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Productivity, Performance & Accountability Speakers

Promoting productivity, performance and accountability in the workplace means holding employees and executives responsible for accomplishing goals, completing assignments, and making decisions that deliver on the expectations while consuming minimum factors of input/resources.

Our roster is comprised of world-class successful and inspiring entrepreneurs, business advisors, founders and CEOs, executives and visionaries from an array of backgrounds and industries that expertly deliver powerful and entertaining keynotes.

Sanjay Koshla

Sanjay Khosla is the former International President of Mondelez, where he led the transformation of Kraft Foods to Mondelez and the integration of Cadbury into the new company. He is currently a Professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Mark Sanborn

Mark Sanborn is an international bestselling author and award-winning keynote speaker. He is a notable authority on Leadership, Customer Service and Teamwork.  

Paul Falcone

Paul Falcone is a renowned expert on effective hiring, performance management, and leadership development, especially in terms of helping companies build higher performing leadership teams.

Cameron Herold

Cameron Herold is a successful entrepreneur, advisor and coach to CEOs, and the author of Double Double, a global bestseller that offers insight on how to double a company’s revenue in 3 years.

Steve Cadigan

Founder of the Silicon Valley firm Cadigan Talent Ventures, Steve Cadigan is a sought-after business advisor and expert speaker on the future of work, leadership and recruiting.

Stephen M.R. Covey

Stephen M. R. Covey is a New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal best-selling author of The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything. He is the former CEO of Covey Leadership Center and a successful and compelling speaker and corporate advisor.

Dan Thurmon

An unforgettable motivational speaker, Dan Thurmon combines comedy, juggling, and stunts with deep concepts of self-improvement and change management to deliver stunning and remarkable presentations.

David Gleiser

David Gleiser is a leading public speaker and former HR Director for the Andean Region at Bayer SA. He is the Director of the BEO (Building Effective Organizations) practice for the Andean countries at HayGroup.

Marcus Buckingham

Marcus Buckingham is an outstanding Management Guru. He is the author of two of the bestselling business books of all time, has two of Harvard Business Review’s most circulated, industry-changing cover articles, and his strengths assessments have been taken by over 10 million people worldwide.

Harry Redinger

Harry Redinger is an accomplished management consultant, instructor and motivational speaker. He has practiced as a business plan development consultant for over 30 years.

Simon T. Bailey

Simon T. Bailey is one of the top 25 people who will help you reach your business and life goals through practical advice and specific tactics. With more than 87 million views around the world, his expertise shapes the lives of men and women around the world.

Mike Michalowicz

Mike Michalowicz is regarded as the guru of entrepreneurs. He is the author of the international bestseller “The Pumpkin Plan” which offers simple but powerful strategies to grow a business

Bo Burlingham

Bo Burlingham is the influential editor-at-large of Inc Magazine and author of business best-sellers such as Small Giants and Finish Big.

Mike Rayburn

Mike Rayburn is a two-time TED Talk Presenter, an innovative entrepreneur and Hall of Fame speaker who uses world-class guitar and comedy to teach change and innovation to corporations world-wide.

Porter Erisman

Porter Erisman is a notable entrepreneur, award-winning filmmaker and leading expert on e-commerce and the Internet in China and emerging markets. He is the former Vice President of Alibaba Group.

Ken Blanchard

Ken Blanchard is a renowned speaker, author and consultant. He has co-authored over 30 best-selling books, including The One Minute Manager, which has sold more than 13 million copies.

Mark Thompson

Mark Thompson is an expert on executive leadership, business strategy, and innovation, and a sought-after coach, speaker, venture investor and New York Times bestselling author.

Peter Diamandis

Peter Diamandis is the visionary founder of Singularity University and the XPRIZEN Foundation, which leads the world in designing and operating large-scale incentive competitions to promote humanity’s advancement.

Mike Abrashoff

Mike Abrashoff is an outstanding former Naval Commander, public speaker and one of the most remarkable modern day stories of organizational transformation. 

Ram Charan

Ram Charan is a world-renowned business advisor, author and speaker who has spent the past 35 years working with many of the top companies, CEOs, and boards of our time. 

Howard Putnam

Howard Putnam is the former CEO of Southwest and Braniff Airlines and Group VP Marketing for United Airlines. Putnam is an accomplished business and motivational speaker, author, consultant, commentator, and online mentor on Leadership, Customer Service, Change, Transformation and Ethics.

