the design of culture, leadership and systems, and providing implementation guidance for a range of local, national and international organizations. He holds an MS degree in management from North Carolina State University, USA, and bachelor degrees in textile management and teaching. Lukas Michel is the author of The Performance Triangle.
Her professional career has been dedicated to the luxury industry – of particular interest is her work in Loewe where she developed a strategic plan to strengthen the brand; and in Carrera y Carrera, a Spanish company which she directed after heading up an acquisition process and which she later sold to the Lladró group. She currently manages the investment fund MEGAMCAPITAL and advises companies on branding and brand strategy. María Eugenia is actively involved in the environmental cause as a member of the Board of Trustees of Oceana.
Books: Inside Luxury
He speaks to marketers and businesses at industry conferences on the topics of content marketing and applying a ‘story first’ approach to engage better with an audience.
He curates the Once Upon A Time storytelling event and is co presenter of the Marketing Homebrew podcast. His online series Talking Content Marketing brings together infl uencers, authors and speakers from the world of marketing to share their knowledge.
Visit theidgroup.co.uk for the latest articles, stories, interviews and events.
Books: The Content Revolution
They work with clients all over the world, including many FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 companies.
Mark read Economics and Management and gained a PhD in Organizational Behaviour, both from the University of Cambridge. Mark has had a long and distinguished corporate career. As a business and strategy consultant for over 30 years, he has held senior Executive and Partner roles in a number of large organizations including Accenture, Fujitsu, Aon, KPMG, A.T. Kearney and Capgemini, in addition to running several start-up businesses.
His books, Meconomy, and the business book bestseller Smart Work, received enthusiastic reviews and have been translated into many languages. He also speaks and gives keynotes based on the books’ topics.
Books: Rethinking Luxury
Dr Wittig was global Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants from 2010 to 2013. He is a visiting lecturer at the University of St. Gallen and was elected to the university’s International and Alumni Advisory Board. Dr Wittig and his wife Susanne are also involved in multiple social and cultural organisations, such as Ashoka Switzerland, Right to Play, the Swiss Institute for Art Research and the Museum of Photography in Winterthur.
Books: Rethinking Luxury
He holds a Master’s Degree in International Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management, a Bachelor’s Degree in Business and Political Science from Emory University, studied Strategic Alliances at the Wharton School and earned an Integral Coaching Certification from New Ventures West.
As we are all aware, collaboration is “the name of the game” in business and all kinds of organizations today. The world has become a complex web of interdependent actors—some are competing, while others are learning to collaborate in new and innovative ways by establishing, strategic partnerships and establishing networks of ecosystem partners to create new opportunities, bring innovative products and services to market, continuously re-invent themselves and help solve some of the world’s most difficult problems. Those that collaborate in this way are entering new stages of formation and complexity through digital reinvention, ecosystem design, multi-stakeholder programs and social innovation.
Because of the complexity of the collaboration, the number of actors involved and opportunities missed if no time is spent to innovate and co-create. More importantly, collaboration requires groups to get to know each other from a psychosocial perspective to build the collective muscle to communicate clearly and authentically, learn together and cut away what is not relevant for success. Once they have developed the collaboration structure, operating principles and values, social contracts and culture, they will have also built the collaboration capability to tackle the more difficult final negotiations pieces, not to mention the fact they know what is left to negotiate.
It only makes sense that all businesses combinations that require collaboration have a concordant process and method to guide their success.
Enabling Collaboration – Achieving Success through Strategic Alliances and Partnerships provides practitioners interested in forming all kinds of collaborations a practical roadmap and methodology to do just that. Help create the structures, processes and opportunities that arise from collaborative approaches to organizational and societal success.
Books: Enabling Collaboration
Books: The Mindfulness Book
Books: Madison Avenue Manslaughter
Books: The Age-nostic man
Books: Plus Change
Books: The Elemental Workplace
Books: Surviving the Tech-Storm
Books: Australia 2034
Follow Nicole on Twitter @diademperform or visit www.diademperformance.com
Books: The Negotiation Book
Books: The Entrepreneur Book
Books: Into the Mountains
Books: The 2020 Board
Books: Getting better with age, The old rush
He is the author of the book Wall Street (2011), about the bubbles in the financial markets, with anecdotes from his career in the world of global finance.
In June 2014 he published his second book The Green Bubble to critical acclaim in Sweden and in Denmark. Prior to founding his London-based international corporate advisory firm and family office, Per Wimmer worked in New York and London for Goldman Sachs, leaving the company as Executive Director for Institutional Sales of European Equity products. Per currently lives in London and is also a private astronaut with three trips to space lined up. In 2008, he completed the world’s first tandem sky dive above Mount Everest.
