World renowned business thinker and management innovator

Gary Hamel es uno de los pensadores empresariales más influyentes del mundo y ha liderado la transformación de algunas de las compañías más destacadas, contribuyendo a la creación de miles de millones de dólares en valor para los accionistas. Durante más de cuatro décadas, Hamel ha formado parte del cuerpo docente de la London Business School y es el director del Management Lab. Hamel es autor de libros innovadores fundamentales como Competing for the Future, The Future of Management y Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them. El Wall Street Journal ha clasificado a Hamel como el pensador empresarial más influyente del mundo, y la revista Fortune lo ha llamado "el principal experto mundial en estrategia empresarial”. Competing for the Future, The Future of Management e 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.”

Groundbreaking leader and former CEO at 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. 

Former Director of the CIA and United States Army General

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.”

Columbia Business School Professoressa e autorità in materia di performance organizzativa e diversità

Modupe Akinola è una delle massime autorità in materia di performance organizzativa e diversity ed è Associate Professor di management alla Columbia Business School. Le sue ricerche su stress e discriminazione sono state pubblicate in numerose riviste accademiche e media, tra cui il New York Times, Forbes e The Economist. Akinola ha ricevuto diversi riconoscimenti, tra cui il Rising Star Award dell'Association for Psychological Science e il Best Paper Award dell'Academy of Management Journal. 

È consulente di leader in materia di gestione dello stress, diversità, equità, iniziative di inclusione e leadership femminile. Prima di diventare accademica, Akinola è stata responsabile della diversità presso Bain & Co. dove ha contribuito alla creazione di un quadro di recruitment e retention delle persone di colore. Ha conseguito il dottorato di ricerca in Organizational Behavior ad Harvard.

Uno dei più grandi registi e cineasti di tutti i tempi

Uno dei più grandi registi e cineasti di tutti i tempi Considerato uno dei più grandi registi di tutti i tempi, Francis Ford Coppola ha realizzato tra i suoi film più importanti la trilogia del Padrino e Apocalypse Now. Il successo di Coppola come regista e cineasta gli è valso diverse nomination e premi, tra cui BAFTA e Academy Awards.

Il suo lavoro, tuttavia, si espande al di fuori di Hollywood, avendo intrapreso iniziative nel settore del vino e dell'ospitalità. Coppola è il creatore del marchio di lifestyle Francis Ford Coppola Presents, che comprende film, video, resort, caffè e un'azienda vinicola in tutta la California, compresi Guatemala e Belize. 

Attualmente sta lavorando al suo prossimo film autofinanziato Megalopolis.

World’s leading expert on organizational trust and bestselling author

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. 

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 ranked as the #1 Management Thinker in the world by Thinkers50. 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, e 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, e Post Corona. His latest book Adrift: America in 100 Charts debuted on the New York Times bestseller list in October 2022.

A visionary leader and serial entrepreneur, Jon McNeill teaches organizations how to exponentially scale businesses and drive disruptive innovation. As former President of Tesla, he oversaw a 10-fold increase in sales from $2 billion to $20 billion in just three years. In 2018, he became COO at ride-hailing app Lyft, where he helped prepare the company to go public, growing revenue from $800 million to $2 billion in the process.

Attualmente Jon è amministratore delegato di DVx Ventures, una piattaforma di venture growth-stage, e fa parte di diversi consigli di amministrazione di aziende tra cui General Motors, Lululemon e Stash Financial.