Meet the guests, organizers, hosts and other contributors involved with co-creating the Catalyzing the Future global conference.
Guests (in alphabetical order)
Maha Hosain Aziz (USA)
NYU Professor on Global Risk and Prediction. Author of Future World Order (Amazon best-seller 2019) and its sequel The COVID-19 Effect.
Author of The Global Kid : A Political Comic Book and cartoonist at The Global Kid.
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Roderick Lim Banda (South Africa)
Enterprise and Software Architect with first passion art and architecture history. With a thesis on building architecture as a reference for architecture intensive disciplines, now aspiring towards natural and organic patterns in systems thinking.
Founding Partner, KASE
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Jerome Barrand (France)
Professor at Grenoble Ecole de Management. Director of the Institute of Organizational Agility,France.
Co-creator of Agile Profile and President of Agil’OA.
Author of Developing Agility Inside Organizations : new levers of action and collective intelligence and The Agile Manager.
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Tony Bendell (United Kingdom)
MD, Services Limited
Lead Trainer, The Anti-Fragility Academy
Author of Building Anti-Fragile Organisation
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Graham Binks (Canada)
CEO, primeFusion, Inc.
Author of Trusting Technology
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Sahana Chattopadhyay (India)
Speaker | Writer | Catalyst | Partnering with individuals and organizations to co-create a regenerative future.
Columnist at Enlivening Edge.
Alchemist & Consultant at Future of Work Together
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David Cushman (United Kingdom)
Owner, Faster Future Consulting, Consultant, 2Y3X
Author of The 10 Principles of Open Business
“The Responsive Organisation is less a choice – more an inevitability“
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Heidi Dening (Australia)
Author of Her Middle Name Is Courage: How Self-Leadership Transforms Pressure Into Performance, Chaos Into Clarity, And Rage Into Resilience.
Speaker & Educator on Improving Resilience of Organisations & their People During Times of Stress & Uncertainty
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Jeremy Denisty (U.A.E.)
Customer Director, Scopernia
“How exposed are you to uncertainties? Here are 5 steps towards becoming an ‘adaptive resilient’ organization“
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Ciaran Duggan (Ireland)
Consultant
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Stephane Grenier (Canada)
Founder and Lead Innovator, Mental Health Innovations Consulting
Author of After the War: Surviving PTSD and Changing Mental Health Culture
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Matthew Jackson (New Zealand)
Founder of Black Swan NZ and Edmund Hillary Fellow.
Antifragility practitioner & industry disruption specialist – working to blur organisational boundaries & create impact by connecting global communities.
The creator of Disruption Assurance™ & Cohesive Interference™
Co-founder Global Mode™ & Doctor2Go.
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Bill Joiner (USA)
CEO, ChangeWise, Inc.
Author of Leadership Agility
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Ilkka Kakko (Finland)
Chairman of the board at Sensemaking Institute
Serendipitor at Karostech.
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Dana Klisanin (USA)
Futurist/Designer/Psychologist and Founder & CEO, Evolutionary Guidance Media
“The Antifragile Mindset“
“Which Character Strengths Are Helping You Survive?“
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Alison Knox (United Kingdom)
Author of According To My Angels
Artist, beekeeper, Seer and Sayer, Independent Civil Celebrant.
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Richard Lambe (UK)
Richard is a writer and performer. In recent years, he has performed short pieces of drama addressing childhood trauma and the care system. Richard has performed at Safe Ground events at The National Theatre, The Roundhouse, St. Ethelburgers Centre for Peace and Reconciliation; and has presented with Safe Ground to students at Warwick University and The International School (Geneva). In 2011 Richard participated in both Family Man and (unusually), Fathers Inside. Richard is an entrepreneur, problem solver and networker with an excellent set of commercial skills.
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Alan Moore (United Kingdom)
Founder of Beautiful Business. Author of the Do Books.
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David McClean (United Kingdom)
Founder at DRM group
Warrior, psychotherapist, philosopher.
