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.

Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Dr. Jeffrey Pfeffer has taught seminars and lectured in management development programs for various corporations and universities world wide. He has filled the Thomas Henry Carroll-Ford Foundation Visiting Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School.

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.

Flashover Seminars' impactful events take you deep into a world in which life and death decisions are made every day and a deep connection to one's teammates is essential for survival, and allows you to experience first-hand the teambuilding strategies and "Incident Command" skills you'll need to handle all of your business fires with confidence.

Richard Branson is the man behind one of the world's most recognized and respected brands, Virgin. His Virgin Group has a presence in international retail, air travel, mobile communication, music, resorts, clean fuel, space travel, and many other areas.

A seasoned entrepreneur, author and co-author of five books and a Professor of Business, Clayton Christensen's research and teaching focuses on managing innovation and creating new growth marketing. Professor Christensen has founded three companies: CPS Corporation, Innosight, and Innosight Capital. Professor Christensen is also extensively involved in other activities in the community.

C.K. Prahalad has been named a 2001 top-10 worldwide management thinker by the Financial Times, UK Observer and BusinessWeek. His 1990 co-authored essay on 'core competence' is the Harvard Business Review's most reprinted article ever. Dr. Prahalad specializes in corporate strategy and the role and value of top management in large, diversified, multinational corporations.

Nominated as one of The Times' 50 leading influential management thinkers, Lynda Gratton is Professor of Management Practice at London Business School and author of The Democratic Enterprise. Her current research with the Lehman Centre for Women in Business is to create an in-depth understanding of the rhetoric and reality of how business strategy is delivered through people and model the key processes.

Co-author of the best-selling book, The One Minute Manager, which has sold more than nine million copies worldwide, Ken Blanchard is chief spiritual officer of Blanchard Training and Development, Inc. His latest book, Gung Ho!, co-authored with Sheldon Bowles, is currently climbing the bestseller charts.

Geoffrey has made the understanding and effective exploitation of disruptive technologies the core of his life's work. His books, Crossing the Chasm, Inside the Tornado, The Gorilla Game, and Living on the Fault Line are best sellers and required reading at leading business schools. Highly regarded as a dynamic public speaker, Geoffrey is the founder of The Chasm Group and currently is the managing partner of TCG Advisors. Earlier in his career, he was a principal and partner at Regis McKenna, Inc., a leading high tech marketing strategy and communications company, and for the decade prior, a sales and marketing executive in the software industry.