Books: The Green Bubble
Books: Australia 2034
Books:Beyond Default
Books: The Brain Book
He is the author of various studies and articles about the luxury goods and fashion markets. Previously, he was Director of Business Development for an international start-up company that he co-founded. Philip is a graduate of Ludwig-Maximilian University and lives with his wife in Munich.
Books: Rethinking Luxury
Kenneth Mikkelsen is a writer, speaker, business adviser and learning designer.
Books: The Neo-Generalist
He has seen storytelling from all sides, and applies insights from the Story Business to helping clients develop their Business Story. He has worked for the likes of GSK, Shell, Lloyds Banking Group, the NHS, Anglo American and Pearson, as well as numerous UK universities and public bodies.
He has published on Victorian literature, John Keats, Oscar Wilde and Shakespeare, and he is the author of a cultural history of sunshine. Only Connect brings these two worlds together. It is his first business book.
Books: Only Connect
Books: The Wisdom of Oz
Books: Your life, your key business
His background includes eight years with Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers. As a National Proposals Consultant with Ernst & Young in London, he helped the UK firm to double its tender win-rate. Besides training in bid writing and pitching, Scott offers clients live bid support: he works with the bid team on a live opportunity to tip the odds in their favour through advice, support and coaching.
His average win-rate is 86%. Scott also trains organizations across the board in writing skills, having identified 21 persuasive writing techniques. 2014 marks his ten-year anniversary of delivering training in writing skills to staff of The Economist.
Books: Winner takes all
She has provided employee assistance programs, executive coaching, and organizational consultation to leading corporations, including Avon, Credit Suisse First Boston, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, and divisions of Exxon, Eastman Kodak, and General Electric, nationally and globally. She offers her expertise in leadership through coaching and development programs to such diverse industries as finance, fashion, education, technology, entertainment, and the arts.
Dr. Reciniello has a Clinical/Social Psychology Doctorate from the Graduate Faculty of the New School For Social Research and is a member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations. She has appeared on television, radio, and been quoted in varied publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Glamour, Elle, and the Reuters international publications network. A popular speaker, her presentation goals are to inform, assist, entertain, and inspire.
Books: The Conscious Leader
Books: Japanese Style Management
Books: The art of shopping
Books: The Impact Code, The ‘Keep It Simple’ Book, The Impact Book, The Attitude Book
Books: The Networking Book
Books: The anti-fragility edge
Books: Yoga for Leaders
He has led strategy development and operational improvement initiatives for numerous automotive and industrial clients, and worked extensively in the field of alternative energy automobiles. He consults across many industries on innovation and product development topics. Prior to consulting, Stephen conducted research and development.
He holds several patents and is the author of numerous articles in technical journals and business publications. He earned his MS in mechanical engineering at Brigham Young University, and earned both a PhD in mechanical engineering and MBA from the University of Michigan.
Books: The Board Game
Steve is an international executive coach, actor, writer and motivational speaker who has been helping individuals and organizations achieve their performance goals for over twenty years. As an actor, Steve trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London and has worked in radio drama for BBC Radio 4, as well as appearing in theatre, film, and television over many years. His television roles include appearances in some of the UK’s best-known television series.
As a business coach, Steve has helped senior executives from blue chip companies to SMEs in Europe and South America achieve their full potential. He has developed training programmes that help companies deal with the challenges brought about by organizational change. Much of Steven’s work in business is based on creating a values-based culture. Steven has also created coach-training programmes for the Academy of Coaching and Training (ACT), accredited by the Association for Coaching in the UK.
Steve is one of very few certified Master Trainers of Neuro Linguistic Programming in the world and has a passion for helping people overcome assumed limitations to reach their full potential. He runs certified training courses in Public Speaking, NLP and Coaching across Europe and South America.
Books: My 31 Practices
Books: Not Knowing
Passionate about design and the wellbeing of the SME landscape in Switzerland, he is now an independent entrepreneur advising young entrepreneurs and implementing start-ups.
Books: Management Design
Books: The Success Book
Books: The YOU of Leadership
Violetka’s expertise extends to all areas of the value chain—from quality, innovation strategy, and supply chain strategy to profitability, organizational design, and cost and quality transformations—as she helps companies gain competitive advantage.
Violetka earned a dual master’s degree in international business and business administration from Thunderbird, the American Graduate School of International Management, and Arizona State University.
Books: Masters of Innovation
Books: Peter Drucker on Consulting
Books: Coaching Excellence