Founder and CEO of the San Diego Consulting Group, Inc., Kevin Freiberg is regarded as a leading authority on the critical links between leadership, corporate culture and exceptional customer loyalty. Dr. Freiberg is a professor at the University of San Diego and San Diego State University and is author of BOOM! 7 Choices for Blowing the Doors Off Business-as-Usual!.

Downes is author of the Business Week and New York Times business bestseller, "Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance" (Harvard Business School Press, 1998), which has sold nearly 200,000 copies and was named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the five most important books ever published on business and technology. Downes is also a Partner with the Bell-Mason Group, which works with Global 1000 corporations, providing corporate venturing methodologies, tools, techniques and support that accelerate corporate innovation and venturing programs.

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.

Designer, photographer, filmmaker, respected author and sought-after public speaker Marc Gobé focuses on connecting brands emotionally with people in a positive way. As President of Emotional Branding LLC, an experimental think tank, Marc and his daughter Gwenaelle Gobé, Creative Director, offer insight into the trends that move consumers and ideas that inspire marketers through their website EmotionalBranding.com.