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

A passionate, articulate advocate for problem-solving, innovation, and effective leadership, Carly Fiorina was the first woman ever to lead a Fortune 50 company when she was recruited to lead Hewlett-Packard (HP) in 1999. Under her leadership, revenue grew, innovation tripled, growth quadrupled, and HP became the 11th largest company in the U.S

Her breadth of experience spans from marketing to manufacturing; from sales to strategic planning; from HR to R&D; from finance to engineering to supply chain and logistics. She has led teams and organizations in the private, public and social sectors. Today she is the Founder and Chairman of Carly Fiorina Enterprises, and of Unlocking Potential, a non-profit organization that invests in human potential by supporting local leaders who are solving problems in their communities and places of work.

Leading for the Future

• How to increase the problem-solving and leadership capacity of organizations
• What it takes to help others reach their highest leadership potential
• A blueprint for navigating uncertainty, managing change, and building a high-performance culture
• What it takes to drive transformational change

An expert on Leadership and Positive Psychology, Tal Ben-Shahar combines scientific studies, scholarly research, self-help advice, and spiritual principles to teach people how to optimize their success and happiness. Ben-Shahar received his PhD in Organizational Behavior from Harvard University and today consults and lectures around the world to executives in multinational corporations, Fortune 500 companies and educational institutions.

A serial entrepreneur, Ben-Shahar is the co-Founder and Chief Learning Officer of Happiness Studies Academy, Potentialife, Maytiv, and Happier.TV. He is also the author of the international best seller, Being Happy and Happier, No Matter What.

The Science of Happiness: Navigating Change with Resilience and Purpose

• Cultivating resilience: Strategies for cultivating hope and purpose in challenging times, enabling fulfillment, well-being, and success
• Effective goal setting: Techniques for achieving meaningful goals while maintaining a healthy work-life balance
  
• The Science of Happiness: Practical tools for better productivity and better living
• Growth and self-improvement: The roles of innovation and adaptation in personal and organizational growth
• Nurturing positive relationships: Strategies for fostering healthy connections with colleagues, teams, and partners
  

For the past two decades, Charlene Li has been helping people see the future. Named by Fast Company as one of the most creative people in business, Li is an expert on digital transformation and disruptive growth strategies. Currently, Li serves as Chief Research Officer at PA Consulting, where she leads the company’s thought leadership program. She was also the Founder of Altimeter Group, an analyst firm that was acquired in 2015 by Prophet.

She’s the author of the New York Times bestseller, Open Leadership, as well as Groundswell, and The Disruption Mindset. Her upcoming book, Megatransformation: A Rigorous & Practical 90-day Strategy for Thriving with Generative AI, co-authored with Katia Walsh, provides a comprehensive guide to generative AI, with a special focus on business strategy and the leadership capabilities needed to succeed in this rapidly evolving landscape.

Strategies for Thriving with Generative AI

• AI’s transformative potential: Opportunities and challenges for organizations
• Developing a rigorous AI strategy that aligns with organizational values and resources
• Managing evolving workplace dynamics in the AI era
• Exploring ethical decision-making in AI-related initiative

Peter Weill, Senior Research Scientist and Chairman Emeritus of the Center for Information Systems Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management, helps organisations design and leverage a powerful digital strategy so they can better compete in the 21st century. For years, he has been helping boards and executives digitally transform their institutions so they can exponentially scale business and sustain growth well into the future. 

He has conducted workshops for executive committees and boards of more than 50 companies globally, and for key conferences, including the CEO summits of both Microsoft and SAP. Weill also educates leaders about the role, value and governance of digitization within enterprises and their ecosystems. 

Creating a Future-Ready Organization

• Creating a winning digital strategy: Tools companies can use to tackle threats and leverage opportunities
• Developing a digital operating model to increase revenue and drive growth
• Steps decision makers need to take on their journey to becoming a digitally-savvy, future-ready organization
• Forging partnerships and building a shared ecosystem so everyone can thrive

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 sway to get people to take action
• What it takes for brands to effectively engage with communities
• Understanding consumption as a cultural act – and the implications for the brands of tomorrow
• From Beyonce to the Fortune 500: Sharing practical lessons from the field