David Bell – A Message For Leaders Who Are Facing Digital Transformation

World’s most influential leadership coach

World-renowned business educator and coach, Dr. Marshall Goldsmith is ranked as the #1 Executive Coach in the world. As an educator and coach, Goldsmith helps executives understand how our beliefs and the environments we operate in can trigger behaviours – both positive and negative. Through simple and practical advice, he helps them achieve and sustain positive behavioural change to drive positive impact on their organisation. Goldsmith is the author and editor of 36 books which include What Got You Here Won’t Get You There and Triggers, both recognized by Amazon as two of the Top 100 Leadership & Success Books Ever Written.

High Performance Leadership in Times of Change

• The characteristics of high performing leaders: Developing ourselves, coaching our people, and building engagement
• Leading high performing teams: Increasing happiness and employee engagement
• Creating behaviour change that lasts: Keys to becoming the people and organisations we want to become

A passionate, articulate advocate for problem-solving, innovation, and effective leadership Carly Fiorina was the first woman ever to lead a Fortune 50 company when she was recruited to lead Hewlett Packard (HP) in 1999. Under her leadership, revenue grew, innovation tripled, growth quadrupled, and HP became the 11th largest company in the U.S. Her breadth of experience spans from marketing to manufacturing; from sales to strategic planning; from HR to R&D; from finance to engineering to supply chain and logistics. She has led teams and organizations in the private, public and social sectors. Today she is the founder and Chairman of Carly Fiorina Enterprises, and of Unlocking Potential, a non-profit organization that invests in human potential by supporting local leaders who are solving problems in their communities and places of work.

LEADING ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATION

• How to increase the problem-solving and leadership capacity of organizations
• What it takes to help others reach their highest leadership potential
• A blueprint for navigating uncertainty, managing change, and building a high-performance culture
• What it takes to drive transformational change

Co-founder of Idea Farm Ventures and leading authority on Digital Transformation

Named the “guru of the consumer economy,” David Bell is a pioneer in business transformation and integrating the real world with the digital. He is author of Location Is (Still) Everything: The Surprising Influence of the Real World on How We Search, Shop and Sell in the Virtual One, award-winning academic research, and MIT Sloan Management Review bestsellers. As a Chaired Professor during a twenty-year career at The Wharton School, he started the first course on Digital Marketing and E-commerce.

As an early stage venture capital investor and co-founder of Idea Farm Ventures, Bell has invested in and advised category-defining companies including Diapers.com, Jet.com, Bonobos, Harry’s, and Warby Parker, among numerous others, several of which have exited or been valued at over a billion dollars.

Creating Digital Leverage and Business Transformation

• How frictions in the digital and physical worlds create opportunity for digital leverage
• Why digital natives (Gen Z) and digital pioneers (Millennials) shape opportunities and demand “better-for-you” products and services
• Keys to delineate digital innovation and digital enhancement
• How to implement business models made possible by digital leverage
• Learning how to speak the language of digital leverage and implement it

Creator, director and protagonist of the successful children's television series. LazyTown, Magnus Scheving has taken advantage of his infectious creativity and entrepreneurial spirit to promote the nutrition and health of children into a global brand. Broadcasted in more than 170 countries and reaching over 500 million homes, LazyTown has won various awards including a BAFTA, renowned US Telly Awards, and has received two Emmy award nominations. The company is responsible for producing books, videos, games, and sporting goods with the mission to promote fitness and a healthy lifestyle to children. The TV series remains Scheving’s core asset as it continues to be broadcast worldwide.

LazyTown: The Journey from Personal Mission to Global Brand

• The philosophies and beliefs that underpin the most successful leaders
• Keys to staying creative: How to embrace risk and move out of your comfort zone
• The role of the leader in developing a recognizable and lasting style for your brand
• Redefining profit: Building a company ethic that focuses on more than finance
• Cultivating the positive attitudes that will allow your organization to flourish

Recognized as one of the world’s 30 most influential management thinkers, Rachel Botsman is the author of two critically acclaimed books – What’s Mine is Yours and Who Can You Trust? She created Oxford University, Saïd Business School’s first course on trust in the digital world, and her writings on trust have been widely published in the Guardian, Financial Times, The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, and Wired. Named one of the Top 10 most influential voices in the UK on LinkedIn, Rachel has been honoured as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and her TED talks have been viewed more than five million times. In addition she is host of the podcast Rethink Moments, and the BBC series Money, Money, Money.

Earning Trust in Times of Uncertainty

• Why trust is the social language of exchange that oils the wheels of business
• The forces that define how to establish, maintain and destroy confidence
• What organisations can do to build trust during periods of uncertainty
• Developing new mindsets and principles that will transform how we think about brands, experiences and behaviours