Amy Edmondson

Experta en Seguridad Psicológica en Harvard Business School

A renowned expert on organisational learning and leadership and the world’s #1 ranked management thinker, Amy Edmondson has been studying psychological safety and workplace behaviours for more than 20 years.  The Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School, Edmondson helps organisations identify barriers to success that are often hidden inside a workplace culture. Her work has helped major firms vastly improve performance by building an environment of psychological safety, transparency and collaborative teaming. She is the bestselling author of The Fearless Organization, del recientemente publicado Right Kind of Wrong, galardonado con el Financial Time con el premio a Libro del Año 2023. 

Seguridad psicológica: favorecer el crecimiento aprendiendo de los errores

• How to nurture an environment where employees feel empowered to take the initiative, drive change and thrive – even in uncertain and evolving environments
  
• Integrar la seguridad psicológica en el trabajo y las decisiones diarias: estrategias para mejorar la formación, colaboración y rendimiento de los equipos
  
• How leaders can reframe their perspective on setbacks: Embracing intelligent failures as for fuel innovation, adaptability and growth
  
• Capacitar a los equipos con las herramientas y la actitud necesarias para asumir riesgos inteligentes y crear una ventaja competitiva en tiempos de cambio

Michael Phelps

Most decorated Olympian of all time

One of the world’s most admired athletes and the most decorated Olympian of all time, Phelps competed in his first Olympic Games at the age of 15. He has a total of 28 medals, 23 of which are gold. He is the first American male swimmer to earn a spot on five Olympic teams and at the 2016 Olympic Games, he became the oldest individual gold medalist in Olympic swimming history.

In 2008 Phelps created the Michael Phelps Foundation and in 2010, in collaboration with the Michael Phelps Swim School and KidsHealth.org, developed the “im” program that teaches children the importance of being active and healthy, focusing on the sport of swimming. Since retiring from competitive swimming, Phelps has also been actively involved in mental health awareness and promotion.

Sustaining Excellence: Resilience, Mindset, and Mental Strength

• Build lasting resilience and inner strength by embracing adversity, and cultivating the mindset needed for enduring success
  
• Facing and overcoming failure, setbacks and self-doubt: Lessons learnt from when times were toughest
  
• Develop the mindset and strategies needed to stay motivated as times change and goals shift
  
• Prioritizing mental health and well-being as a foundation for sustaining excellence and long-term success
  

Peter Wilton

Leading expert in strategy, digital transformation and customer experience, Professor at UC Berkeley and Associate at Monash University

A leading expert in strategy, digital transformation, and customer experience, Peter Wilton empowers organisations to maintain their relevance and leadership in rapidly evolving markets. Drawing on first-hand industry experience, Wilton has developed a portfolio of frameworks and methodologies for implementing integrated innovation strategies, redefining customer value, and uncovering opportunities to enhance customer loyalty. Formally educated as a marketer and psychometrician, Wilton is also a Marketing Professor at UC Berkeley and an Associate at Monash University.

Alongside his academic career, he has held key roles as Senior Product Manager at Colgate and Chief Operating Officer at Myer Pacific Holdings. He now serves as Principal at ORBIS Associates and is a member of the venture capital firm Blackbird.

Leading in the New Era of Digital Transformation

• The new realities and challenges of competing in a digital world: What leaders need to know to navigate disruption
• The Digital Transformation Road Map: Redefining business models, unlocking opportunities, and shaping a vision for the future
• Rethinking customer value: Key strategies for long-term market leadership
• Future-proofing your business: Crafting a digital strategy and fostering strategic innovation to stay ahead

Darren Shand

All Blacks General Manager (2004-2023) and expert in building winning teams and leadership culture.

For more than two decades as the All Blacks General Manager, Darren was the driving force behind creating and maintaining the culture that shaped the New Zealand All Blacks into the world’s most successful international sports team. His focus was on building the ‘team around the team’ and creating an environment that wholeheartedly supported peak performance. During his tenure, the All Blacks achieved a winning percentage of 83.20% across more than 250 test matches, a record unrivalled in world sport, and won back to back Rugby World Cups, the Laureus World Sports team of the year, among many achievements.

Since finishing that role, Shand has founded Winning Teams, an advisory business that shares key lessons in leadership and how to build a winning culture based on his experience leading from inside the world’s most acclaimed sports team.

Elevating Collective Potential to Build Winning Teams

• Lessons from inside the All Blacks team: Building a culture that inspires excellence, elevates performance, and sustains success over time
  
• How to create a tailored approach to team dynamics for optimal performance when the pressure is greatest
  
• Understanding the significance of compatibility and shared values for effective recruitment
• Strategies for fostering a supportive, collaborative environment that both empowers individuals and amplifies collective potential
  

Guy Kawasaki

Silicon Valley Icon and Former Chief Evangelist at Apple

Guy Kawasaki is a seasoned professional in Silicon Valley, having worked at both Apple and Google. With over thirty years of experience, he specializes in creating innovative products and services and bringing them to market successfully. Currently, Kawasaki holds the position of Chief Evangelist at Canva, an online graphic design tool. Formerly serving as Chief Evangelist at Apple and as a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation, he is also a prolific author, having written 16 books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Art of The Start y Enchantment.His latest book is Think Remarkable: 9 Paths to Transform Your Life and Make a Difference.

