Inspirational global coach of winners in sport and business; Speaker, Author, CEO Quintessential Edge;

Master Class:
‘Become the CEO of your Life’ (November 27, 9.15-11.15am)

Peak Performance Specialist, International speaker, best selling author and CEO of Quintessential Edge.

From Grand Slams to Gold medals and World Champions, Dr Ann Quinn has a long track record of creating winners. In addition to inspiring athletes to achieve their greatness, she also coaches executives to conquer their stress, get energised, build their mental toughness and resilience and to Be Extraordinary. With passion and energy, Ann shares her experiences from consulting high achievers on 6 continents and in more than 30 countries.

Now based back in Melbourne, her career and experiences have been extensive and diverse. She has lived and worked in the U.S., Australia and the UK. From Health and Fitness Director of the famous Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Florida, to more than ten years coaching on the professional tennis tour, she then became the National Director of Coach Education at Tennis Australia before moving to London to take up the position of Head of Sports Science and Innovation at the LTA.

Dr Quinn has a diverse academic background. Her PhD is in Psychology (University of Melbourne), M.Sc. in Exercise Science (University of Illinois), B.App.Sc. in Human Movement (RMIT), Dip.Ed. (Melbourne) and Dip. Nutrition (London). She has been honoured with many awards including the National Strength and Conditioning Association Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year, Australian Sports Medal; Professional Tennis Registry Plagenhoef Sport Science Award, and the International Tennis Federation (ITF) Award for services to the game in coaching.

She has been a member of various International Coaching, Sports Science and Sports Medicine Commissions and Panels for over 10 years. She sits on the Women’s Tennis Association Professional Development Panel and has also written, co-authored and edited several coaching publications. Her latest book, How to be an Extraordinary Athlete, Secrets to Sporting Success, has already won much international acclaim.

Twitter: @drannquinn

Innovator, inspirator, author, master of interaction

Master Class:
‘Lss=mr (Less is beautiful)’ (November 27, 4.45-6.45pm)

Cyriel in 21 words: an International speaker, Master of Interaction, 21 Lobster street, Knight of NOW, inspirator, author, human being, brainstormsessions, large groups, creativity, improvisation, interaction, timespiration, present.

With more than 10 years of experience behind him in the field of creativity and innovation, Cyriel is a much sought-after speaker and Master of Interaction at conferences, events and internal meetings. He’s also an author and a workshop facilitator.

Over the years he has become a master at creating an open and informal atmosphere – ideal for bigger events and conferences. In a very practical and simple way, he enables the participants to experience the power of creative thinking and doing. His presentations are highly interactive (even when working with big groups) and are always tailored to his audience by using innovative examples from their field. The combination of speaker and Master of Interaction is a role that fits Cyriel like a glove.

Apart from Belgium and the Netherlands, Cyriel has given various presentations in the bigger cities all over the world (like New York, Toronto, Calgary, London, Dublin, Budapest, Brussels, Amsterdam, Orvieto, Manchester, Delhi, Mumbai, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Wellington, Tauranga or Auckland).

Cyriel is also author of two books: And … action – combination of creativity and improvisation (in Dutch) and Timespiration – a different look at time (in English).

Cyriel Kortleven is one of the experts @21Lobsterstreet – an energetic bunch of experts, on the job wherever people and organizations are in need for creativity, innovation and change. Working on the edge of intellect and intuition, we take on serious challenges and answer with results.

Twitter: @CyrielKortleven

Founder and CEO of ImagineNation™

Master Class:
‘Innovate like an Israeli’ (November 27, 4.45-6.45pm)

Janet Sernack is the Founder and CEO of ImagineNation™, an Israeli Start-Up that is an imaginative, generative & provocative global learning company consulting globally.

Janet Sernack is the Founder and CEO of ImagineNation™, an Israeli Start-Up that is an imaginative, generative & provocative global learning company that allows coaches, managers, leaders and organizations to develop their innovative and entrepreneurial leadership capability.

She brings the innovation management process “to life”, by partnering with clients, to custom design a range of targeted and specific corporate learning processes, including online tele-seminars (The Coach for Innovators ™), theory based webinars, experiential business simulations (The Start-Up Game™) and awareness building innovation labs.

She gained her consulting, education, facilitation, training and executive coaching skills, from over 30 years of experience in the manufacturing, retailing and learning and development businesses to Australia’s top 100 companies. As a top retail executive with the Coles/Myer Group, a Design Management Consultant to the global fashion and lifestyle industries, a Senior Consultant with Corporate Vision and in her own learning and development company, Compass Learning Pty Ltd.

She now resides in beautiful Zichron Yaakov, on the Mediterranean Coast, in Israel with her husband, two dogs and pussycat.

Twitter: @JanetSernack

Strategic transformation and disruptive innovation expert, Managing Partner Innosight

Master Class:
‘Beating the Odds When Launching a New Venture’ (November 27, 9.15-11.15am)

Deep Conversation:
‘Are You Ready for the Race to the Future? At the starting line or still getting suited up?’ (November 27, 7.15-9.45pm)

Presentation:
The Empire Strikes Back: How Corporate Catalysts are helping Large Organisations Win the Race for the Future (November 28, 11.40am)

Scott is Managing Partner of Innosight Asia Pacific. Based in the firm’s Singapore offices since 2010, he has led Innosight’s expansion into the Asia-Pacific region as well as its venture capital activities (Innosight Ventures).

