WORLD BUSINESS FORUM 2024

Autore di bestseller e fondatore della Optimism Company

Simon Sinek è un irremovibile ottimista. Crede in un futuro luminoso e nella nostra capacità di costruirlo insieme. Descritto come "un pensatore visionario dal raro intelletto", Sinek ha dedicato la sua vita professionale a sviluppare una visione del mondo che ancora non esiste: un mondo in cui la maggioranza delle persone si sveglia ogni mattina ispirata, si sente al sicuro ovunque si trovi e termina la giornata appagata dal proprio lavoro. 

Continua a condividere l'ispirazione attraverso i suoi libri bestseller, tra cui Start with WHY, Leaders Eat Last e The Infinite Game, e il suo podcast, A Bit of Optimism. Inoltre, Sinek è il fondatore di The Optimism Company, un'azienda che si occupa di apprendimento e sviluppo della leadership, e pubblica altri pensatori e personaggi in grado di ispirare attraverso la sua partnership editoriale con Penguin Random House, chiamata Optimism Press.

Guidare e gestire i talenti attraverso il gioco infinito

• Un nuovo modo di guardare alla tua leadership, alla tua organizzazione e al contesto in cui opera
• Pratiche per mantenere e ricostruire la fiducia, e come evitare di romperla
• Imparare a costruire relazioni più forti, base fondante dell’intraprendenza di ogni leader
• Come combattere le inevitabili tensioni e i pericoli che minacciano la tua organizzazione, il tuo team e ogni individuo di cui sei responsabile

Francis Ford Coppola is a highly renowned film director, producer, and screenwriter. He has won multiple prestigious awards, including five Academy Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, two Palmes d’Or, and a British Academy Film Award (BAFTA). Coppola’s most notable films, such as The Godfather trilogy – which transformed the gangster genre – and Apocalypse Now, have established him as one of the most significant filmmakers in American history.

His latest film, Megalopolis, is due to be released in 2024.  Apart from his filmmaking career, Coppola has expanded his horizons into the wine and hospitality industry, establishing the Francis Ford Coppola Presents brand, which offers various resorts, cafes, and wineries located in California, Guatemala, and Belize.

Leading Creativity: Lessons from a Master Director

• The skills and characteristics needed to consistently and effectively push creative boundaries
• Producing award-winning performances: How to identify and get the best out of your talent
• A different approach for dealing with doubt, uncertainty and failure
• The evolution of storytelling: Keys to develop powerful stories that capture people’s imaginations

Groundbreaking leader and former CEO at AT&T Business

With a remarkable career spanning more than 30 years, Anne Chow is a pioneering figure in the enterprise world. She was the first woman of color CEO in AT&T’s 140+ year history, overseeing AT&T Business, a global operating unit with a workforce of 35,000 and a value of $35 billion. She has been widely recognized as a role model for inclusive leadership, driving success at the intersection of people, culture, and technology. Twice named to Fortune’s Most Powerful Women in Business, Chow is currently Lead Director on the Board of Directors of FranklinCovey and also serves on the Board of Directors of 3M. Additionally, she is an Adjunct Professor of Executive Education at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

The Challenge of Realizing the Full Potential of Our Organizations

• Why high performance is anchored around culture: Recognizing the foundational importance of trust and transparency in relationships
• How our paradigms set us up for success – personally, professionally, and as a society
• Unlocking potential by recognizing bias, and emphasizing empathy and curiosity
• Tools to help you overcome unconscious bias and reframe unconscious thoughts

Modupe Akinola is a leading authority on organizational performance and diversity, and an Associate Professor of Management at Columbia Business School. She advises leaders on managing stress, diversity, equity, inclusion initiatives and women’s leadership and her research on stress and discrimination has been published in numerous academic journals and media outlets, including The New York Times, Forbes, and The Economist.

Before becoming an academic, Akinola was the head of diversity at Bain & Co., where she contributed to the organization’s recruitment and retention framework for people of color. She earned her Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Harvard.