Additionally, Kawasaki serves as an executive fellow at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, and he is adjunct professor of the University of New South Wales. He also hosts the podcast Remarkable People.

Creativity Unleashed: Your Competitive Edge in an AI-Driven Future

• Actionable strategies to cultivate creativity, anticipate emerging trends, and drive the next breakthrough innovation
• How creative thinking can outpace technology in the race for relevance
  
• Building resilient, innovative teams through diverse thinking and continuous learning
  
• Failing forward: How embracing experimentation accelerates breakthrough innovation
  

Jon McNeill

Innovator and former President of Tesla Motors

A visionary leader and serial entrepreneur, Jon McNeill teaches organisations how to exponentially scale businesses and drive disruptive innovation. As former President of Tesla, he oversaw a 10-fold increase in sales from $2 billion to $20 billion in just three years. In 2018, he became COO at ride-hailing app Lyft, where he helped prepare the company to go public, growing revenue from $800 million to $2 billion in the process. 

Currently, McNeill is a Managing Director at DVx Ventures, a growth-stage venture platform, and serves on several boards of companies including General Motors, Lululemon and Stash Financial.

Tesla’s Cross-Industry Framework for Scalable Innovation

• Radical Simplification: A practical framework for making innovation intentional, repeatable, and applicable in any organisation
  
• Inside Tesla: Real-world lessons on driving business transformation–from the factory floor to the boardroom
• Keys to building a culture of trust, accountability, and experimentation that empowers teams to question assumptions and challenge the status quo
  
• How any company can become an “idea factory”: Turning disruption into a driver of continuous innovation, growth, and lasting competitive edge
  

Ayanna Howard

Pioneering innovator, entrepreneur and inventor of robotic technologies and AI for industry

A former senior robotics researcher and Mars Exploration research engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Ayanna Howard is the current Dean of Engineering at The Ohio State University.   She is the co-founder and board director of Zyrobotics, a STEM education and therapy company that designs products for children with special needs. Foremost authority on human emotion-centered robotic design, her work and accomplishments have been the subject of numerous articles and profiles, including in Time, USA Today and Black Enterprise.  Howard is also the author of the best-selling audiobook Sex, Race, and Robots: How to Be Human in the Age of AI.

Leveraging the Transformational Power of AI

• How AI and robotics will define the future of businesses across industries: An optimistic approach to navigating transformation, complexity, and change
  
• Leveraging AI for human-centered innovation: Strategies for enhancing productivity and connection
  
• Understanding and mitigating the unintended consequences and ethical challenges of AI
  
• Diverse teams in AI development: Keys to creating inclusive products

Renée Richardson Gosline

Globally recognised expert in customer experience and AI at MIT Sloan

A globally-recognised thinker on how AI affects human judgment, Renée Richardson Gosline is an award-winning Research Scientist and Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and the head of the Human-First AI group at MIT’s Initiative on The Digital Economy. Named a Digital Fellow at Stanford’s Digital Economy Lab, Gosline has also been recognised as one of the World’s Top 40 Professors under 40 by Poets and Quants, and as “one of the brightest minds in AI” by Inc. Magazine in 2024. Her research specialises in AI CX strategy, creating a culture of experimentation, and Responsible AI.  She is the author of the forthcoming book, In Praise of Friction.

Humanizing AI: Designing Unforgettable Customer Experiences

• Key principles of a successful customer experience strategy: Balancing data-driven insights with human emotion
• Turning friction into opportunity: The art of crafting memorable interactions
  
• Ethical AI and inclusive leadership: Strategies to craft unbiased, customer-centric experiences that resonate with all clients
• Building a culture of innovation through behavioural science and human-centered AI
  

Steve Vamos

Former CEO of Xero and senior executive at Apple and Microsoft

With more than four decades at the helm of global technology and digital media companies, Steve Vamos is one of the world’s most respected and trusted voices on leadership, strategy and the human side of building high-performing organisations and scaling businesses to industry leadership and billion-dollar revenues. He has been on the frontline of every significant technology shift and economic shock since the 1980s with companies such as IBM, Apple, Microsoft, ninemsn and Xero. Twice named among the Top 5 Most Influential People in the Australian Technology Industry and featured in the Australian Financial Review’s Business Person of the Year cover story, he is also the author of Through Shifts and Shocks: Lessons from the Front Line of Technology and Change.

Executing Strategy: What It Really Takes from Those at the Top

• Overcoming misalignment: How to identify and resolve disconnects that derail strategy and turn alignment into competitive advantage
  
• Why detail and discipline are essential to transform strategy into sustained performance
• The attributes of leaders who deliver on strategy – and how to develop them in your organisation
  
• Reward for effort: How individual growth, effective teamwork, and a strong culture of change amplify performance

Join thousands of leaders worldwide