Talent Network

In addition to the thought leaders within Monitor, we maintain a network of external talent linked to our firm. These people are prominent thought leaders in their fields, with provocative ideas about the future of business, science and society.

We provide our clients with integrated resources for growth, from both our staff and these external experts. We act as an “intelligent switch”, putting our clients in touch with relevant leading edge thinking and resources outside of Monitor as needed.

We provide access to the best thinking from notable authors, speakers, educators, researchers, and executives from around the world. While our primary function for our talent is to develop and fulfill commercial demand from corporations, associations, non-profits, and other buyers, we also address a wide range of individual needs, including advice on intellectual content, career development, and personal branding. Find more information on www.monitortalent.com.

Sir Mark Allen - Senior Advisor, BP

Sir Mark Allen is one of the world’s preeminent Arabists. He draws on a 30 year career with the British Foreign Service and many years living in the Middle East, during which he developed a keen appreciation of unique nuances of each of the rich cultures of the region. Upon his recent retirement from public service, Sir Mark became a Special Advisor to BP and a Senior Advisor to Monitor. The Middle East has become the epicenter of international political and military attention, and the effectiveness of relations between the West and the Arab world will in large part set the terms for the hydrocarbon-dependent 21st Century economy. Yet Allen contends that there has been much ignorance of Arab people everywhere. By delving into the individual psychology and world view of Arabs, Sir Mark succeeds in bridging racial, political and religious gaps. In his recent book, Arabs: A New Perspective, Sir Mark draws out four themes that have given the Arabs a sense of being a single people. The first three—Family, Religion and Arabism—set values for which the Arabs have shown they are ready to fight. The fourth, their common experience of Political Power, explains much about the need for reform in the Middle East and why it is so elusive. Learn more about Mark at Monitor Talent.

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David Andelman - Executive Editor, Forbes.com

David A. Andelman is Executive Editor of Forbes.com, the world's largest business and financial website. He has served as a domestic and foreign correspondent for The New York Times in various posts in New York and Washington, as Southeast Asia bureau chief, based in Bangkok, then East European bureau chief, based in Belgrade. He then moved to CBS News where he served for seven years as Paris Correspondent. He has traveled through, and reported from, more than 50 countries. There followed service as a Washington correspondent for CNBC, news editor of Bloomberg News and Business Editor of the New York Daily News before coming to Forbes. He is the author of three books: The Peacemakers, published by Harper & Row; The Fourth World War, published by William Morrow, which he co-authored with the Count de Marenches, long-time head of French intelligence; and A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today, published in October 2007 by John Wiley & Sons. Mr. Andelman has written for such publications as Harpers, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, Foreign Policy and Foreign Affairs. Learn more about David at Monitor Talent.

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George Ayittey - Recognized Authority on Africa and Economic Development

George Ayittey is a Ghanaian economist and widely recognized authority on political economics development in Africa. A distinguished economist in residence at American University and president of the Free Africa Foundation, George has championed the idea that “Africa is poor because she is not free.” True freedom never came to much of Africa after independence from colonial rule, says his first book, Africa Betrayed, which won the H.L. Mencken Award for “Best Book in 1992.” His influential book Africa Unchained boldly proposes a program of development—a way forward—for Africa, investigating how Africa can modernize, build, and improve its indigenous institutions. George argues forcefully that Africa’s salvation lies in Africa itself – not inside the corridors of the U.S. Congress or the inner sanctum of the World Bank. Africa’s salvation lies in returning to and building upon its own indigenous institutions and traditions of free village markets and free trade—rather than continuing to use alien and exploitative economic structures. The critically acclaimed book has helped unleash a new wave of activism and optimism about Africa. His recent efforts have focused on identifying profitable enterprises for “Cheetahs” —a new breed of Africans taking their futures into their own hands instead of waiting for politicians to empower them. His speech “Cheetahs vs. Hippos for Africa's Future: made a powerful impact at the TED Global Conference 2007 in Arusha, Tanzania. Learn more about George at Monitor Talent.

