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James P. Cecil
In 1986, Jim Cecil founded and is today the managing partner of a total customer relationship management research, communications and consulting firm. They focus specifically on helping customers develop and grow relationships with their most critical constituencies using the Nurture
Solution™. He has extensive experience in the application of CRM and SFA software solutions to the actual process of managing and automating personalized customer
in-touch initiatives.
Barbara Corcoran
Barbara Corcoran’s credentials include straight D’s in high school and college
and twenty jobs by the time she turned twenty-three. It was her next job,
however, that would make her one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the
country, when she borrowed $1,000 from her boyfriend and quit her job as a
waitress to start a tiny real estate company in New York City. Over the next
twenty-five years, she’d parlay that $1,000 loan into a five-billion-dollar real
estate business.
Ken Dychtwald
Over the past 30 years, Ken Dychtwald, Ph.D. has
emerged as the nation's foremost visionary regarding the
lifestyle, marketing and workforce implications of the "age
wave." He is a psychologist, gerontologist and author of ten
books on aging-related issues, including Bodymind,
Millennium: Glimpses Into the 21st Century, Healthy Aging,
his best-seller Age Wave and his latest, Age Power:
How the 21st Century will be Ruled by the New Old. He is
currently working on two new books, Demography is De$tiny
and Re-Inventing Yourself: How to
Fulfill Your Dreams in the Third Age of Life.
Maddy Kent Dychtwald
Maddy Kent Dychtwald is a
nationally recognized public speaker, author, marketing executive and
entrepreneur. One of the nation's leading authorities on the maturing
market, for the past twelve years she has been actively involved in
analyzing and forecasting consumer marketing trends related to people's
changing needs, values and lifestyle and what they will be like in the
future. In 1986, she co-founded Age Wave, Inc., the nation's premier
consulting and marketing firm focused on defining the wants and needs of
maturing Americans.
James Gilmore
James H. Gilmore is cofounder of Aurora, Ohio‑based Strategic
Horizons LLP, a thinking studio dedicated to helping businesses
conceive and design new ways of adding value to their economic
offerings. He is co‑author of The Experience Economy: Work Is
Theatre & Every Business a Stage (Boston: Harvard Business
School Press, 1999). The book shows how businesses can create
value by embracing theatre as an operating model to stage unique
experiences that, ultimately, transform those who participate in
them.
STEVE
MOELLER
Steve Moeller is committed to
transforming the investment industry to a more client-centered focus. He helps
investment advisors and financial institutions attract highly profitable
clients. Steve is a marketing and business strategist,
futurist, and coach. He creates innovative business development tools and
processes for his clients.
He has
over 30 years of experience in marketing, sales, and business development. He
uses his expertise to help financial advisors attract and retain wealthy
clients—and to develop and deliver value-added programs for financial
institutions.
Don Peppers
Recognized for over a decade as one of the leading
authorities on Customer Relationship Management (CRM) business
strategies, Don Peppers is an acclaimed author and a founding
partner of Peppers and Rogers Group, the world’s leading
customer-focused management consulting firm. Don’s vision,
perspective and thoughtful analysis of global business practices has
earned him a ranking by Accenture’s Institute for Strategic
Change among the “Top 50 Business Intellectuals.”
Business 2.0 Magazine has named him one of the “foremost
business gurus of our times,” and the World Technology Network
has cited Don as an “innovator most likely to create visionary
‘ripple effects’.”
B. Joseph Pine
B. Joseph Pine
II is an author, speaker, and management advisor to Fortune
500 companies and start‑ups alike. He is co‑founder of
Strategic Horizons LLP, a thinking studio dedicated to helping
businesses conceive and design new ways of adding value to their
economic offerings. Mr. Pine is co‑author, with his partner
James H. Gilmore, of the
book
The Experience Economy: Work Is Theatre & Every Business a Stage,
published April 1999 by Harvard Business School Press. The book
demonstrates how companies ‑ across a myriad of industries
increasingly find their goods and services commoditized, and how
many companies are now staging unique, memorable experiences
as their economic offerings. The book also shows how
businesses can create value by embracing theatre as an
operating model to stage unique experiences.
Ed Rigsbee
Ed Rigsbee, CSP, president, at Rigsbee Research, is a nationally
recognized expert on strategic alliance development and
implementation. He created the Total Organizational Partnering
System (TOPS) as a result of his extensive research in the area
of strategic alliances. He has authored three business
relationship books: PartnerShift-How to Profit from the
Partnering Trend, Developing Strategic Alliances, and The
Art of Partnering.
Martha Rogers, Ph.D.
Business 2.0
magazine named Martha Rogers, Ph.D. one of the nineteen most
important business gurus of the past century. The World Technology
Network named her as “an innovator most likely to create visionary
ripple effects.” Recognized for the past decade as one of the
world’s leading experts on customer-based business strategies and
growing customer value, Dr. Rogers is an acclaimed author, a world
class-class speaker, and a founding partner of Peppers and Rogers
Group, the world’s leading customer-focused management consulting
firm, based in Norwalk, CT, and boasting an impressive list of
Fortune 500 clients. Gartner Group has positioned Peppers and
Rogers Group as the only CRM-services firm that can help clients
with both “vision” and “implementation” of their customer strategy.
Martha’s experience, expertise, and ability to think out of the
box makes her equally popular with media interviewers, speaking
event planners, and Fortune 1000 executives seeking to learn how
to compete in the Information Age.
Jack Sims
Jack Sims, Business Consultant and Speaker, brings over 30 years
of proven marketing, branding, promotion, and creative experience, delivering it
in a high powered session to your audience.
Born and educated in England and founded his first company there, this company
became consistently ranked as one of the top 5 creative groups in the UK.
James Taylor
Jim
Taylor is an author, consultant, and adviser to some of America's leading
companies. He provides advice on future trends, branding, and marketing
strategies for deploying digital technology and most recently the role of
trust itself in the emerging global market place. Dr.
Taylor serves as the Director of the Organic Institute, and an adviser to
Global Commerce, iVillage, AskJeeves, FirstLook, PSMG/Globecaster,
Schering-Plough, and a variety of other public and charitable
clients on both strategic marketing and business development
issues.
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
decade. The brand extension trap, marketing warfare, and
bottom-up marketing ideas are but a few of the many ideas that
he developed and illustrated convincingly. |
