Dr. Goldsmith is a new member of the Thinkers 50 Hall of Fame. He is the only two-time Thinkers 50 #1 Leadership Thinker in the World. He has been ranked as the World’s #1 Executive Coach and Top Ten Business Thinker for eight years. Marshall was chosen as the inaugural winner of the Lifetime Award for Leadership by the Harvard Institute of Coaching.
Dr. Goldsmith is the author or editor of 42 books, which have sold over 2.5 million copies, been translated into 32 languages and become listed bestsellers in 12 countries. Amazon.com recently recognized their ‘100 Best Leadership & Success Books’. His books, Triggers and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, were both recognized as being in the top 100 books ever written in their field. Marshall is one of only two authors with two books on the list. His recent book, How Women Rise, with lead author, Sally Helgesen, is a BookScan #1 book for Women.
Rita Gunther McGrath has honored with the 2nd Global Gurus Corps d’Elite Lifetime Achievement Award in the Management Category of the world’s top thought leaders in 2020.
Rita is a world-renowned thought leader and a professor at Columbia Business School, where she directs the popular Leading Strategic Growth and Change program. She is widely recognized as a premiere expert on leading innovation and growth during times of uncertainty. In her speeches and consulting, Rita works with Fortune 1,000 companies, helping boards, CEOs, and senior executives act strategically in rapidly changing and volatile environments. She has received the #1 achievement award for strategy from the prestigious Thinkers50 and has been consistently named one of the world’s top ten management thinkers in its bi-annual ranking.
David Allen has honored with the 3rd Global Gurus Corps d’Elite Lifetime Achievement Award in the Time Management Category of the world’s top thought leaders in 2020.
David is the creator of GTD®, the popular Getting Things Done methodology.
David founded the David Allen Company, where he engineered Getting Things Done®. He is widely recognized as the world’s leading expert on personal and organizational productivity. His 30-year pioneering research and coaching to corporate managers and CEOs of some of America’s most prestigious corporations and institutions has earned him Forbes‘ recognition as one of the top five executive coaches in the United States and Business 2.0 magazine’s inclusion in their 2006 list of the “50 Who Matter Now.” Timecalled his flagship book, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, “the definitive business self-help book of the decade.”
Subir Chowdhury has honored with the 4th Global Gurus Corps d’Elite Lifetime Achievement Award in the Management Category of the world’s top thought leaders in 2021.
Subir is chairman and CEO of ASI Consulting Group, LLC, a global leader on strategic initiatives, quality consulting, and training. Under Subir’s leadership, ASI Consulting Group has helped hundreds of clients around the world save billions of dollars and increase revenues. Subir has worked with many organizations, large and small, across diverse industries including manufacturing, healthcare, food, government, and nonprofit organizations. His client list includes global Fortune 100 corporations and industrial leaders such as American Axle, Berger Health Systems, Bosch, Caterpillar, Daewoo, Delphi, Fiat-Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, Hyundai Motor Company, ITT Industries, Johns Manville, Kaplan Professional, Kia Motors, Leader Dogs for the Blind, Loral Space Systems, Make It Right Foundation, Mark IV Automotive, Procter & Gamble, the State of Michigan, Thomson Multimedia, TRW, Xerox, and more.
Fons Trompenaars has honored with the 5th Global Gurus Corps d’Elite Lifetime Achievement Award in the Organizational Culture Category of the world’s top thought leaders in 2021.
Fons Trompenaars is an internationally renowned Dutch author and consultant in the field of cross-cultural communication. He has published 13 books on all areas of culture and business, including the bestseller “Riding the Waves of Culture”. Listed regularly in the past decade as one of the world’s most influential living management thinkers, he has been awarded the International Professional Practice Area Research Award by the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD). Recently inducted into the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame 2017, he is a well-respected speaker and author.
Mark Thompson has honored with the 6th Global Gurus Corps d’Elite Lifetime Achievement Award in Coaching Category of the world’s top thought leaders in 2022.
Mark Thompson is an expert on executive leadership, business strategy, and innovation who has spent over 25 years leading teams and building companies from the ground up. He delivers actionable, valuable and practical advice for leaders at all levels of an organization.
New York Times bestselling author Mark C. Thompson is a leadership coach for the world’s fastest growing, most innovative companies—from LYFT CEO & Cofounder Logan Green, Pinterest Cofounder Evan Sharp and World Bank CEO Dr. Jim Kim, to founders Richard Branson, Steve Jobs and Charles Schwab, for whom he served as the world’s first CXO—Chief Customer Experience Officer.
Ram Charan has honored with the 7th Global Gurus Corps d’Elite Lifetime Achievement Award in Management Category of the world’s top thought leaders in 2022.