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Yochai Benkler - Law Professor and Internet Scholar

Yochai Benkler is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard. Prior to coming to Harvard, he was Joseph M. Field '55 Professor of Law at Yale. He writes about the Internet and the emergence of networked economy and society. Since the 1990s he has been a major theorist of the role of commons and radically decentralized individual action and collaboration in the production of information, knowledge and culture, as well as the organization of infrastructure. Yochai’s work traverses a wide range of disciplines and sectors. It is taught in schools of law, business, and information sciences, and in departments of communications, media studies, computer science, economics, and political science. In real world applications, his work has been widely discussed in both the business sector and civil society. His recent book, The Wealth of Networks (2006), and his earlier work, have won him awards from civil rights and social movement organizations, such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award for 2007 and Public Knowledge's IP3 Award in 2006, and was called a “reveille for netizens" by The Times of London and “Internet utopianism for grown-ups” by The American Prospect. At the same time, Wealth of Networks has been called “perhaps the best work yet about the fast moving, enthusiast-driven Internet” by the Financial Times, and was named the best business book about the future in 2006 by Strategy and Business. Learn more about Yochai at Monitor Talent.

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Alph Bingham - Co-founder, InnoCentive, Open Innovation Expert

Dr. Alph Bingham is a pioneer in the field of open innovation and an advocate of collaborative approaches to research and development. He is co-founder, and former president and chief executive officer of InnoCentive Inc., a Web-based community that matches companies facing R&D challenges with scientists who propose solutions. Through InnoCentive, a platform that leverages the ability to connect to a whole planet of people through the Internet, organizations can access individuals – problem solvers – who might never have been found. Alph spent more than 25 years with Eli Lilly and Company, and offers deep experience in pharmaceutical research and development, research acquisitions and collaborations, and R&D strategic planning. During his career he was instrumental in creating and developing Eli Lilly's portfolio management process as well as establishing the divisions of Research Acquisitions, the Office of Alliance Management and e.Lilly, a business innovation unit, from which various other ventures that create the advantages of open and networked organizational structures, including: InnoCentive, YourEncore, Inc., Coalesix, Inc., Maaguzi, Inc., Indigo Biosystems, Seriosity, Chorus and Collaborative Drug Discovery, Inc. Learn more about Alph at Monitor Talent.

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Jim Bower- Neuroscientist, Education Pioneer, Software Entrepreneur

James Bower is Professor of Computational Neuroscience at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and at the University of Texas, San Antonio. He is also founder, chairman and CEO of Numedeon Inc., producer of Whyville.net, one of the most popular educational websites for children, with 2.2 million registered users. Whyville is the leading educational virtual world for children ages 8 - 15. It was launched in 1999 by Numedeon, Inc. to apply over 17 years of research in education and cooperative learning to develop an innovative environment for engaging children in constructive and engaging activities on the web. Bower was a professor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) for 17 years. His scientific research focuses on the cerebellum and the mammalian olfactory system and employs a variety of experimental and computational techniques. His laboratory invented the neural-simulation system GENESIS and pioneered techniques in multi-single-unit neuronal recording. He has a longstanding interest and involvement in science education at all levels, having founded several international courses in computational neuroscience and established annual computational neuroscience meetings. Learn more about Jim at Monitor Talent.

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Stewart Brand - Author, Futurist, Activist and Visionary

Stewart Brand is the president of The Long Now Foundation and co-founder and managing director of Global Business Network, Monitor's scenario strategy consulting unit. Brand is well known for founding, editing and publishing the Whole Earth Catalog (1968-85), which received a National Book Award for the 1972 issue. In 1984, he founded The WELL (Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link), a computer teleconference system for the San Francisco Bay Area. It now has 11,000 active users worldwide and is considered a bellwether of the genre. Mr. Brand is also the author of many pioneering books including The Clock Of The Long Now in 1999, How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built in 1994, The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT in 1987, and Two Cybernetic Frontiers on Gregory Bateson and cutting-edge computer science in 1974. It had the first use of the term "personal computer" in print and was the first book to report on computer hackers. Learn more about Stewart at Monitor Talent.

