Top Corporate Change Speakers

Ben Mezrich
Ben Mezrich has created his own highly addictive genre of nonfiction, chronicling the amazing stories of young geniuses making tons of money on the edge of impossibility, ethics, and morality...
Benjamin Zander
Benjamin Zander is the brilliant and acclaimed British-born conductor of the Boston Philharmonic. Bringing his insights as the conductor of a major symphony orchestra to leaders involved in transformation and change, Benjamin Zander has become a much sought-after speaker to major organizations all over the world including Shell, IBM, Arthur Andersen, KPMG, Sprint, NASA and the US Army. Ben
Brian Cashman
The 2009 New York Yankees won an unprecedented 27th World Championship, the most in any professional sport, behind clutch hitting, accurate pitching and key decision making in the front office. The team became the 4th World Series champion assembled by Senior Vice-President and General Manager Brian Cashman. His 12 years in that role also includes 10 division titles and 6 American League...
Chip Conley
At age 26, Chip Conley started out as a rebel entrepreneur, building one of America's most successful boutique hotel brands, Joie de Vivre. As the company's leader for 24 years, Chip was honored as the "Most Innovative CEO in the Bay Area" by the San Francisco Business Times in 2007 and JdV was named the "2nd Best Place to Work in the Bay Area" in 2008. He is the author of three books including...
Clayton Christensen
Clayton M. Christensen is the architect of and the world's foremost authority on disruptive innovation, a framework which describes the process by which a product or service takes root initially in simple applications at the bottom of a market and then relentlessly moves 'up market', eventually displacing established competitors. Consistently acknowledged in rankings and surveys as one of the...
Dan Aykroyd
Daniel Edward Aykroyd is an Academy Award nominated and Emmy Award winning actor, comedian, screenwriter, and most recently business entrepreneur. He attended Carleton University in Canada, but dropped out before receiving his degree. He veered away from his study of criminology in college in order to pursue his interest in acting. He began as a comedian in various Canadian nightclubs and went...
Daniel Burrus
Daniel Burrus is considered one of the world’s leading technology forecasters and strategists, and is the founder and CEO of Burrus Research, a research and consulting firm that monitors global advancements in technology driven trends to help clients better understand how technological, social and business forces are converging to create enormous, untapped opportunities. He is the author of six...
Don Peppers
Recognized for over a decade as one of the leading authorities on customer-focused relationship management strategies for business, Don Peppers is an acclaimed author and a founding partner of Peppers & Rogers Group, the world's premier customer-centered management consulting firm. In August 2003, Peppers & Rogers Group joined Carlson Marketing Group to provide clients with world-class customer...
Donald Trump
Real estate magnate, best selling author, philanthropist and most recently executive producer of the smash television hit The Apprentice, Donald J. Trump has epitomized success in America for more than three decades. To the lectern he brings his unquenchable entrepreneurial spirit, legendary financial acumen and signature charismatic flair, in sharing the secrets behind his many achievements in...
Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov was the highest-rated chess player in the world for over 20 years and is widely considered the greatest chess player that ever lived. On Thursday, 10th March, 2005 Kasparov announced his retirement from competitive chess. He remains the highest-rated player in the history of the game and the only true icon in a sport with over 100 million players. He was the first player to break...
Howard Behar
Howard Behar is the former president of Starbucks Coffee Company North America and Starbucks Coffee International. He joined Starbucks in 1989 when the company had just begun to venture outside the Northwest region. Initially serving as Vice President of Sales and Operations, he grew the retail business from 28 stores to more than 400 stores by the time he was named president of Starbucks Coffee..
Ian Morrison
Ian is an internationally known author, consultant, and futurist specializing in long-term forecasting and planning with particular emphasis on health care and the changing business environment. He combines research and consulting skills with an incisive Scottish wit to help public and private organizations plan their longer-term future.
Jack Trout
Instrumental in developing the vital approach to marketing known as “positioning,” he is responsible for some of the freshest ideas to be introduced into marketing thinking in the last several decades. Jack Trout is president of Trout & Partners, one of the most prestigious marketing firms with headquarters in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, USA and offices in 13 countries.
James Canton
James Canton is the noted author of Technofutures and Future Smart: New Rules For the Knowledge Economy and Extreme Future. He is Chairman and CEO of the Institute for Global Futures, an internationally-recognized think tank he founded in 1990 to help clients better anticipate the future. Dr. James Canton has also served as an advisor to the White House Office of Science and Technology, is on..._website.jpg)
Jeff Zaslow
Through his Wall Street Journal column and bestselling books, Jeffrey Zaslow has told the stories of some of the most inspirational people of our time. The Last Lecture, written with Randy Pausch, has been translated into 48 languages, and was #1 on best-seller lists worldwide. Five million copies are in print in English alone, and the book has remained on The New York Times best-seller list...
Jenn Lim
Jenn Lim is the CEO and Chief Happiness Officer of Delivering Happiness, a company she and Tony Hsieh (CEO of Zappos) co-created in 2010 to inspire happiness in work, community and everyday life...
John Calipari
In his second season as Head Coach at the University of Kentucky, John Calipari has restored the luster of a once great college basketball program. Leading his team to the Final Four in 2011, he has become only the second coach in NCAA history to bring three different teams to the Final Four...
