Strategic Planning Speakers

Keith Ferrazzi

Keith Ferrazzi is the world’s foremost expert in professional relationship development. He has transformed the lives and careers of clients and readers worldwide, bringing 20 years of research and experience to the art and science of business relationship development. His signature focus on success through relationships ...

Dennis Snow

Beginning his 20-year Disney career as a front-line attraction operator, Snow quickly moved into a Disney leadership role, learning and applying the skills it takes to run a world-class, service-driven organization. He consults with organizations around the world on customer service, leadership and quality, and is ...

Steven Squyres

A certified science superstar, Squyres is best-known as the face and voice of NASA, having made history as the principal investigator of the Mars Exploration Rover Project and its pioneering drive across the planet’s surface by two high-tech robotic rovers. He shares insights on the historic mission as well as never ...

Sam Graham-Felsen

Sam Graham-Felsen is a pioneer in the rapidly growing fields of emerging media and movement building, both as a strategic advisor and as a key member of President Barack Obama's online campaign team.

Jeffrey Baxter

Grammy Award-winning rock guitarist with the Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan, Baxter is now an advising member of Congress, the defense industry, and the military. Baxter teaches audiences what he has taught leading Pentagon and government officials - challenging old assumptions and adapting to change.

Rowan Gibson

A global business strategist, best-selling author and an expert on radical innovation, Gibson recently launched InnovationExcellence.com. Labeled by the media as “a guru among the gurus,” he teaches organizations how to seize new growth opportunities, create new markets, and even transform industries by recalibrating ...

Jared Cohen

Political transcendent Jared Cohen was originally brought in by Condoleezza Rice as the youngest member of the Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff, where he continued to serve under Secretary Hillary Clinton. In this capacity, the technology and Middle East specialist focused on such issues as ...

Jeff Tobe

Tobe's extensive background as an award-winning sales and marketing entrepreneur has made him the leading authority on creativity and innovation in business. Tobe, who has owned his own advertising agency for the past 10 years, believes in the power of creativity to manage the change that is inevitable with innovation, ...

Ram Charan

Charan is a highly acclaimed business advisor, speaker, and author. He has coached some of the world's most successful CEOs. For over 35 years, he has worked behind the scenes at companies like GE, KLM, Bank of America, DuPont, Novartis, EMC, Home Depot, 3M, and Verizon.

Gary Hamel

The Wall Street Journal recently ranked Gary Hamel as the world's most influential business thinker, and Fortune magazine has called him "the world’s leading expert on business strategy." Hamel is a sought after keynote speaker, educating audiences on management, strategy, leadership, innovation, and ...

Jack McGuire

Jack McGuire served as interim President and CEO of the American Red Cross from December 13, 2005 – May 28, 2007. He will continue to serve as Executive Vice President of Biomedical Services, the position he assumed in March 2004, through July 15, 2007.

Howard Putnam

For more than 30 years, Putnam - the former CEO of Southwest Airlines - played a leading role in the rapidly changing environment of the airline industry. He is the author of The Winds of Turbulence.

Tim Sanders

Sanders is the former Leadership Coach at Yahoo! and author of Love is the Killer APP. Prior to his current position, Sanders was the Chief Solutions Officer at Yahoo!, where he was in charge of delivering next-generation marketing programs to world class brands. A dynamic and skilled speaker with years of debating ...

Xavier Sala-i-Martin

Xavier Sala-i-Martin is Professor of Economics at Columbia University in New York and the Chief Economic Advisor to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. A respected economist, Sala-i-Martin is also a consultant to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, a member of the Counseling Board of Telefonica ...

Jason Recher & Doug McMarlin

Recher & McMarlin have served as aides to prominent US officials, creating major media & strategy campaigns for the likes of George W. Bush & Sarah Palin.

Chris Hughes

A technology superstar whose business is people, Hughes has helped create two of the most successful startups in modern history: Facebook and MyBarackObama.com, the campaign apparatus that helped elect a US President. With an instinct for building technology that networks the commonality of real people and real ...

Sarah Lacy

Sarah Lacy knows Silicon Valley and the power of the Web 2.0 technology like few others. As a veteran reporter covering start ups—from technology innovation to cultural underpinnings—Lacy is an expert in translating the mystique and the might of this hub of technology to the rest of the world.

Matthew Kelly

Matthew Kelly is an internationally acclaimed speaker and author, and Founder and President of Beresford Consulting—a consulting firm based on the belief that your organization can only become the best version of itself if the people that drive your organization are striving to become the best version of themselves.

Patti Solis Doyle

As the first Hispanic woman to lead a presidential campaign in the United States, she is the former campaign manager for Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2008 presidential bid. Solis Doyle is one of the hardest working leaders in her business, where it is rare for females to manage major campaigns, and where minorities in key ...

Frank Luntz

Frank Luntz is one of the most honored communication professionals in America today. Time magazine named him one of the “50 most promising leaders aged 40 and under” and he is the “hottest pollster” in America according to the Boston Globe. He is the author of the acclaimed Words the Work: It’s ...