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Larry Brilliant - Pioneering Physician and Philanthropist

Larry oversees the philanthropic wing of the leading Internet search engine, which has committed more than $1 billion to philanthropic activities. A self-described social change "addict," Larry recently won the prestigious TEDPrize, which grants recipients $100,000 and one wish to change the world. In February 2006, Larry announced his wish: to form the International Networked System for Total Early Disease Detection (INSTEDD), an international non-governmental network that will detect early signs of emerging, global health crises, such as pandemic bird flu. Learn more about Larry at Monitor Talent.

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Peter Cappelli - Leading Authority on Managing Workplace Talent, Professor of Management, Wharton School

Recognized as one of the world’s most important authorities on human capital, Dr. Peter Cappelli is the George W. Taylor Professor of Management at the Wharton School and Director of Wharton’s Center for Human Resources. His work focuses on human resource practices, talent and performance management, and public policy related to employment. He advises to organizations on the development of managerial and executive talent by helping his clients better understand how careers and career paths have changed, how these changes require companies to think about managing talent from a more strategic perspective, and how individuals should now think about managing their own careers. Peter was named one of the 25 most influential people in the field of human capital by Vault.com and one of the top 100 people in the field of recruiting by Recruiter.com. Additionally, he was elected to the National Academy of Human Resources, and—in 2004—named editor of the Academy of Management Perspectives. Learn more about Peter at Monitor Talent.

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Stan Davis - Visionary Business Thinker

Stan Davis is a prominent author, consultant, and speaker on the future of business. For more than 40 years, he has researched and documented the big shifts in science, technology, markets, and organization as they play out on business strategy and implementation. He has 13 books under his belt, with collective sales of more than 1 million copies in 15 languages. He is currently researching the convergence of information and biology and how to shift businesses away from top-down, command and control organizations toward bottoms-up, adapt and evolve entities. Learn more about Stan at Monitor Talent.

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Sir Richard Dearlove - Renowned Expert on Global Intelligence and Security

Sir Richard Dearlove has established himself as a scarce but in-demand commentator on the new century’s security threats. Only since his retirement as the Chief of British Intelligence in 2004 has he been able to dispose of his hard-won knowledge and experience for the benefit of private audiences. He still keeps an inquisitive media at arms length and refuses to write about his extraordinary career. Dearlove served as the British Intelligence representative in Washington during the presidency of George H.W. Bush, moving on to fill all of the key senior management roles in MI6, before his appointment in 1999 as ‘C’ (as the Chief of MI6 is known in British Government circles). At the center of the infamous leaked ‘Downing Street Memo,’ Sir Richard has had an insider’s view of key events and developments – 9/11, the continuing threat from Al Qaeda, Iraq, Afghanistan, the disarmament of Libya, the Iranian nuclear program—and he was of course an interlocutor of some of the leading players. Sir Richard is currently the Master of Pembroke College Cambridge, founded in 1347. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of AIG, senior advisor to Monitor and Chairman of Ascot Underwriting at Lloyd’s of London. He was knighted by the Queen in 2001. Learn more about Sir Richard at Monitor Talent.

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Joshua Epstein - Behavioral Economist

Josh Epstein's primary research interest is in the modeling of complex social, economic, and biological systems using agent-based computational models and nonlinear dynamical systems. His clients include public and private companies, international governments, and NGOs, who tap Josh's mind to explore the frontiers of simulation through a parade of dazzling artificial worlds. Josh has taught computational and mathematical modeling at Princeton and the Santa Fe Institute Summer School, and he's widely published in the modeling area, focused on pressing global topics like pandemic flu, civil violence, and organizational adaptation. Learn more about Joshua at Monitor Talent.

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Tamara Erickson - Award-winning Author and Expert on Organizations, the Changing Workforce, and Generations at Work

Tamara Erickson is president of the Concours Institute and a McKinsey Award-winning author and widely respected expert on organizations and the changing workforce—on the shifting relationships between individuals and corporations—and on enhancing innovation and workforce productivity. Her work is based on extensive research on changing demographics and employee values and, most recently, on how successful organizations innovate through collaboration. Tammy co-authored three Harvard Business Review articles (the first, "It’s Time to Retire Retirement,” earned her the McKinsey Award), one MIT Sloan Management Review article, and the book Workforce Crisis: How to Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills and Talent a guide for corporations. Her weekly blog “Across the Ages” is on HBSP Online. Tammy is currently writing a series of books, one for each generation, including the soon-to-be-released Retire Retirement: Career Strategies for the Boomer Generation. Learn more about Tamara at Monitor Talent.