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Richard Merrick (United Kingdom)
Author of Covid-19. From Formal Warning to Realistic Possibility,
Learning to See, The Magic of Lightning
Ideas are impatient, Lose the Label
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Igor Mroz (Poland)
Founder, Zero Bullshit Management
Project Management Expert and Antifragility Evangelist
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Laura Piening (USA)
Founder and principal, Creating Clarity
Founder of Power Peers Network.
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Jean-Marc Ponchet (France)
Perceptionyzer Cofounder – Learn how to boost business growth
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Barry O’Reilly (Sweden)
Founder, Black Tulip Technology
“No More Snake Oil – Architecting Agility through Antifragility“
“An Introduction to Residuality Theory: Software Design Heuristics for Complex Systems“
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Rike Patzold (Germany)
Co-founder at Navigate by fiction.
Speaker and Coach on Navigating Uncertainty
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Dave Raymond (USA)
Author, Keynote Speaker and Trainer at The Power of Fun
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Sara Robertson (Canada)
Founder, Lime Horse
Corporate Trainer, Performance Specialist, Mindful Gateway Consulting
Faculty, University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies
“Antifragile is the new Resilient”
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Andrea Ruotolo (Canada)
Global Head of Distributed Energy & Networks at Worley
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Amanda Setili (USA)
Author of Fearless Growth: The New Rules to Stay Competitive, Foster Innovation, and Dominate Your Markets
The Agility Advantage: How to Identify and Act on Opportunities in a Fast-Changing World
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Alok K Sinha (India)
Chairman & Board Member – Istakapaza & YourGreenCanvas,
Author Achieving Successful Business Outcomes T&F NY, London.
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Andrea Simon (USA)
Voted 2020 Corporate Anthropology Consultancy Firm
Award-winning Author of On the Brink
International Speaker, Corporate Anthropologist, Podcast Host, Blue Ocean Strategist, Management Consultant, President SAMC
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Gunther Sonnenfeld (USA)
New economy architect, creating & applying emerging models to real world outcomes.
Founder of Novena.tech and rair.app.
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Nigel Thurlow (USA)
CEO, The Flow Consortium
Co-Creator, The Flow System
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Primitivo Cachero Viejo (Spain)
Head of Agile, atmira
Promoting a new more humane way to understand people, leadership & business to become antifragile
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Michele Wucker (USA)
Founder & CEO of Gray Rhino & Company
Author of The Gray Rhino
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Organizers & Hosts (in alphabetical order)
Si Alhir (USA)
(Organizer)
Transformation (Agility/Resilience/Antifragility) Leader, Coach, Consultant, and Entrepreneur
Author of The Antifragility Edge, The Stress-Powered Business, Antifragility: Embracing Reality and Ensuring Aliveness
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Marc Comer (USA)
(Conference: Host)
Managing Director at The Allere Group
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Kathleen Elsig (Switzerland)
(Conference: Livestream Producer and Moderator)
Leveraging partnerships to create shared value, enhance brand purpose, drive systemic change I Future of Work enthusiast
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Maria Escobar-Bordyn (USA)
(Conference: Host)
President, The CreatingWE® Institute
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Richard Glaser (USA)
(Conference: Host)
Founder, The CreatingWE® Institute
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Scott Lewis (USA)
(Conference: Host)
President, Canadian Entrepreneurs in New England (CENE)
CEO, CEO Roundtable
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Ciprian Alpiu Moga (Romania)
(Conference: Moderator)
Business Transformation Advisor at StepSeven.
Agility maker at AgileProfile.ro. Jazz afficionado.
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Todd Nilson (USA)
(Conference: Digital Strategist, Livestream Producer, Moderator, and Host)
Owner, Clocktower Advisors
Video podcaster. Entrepreneurial Development at BizStarts. Builder of Online Communities. Lifelong gamer.
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Miguel Fernandes Pala (Belgium)
(Conference: Moderator)
Owner, Beautiful Minds
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Whit (Whitaker) Raymond (USA)
(Conference: Strategist)
Senior Consultant, The CreatingWE® Institute
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