Guidare le performance organizzative e la diversità

• Strategie che le organizzazioni possono adottare per aumentare la diversità del loro pool di talenti
• I pregiudizi che influenzano il recruitment e la retention delle donne e delle persone di colore nelle aziende
• Come gli ambienti organizzativi possono generare stress e l'impatto sulle performance individuali e organizzative
• Costruire aziende che aumentino la produttività dei dipendenti, ne potenzino la creatività e migliorino i risultati in termini di salute

Chris Gardner is an entrepreneur, author, philanthropist, and single parent whose work has been recognized by many esteemed organizations around the world. He is the author of two bestselling books, The Pursuit of Happyness e Start Where You Are: Life Lessons in Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. Gardner was an executive producer on the iconic and critically acclaimed film adaptation of The Pursuit of Happyness starring Will Smith. Through his positivity, courage, tenacity, discipline and common sense, Gardner’s story is one of overcoming setbacks and hardship to become a top earner on Wall Street before founding his own brokerage.

Leading Organizational Transformation

• From living on the street to working on Wall Street: On surmounting obstacles and beating the odds
• Transforming the impossible into the possible: What self-empowerment means and how to achieve it
• The keys to breaking cycles and opening up new opportunities
• Philosophies on navigating tumultuous times and creating a fulfilling, successful life

World-renowned business thinker and management innovator

Gary Hamel is one of the world’s most influential and iconoclastic business thinkers who has led transformational efforts in some of the world’s most notable companies helping to create billions of dollars in shareholder value. For over four decades, Hamel has served on the faculty of the London Business School and he is the director of the Management Lab. Hamel is an author of landmark books such as Competing for the Future, The Future of Management and Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them. The Wall Street Journal has ranked Hamel as the world’s most influential business thinker, and Fortune magazine has called him “the world’s leading expert on business strategy.”

Building a Strategy for Evolutionary Advantage

• How to build an organization that can change as fast as change itself
• Why organizations must embrace new principles of experimentation, openness, meritocracy, freedom and audacity
• Adopting open strategy: The challenge of unleashing the collective intelligence in your organization
• How to make innovation a core competence: Revealing a systematic approach to increasing capacity for continuous, breakthrough innovation

Innovator and former President of Tesla Motors

A visionary leader and serial entrepreneur, Jon McNeill teaches organizations 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.

Lessons on Transformation and Growth from Inside Tesla

• Disruption, transformation and the Tesla case: The electric car everyone is watching
• Sleeping in the Tesla factory: Experiences and lessons learned with Elon Musk
• How to generate a culture of trust and accountability among employees
• Detecting and promoting disruptive and transformative ideas within your organization: How to create an ideas factory
• Taking risks: When it is time to move from analysis to action

Widely regarded as one of the greatest tennis players in history, Andre Agassi amassed an impressive record of 60 men’s singles titles, which included capturing eight Grand Slam championships, during his illustrious 20-year career. A former world no.1, Agassi went on to etch his name in the annals of tennis history by becoming the first male player ever to achieve the remarkable feat of winning all four Grand Slam titles and an Olympic gold medal. He was also a member of three winning Davis Cup teams in 1990, 1992, e 1995. 

Agassi also was notable for the charitable ventures he undertook, including the founding of the Andre Agassi Foundation (1994) to aid at-risk children. This foundation has played a pivotal role in education reform, raising over $180 million. His highly acclaimed autobiography, Open, was published in 2009 and it soared to the number one spot on the New York Times bestseller list. In recognition of his contributions to the sport, Agassi was rightfully inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2011.

From Talent to High Performance: Strategies for Sustained Success

• Talent is just the start: What it takes to become the best in the world and sustain success over the long term
• Developing the mental strength to give you the edge when the pressure is on
• Getting your team right: Identifying the skills and characteristics you need in those around you
• How to bounce back from the inevitable setbacks, failures and criticisms.
• Setting goals and staying true to yourself: On authenticity and the importance of giving back.

Consistently recognized over the past decade as one of the world’s top global executives, Angela Ahrendts DBE is best known for her tenure as Senior Vice President at Apple Retail and for her nine years as CEO at Burberry.  At Apple, Ahrendts was responsible for integrating Apple’s physical and digital businesses, creating a seamless customer journey for over a billion visitors a year and re-crafting roles for 70,000 employees globally.  At Burberry she transformed the fortunes of the brand, tripling the business and quadrupling the share price with a focus on culture and values.  Ahrendts is currently Chair of the Board of Save the Children and a member of the Board of Directors of Ralph Lauren Corp., Airbnb, WPP, and charity: water.

