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.

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.

Co-Author of the International bestseller, Blue Ocean Strategy, Chan Kim is a leading authority on business strategy, innovation and managing the multinational corporation in the knowledge economy. He has been recognized as one of the world's most influential academics in global strategy by The Journal of International Management.

Author of Organizing Strategy: Sun Tzu Business Warcraft, Dr. Foo Check Tech is considered by many to be Asia's leading expert on Sun Tzu. By going beyond translating The Art of War: through extensive and in-depth research, a reputation he has already established globally, he makes the text a living document and seamlessly transferable to the modern world.

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.

Internationally recognized expert on Blue Ocean Strategy and Value Innovation, Gabor George Burt is the chief architect and original host of the Blue Ocean Executive Experience series. A lecturer and advisor to Fortune 500 companies, Gabor speaks on innovation and strategies that lead to uncontested market space.

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.

Designer, photographer, filmmaker, respected author and sought-after public speaker Marc Gobé focuses on connecting brands emotionally with people in a positive way. As President of Emotional Branding LLC, an experimental think tank, Marc and his daughter Gwenaelle Gobé, Creative Director, offer insight into the trends that move consumers and ideas that inspire marketers through their website EmotionalBranding.com.

Dr. Jonas Ridderstråle is one of the world's most prominent and respected business thinkers and speakers. Since bursting onto the international scene with the bestseller Funky Business in 2000, Jonas has remained at the forefront of the new generation of management gurus. The 2009 Thinkers 50, the biennial ranking of management thinkers, ranked him at number 23 globally and put him on the top-five list in Europe.