Ram Charan is a world-renowned business adviser, author and teacher. For 40 years, he has worked with top leaders at some of the world’s most successful companies, including Toyota, Bank of America, ICICI Bank, Aditya Birla Group, Novartis, Humana, and Fast Retailing. Ram is famous for cutting through the complexity of running a business in today’s fast changing world. He has shared his real-world solutions through 32 books and many articles in Harvard Business Review, Fortune, and other publications. His book Execution, coauthored with former Honeywell CEO Larry Bossidy, was a New York Times best-seller for 150 weeks. Another best-seller, What the CEO Wants You to Know, explains how the business fundamentals Ram learned growing up in India apply to every business, from street vendors to corporations. Ram is an energetic interactive speaker who has won teaching awards from GE’s Crotonville Institute and Northwestern. His most recent book is Rethinking Competitive Advantage: New Rules for the Digital Age.
Lynda is a Professor of Management Practice at London Business School where she directs ‘Human Resource Strategy in Transforming Companies’ – considered the world’s leading programme on human resources.
Lynda is the founder of Hot Spots Movement and since 2008 she has led the Future of Work Research Consortium which has brought together executives from more than 100 companies.
Over the last 20 years Lynda has written extensively about the interface between people and organisations. Her eight books cover the link between business and HR strategy (Living Strategy), the new ways of
working (The Democratic Enterprise), the rise of complex collaboration (Hot Spots and Glow) and the impact of a changing world on employment and work (The Shift).
Vijay Govindarajan (VG) is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on strategy and innovation. He is the Coxe Distinguished Professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and Marvin Bower Fellow at Harvard Business School. The Coxe Distinguished Professorship is a new Dartmouth-wide faculty chair. He was the first Professor in Residence and Chief Innovation Consultant at General Electric. He worked with GE’s CEO Jeff Immelt to write How GE is Disrupting Itself, the Harvard Business Review (HBR) article that pioneered the concept of reverse innovation – any innovation that is adopted first in the developing world. HBR picked reverse innovation as one of the Great Moments in Management in the Last Century. In the latest Thinkers 50 Rankings, Govindarajan is rated the #1 Indian Management Thinker.
VG writes about innovation and execution on several platforms including Harvard Business Review and Bloomberg BusinessWeek.
Barbara Kellerman was Founding Executive Director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School; the Kennedy’s School’s James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Leadership; and a member of the Harvard faculty for over twenty years. She is currently a Fellow at the Center. Kellerman has held professorships at Fordham, Tufts, Fairleigh Dickinson, George Washington, Uppsala, and Christopher Newport Universities, as well as at Dartmouth, and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. She also served as Director of Graduate Studies at Fairleigh Dickinson, and Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of Leadership at the University of Maryland.
Kellerman received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, and her M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. (in Political Science) degrees from Yale University. She was awarded a Danforth Fellowship and three Fulbright fellowships. At Uppsala (1996-97), she held the Fulbright Chair in American Studies.
Mr Body Language Allan Pease, based in Queensland Australia, is a worldwide well known and respected expert in communication that teaches his audience on how to decode peoples behavior and on how we should respond to it through simple field tested skills and techniques that get results. Allan who deserves a big credit as a speaker and expert already gave his speech across 65 countries in a fast paced highly entertaining and down to earth presentation while helping people becoming a strong magnet and drive other people towards them by saying yes. Allan has also written many of bestseller books including Body Language which has sold over 4 million copies and other most highly successful books which he co authored with his wife Barbara likeThe Definitive Book of Body Language and Why Men Don’t Listen and Women Cant Read Maps which has been sold over ten million copies worldwide.
Sally Helgesen, cited in Forbes as the world’s premier expert on women’s leadership, is an internationally best-selling author, speaker and leadership coach. She has been inducted into the Thinkers 50 Hall of Fame, which honors those whose ideas have shaped the field of leadership worldwide. She is ranked Number One in leadership by Global Gurus, and recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Institute for Management Studies.
Sally’s latest book, Rising Together: How We Can Bridge Divides and Create a More Inclusive Workplace, offers practical ways to build more effective relationships with people we may perceive as different from ourselves.
Rising Together builds on Sally’s remarkable success with How Women Rise, co-authored with legendary executive coach Marshall Goldsmith, which examines the behaviors most likely to get in the way of successful women as they move forward in their careers. Rights have been sold in 24 languages.
Other books include The Female Advantage: Women’s Ways of Leadership, hailed as the classic in its field and continuously in print since 1990, and The Female Vision, Women’s Real Power at Work, which explores how women’s strategic insights can strengthen their careers. The Web of Inclusion: A New Architecture for Building Great Organizations, cited in The Wall Street Journal as one of the best books on leadership of all time, is credited with bringing the language of inclusion into business.
For 35 years, Sally has delivered seminars, keynotes and master classes for companies, partnership firms and associations around the world, working in 37 countries. She is a contributing editor for Strategy + Business magazine and a member of the 100 Coaches Network and the New York and International Women’s Forums. She lives in Chatham, NY.
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