Leading Change with Humility, Humanity and Heart

• Connecting with people in a way that encourages everyone to shape the future of the organization
• How to convey complex ideas with clarity and authenticity to foster alignment and shared purpose within organizations
• Amplifying human attributes in an artificial world: A new paradigm of leadership to thrive in the age of AI
• Leveraging technology to unleash a new wave of creativity and innovation

World’s leading expert on organizational trust

Stephen M. R. Covey is the bestselling author of The SPEED of Trust e Trust and Inspire: How Truly Great Leaders Unleash Greatness in Others. He is the former CEO of Covey Leadership Center, which, under his stewardship, became the largest leadership development company in the world. Covey personally led the strategy that propelled his father’s book, Dr. Stephen R. Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, to become one of the two most influential business books of the 20th Century, according to CEO Magazine.

Trust and Inspire: Unleashing Greatness in Others

• Why the old rules of leadership no longer apply
• Trust and Inspire: A comprehensive framework for an alternative to command and control
• How trust and collaboration will be the foundation of the future of work
• Revealing the fundamental beliefs of a Trust and Inspire leader

Tony Fadell è un investitore e imprenditore attivo con oltre 30 anni di esperienza nella fondazione di aziende e nella progettazione di prodotti che migliorano profondamente la vita delle persone. È il direttore di Build Collective, una società di consulenza e investimento che si occupa di startup altamente tecnologiche, che attualmente sta assistendo oltre 200 startup. È il fondatore ed ex CEO di Nest, l'azienda pioniera dell'"Internet of Things". Fadell è stato SVP della divisione iPod di Apple e ha guidato il team che ha creato le prime 18 generazioni di iPod e le prime tre generazioni di iPhone. Nel corso della sua carriera Fadell è stato autore di oltre 300 brevetti. Nel maggio 2016, TIME ha nominato il termostato Nest Learning, l'iPod e l'iPhone come tre dei "50 gadget più influenti di tutti i tempi". È autore del bestseller BUILD: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making.

La guida di un innovatore nel realizzare progetti che valgano la pena di essere realizzati

• L'innovazione e come la deep tech può cambiare il mondo
• Imparare dai fallimenti per creare l'iPod e fondare Nest
• Rispondere alle esigenze e ai punti dolenti dei consumatori: come affrontare lo sviluppo e la progettazione dei prodotti
• Strategie per una leadership e un team management efficaci per alimentare l'innovazione, la sperimentazione e il miglioramento continuo

Principale esperta di felicità e benessere presso l'Università della British Columbia

La dott.ssa Elizabeth Dunn è un'illustre professoressa di Psicologia presso l'Università della British Columbia e una delle maggiori esperte nello studio di come il tempo, il denaro e la tecnologia influenzino la felicità umana. La sua ricerca sperimentale non solo è stata pubblicata su riviste di alto livello, tra cui tre articoli su Science, ma è stata anche ampiamente pubblicizzata da media internazionali come il New York Times, The Atlantic e la CNN. È anche coautrice dell'acclamato libro Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending, riconosciuto dal Washington Post come lettura essenziale per i leader.

Liberare il potenziale attraverso la costruzione di connessioni sociali

• Come aumentare la felicità dei collaboratori in un'epoca in cui le strutture del posto di lavoro sono in continua evoluzione
• Strategie scientificamente fondate per creare forti legami sul posto di lavoro
• Perché i forti legami personali creano una risorsa duratura per l'organizzazione, soprattutto nei momenti più difficili
• Come le interazioni artificiali influenzano i nostri sentimenti di felicità e connessione sociale
• Come bilanciare la tecnologia e il tocco umano, un'abilità essenziale per le organizzazioni che incorporano gli strumenti di AI nella loro strategia

As the Chief Strategy Officer at Wieden+Kennedy New York, and a marketing Professor at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Marcus Collins bridges the academic-practitioner gap for blue-chip brands and startups alike. Over the course of his career, Collins has developed a practice for creating culturally contagious ideas that inspire people to take action. In addition, he served as Head of Digital Strategy for Beyoncé.

His acclaimed book For The Culture: The Power Behind What We Buy, What We Do, and Who We Want to Be examines the influence of culture on consumption and unpacks how everyone from marketers to activists can leverage culture to get people to take action. He is a recipient of Advertising Age’s 40 Under 40 award and Crain’s Business’ 40 Under 40 award, and a recent inductee into the American Advertising Federation’s Advertising Hall of Achievement.

The Future of Brands

• Why culture is the most powerful vehicle for influencing behavior and what this means for brands
• The underlying physics of how culture works and how to leverage its way to get people to take action
• What it takes for brands to effectively engage with communitiesl
• Understanding consumption as a cultural act – and the implications for the brands of tomorrow
• From Beyoncé to the Fortune 500: Sharing practical lessons from the field