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Dean Esserman - Highly Acclaimed Police Chief

He's not a typical police chief. By promoting novel approaches like “social justice” and community policing, Dean Esserman transformed the once-corrupt Providence, RI police department and—along the way—earned national recognition for modeling leadership in his profession. He has attracted the attention of business leaders intrigued by his innovative, invigorating management style and his ability to affect large-scale change. Learn more about Dean at Monitor Talent.

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Joe Fuller - Co-founder and CEO, Monitor

Joseph Fuller is a co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Monitor. He joined Monitor at its inception and currently oversees the firm’s consulting operations in 30 offices globally. In this capacity, he works with clients in a wide variety of industries, especially those with a heavy reliance on technology. He has particularly deep experience in two of the world’s most dynamic sectors, life sciences and telecommunications, and has advised leading companies and important regulatory bodies in both industries. Some of Joe's areas of functional expertise include corporate strategy—including M&A strategy and integration—corporate governance, and organizational dynamics. In recent years, Joe has focused his attention on the interaction of the capital markets and companies’ decision-making processes with a particular focus on the role of boards of directors. Learn more about Joe at Monitor Talent.

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Peter Gelb - Expert on the Business of Art and Managing the Modern Non-Profit

Under Peter’s direction, the Metropolitan Opera has taken a leadership role among opera houses and other arts organizations, not only in the U.S. but around the world, providing a model for other groups with its creative and groundbreaking public outreach initiatives. Since taking the helm at the Met, Peter has launched initiatives aimed at revitalizing opera and connecting it to a wider audience. One of the most innovative and successful of his initiatives is “Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD,” a series of live performance transmissions shown in high definition in movie theaters across North America, Europe, and Japan. In 2006, Sirius Satellite Radio launched “Metropolitan Opera Radio,” an around-the-clock channel broadcasting four live performances a week as well as historic performances from the Met’s vast radio archive. Peter has also worked to recruit some of the world’s great theater directors to enhance the theatricality of the Met’s productions and complement the extraordinary musical standards established by Music Director James Levine. Learn more about Peter at Monitor Talent.

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Dan Gillmor - Expert on Citizen Media and the Internet

Dan Gillmor is a leading authority on the phenomenon of media literacy and citizen journalism. He is founder and director of the Center for Citizen Media, a project to enhance and expand grassroots media and its reach. The center is an affiliate of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University Law School and the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. Dan brings deep knowledge of the collision of media and technology and its impact. He is author of We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People, a book that explains the rise of citizens' media and why it matters. Dan spent more than 25 years in the newspaper industry as a reporter, writer, and editor and remains a highly-respected journalist. For more than a decade, he was a columnist at the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper, and wrote a weblog for SiliconValley.com. He joined the San Jose Mercury News after six years with the Detroit Free Press. Before that, he was with the Kansas City Times and several newspapers in Vermont. He has won or shared in several regional and national journalism awards. Learn more about Dan at Monitor Talent.

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Rebecca Henderson - Business and Technology Strategist, Educator, Researcher

Rebecca Henderson is the Eastman Kodak Professor of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School. Her focus is harnessing technology to support corporate strategy that creates value for business enterprises. An award-winning educator, she works with management teams to transfer her groundbreaking ideas to the next generation of technology and business leaders. In 2001, she was named Sloan's “Teacher of the Year.” She speaks frequently on a variety of topics, including "Doing Strategy Right," "Getting More Mileage from Your Innovation Resources," and "Worse Before Better: Unjamming the R&D Project Queue." Learn more about Rebecca at Monitor Talent.

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John Kao - Innovation Strategist and Practitioner, Transformation Catalyst

John Kao is an authority on the intersecting subjects of corporate innovation and transformation, design, and the future of business. Dubbed a “serial innovator” and “Mr. Creativity” by The Economist, he has made a career out of helping organizations go from “getting” the importance of innovation to “getting innovation done.” John has worked with a wide range of Fortune 500 companies, startups, and government agencies around practical issues of strategic innovation and organizational transformation. Learn more about John at Monitor Talent.

