Sir Richard Branson is founder of the Virgin Group Virgin is one of the world’s most irresistible brands and has expanded into many diverse sectors from travel to telecommunications, health to banking and music to leisure. There are now more than 100 Virgin companies worldwide, employing approximately 60,000 people in over 50 countries. Having started Virgin as a mail order record retailer in 1970, Branson founded Virgin Records and opened...
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A former “pack a day smoker,” Ray Zahab ran across the Sahara Desert in 111 days; he ran the three coastal trails of Canada, covering 400 kilometres; he and two others broke the world speed record for an unsupported expedition by a team to the South Pole; he ran 1,200 kilometres in 20 days in the Atacama Desert; and in 2013, he took on his most grueling journey yet when...
Read MoreJay Heinrichs is one of the world's leading experts on the art of persuasion. Bloomberg Businessweek magazine says of him that he "brings the art of persuasion to the world's leading masters of manipulation." His clients have included Southwest Airlines, the banking industry, Walmart, Mindshare, Beachbody (the P90X and Insanity people!), Ivy League universities, NASA, and the Pentagon. Jay is the bestselling author of Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and...
Read MoreWatch the talk: -im9tezk Read “Bo Jacobs discusses nuclear consequences” Robert Jacobs is an American historian at the Hiroshima Peace Institute of Hiroshima City University working on social and cultural aspects of nuclear technologies. He is the author of “The Dragon’s Tail: Americans Face the Atomic Age” (2010), the editor of “Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future: Art and Popular Culture Respond to the Bomb” (2010), and the co-editor...
Read MoreNicole Watanabe brings more than 14 years of cross-cultural business experience to her work as a facilitator and organizational development consultant. She conducts training seminars for Japanese and non-Japanese professionals on multicultural teambuilding, cross-cultural effectiveness and various leadership development topics. In addition, Nicole coaches business executives from the U.S., Europe and Asia through the challenges of cross-cultural adaptation in Japan including labor-management relations, HR strategy, Japanese business etiquette, building strong business...
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