In his decade with Innosight, Scott has advised senior leaders in companies such as Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, Kraft, General Electric, LG, Credit Suisse, and Cisco Systems on topics of growth and innovation.

Scott has written extensively about innovation. He is the coauthor of the new eBook Building a Growth Factory and author of The New Corporate Garage, which appeared in the September 2012 issue of Harvard Business Review, as well as The Little Black Book of Innovation, published by Harvard Business Review Press in January 2012. He is the co-author of the Harvard Business Review article How P&G Tripled Its Innovation Success Rate. He co-authored Seeing What’s Next (2004) with Harvard Business School Professor and Innosight founder Clayton Christensen and 

was the lead author of The Innovator’s Guide to Growth and author of The Silver Lining. He has written articles for publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, BusinessWeek, Forbes, Sloan Management Review, Advertising Age, Marketing Management and Chief Executive, and serves as a judge in The Wall Street Journal’s Innovation Awards. He has a regular column at Harvard Business Online.

Scott chairs the investment committee for IDEAS Ventures, a SGD 10 million fund Innosight runs in conjunction with the Singapore government. Scott has served as an active Board member for two companies incubated by Innosight (Village Laundry Service, a laundry service company based in Bangalore, and Guaranteach, a US-based online education company), helping those companies develop and execute their strategy and raise external expansion capital.

Scott is a featured speaker on topics of growth and innovation. He has run more than 100 training workshops, and in 2008-2009 served on the faculty of the Leadership, Innovation and Growth program at General Electric Crotonville. He has appeared on Good Morning America, CNBC, and FOX Business.

Twitter: @ScottDAnthony

Social innovator, global cage rattler and a change agent, Author: (me)volution

Master Class:
‘Are you really worth talking about? (November 27, 2.15-4.15pm)

Deep Conversation:
‘Are You Ready for the Race to the Future?’ (November 27, 7.15-9.45pm)

Presentation:
Being the change – leadership in the age of shared value? (November 29, 1.45.pm)

Jon thrives by constantly looking at the world around him, thinking about it and using these observations to drive new and creative thinking that break down silos and challenge the status quo.

He is the CEO of The Conversation Farm, a global agency that develops creative ideas to change the way people think about problems. The agency grounds most of its work in social innovation and builds new conversations for some of the world’s most innovative organisations in more than a dozen countries.

Jon’s world is that of social innovation. He is a leader in marrying social profit with financial profit and his radical and inspirational futurology paints a vivid picture of how tomorrow’s businesses will use social innovation to grow their audiences.

Author of two books – Philanthropy in a Flat World and (me)volution, Jon is a celebrated speaker and has shared speaking platforms with leaders such as Kofi Annan and Princess Mary of Denmark. His visionary sessions are both inspirational and empowering, leaving his audiences with the tools they need to ready their businesses for tomorrow.

Twitter: @jonduschinsky

Digital Education Leader, learning futurist

Master Class:
‘Student led learning design’ (November 27, 9.15-11.15am)

Deep Conversation:
‘Education: Learning to embrace the future’ (November 27, 12.00-2.00pm)

Presentation:
Racing to the Future: Total Learning (November 28, 9.35am)

Professor at Bournemouth University, Chair in New Media Environments; One of the most influential academics in the field of technology and education globally.

Stephen is a Professor at Bournemouth University, and at Universidad Camilo José Cela, Madrid. He draws on a unique €250m portfolio of large scale, effective research projects, over 30 years. His eclectic research focus ranges from the design of schools and school fitments, through the implementation of ICT in learning, to addressing the new pedagogic needs of everyone from elite Olympic coaches to pre-school children.

He is described as “the most influential academic of recent years in the field of technology and education” by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) UK and “Europe’s leading online education expert” by Microsoft.

After secondary school teaching, Stephen founded and ran Ultralab for a quarter of a century, building it into one of the most respected research centres in e-learning in the world.

An early pioneer of educational multimedia, Stephen went on to pilot, and be the guiding

“father” of, early social networking in Learning too, with seminal projects including:

• The pre-internet Teletext and email social networking project *ESW in the 1980s,
• The groundbreaking nationwide Schools OnLine community for the UK Department of Trade and Industry in 1995/6
• Tesco Schoolnet 2000 from 1999 – the then Guinness Book of Record’s largest internet learning project in the world.
• In 2003 Stephen led the creation of the unique on-line, individually bespoke, work placed, research based, undergraduate degree Ultraversity.

In recognition of all this work, along with just 51 others including Damien Hirst, Jarvis Cocker, Harrison Ford, Lauren Bacall, Muhammad Ali, Stephen became an Apple Master in the 1990s and was awarded the Royal Television Society’s Judges’ Award for lifetime contribution to educational broadcasting. Stephen is a member of BAFTA’s Board of Trustees and Council having formerly chaired its Technical Innovation Jury.

Twitter: @stephenheppell