Patrick Lencioni was named by The Wall Street Journal as one of the most in-demand business speakers. He was described by The One-Minute Manager's Ken Blanchard as "fast defining the next generation of leadership thinkers." As a consultant and speaker, he has worked with thousands of senior executives in organizations ranging from Fortune 500 corporations to nonprofits.

Dr. Peter Senge is the Founding Chair of a global community of researchers, corporations and consultants called the Society for Organizational Learning. Dr. Senge has lectured extensively throughout the world, translating the abscract ideas of systems theory into tools for better understanding of economic and organizational change.

Clayton M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, with a joint appointment in the Technology & Operations Management and General Management faculty groups. His research ...

Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Dr. Jeffrey Pfeffer has taught seminars and lectured in management development programs for various corporations and universities world wide. He has filled the Thomas Henry Carroll-Ford Foundation Visiting Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School.

Vijay Govindarajan is the recipient of a number of awards for excellence in research, and is one of the world's leading experts in strategy and innovation. He regularly works with CEOs and top management teams in Global Fortune 500 firms to discuss, challenge, and escalate their thinking about strategy.

Nominated as one of The Times' 50 leading influential management thinkers, Lynda Gratton is Professor of Management Practice at London Business School and author of The Democratic Enterprise. Her current research with the Lehman Centre for Women in Business is to create an in-depth understanding of the rhetoric and reality of how business strategy is delivered through people and model the key processes.

University of San Francisco MBA Professor and co-author of the bestseller, Jumping the Curve: Innovation and Strategic Choice in an Age of Transition, Oren Harari specializes in competitive advantage, organizational change and transformational leadership. He writes a monthly national column, The Cutting Edge for Management Review, and has written numerous publications for Harvard Business Review.

Professor at Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Lane Professor Emeritus of Organizational Behavior and Change, Jerry Porras is a business and management analyst and co-author of Success Built to Last: Creating a Life That Mattersand the bestseller Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies.

Karen Stephenson, PhD, is a unique visionary and a pioneer in the rapidly emerging field of social network analysis. She has forged an innovative approach that integrates the natural sciences (quantum chemistry and physics) with the social ...

Barker was the first person to popularize the concept of paradigm shifts for the corporate world. He began his work in 1975 after spending a year on fellowship meeting and working with visionary thinkers in both North America and Europe.