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Larry Keeley - Innovation Master

Larry Keeley is a business advisor and speaker who has worked to develop more effective growth strategies and innovation methods for over 27 years. He is President and co-founder of Doblin Inc., a Monitor business unit, and a partner at Monitor, addressing the role of innovation in business. Learn more about Larry at Monitor Talent.

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Eamonn Kelly - Futurist, Change Agent, and Strategic Thought Partner

Eamonn is the CEO and president of Global Business Network (GBN), the renowned futures network and scenario strategy consultancy. He has developed insights, tools, and methodologies for mastering uncertainty and has consulted to dozens of the world’s leading corporations in many sectors and global and national public agencies. Prior to joining GBN, Eamonn was head of strategy at Scottish Enterprise, one of the world's most respected development agencies, where he led the creation of effective strategies for economic and social development in a new era. In his recently acclaimed book, Powerful Times: Rising to the Challenge of Our Uncertain World, Eamonn weaves together seven powerful “dynamic tensions” that will fundamentally reshape human life in the coming decades. He offers breakthrough insights into how these tensions will conflict and interact to create huge waves of change beyond anything society has experienced previously.

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Kevin Kelly - Technology Visionary

Kevin Kelly has been a participant of, and reporter on, the information technology revolution for the past 20 years. Based in his studio in Pacifica, California, he immerses himself in the long-term trends of technology, tools, new media, and cultural behavior. He writes about the ripple effects and social consequences surrounding the culture of technology. Kevin Kelly is currently Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He helped launch Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor until January 1999. A best selling author, he now writes for prominent publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Time, Harpers, Science, GQ, and Esquire. Learn more about Kevin at Monitor Talent.

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Steve Kerr - Senior Advisor, Goldman Sachs; Expert on Leadership Development

Steve Kerr helps the executives he trains develop leadership skills and professional expertise in an environment that encourages mobility. As managing director and Chief Learning Officer (CLO) at Goldman Sachs, his work fosters the firm’s values; namely, putting clients’ interests first and creating a culture that emphasizes integrity, excellence, innovation, and teamwork. A pioneer in his field, Steve was one of the first corporate educators to hold the CLO title, which he assumed during his tenure at General Electric where he spent more than seven years as CLO and vice president of leadership development. He reported to Jack Welch and was responsible for GE's renowned leadership education center at Crotonville. Dr. Kerr is a past-president of the Academy of Management, the world's largest association of academicians in management. He is an acknowledged author, editor, and speaker, and he has contributed to many academic and popular publications on management and organizational behavior. His well-known publications are The Boundaryless Organization (Jossey-Bass, 1995; co-author); Ultimate Rewards (Harvard Business School Press, 1997; editor); and a Fortune article titled "Risky Business: The New Pay Game" (July 22, 1996). Learn more about Steve at Monitor Talent.

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Joel Kurtzman - Author, Advisor on Global Competitiveness and Risk

Joel Kurtzman is a noted author and advisor to leading organizations around the world in the areas of social capital, governance, and assessing and managing global risk. His expertise is highlighted by his long, successful career forecasting global events, from oil-price shocks to the dollar's ups and downs. Joel's vantage point for understanding and relating business implications comes from his having held both positions of senior strategic business leader and journalist responsible for reporting and translating business issues. Learn more about Joel at Monitor Talent.

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Jaron Lanier - Computer Scientist, Composer, Visual Artist, and Commentator on All Things Digital

Jaron Lanier is a musician, writer, and technological visionary. He came on the scene with his work in Virtual Reality (VR), a term he coined. In the early 1980s, he founded VPL Research—the first company to sell VR products—and, since then, he has remained one of the world's most respected digerati. He writes and speaks on numerous topics, including high-technology business, the social impact of technological practices, the philosophy of consciousness and information, Internet politics, and the future of humanism. Learn more about Jaron at Monitor Talent.