John Cleese
Best known for his brilliant humor and classic TV and film performances, John Cleese is also an extraordinarily popular lecturer who enthralls packed audiences worldwide. Often named the funniest man alive, John Cleese is both a versatile comedic actor and a leading business motivator.
Kevin Carroll
Kevin Carroll is the founder of Kevin Carroll Katalyst/LLC and the author of three highly successful books published by ESPN, Disney Press and McGraw-Hill. As an author, speaker and agent for social change (a.k.a. the Katalyst), it is Kevin’s “job” to inspire businesses, organizations and individuals - from CEOs and employees of Fortune 500 companies to schoolchildren - to embrace their spirit...
Lance Barrow
Lance Barrow was promoted to coordinating producer of THE NFL ON CBS and lead game producer in May 2004 with the No. 1 NFL announce team of Jim Nantz and Phil Simms. He served as coordinating producer and lead producer for the Super Bowl for the first time when CBS Sports broadcast Super Bowl XLI in 2007. Before that he was replay director for CBS Sports’ coverage of Super Bowl XXXV...
Linda Kaplan Thaler
Linda Kaplan Thaler has been responsible for some of the most touching, relevant and famous commercials during her 24 years in the advertising and entertainment business. She is acclaimed within the industry for her innovative and topical approach. Much of her work has become part of the American pop-culture landscape. She has authored and composed campaign jingles that are among the industry's...
Marcus Buckingham
Marcus Buckingham has dedicated his career to helping individuals discover and capitalize on their personal strengths. Hailed as a visionary by corporations such as Toyota, Coca-Cola, Master Foods, Wells Fargo, Microsoft, and Disney, he has helped to usher in the “strengths revolution,” persuasively arguing that people are dramatically more effective, fulfilled and successful...
Marvin Zonis
Marvin Zonis is a professor at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago, where he teaches courses on International Political Economy, Leadership, and Business Strategy in the Era of eCommerce. Zonis argues that accelerating technological developments drive globalization both economically and politically. And, in the face of these global challenges, business leadership and a...
Michelle Rhee
Michelle Rhee has been working for the last 18 years to give children the skills and knowledge they will need to compete in a changing world. From adding instructional time after school and visiting students' homes as a third grade teacher in Baltimore, to hosting hundreds of community meetings and creating a Youth Cabinet to bring students' voices into reforming the DC Public Schools, she has...
Peter Guber
Founder and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment, the visionary multimedia venture spanning movies, TV, sports, and new media, Peter Guber is among the most successful executives and entrepreneurs in the entertainment and communications industries. Films he personally produced or executive produced, including Rain Man, Batman, The Color Purple, Midnight Express, Gorillas in the Mist, The Witches of...
Ram Charan
"Among the world's most sought after CEO advisers," according to Newsweek, Ram Charan is the business and management consultant who has helped some of the world's most powerful companies—GE, Home Depot, Bank of America—develop, shape and implement their strategic direction. For over forty years, Ram Charan has earned a peerless reputation for seeking out and solving some of the toughest...
Rod Beckstrom
Rod Beckström is an entrepreneur and catalyst who has successfully created new businesses and changed established ones through his creative ideas, powerful concepts and passion. He co-authored the bestselling book The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations that presents a new model for analyzing organizations, leadership styles and competitive strategy.
Scott McKain
Scott McKain is an internationally known expert who helps organizations create distinction in every phase of business and teaches how to deliver an "Ultimate Customer Experience®." Scott McKain creates captivating presentations and bestselling books which clearly reveal how to create more compelling connections between you and your customers and how to stand out and move up, regardless of...
Tim Ferriss
Tim Ferriss, nominated as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People of 2007,” is an angel investor (StumbleUpon, Digg, Twitter, etc.) and author of the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and BusinessWeek bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek, which has been sold into 35 languages...
Frank Rose
Frank Rose is a recognized authority on the future of media. In his new book, The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation Is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories, he argues that we are seeing the emergence of a new form of narrative that’s native to the Internet in the same way the novel is native to print. Told through many media at once in a nonlinear fashion...
More Speakers
- Dan Aykroyd
- Lance Barrow
- Rod Beckstrom
- Howard Behar
- Marcus Buckingham
- Daniel Burrus
- John Calipari
- James Canton
- Kevin Carroll
- Brian Cashman
- Ram Charan
- Clayton Christensen
- John Cleese
- Chip Conley
- Tim Ferriss
- Peter Guber
- Garry Kasparov
- Jenn Lim
- Scott McKain
- Ben Mezrich
- Ian Morrison
- Don Peppers
- Michelle Rhee
- Frank Rose
- Linda Kaplan Thaler
- Jack Trout
- Donald Trump
- Benjamin Zander
- Jeff Zaslow
- Marvin Zonis
Corporate Change
Corporate Change
Changes within the American workforce impact individuals at all levels of the corporate hierarchy. During these turbulent times, there is tremendous reassurance in hearing from those who have helped companies and entire industries survive the changes and challenges put forth to them by the economy, global competition and other facts of life of business in the 21st Century.
CAA Speakers offers a number of expert individuals on the subject of corporate change. From the inner-workings of the world's top companies to the closest advisors of CEOs and other industry leaders, these business speakers on corporate change are both engaging and highly relevant in today's competitive marketplace.
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