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Speaker Updates
Oscars of Management Thinking A Shift in Perspective
The Thinkers50 awards shortlist nominations Entrepreneur, speaker and philanthropist
were recently announced. W Chan Kim, Bisila Bokoko recently appeared on the
Renée Mauborgne and Dave Ulrich have front cover of Entrepreneur magazine.
all been nominated in the ‘Breakthrough She gave an in-depth article about her
Idea’ Award. Erik Brynjolfsson appears in philosophy on life, keeping perspective
‘Digital Thinking’ and ‘Innovation’ includes and balancing now with the future, by
Rowan Gibson, Vijay Govindarajan and reading the right things, really listening and has been confirmed as a speaker for the
Juan Pablo Vazquez Sampere (whose altering her perspective. She will also be
interview appears on page 10). International speaking in October at the upcoming ‘The
economist and author Dambisa Moyo 3% Conference’ focusing on championing
was awarded the ‘Thinker of the Month’ creative female talent and leadership in
in April 2015. These are just some of the New York and ‘The South Summit’ in Madrid
business gurus shortlisted for the Oscars of where the agenda includes unlocking
management thinking and who help shape innovation – connecting innovators to capital
our world. n and customers. n
The True Meaning of Unique dog sledding in the Norwegian Arctic wasn’t
enough. Cathy O’Dowd then went on to
Being the first woman in the world to climb face one of the last great mountaineering
Mount Everest from both the north and challenges – the Mazeno Ridge of Nanga
the south sides wasn’t enough for Cathy Parbat. Many international climbing teams
O’Dowd. Writing a stunning book and had tried and all had failed. Cathy and her
sharing her passion and extraordinary story team of six came within inches of disaster
about her four Everest expeditions wasn’t before finally getting two members to the
enough. Rock climbing, trail running and top and then, without supplies, had to get
down again.
Cathy has recently worked at a top business
management school, which has further
focused her key presentations making them
link even more positively to the key business
challenges of today. Climbing teams face the
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WIRED2015: Next Generation
On Saturday 17th October the WIRED2015:
Next Generation event will be taking
place in London. This event is specifically
designed to introduce 12-18 year olds to
the WIRED world. Jordan Casey, serial
entrepreneur and still only 15 years old,
main stage, where he will be talking about
his companies: Casey Games, TeachWare
and his most recent venture – Eventzy.
Jordan is a speaker and advisor on youth
technology and youth entrepreneurship
and has been recognised as gifted by both
Google and Apple who have invited him to
their headquarters. n
same organisational challenges as business
teams but with clearer targets and greater
risks.
Cathy’s is an epic story of an incredible feat
of endurance and commitment at the very
limits of survival.
From discussing effective leadership,
change management or promotion of
innovation, Cathy helps businesses to tackle
an uncertain world by learning to think
like an explorer and now she also utilises
the latest technologies to gain audience
participation in the expedition decision-
making process. n
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