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Mats Lederhausen - Investor and Advisor to Purpose-Driven Enterprises

After a long career both as a Joint Venture Partner and as a senior executive of McDonald’s Corporation, Mats Lederhausen formed his own company in early 2007. The company will focus on building businesses with a purpose bigger than their product. This focus comes from a strong belief that purpose is paramount in today's marketplace. Companies with stronger conviction can attract energy and loyalty both from consumers and employees. The primary mission of BE-CAUSE is to invest in companies that need to scale an already tested and promising aspiration. Mats will use his experience from building thousands of units in many international markets for several concepts. Mats will also continue to do selective consulting projects for companies in the areas of CSR, Corporate Reputation, Innovation and Strategy. Mats currently serves as a senior advisor to the McDonald’s Management team on both asset management and Brand Trust. Prior to forming BE-CAUSE, Mats served as Managing Director of McDonald’s Ventures. McDonald’s Ventures managed the investments McDonald’s held in future oriented growth initiatives including Chipotle Mexican Grill, Boston Market, RedBox DVD and Pret A Manger. As a director, Chairman and finally lead director of Chipotle from 2000-2006 Mats helped shape the strategy that ultimately led to one of the most successful restaurant IPOs of all times. Mats continues to serve on the boards of Pret A Manger, RedBox and Donatos Pizzeria. Learn more about Mats at Monitor Talent.

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Chris Luebkeman - Architect, Engineer, Designer of the Built Environment

Chris runs the global Foresight and Innovation initiative at Arup, a global design and engineering firm and a leading creative force behind many of the world's most innovative projects and structures. In his role, he conceives new ways of building—recyclable buildings, reusable offices, and furniture that can decompose—and works with some of the world's largest companies to develop what he calls ‘plausible futures' to better understand the opportunities that change is creating for them in the built environment. In his recently published book, Drivers of Change 2006, Chris looks at 50 important factors that will affect our world. Learn more about Chris at Monitor Talent.

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Kevin Maney - Acclaimed Author and Award-Winning Technology Journalist

Kevin Maney is a contributing editor at Condé Nast’s newest publication, Portfolio and Portfolio.com. His primary work focuses on technology, and he is responsible for covering the industry's leading characters, its game-changing emerging technology, and its big ideas. He has an award-winning reputation as an industry insider; he has been scanning the technology scene as it happens -- every day -- for more than 20 years, in a relentless pursuit to identify and follow the trends that matter. Read more about Kevin at Monitor Talent.

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Christopher Meyer - Author and Advisor on the Future of Business

Chris Meyer is a partner at Monitor and chief executive of Monitor Networks, a unit of Monitor focused on fostering business innovation through designing, growing, and learning from human networks. Chris writes and speaks about the trends shaping business and economic developments. His most recent book is It's Alive: The Coming Convergence of Information, Biology, and Business (co-authored with Stan Davis). He also co-authored the best-selling Blur: The Speed of Change in the Connected Economy and Future Wealth with Stan Davis, and he has contributed to the Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Fast Company, Time, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Business 2.0. Chris’s recent research and consulting have focused on the development of the Adaptive Enterprise, helping companies create the capacity to sense, respond to, and adapt to changes in their business environments. Read more about Chris at Monitor Talent.

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Gary Pisano- Harry E. Figgie, Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Gary Pisano is the Harry E. Figgie, Jr. Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He currently serves as chair of the Technology and Operations Management Unit. Professor Pisano’s research has examined technology strategy, the management of product and process development, organizational learning, and vertical integration and outsourcing strategies. For the past 20 years, Pisano’s research has also focused on strategy, R&D, and competition in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. His research has led to insights about appropriate licensing, manufacturing, and R&D strategies for biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. Pisano is a widely published author with over 25 research papers published in such journals as Management Science, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Harvard Business Review. He has also written case studies on such companies as BMW, ITT-Automotive, Intel, Merck, Eli Lilly, and Vertex Pharmaceuticals. He is the author of The Development Factory, a book investigating the strategies and practices leading to superior development performance in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. Pisano has also written Operations, Strategy, and Technology, with co-authors Robert Hayes, David Upton, and Steve Wheelwright. His most recent book, Science Business: The Promise, The Reality and The Future of Biotech, examines the evolution of the economic and strategic challenges facing the biotechnology sector. The book was released by HBS Press in November 2006. Read more about Gary at Monitor Talent.

