Founder of Strategos, an international management consulting firm and visiting Professor of Strategic Management at London Business School, Gary Hamel is the originator of the concept of core competencies. He is also the director of the Woodside Institute, a non-profit research foundation.

French artist Jean Francois presents Extreme Art, a performance art show in which he paints larger than life pieces of art in minutes using his hands, brooms, sponges - anything but a brush. Jean has applied his experience performing in production show at top Las Vegas hotels such as New York, New York, Caesar's Palace, and the MGM Grand.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter is an internationally known business leader, best-selling author, and expert on strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. She is the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She advises major corporations and governments worldwide, and is the author or co-author of 15 books.

Watts Wacker is one of the world's most respected futurists. He helps the world's top corporations and organizations navigate the changes and challenges of the new millennium through his work as a lecturer, best-selling author, political commentator and social critic. He was also Time magazine's 2006 Person of the Year.

Wolfgang Grulke has a storied background in all sorts of fascinating areas: nuclear physics, marine biology, and technology to name a few. He has addressed audiences in more than 20 countries, in person, on radio, and on television. His topics range from business transformation to technological revolutions to the sex life of fish!

Tyler Brule was trained as a journalist with the BBC, but eventually left the journalism field and launched a style and fashion magazine called Wallpaper*, one of the most influential fashion magazines of the 1990s. He's been a regular columnist for the Financial Times, The New York Times, and others.

Tim Smit is a millionaire record producer who enjoyed popular triumph with artists including Barry Manilow and the Nolan Sisters. Called the "Richard Branson of Cornwall", Smit's humble mission is to tell the world the story of plants that changed history. His "Eden Project" in Cornwall is what he calls a "living theatre of plants" -- 250,000 of them!

The subject of numerous magazine articles, including two profiles in Vanity Fair, an interview on Larry King Live, and an entry in Marquis Who's Who, Barbara Guggenheim regularly contributes humor to W and ELLE magazines. She's written several books, including Decorating on eBay and How to Be Smart Money in Art.

Principal of William McDonough & Partners, William McDonough is focused on designing environmentally sustainable buildings and transforming industrial manufacturing processes. In 1996 he became the first and only individual recipient of the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development. Author of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, he envisions a society that does not produce waster but instead produces nutrients from former waste products.

Over the past 13 years, thousands of corporate clients have used Second City to support their company meetings and sales conferences, enliven award ceremonies, celebrate and lift morale at company anniversaries and holiday events and much more. By using the best comedic writers and actors in the industry, Second City grabs audience's attention and makes a lasting impression.