Chris Gardner the key to the success
Chris Gardner is an entrepreneur, author, philanthropist, and single parent whose work has been recognized by many esteemed organizations around the world. He is the author of two bestselling books, The Pursuit of Happyness and Start Where You Are: Life Lessons in Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be.
Gardner was an executive producer on the iconic and critically acclaimed film adaptation of The Pursuit of Happyness starring Will Smith. Through his positivity, courage, tenacity, discipline and common sense, Gardner’s story is one of overcoming setbacks and hardship to become a top earner on Wall Street before founding his own brokerage.
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Uno de los pensadores de management más influyentes del mundo
Gary Hamel es uno de los pensadores empresariales más influyentes, que ha liderado la transformación de algunas de las empresas más destacadas del mundo, contribuyendo a la creación de miles de millones de dólares en valor para los accionistas. Hamel ha ejercido la docencia en London Business School durante más de cuatro décadas y, actualmente, dirige Management Lab en la misma institución. Además, es autor de libros de referencia como Competing for the Future, The Future of Management and Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them.
La trayectoria profesional de Hamel ha sido reconocida por The Wall Street Journal y Fortune, entre otros, quienes le han calificado como uno de los mayores expertos en estrategia empresarial.
Líder transformacional y ex-CEO de AT&T Business
Anne Chow is a pioneering figure in the enterprise world, with a remarkable career spanning more than 30 years. She was the first woman of color CEO in AT&T’s 140+ year history, overseeing AT&T Business, a global operating unit with a workforce of 35,000 and a value of $35 billion.
Chow is currently Lead Director on the Board of Directors of FranklinCovey and also serves on the Board of Directors of 3M. Additionally, she is an Adjunct Professor of Executive Education at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
She has been widely recognized for her role model inclusive leadership, driving success at the intersection of people, culture, and technology. She has been named to Fortune’s Most Powerful Women in Business twice, Forbes inaugural CEO Next List of Leaders set to revolutionize American business, and Light Reading’s Most Inspiring Woman in Communications.
Exdirector de la CIA y general del Ejército de los Estados Unidos
General David H. Petraeus is a pivotal figure in modern U.S. military history. His illustrious military career spanned over 37 years and included six command roles, five of which were during combat. Notably, Petraeus is recognized for orchestrating the “Surge” in Iraq, halting the Taliban’s advance in Afghanistan, and reshaping American military doctrine with comprehensive civil-military counterinsurgency campaigns. Often paralleled to eminent military leaders like Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower, Petraeus stands out as one of America’s “great battle captains.” A graduate with distinction from the United States Military Academy, General Petraeus is the only person in U.S. Army history to be the top graduate in both the U.S. Army’s challenging Ranger School and the year-long U.S. Army Command and General Staff College course.
Post-military, he steered the CIA, amplifying global counterterrorism efforts, expanding intelligence outreach, and instituting a strategic agency blueprint. His leadership at the CIA also saw the inception of an Economic Security Center. Petraeus has been lauded with a plethora of U.S. military and international accolades and has been honored by 14 foreign nations. Transitioning to the private sector, he currently holds positions as a Partner at KKR, chairman of the KKR Global Institute, and the Kissinger Fellow at Yale University. His scholarly endeavors also include co-authoring the bestseller, “Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine.”
Uno de los mejores directores de cine de todos los tiempos
Francis Ford Coppola is a highly renowned film director, producer, and screenwriter. He has won multiple prestigious awards, including five Academy Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, two Palmes d’Or, and a British Academy Film Award (BAFTA). Coppola’s most notable films, such as The Godfather trilogy – which transformed the gangster genre – and Apocalypse Now, have established him as one of the most significant filmmakers in American history.
Apart from his filmmaking career, Coppola has expanded his horizons into the wine and hospitality industry, establishing the Francis Ford Coppola Presents brand, which offers various resorts, cafes, and wineries located in California, Guatemala, and Belize.
He is currently working on his upcoming self-financed film Megalopolis.
Stephen M. R. Covey is the bestselling author of The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything. He is the former CEO of Covey Leadership Center, which, under his stewardship, became the largest leadership development company in the world. Covey personally led the strategy that propelled his father’s book, Dr. Stephen R. Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, to become one of the two most influential business books of the 20th Century, according to CEO Magazine. His latest book is titled Trust and Inspire: How Truly Great Leaders Unleash Greatness in Others.
Former President of Tesla Motors
Jon McNeill es un experto en crecimiento empresarial e innovación disruptiva. Durante su mandato como presidente de Tesla, las ventas aumentaron de 2.000 a 20.000 millones de dólares en solo tres años. En 2018, se convirtió en Chief Operating Officer de Lyft, servicio de transporte accesible a través de una app móvil, gestionando su salida a bolsa y haciendo crecer los ingresos de 800 a 2.000 millones de dólares.
Actualmente, McNeill es director general de DVx Ventures, una plataforma de capital riesgo en fase de crecimiento, y forma parte de varios consejos de administración de empresas como General Motors, Lululemon y Stash Financi.
Columbia Business School Professor and authority on organizational performance and diversity
Modupe Akinola is a leading authority on organizational performance and diversity, and an Associate Professor of Management at Columbia Business School. Her research on stress and discrimination has been published in numerous academic journals and media outlets, including The New York Times, Forbes, and The Economist. Akinola has received several awards, including the Rising Star Award from the Association for Psychological Science and the Best Paper Award from the Academy of Management Journal.
She advises leaders on managing stress, diversity, equity, inclusion initiatives and women’s leadership. Before becoming an academic, Akinola was the head of diversity at Bain & Co., where she contributed to the organization’s recruitment and retention framework for people of color. She earned her Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Harvard.
Authority on Psychological Safety and Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School
Amy Edmondson is a Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School. An authority on Psychological Safety, Edmondson has been consistently ranked as the #1 Management Thinker in the world over the past 4 years. Her research focuses on the fields of teaming, psychological safety, and leadership, having penned over 70 articles and case studies on these topics. Her work on leadership, teams, innovation, and organizational learning has earned her various accolades. Among them are the Accenture Award for her notable contribution to management practices, and a recognition by HR Magazine as one of the 20 Most Influential International Thinkers in Human Resources.
She is the author of bestselling books, including The Fearless Organization, and Right Kind of Wrong.
Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern School of Business
Named by Poets & Quants as one of the world’s top business professors, Scott Galloway is an entrepreneur and Professor of Marketing at NYU’s Stern School of Business. Galloway has founded prominent companies such as Prophet, Red Envelope, L2, and Section4. Furthermore, Galloway has been a board member for organizations like The New York Times Company and Urban Outfitters.
A New York Times-bestselling author, Galloway’s most notable books include The Four, The Algebra of Happiness, and Post Corona. His latest book Adrift: America in 100 Charts debuted on the New York Times bestseller list in October 2022.