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Iqbal Quadir - Entrepreneur, Founder of GrameenPhone, Philanthropist

Iqbal Quadir is an accomplished entrepreneur, author, and lecturer on assessing "the failure of foreign aid to rescue moribund third-world economies" and proposing solutions that unleash entrepreneurial potential. His work has been recognized as a successful development model by leaders and organizations around the world. Quadir conceived, designed and organized GrameenPhone which has provided virtually universal access to telephony in his native Bangladesh and self-employment opportunities for its rural poor. Read more about Iqbal at Monitor Talent.

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Howard Rheingold - Pioneering Thinker on the Future of Technology and Society

Howard Rheingold, a noted author and commentator, has a proven record of accurate technology and social forecasting over two decades of syndicated columns, bestselling books, and pioneering online enterprises. Now he's on to the next and biggest thing: the marriage of mobile phone, PC, and wireless Internet that is changing the way we meet, mate, entertain, govern, and conduct business. Rheingold was the Founding Executive Editor of Hotwired, the first commercial webzine where the web-based discussion forum and the online banner ad were invented. Rheingold has appeared on Today, Good Morning America, ABC Primetime Live, CNN, CBS News, NBC News, MacNeil/Lehrer Report, NPR's Fresh Air and Marketplace. His book, Smart Mobs, was named one of the “Big Ideas books of 2002” by The New York Times. Learn more about Howard at Monitor Talent.

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Peter Schwartz - World-Renowned Futurist and Strategist

Peter Schwartz is co-founder and current chairman of the Global Business Network (GBN), the world’s preeminent member organization focused on scenario thinking and planning, where he leads programs for corporations, governments, and non-profit institutions. His current research and scenario work encompasses energy resources and the environment, technology, life sciences, telecommunications, media and entertainment, aerospace, and national security. A prolific author, Peter’s most recent book, Inevitable Surprises, offers a provocative look at the complex forces at play in the world today and their implications for business and society. His first book, The Art of the Long View, is considered a seminal publication on scenario planning and has been translated into multiple languages. Peter addresses many different audiences in corporate board rooms, at conferences on issues such as global warming and human life extension, and at the World Economic Forum. He led the scenario team at Royal Dutch/Shell in the 1980s, where many of the scenario tools were pioneered. He has even lent his futurist skills to Hollywood as a script consultant on such films as The Minority Report, Deep Impact, Sneakers, and War Games. Learn more about Peter at Monitor Talent.

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Dov Seidman - Founder, Chairman, and CEO of LRN

Thirteen years ago, Dov had a vision of a new kind of company that would help businesses get their hows right. With this powerful vision and an over-extended credit card, he founded LRN in the living room of his apartment. Today, LRN is a highly successful company of more than 200 employees, whose clients include some of the world's most respected companies -- Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Trump Entertainment, The New York Times Company, Raytheon, and more than 250 others. Dov's views on business behavior, success, and corporate culture have been quoted widely in the media, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Forbes, The Financial Times, CNBC, ABC's Good Morning America and BBC News. Read more about Dov at Monitor Talent.

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Clay Shirky - Writer, Consultant, and Teacher on New Media and the Internet

Clay Shirky is a writer, educator, and consultant on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. He is an adjunct professor at New York University (NYU) in their graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program, where he teaches courses on the interrelationships of social and technological networks, particularly how they shape culture and vice-versa. He consults to a variety of organizations on network technologies, and is an acknowledged expert on collaboration tools, social networks, peer-to-peer sharing, collaborative filtering, and Open Source development. Clay has spoken and written extensively on the Internet since 1996, with regular columns in Business 2.0, FEED, OpenP2P.com and his own shirky.com blogsite. He has appeared in The New York Times, Time, The Wall Street Journal, and the Harvard Business Review. Learn more about Clay at Monitor Talent.

