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Aubrey C. Daniels

World’s foremost authority on applying the scientifically proven laws of human behaviour to the workplace

Author of three best-selling books widely recognized as management classics: Bringing out the Best in People: How to Apply the Astonishing Power of Positive Reinforcement; Performance Management: Changing Behavior That Drives Organizational Effectiveness, and Other People’s Habits; Measure of a Leader

His numerous awards include the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Organizational Behavior Modification Network and the Outstanding Service Award from the International Association for Behavior Analysis, which also named him a 2005 Fellow.

Iris Bohnet

Iris Bohnet is Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is the director of the Women and Public Policy Program, associate director of the Laboratory for Decision Science, vice-chair of the Program on Negotiation, and faculty co-chair of the executive program "Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century" for the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders.

She is also affiliated with the Center for Business and Government, the Center for Public Leadership, the Dubai Initiative, and the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University.

Gary Orren.

A leading expert on public opinion, politics, strategic communication, and persuasion

His books include: Equality in America: The View from the Top; The Electronic Commonwealth: The Impact of New Media Technologies on Democratic Politics; Media Polls in American Politics; and Media and Momentum: The New Hampshire Primary and Nomination Politics.

Gary Orren, from Harvard University, where he is Professor of Public Policy and Management. He also teaches Persuasion at Harvard, Oxford University and other venues around the world.

David E. Bell

David E. Bell is the George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business at Harvard Business School. He currently teaches marketing in the school's executive program and retailing in the MBA program. He has taught in the school’s Agrib usiness Seminar for twenty-five years, and is now its faculty chair.

He runs a nine-week executive course, Program for Management Development and is also the head of the school’s marketing department. In agribusiness, David is particularly interested in the demand side of the food chain: how eating habits are changing, both with respect to what people eat and the channels through which they choose to buy food.

Alan G. Robinson

Professor Alan G. Robinson specializes in innovation, creativity, the generation and use of ideas in business, lean production, and managing continuous improvement. He is the co-author of five books, which have been translated into more than twenty languages.

Corporate Creativity (co-authored with Sam Stern) was named "Book of the Year" by the Academy of Human Resource Management, was a finalist in the Financial Times/Booz Allen & Hamilton Global Best Business Book Awards, and has been translated into thirteen foreign languages.

Francis J Flynn

Francis "Frank" Flynn is Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and the Louis and Claude N. Rosenberg Faculty Scholar at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business where he serves as a Co-director of the Stanford Business School's Center for Leadership Development and Research.

He also manages and teaches in several executive education programs, including Stanford's "High-Potential Executives Program." A winner of multiple teaching awards, Professor Flynn's courses focus on developing leadership skills at various organizational levels from senior executives to high-potential managers. His research focuses on topics confronting today's leaders facilitating communication, inspiring motivation, and leveraging human resources to achieve outstanding results.

Dennis J. Encarnation

Dennis J. Encarnation has taught at Harvard University for over twenty years, having joined the faculty in 1982.He spent the first decade of his Harvard career on the faculty of the Harvard Business School and subsequently, he joined John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he is currently Director of the Asia-Pacific Policy program. Prior to Harvard, Professor Encarnation also taught at Stanford University, and received two master’s degrees and a PhD from Duke University.

Professor Encarnation's teaching and research focus, first, on the formulation and implementation of corporate strategy and public policy; and second, on the transformational change that is typically required by business enterprises and government agencies as they respond to the simultaneous pressures of globalization, regionalization and localization.

Michael Gates

Michael Gates was a Scholar of St. Catherine's College Oxford, where he gained an M.A. in English Language and Literature. He worked for five years in radio before helping establish the Finnish office of Richard Lewis Communications. The company provides cross-cultural and communication skills training world-wide.

He is now Group Managing Director for Richard Lewis Communications, but also takes an active role as a speaker and trainer. His clients include Nokia, Ericsson, Microsoft, Rolls-Royce, Accenture, Bearing Point, Boston Consulting, The World Bank, Vestas and the Central Eurasian Leadership Alliance, to name just a few.

JOHN C. BECK

Dr. Beck is the Dean of the Graduate School of Management, Globis University - Tokyo, Japan and also the President of North Star Leadership Group. John earned his B.A. in East Asian Studies and Sociology summa cum laude from Harvard University, and was the first graduate of Harvard's integrative Ph.D. program in Business Studies. Dr. Beck is a Visiting Professor at the Anderson School of Management at UCLA and an Adjunct Professor at the Ivey School at the University of Western Ontario, where he teaches courses on Media and Entertainment, eCommerce, Management Consulting, Globalization and Leadership. John has also taught courses in multinational management, strategy, group psychology, organizational behavior, and management in emerging economies at Harvard University and at the Thunderbird Graduate School of International Management.

Dr. Anupam Khanna

Anupam Khanna is currently on leave from the World Bank, where, most recently, he headed, Policy Support Group in the Corporate Secretariat of the Bank. He oversaw analytic and policy work for the standing committees (Audit, Budget, Development Effectiveness and Personnel) of the 24-member Board of Executive Directors which is resident full-time in Washington D.C. He advised senior management and the Board on strategy and policy as well as fiduciary and compliance issues.

Sherman D. Roberts

Currently an Associate Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Saїd Business School. At Saїd, Roberts serves as Academic Director of the Oxford Programme on Negotiation (2003-Present). He also served as Academic Director of the Oxford Programme on Investment Decisions.

In addition he is President and Faculty Chair of The Ivy Faculty Consortium (1999-Present), a network of experts on leadership and organizational topics, who are professors at some of the best universities, business schools, and schools of public service across the United States and in the U.K.

Richard Olivier

Richard Olivier is an Associate Fellow of the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford and is Artistic Director of Olivier Mythodrama – a unique leadership development consultancy.

He was a leading theatre director for over 10 years and directed Henry V for the opening of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London in 1997. He has worked extensively in the fields of Organisational and Personal Development. His work today is at the leading edge of bringing the world of theatre into the development of authentic leaders.

Phil Harkins

As founder and CEO of Linkage, Inc., Phil has created and led Linkage to become a cutting-edge, global leadership and organizational development company. Phil is an internationally-known expert in the areas of organizational development, leadership, communications and executive coaching. Through his work at Linkage, he has led hundreds of organizations toward better performance, strategic advantage, and routine excellence. Along with leadership expert Warren Bennis, Phil is co-chair of Linkage’s Global Institute for Leadership Development, which has trained and developed over 4,000 leaders worldwide. He has also facilitated over 800 meetings and has been a principal speaker at over 400 conferences, symposia, and retreats throughout the world.

Keith Allred

Keith Allred has been a faculty member at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government since 1998. His teaching and research have focused on leadership, particularly in the areas of negotiation, conflict resolution, and decision making. He has been on the faculty for the Programme on Negotiation at Oxford since 2003. He is also a faculty member of the Ivy Faculty Consortium, a network of top executive educators that delivers executive education programmes on site for businesses, governmental agencies, and large nonprofit organizations. Before joining the faculty at Harvard, he was a professor at Columbia University.