Leadership Speakers

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Walter Isaacson

Walter Isaacson is the president and CEO of a nonpartisan educational and policy studies institute based in Washington, DC. He has been the chairman and CEO of CNN and the editor of TIME magazine. He is the author of Steve Jobs, Einstein: His Life and Universe, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, and Kissinger: A Biography, and co-author of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. Isaa ...

Wayne Pearce

Wayne Pearce is a prominent sporting personality who injects interest, humour and hard won success stories into the conference agenda. After seven years as a professional Rugby League coach Wayne still enjoys his current involvement in Rugby League as a Fox sports commentator, however since leaving club coaching in September 2000, his main focus now is corporate speaking, corporate teambuilding an ...

Wendy McCarthy

Wendy McCarthy is an experienced manager and company director who began her career as a secondary school teacher. She moved out of the classroom into public life in 1968 and since then has been an advocate, educator and change agent in Australia and internationally. Wendy currently chairs headspace - Australia's National Youth Mental Health Foundation, Circus Oz, McGrath Estate Agents and Paci ...

Will Greenwood

Will Greenwood is not one to shy away from high pressure, highly competitive situations. Having started working life on London's City trading floor he went on to become the second highest try scorer in English rugby history and helped power England to victory at the Rugby World Cup in 2003. He is widely regarded as one of England's greatest ever rugby players, as well as one of the sport's most en ...

William J. Rothwell

William J. Rothwell, Ph.D., SPHR, is President of Rothwell and associates, inc., a full-service consulting firm that offers services in Succession Planning and Management. He is also Professor of Human Resource Development on the University Park campus of The Pennsylvania State University. As a consultant, he has worked with over 30 multinational corporations. As an academic, he heads up the #2 ra ...

Yossi Ghinsberg

Author of Jungle and Laws of the Jungle, Yossi Ghinsberg is one of the most compelling speakers of his generation. His messages are inspirational and unique. In the midst of the uncharted Amazon, after losing his three companions, a young Israeli traveller is tested to the extreme through 20 harrowing days of sheer survival. A riveting storyteller, Yossi Ghinsberg relives his ordeal while sweeping audiences into the depths of the primordial jungle. Yossi now speaks to his audiences about survival and the ability to take vision and turn it into reality.

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