Seth Godin

Seth Godin is a popular entrepreneur, best-selling author, and speaker. Godin is regarded as one of the most innovative and visionary marketers of our time and has been called “the Ultimate Entrepreneur for the Information Age” by Businessweek.

Ben Hammersley

Contributing Editor to WIRED magazine and host of Netflix and BBC television series, Ben Hammersley is the inventor of the word "Podcast".

Liz Wiseman

Liz Wiseman is the former VP of Oracle University and the global leader for Human Resource Development. Wiseman is the author of Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, a Wall Street Journal bestseller.

Salim Ismail

Salim Ismail is a visionary and entrepreneur of the digital era. He is the founding Executive Director of Singularity University, the prestigious school sponsored by Google and NASA.

Vito Di Bari

Vito Di Bari is one of the three greatest futurists in the World. He is hailed as the "new European guru of innovation" by the New York Times and as the "great engineering dream-maker" by Economics Nobel Prize laureate Kenneth Arrow.

Marshall Goldsmith

Dr. Marshall Goldsmith is an executive coach and the #1 world authority in leadership according to Thinkers50 and Harvard Business Review. He is also a bestselling author and an inspiring public speaker.

Verne Harnish

Verne Harnish is a renowned consultant and author, regarded as the Guru of Business Growth and Expansion, and named by Fortune Magazine as one of the Ten Brightest Minds in Small Business.

Tim Sanders

Tim Sanders is a renowned entrepreneur, commentator and author of the Digital Era. A talented public speaker and consultant, he is also Yahoo!’s former Chief Solutions Officer and leadership coach.

Whitney Johnson

Whitney Johnson an award-winning author, world-class keynote speaker, lecturer and executive coach and advisor. She is one of the 50 leading business thinkers in the world as named by Thinkers50, and is renowned as an authority on innovation and disruptive strategy.

Juan Alberto González

Juan Alberto González is the founder of B + 20 and former CEO of Microsoft Mexico. He currently serves as a speaker and coach for high-performing individuals and teams.

Sewa Beats

Sewa Beats offers high-energy keynotes that use music as a metaphor for success, leveraging the power and excitement of West African drumming.

Adrian Gostick

Adrian Gostick is a Bestselling Leadership Author on Workplace Engagement & High Performing Culture.

Karol Coopman

Karol Coopman, an expert in Neuroscience Applied to Leadership, has a successful professional career of more than twenty years in various positions in the Human Resources field at national and international companies such as PricewaterhouseCoopers, ING, and others.

Daniel Marcos Hadjópulos

Daniel Marcos is the global CEO, along with Salim Ismail, of ExO Education, a company that seeks innovation in organizations by implementing the methodology of the book Exponential Organizations.

Dimas Gimeno

Dimas Gimeno is a Spanish businessman with more than 18 years of experience in retail. Between 2014 and 2018, he was president of El Corte Inglés, a retail giant in Spain and Europe.

Kevin Gaskell

Kevin Gaskell is a renowned serial entrepreneur and former CEO of prestigious companies such as BMW, Porsche, Lamborghini y Cars Direct. Gaskell is also the author of Inspired Leadership.

Stewart Friedman

Stew Friedman is an organizational psychologist at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He founded Wharton’s Work/Life Integration Project in 1991 and is also an in-demand speaker, consultant, coach, workshop leader, and public policy advisor.  

Patty McCord

Patty McCord is an inspiring Workplace Innovator, Culture and Leadership Consultant and Former Chief Talent Officer and the architect of Netflix’s enviable business culture.

Scott Mautz

Scott Mautz is a renowned Procter & Gamble veteran, best-selling author, entrepreneur and public speaker.

Freddie Ravel

Freddie Ravel is the internationally acclaimed “Keynote Maestro” who blends his infectious passions for business breakthroughs and the power of music to unlock the minds, hearts and potential of audiences around the world.

Vijay Govindarajan

Vijay Govindarajan is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on strategy and innovation. He is a professor, best-selling business author, advisor to CEOs and creator of the concept of Reverse Innovation, which Harvard Business Review considers the most important business idea of the decade.

Rita Gunther McGrath

Rita Gunther McGrath is a best-selling author, a sought-after speaker, and a longtime professor at Columbia Business School. She is widely recognized as a premier expert on leading innovation and growth during times of uncertainty. 

