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Rick Belluzzo
A 30-year tech industry veteran and former president and COO of Microsoft, Belluzzo is the CEO of Quantum Corporation, a data protection business. Belluzzo is responsible for guiding the company's business strategy and direction.

Available Programs
  • Corporate culture: The Value, The Challenge and the impact.
  • Transforming a Company: Building a new future.
  • Acquisitions: A vehicle or transforming a company.
  • The Human side of Transition: Getting people to accept tough change.
  • Managing and Developing People: Your company's greatest resource.
  • Technology and Business Model Transitions.

Julian Bond
Beginning with his pivotal role in the Civil Rights movement, Bond has always been on the cutting edge of social change and leadership. Legendary as the first black US vice presidential nominee, he is now Chairman of the NAACP and continues to deliver a powerful message of equality, freedom, and justice with a renewed sense of relevance.

Available Programs
  • The Road to Freedom: From Alabam to Obama.
  • Race to the White House: The politics of Civil Rights.
  • Mentoring and the Corporate Way.
  • Civil Rights: In the Day, Today and the Tomorrow.
  • Black, Jewish, Muslim: Common cause with those who share our condition.
  • Crossing the Colour Line: From Rhythm 'n Blues to Rock 'n Roll.

Bridget Brennan
Bridget Brennan is a pioneer in developing marketing and sales strategies that appeal to the world’s most powerful consumers. As the founder and CEO of Female Factor, a consulting firm that helps companies understand the lens through which women view a brand, product, service, or retail environment.

Available Programs
  • The Global Rise of the female consumer.
  • Principals of marketing to woman.
  • Principles of selling to woman.
  • Principles of Female-friendly customer service.
  • Fundamentals of the female consumer, for the senior Executives.
  • Gender communication in the workspace.

Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland
Former Prime Minister of Norway, Director-General of the World Health Organization, and Chair of the World Commission on Environment and Development, Dr. Brundtland has been a prominent force in addressing key issues such as healthcare, economic sustainability, and the challenges to the environment throughout the world. She now serves as UN Special Envoy on Climate Change, seeking ways to balance human enterprise and the planet’s limits. Continuing where the“Brundtland Report” on sustainability she spearheaded over 20 years ago left off, she focuses on the developmental impact of climate change and global warming.

Available Programs
  • Global Health Security: Putting a stop on the next Pandemic.
  • WHO and the battle against SARS: How we confronted and contained the global expansion of SARS.
  • Macroeconomics and Health - Investing in Health for Economic Development.
  • A Woman's perspective in Leadership.
  • Forward-Thinking Leadership and Effective Foreign Policy in the global arena.

Mr. Ted Childs
As IBM's Vice President of Global Workforce Diversity, Childs oversaw IBM's model workforce diversity programs and policies. Called "perhaps the most effective diversity executive on the planet," by Hewitt Magazine, he helps companies, organizations, and communities understand the importance of diversity education to succeed in today's global environment.

Available Programs
  • The link between Diversity and Global Competitiveness.
  • Go Global, Go Diverse, Get Ahead.
  • The Business Case for Diversity.
  • The Promise of Diversity and Changes in the Market Place.
  • The Diversity Imperative: Strategies for Success in the Global Workplace.

John Crowley
The Crowley family story has been featured on the Today Show and on the cover of The Wall Street Journal. It is an inspiring story of what it means to do "whatever it takes", against phenomenal odds, for your children. It is a story about hope, learning, life and love. It is also a story about what it takes to form, inspire and drive an organization to a common goal. Finally, it is a story about coping with life's adversity, about relentless determination, and what it means to never, never, never quit.

Available Programs
  • When drug research is personal.
  • Coping with Adversity.
  • Never, never, never Quit.
  • Setting goals and Inspiring an Organisation.

Kay Koplovitz
Koplovitz is the founder of USA Networks and the first woman network president in television history. A pioneer in cable television networks and new media ventures, she is a visionary woman who led the emergence of cable television from the backcountry of America to challenge the mighty broadcast networks for coveted audiences. She continues to be a visionary in raising venture capital for women entrepreneurs and in launching new programming companies that challenge the frontiers of the digital age.

Available Programs
  • The Quickest way to the top is to start There.
  • Human Capital: The secret to Success.
  • The Roadmap to a successful Life.
  • Power Mentoring: Why the most successful engage.
  • Ethics: Where oh where have they gone?.

Gerald Levin
Gerald M. Levin, until May of 2002, was the Chairman and CEO of Time Warner Inc., at that time the world's largest media and entertainment company, with industry-leading businesses in publishing and news, cable networks, filmed entertainment, cable systems, music and interactive services.

Available Programs
  • Globalization and Corporate Social Responsibility.
  • Management as a Humanist Art.
  • Media and Entertainment.
  • Spirituality and the human condition.

Dr. Alexander A. Likhotal
Having served as adviser to President Mikhail Gorbachev for many years, Likhotal now is President and Chief Executive Officer of Green Cross International. Presenting a strategic approach to managing the environmental crisis, he also works with corporations on how they can successfully combine sustainability and corporate responsibility while accessing the growing eco-market to sharpen their competitive edge. An eyewitness to the wide reaching effects of "glasnost" in Russia, and the rapidly changing global political horizon, Likhotal is a wise and experienced voice on the social, economic and political future of an increasingly climate conscious world.

Available Programs
  • Strong Leadership and Effective Decision Making.
  • The Social, Economic and Political Future in a climate Conscious World.
  • Are you leading change or is Change Leading You?.

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.

Available Programs
  • Strategic Leadership,Change management and culture change.
  • Corporate Governance and Ethics: What could they have done differently.
  • Turnaround Management.
  • Succession Planning.
  • Disaster Preparedness: Things you can do to avoid major losses in disaster.

Mr. John Passacantando
As Executive Director of Greenpeace USA, Passacantando leads the fight for clean air, clean water, and survival of the planet. Offering a chilling “State of the Planet” address, he does his job well, raising awareness, proposing solutions and actions that will spur everyone to work harder and smarter to save our planet.

Available Programs
  • Your Environment, My Environment: A fight for Survival.
  • The state of the Planet.

Peter Thum
BNestled in the coolers of more than 8,000 Starbucks stores, sits Ethos Water, a 23.6-ounce bottle festooned with a map of the world. What distinguishes it from other brands? The company was founded by Peter Thum, a former McKinsey consultant, who dreamed of providing clean drinking water to Third World countries by selling bottled water in the West.

Available Programs
  • Ethos water: realising my dream to help millions and address the world water crisis.
  • What does it take to overcome the tyranny of instrumentalism.
  • Ethical branding and corporate responsibility.