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Anne-Marie Slaughter - Dean, Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton, Expert on International Relations and Law

Anne-Marie Slaughter is the Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and the Bert G. Kerstetter Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. Drawing from rich interdisciplinary expertise, she writes, speaks and teaches broadly on geopolitical shifts, global governance, international criminal law, and foreign policy. In addition to her research, Anne-Marie speaks regularly to businesses, governments, academic audiences, and civic groups. She has also written for publications including The Washington Post, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, and the International Herald Tribune. Read more about Anne-Marie at Monitor Talent.

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Noel Tichy - Noted Authority on Leadership

A leading authority on management and leadership development, Dr. Noel Tichy is a professor of organizational behavior and human resource management at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He is also the director of the Global Business Partnership and heads up the Global Leadership in Healthcare Program working with CEOs and their senior teams from major medical centers in the U.S., along with teams in Europe and India. The former head of General Electric Co.’s famed leadership development center, Crotonville, Noel led the transformation to action learning at GE and has worked with CEOs around the world to develop leadership development capacity. He was also manager of Management Education for GE, where he directed its worldwide development efforts. Currently, Noel conducts the Cycle of Leadership executive program at the University of Michigan. Most recently, he led the launch of the Global Corporate Citizenship Initiative in partnership with GE, Procter & Gamble, and 3M, designed to create a national model for partnership opportunities between business and society emphasizing free enterprise and democratic principles. Noel has long been regarded as a staple of management literacy as noted by his rating as one of the “Top 10 Management Gurus” by BusinessWeek and Business 2.0. He is also the author of numerous books and articles, including Cycle of Leadership and The Leadership Engine. His most recent book, coauthored with Warren Bennis, is Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls. Learn more about Noel at Monitor Talent.

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Paul Van Riper - Military Strategist

Paul Van Riper served more than 41 years in the United States Marine Corps, including wartime service in Vietnam and Operation Desert Storm. One of the keenest minds on the future of warfare and military strategy, he continues to serve his country by teaching at the National Defense University, the Marine Corps University, and other military education institutions. He advocates a better understanding of the nature of warfare, and cautions against relying too heavily on unproven technologies or concepts. Paul is a captivating speaker on his favorite topics: addressing the new realities of warfare and terrorism, retooling command and control for organizational effectiveness, complexity and adaptability, and the history of strategy and conflict. Learn more about Paul at Monitor Talent.

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Steve Weber - Political Economist and Critically Acclaimed Author

Steve Weber is professor of political science at UC Berkeley, where he directs the multi-disciplinary Institute of International Studies. His research and consulting work consistently breaks new ground in areas as diverse as health care telecommunications, U.S. foreign and intelligence policy, software markets, and the emerging geopolitical issues of the 21st century, particularly around Sino-American relations. His advisory work has benefited organizations as diverse as IBM, the CIA, The Ford Foundation, Chiron, and the Library of Congress. His most recent book, The Success of Open Source, is an internationally acclaimed study of the political economy of the open source software community (2004 Winner of the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award Competition, Computer and Information Science). Learn more about Steve at Monitor Talent.

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Lawrence Wilkinson - Executive, Advisor, and Commentator on the Future of Media and the Consumer

Lawrence Wilkinson provides strategic counsel and venture design services through the firm Heminge & Condell, based in San Francisco. He has been an active entrepreneur and advisor in the media and related businesses for more than 30 years. He helped create such diverse companies as Oxygen Media, Global Business Network (GBN), Ealing Studios, and Design Within Reach. Today, Lawrence continues to serve as Vice Chairman of Oxygen Media, Inc., which he co-founded with partners Geraldine Laybourne, Oprah Winfrey, Carsey-Werner-Mandabach, and Disney. Lawrence is a highly respected insider on the digital media industry. He has advised hundreds of corporations on strategies related to the intersection of communications, entertainment, and technology. Learn more about Lawrence at Monitor Talent.

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Jonathan Zittrain - Internet Cyberlaw Scholar and Author

Jonathan Zittrain holds the Chair in Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University and is a principal of the Oxford Internet Institute. He is also the Jack N. & Lillian R. Berkman Visiting Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School, where he co-founded its Berkman Center for Internet & Society. His research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education. He has recently co-authored a study of Internet filtering by national governments, and is writing a book about the future of the now-intertwined Internet and PC, called The Future of the Internet -- And How to Stop It. Learn more about Jonathan at Monitor Talent.

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