Balaji Krishnamurthy

Dr. Balaji Krishnamurthy is a veteran corporate executive with more than 35 years of corporate experience. TIME magazine recognized him as one of 25 Global Business Influentials

Robert Herjavec

He has built and sold business on his way to amassing a personal fortune of over $100 million dollars. Robert's celebrity has expanded with leading roles on Dragons' Den, the #1 TV show on CBC.

Bill Derrenger

Bill Derrenger is an experienced international executive who demonstrates the robustness of his way of running businesses through action and outcomes.

Marco Antonio Regil

Marco Antonio Regil is a famous Mexican television show host, artist, broadcaster and motivational speaker.

Scott Christopher

Scott Cristopher is an amazing author and motivational speaker who mixes seriousness and humor in his presentations, which have made corporate audiences around the world reflect while also making them laugh.

Nando Parrado

Nando Parrado is one of the survivors of the plane crash in the Andes Mountains in 1972 who, with great courage, crossed the mountain range from Argentina to Chile on foot so that his 15 lost and abandoned friends could be rescued.

Martin Lindstrom

Martin Lindstrom is a legendary expert in Marketing and Branding. Lindstrom has been named one of the World’s 100 Most Influential People by TIME Magazine and has also been included in the prestigious Thinkers50 list.

Raúl Katz

Raúl Katz is a world-renowned telecommunications and technology consultant expert. He is Director of Business Strategy Research at the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information.

Simon Mainwaring

New York Times bestselling author of We First, Simon Mainwaring is Founder & CEO of award-winning strategic consultancy, We First. He is a Real Leaders Top 50 Keynote Speaker in the World.

David Allen

David Allen is a successful consultant, executive coach, academic and motivational speaker with more than 25 years of experience delivering productivity and management workshops for Fortune 500 companies. 

Timothy Ferriss

Timothy Ferriss is the author of the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and BusinessWeek bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek, which has been translated into 35 languages. He is listed as #13 in the “100 Most Influential VCs, Angels & Investors” rankings.

Patrick Lencioni

Patrick Lencioni is the pioneer of the organizational health movement and one of the world’s foremost experts on leadership and teamwork. Lencioni is a passionate author, speaker, consultant and CEO of the Table Group.

Michael Vickers

Michael Vickers is the best selling author of Becoming Preferred: How to Outsell Your Competition, where he shares his secrets to achieving the very highest level of sales mastery.

Al Switzler

Al Switzler is a popular entrepreneur and best-selling business author on leadership, communication and influence.

Jerry Porras

Jerry Porras is a visionary professor and public speaker. He co-authored the business bestseller Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, with Jim Collins and has taught courses in leadership, interpersonal dynamics, and organizational development and change in MBA and executive programs.

Bill Johnson

Bill Johnson is a leading businessman, consultant and public speaker. He is the former President and CEO of McDonald’s Canada and the President of I Am McJobs, his consulting firm.

Robert Kaplan

Robert Kaplan is the developer, along with David Norton, of the “Balanced Scorecard”, the revolutionary management model implemented by several thousand companies worldwide, which allows measuring and linking the performance of a company to its strategic objectives.

Jim Collins

Jim Collins is a legendary Management and Business Growth guru, considered the heir to the great Peter Drucker. Collins has authored some of the most widely read and admired business books of our time.

Joseph Grenny

Joseph Grenny is a four-time New York Times bestselling author, dynamic keynote speaker, and leading social scientist for business performance.

Ron McMillan

Ron McMillan is a New York Times bestselling author, keynote speaker, and leading social scientist for organizational change, recognized as a subject-matter expert in influence, leadership, and workplace communication.

Les McKeown

Les McKeown is a prominent consultant, international speaker, and prolific entrepreneur who has founded more than 40 companies. McKeown created a strategic incubator that has managed to boost hundreds of companies globally.

Isabel Aguilera

Isabel Aguilera is a leading international businesswoman. She is the former President of GE for Spain and Portugal, former Country Manager of Google Iberia, and has been recognized by Fortune magazine as one of the 50 most influential executives on the planet.

Salvador Alva

Salvador Alva is a visionary businessman and academic. He is the Former President of Sistema Tecnológico de Monterrey (2011-2020), and Former President of PepsiCo Latin America.

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