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WORLD-CLASS SPEAKERS

Francis
Ford Coppola

Creativity

Gen. David
Petraeus

Leadership

Amy
Edmondson

Organizational Change

Anne
Chow

High

Performance Teams

Gary
Hamel

Strategy

Jon McNeill

Innovation

Modupe
Akinola

Diversity & Inclusion

Felipe
Gomez

Self-Managment

Angela
Ahrendts DBE

Business Transformation

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.

His latest film, Megalopolis, is due to be released in 2024.  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. 

Exdirector de la CIA y general del Ejército de los Estados Unidos

A highly decorated general and one of the most prominent combat commanders in American history, Gen. David H. Petraeus, USA (Ret.) has dedicated his life to public service, leading military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan and then serving as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency.  His illustrious military career spanned over 37 years and included six command roles, five of which were during combat. 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. 

Durante su mandato como director de la CIA, fomentó los esfuerzos en la lucha contra el terrorismo a nivel global y amplió el alcance de los servicios de inteligencia. Actualmente, es socio de KKR y presidente del KKR Global Institute y del Kissinger Fellow de la Universidad de Yale.

Experta en Seguridad Psicológica en Harvard Business School

A renowned expert on organizational learning and leadership and the world’s #1 ranked management thinker, Amy Edmondson has been studying psychological safety and workplace behaviors for more than 20 years.  The Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School, Edmondson helps organizations identify barriers to success that are often hidden inside a workplace culture. Her work has helped major firms vastly improve performance by building an environment of psychological safety, transparency and collaborative teaming.

She is the bestselling author of The Fearless Organization, and the recently published Right Kind of Wrong, which won the Financial Times Business Book of the Year 2023.

Líder transformacional y ex-CEO de AT&T Business

With a remarkable career spanning more than 30 years, Anne Chow is a pioneering figure in the enterprise world. 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. She has been widely recognized as a role model for inclusive leadership, driving success at the intersection of people, culture, and technology. Twice named to Fortune’s Most Powerful Women in Business, 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.

World-renowned business thinker and management innovator

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. The Wall Street Journal has ranked Hamel as the world’s most influential business thinker, and Fortune magazine has called him “the world’s leading expert on business strategy.”

Expresidente de 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.

Authority on organizational performance and diversity at Columbia Business School

Modupe Akinola is a leading authority on organizational performance and diversity, and an Associate Professor of Management at Columbia Business School. She advises leaders on managing stress, diversity, equity, inclusion initiatives and women’s leadership and 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.

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.

Autoridad y referente global en confianza y modelos organizacionales

Stephen M. R. Covey is the bestselling author of The SPEED of Trust and Trust and Inspire: How Truly Great Leaders Unleash Greatness in Others. 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.

Musician and expert in entrepreneurship, innovation and virtuosity

With more than 25 years of entrepreneurial and senior management experience, Felipe Gómez has developed a powerful set of proven tools that helps leaders, teams and organizations to reach extraordinary performance. Leveraging his passion for music and with a grand piano on stage, Felipe will inspire his audience and provide tools to consistently aim for operational excellence, create meaningful connections and build effective cultures of innovation. Gómez is the author of the best-selling book, Attitude-E: The Method for Being Entrepreneurial and Fulfilling your Dreams.

Exvicepresidenta senior de Apple Retail y ex-CEO de Burberry

Consistently recognized over the past decade as one of the world’s top global executives, Angela Ahrendts DBE is best known for her tenure as Senior Vice President at Apple Retail and for her nine years as CEO at Burberry.  At Apple, Ahrendts was responsible for integrating Apple’s physical and digital businesses, creating a seamless customer journey for over a billion visitors a year and re-crafting roles for 70,000 employees globally.  At Burberry she transformed the fortunes of the brand, tripling the business and quadrupling the share price with a focus on culture and values.  Ahrendts is currently Chair of the Board of Save the Children and a member of the Board of Directors of Ralph Lauren Corp., Airbnb, WPP, and charity: water.

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World Business Forum


2024

Organized by WOBI in major cities across the globe, the World Business Forum gathers thousands of senior executives to learn from world-class business thought leaders.

The Forum focuses on the most relevant management topics for today’s business leaders as they face the challenge of steering their teams and organizations.

World Business Forum NYC

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October 2024

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AGENDA

9:00am – 5:45pm New York time

(EST/EDT)

WEDNESDAY

23

October
2024

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

GARY HAMEL

Strategy
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM

Break

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

ANGELA AHRENDTS

Business Transformation
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM

Break

NETWORKING
1:45 PM - 3:00 PM

JON MCNEIL

Innovation: Tesla Case
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

MODUPE AKINOLA

Diversity & Inclusion
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM

Break

4:45 PM - 5:45 PM

FELIPE GOMEZ

Self-Management

WEDNESDAY

23

October
2024

NETWORKING
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

GARY HAMEL

Strategy
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM

Break

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

ANGELA AHRENDTS

Business Transformation
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM

Break

1:45 PM - 3:00 PM

JON MCNEIL

Innovation: Tesla Case
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

MODUPE AKINOLA

Diversity & Inclusion
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM

Break

4:45 PM - 5:45 PM

FELIPE GOMEZ

Self-Management

THURSDAY

24

October
2024

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

AMY EDMONDSON

Organizational Change
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM

Break

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

STEPHEN M.R. COVEY

Talent
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM

Break

NETWORKING
1:45 PM - 3:00 PM

ANNE CHOW

High Performance Teams
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

GEN. DAVID PETRAEUS

Leadership
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM

Break

4:45 PM - 5:45 PM

FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

Creativity

THURSDAY

24

October
2024

NETWORKING
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

AMY EDMONDSON

Organizational Change
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM

Break

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

STEPHEN M.R. COVEY

Talent
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM

Break

1:45 PM - 3:00 PM

ANNE CHOW

High Performance Teams
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

GEN. DAVID PETRAEUS

Leadership
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM

Break

4:45 PM - 5:45 PM

FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

Creativity

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