Chairman and CEO, Hewlett-Packard Company (1999-2005) and Best-Selling Author

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 organisations 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 organisation that invests in human potential by supporting local leaders who are solving problems in their communities and places of work.

Leading Organizational Transformation

• How to increase the problem-solving and leadership capacity of organisations
• 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

Global thought leader on positive psychology and leadership

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 optimise their success and happiness. Ben-Shahar received his PhD in Organisational 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, Happier and Being Happy. His latest book Happier, No Matter What: Cultivating Hope, Resilience, and Purpose in Hard Times was published on May 2021.

Aligning your teams to achieve extraordinary results

• Creating a positive environment that nurtures the potential amongst your teams
• Underpinning extraordinary rather than ordinary outcomes to enable fulfillment, happiness, wellbeing, and success
• The Science of Happiness: Practical tools for better productivity and better living
• Harnessing the speed of change to establish a clear sense of purpose and drive peak performance

Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, leader in AI and behavioral economics

Renée Richardson Gosline is a professor in the MIT Sloan School of Management where she leads the new Human-AI Integration Pillar at MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy (IDE). Her expertise is at the intersection of behavioral science, technology, and the implications of AI for cognitive bias in human decision-making. A hands-on practitioner who previously worked in the private sector for LVMH and Leo Burnett, Gosline has advised leaders at Fortune 500 companies including IBM, P&G, Johnson & Johnson, Salesforce and BMW. Named one of the world’s Top 40 Professors Under 40 by Poets and Quants, Gosline is a 2020 honoree of the Inaugural #Blacklist100 of “Black Thought Leaders Creating Positive Change”.

Developing Breakthrough Customer Experience Strategies

• How digital technology has revolutionised the way humans behave and make decisions – and the implications for competitive strategy
• Leveraging human-centered AI to develop innovations that lead to big rewards
• Designing a customer experience strategy that is data driven but also keenly aware of the human element
• Actionable tools to help you and your team enhance the digital customer experience your company provides

Internationally acclaimed expert in brand and cultural transformation

Martin Lindstrom is one of the world’s premier brand building experts, advising Fortune 100 companies on how to build future-proof brands. He has carved out a niche as a global expert and pioneer in the fields of consumer psychology, brand marketing, and neuro-scientific research. He is a bestselling author of numerous publications including Small Data – The Tiny Clues That Uncover Huge Trends and Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy. His most recent book is The Ministry of Common Sense.

Revealing the True Desires of Consumers

• Reasons why the next great advancement will be the Small Data revolution, when we are currently living in a world obsessed with Big Data
• Decipher the code of human desires: Utilising the human observation to reveal the needs and impulses of consumers
• Causality versus Correlation: The importance of understanding the difference between both concepts when attempting to understand why consumers behave the way they do
• Why we need to get closer: A humanistic approach to Marketing

Chair of CSIRO and former chair of Telstra

Former CEO of Telstra and current Chairman of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, David Thodey builds extraordinary teams and winning cultures by creating career opportunities that challenge and enable top talent to have an impact in the workplace. An accomplished board chairman and director, Thodey has extensive experience in information and communications technology (ICT), digital business, data and digital services. Prior to Telstra, Thodey held various senior marketing and sales positions at IBM including Chief Executive Officer of IBM Australia/New Zealand, while also taking part in a number of Harvard Education programs. Today, Thodey currently leads a review of the Federal Financial Relationship between the Commonwealth and State of NSW, while also serving as Deputy Chair of the National COVID-19 Coordination Commission by Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

Re-defining the Future of Innovation

• Re-thinking and establishing innovation as a behavior to drive change throughout organisations
• How a culture can move from slow-moving and bureaucratic to dynamic, fast-paced and self-driven
• Technology trends and directions

Organisational psychologist, researcher, and best-selling author

Dr. Tasha Eurich is an organisational psychologist, researcher, and New York Times best-selling author. She uses the principles of psychology to help individuals become more successful, and companies to grow and thrive. She is also the founder of The Eurich Group, where she’s helped thousands of leaders and teams improve their effectiveness through greater self-awareness.

Becoming a Future Ready Leader

• Why self-awareness is a foundational leadership skill in the current fast changing business environment
• The two categories of self-awareness and how they influence our effectiveness, happiness, and change agility
• Strategies for building trust and collaboration in teams
• Avoiding the invisible roadblocks that get in the way of self awareness

Recognized authority on digital transformation and disruptive innovation

As a recognised expert in the fields of technology strategy, digital transformation and disruptive innovation, INSEAD Professor Nathan Furr helps organisations reposition for growth during periods of uncertainty and disruption. He currently leads INSEAD’s technology strategy, digital transformation and innovation courses and has worked closely with global clients to help them transform their innovation efforts. Professionally, Furr has contributed as the founder and advisor to corporations and startups across multiple industries including clean technology and professional and financial services. Furr is the author of four award-winning books including Innovation Capital: How to Compete—and Win—Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders. His extensive research has appeared in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Inc. among others.

The Upside of Uncertainty: Navigating Innovation and Transformation

• Developing uncertainty capability: How to better equip leaders and teams to identify opportunities hidden inside the unknown
• Tools for navigating the unknown and avoiding maladaptive traps
• Reframing, priming, doing and sustaining: Four approaches for building your uncertainty ability
• Applying these tools as both an individual and organisational level

Entrepreneur and Creator of Lazy Town

Creator, director and protagonist of the successful children’s television series LazyTown, Magnus Scheving has taken advantage of his infectious creativity and entrepreneurial spirit to promote the nutrition and health of children into a global brand. Broadcasted in more than 170 countries and reaching over 500 million homes, LazyTown has won various awards including a BAFTA, renowned US Telly Awards, and has received two Emmy award nominations. The company is responsible for producing books, videos, games, and sporting goods with the mission to promote fitness and a healthy lifestyle to children. The TV series remains Scheving’s core asset as it continues to be broadcast worldwide.

LazyTown: The Journey from Personal Mission to Global Brand

• The philosophies and beliefs that underpin the most successful leaders
• Keys to staying creative: How to embrace risk and move out of your comfort zone
• The role of the leader in developing a recognisable and lasting style for your brand
• Redefining profit: Building a company ethic that focuses on more than finance
• Cultivating the positive attitudes that will allow your organisation to flourish

Professor Muhammad Yunus is the founder and former Managing Director of Grameen Bank which provides micro-credit to millions of poor people in Bangladesh. In 2006, Professor Yunus and Grameen Bank were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He is one of only seven individuals to have received the Nobel Peace Prize, the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the United States Congressional Gold Medal. The success of Grameen Bank has been phenomenal and transformational. Today, it is a $2.5 billion banking enterprise in Bangladesh, while the microcredit model has spread to over 50 countries worldwide, from the U.S. to Papua New Guinea, Norway to Nepal.

Social Business and the Future of Capitalism

• What is social business and how to put it into practice
  
• How entrepreneurial spirit and business smarts can be harnessed to create sustainable businesses
• Meeting the challenge of building a world without poverty
• The evolution of sustainable development: From CSR to ESG and beyond