Leadership/management expert and author of The One Thing You Need to Know, Marcus Buckingham demonstrates the link between engaged employees and productivity, profit, turnover and customer satisfaction.

Drawing on tens of thousands of interviews with the most effective managers and leaders, Marcus will pinpoint the significant difference between great managing and great leading and highlight the skills needed to excel at each. He will identify the one controlling insight at the heart of each and show you how the world’s best have put these insights into practice.

Providing and receiving feedback is an essential skill. When employees and leaders know how they are doing, performance soars and retention increases. The fundamental problem with feedback - it focuses on the past, not on the future.

In this highly interactive session, Marshall Goldsmith will teach you to provide and accept feedforward - to focus on helpful suggestions for the future that improve communication and performance. Forbes Magazine proclaims Goldsmith a 'rock star in the world of executive coaching,' and The Wall Street Journal ranks him as one of the top 10 consultants in the field of executive education. He is the best-selling author of What Got You Here Won't Get You There.

Dr. John Izzo
Best Selling Author & Business Visionary

Talent is a top concern of today's leaders. Dr. John Izzo, a visionary expert on engagement, retention and corporate culture, presents practical ideas for increasing employee loyalty and creating the organization of the future.

John defines the new work ethic and what it means for business. He explains why the generations view work differently, and how to attract and keep the most talented employees by meeting the six major expectations of the workforce. Dr. Izzo has been featured in Fast Company and The Wall Street Journal, and is the author of the international best-seller Awakening Corporate Soul. His most recent book, The Five Secrets You Must Discover before You Die, was produced as a five-part series by the Biography Channel.

Sally Hogshead
Authority on Competitive Advantage

Radical careerists become the most valuable people in any organization because they aim higher, think smarter, and accomplish more. Career expert and author Sally Hogshead shares the results from her groundbreaking study of 1,000 modern professionals, revealing how high-achievers think and act. You will learn how to attract the best talent, and how to motivate and hang on to your rising stars.

Sally Hogshead is the author of Radical Careering, and one of advertising's most celebrated thinkers. Her breakthrough marketing concepts for clients such as Coke, Procter & Gamble, and MINI Cooper are included in the Smithsonian's Museum of American History and have been covered by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NBC, CBS, ABC, and CNN.

Philip Ross, Cordless Group Ltd.
Lewis Pinault, LSE BOX
Andrew Harrison, DEGW

In the book The 21st Century Office, co-author Philip Ross was among the first to identify a trend toward distributed workspaces and 'third places.' What are the latest manifestations of this trend? How can corporate real estate executives leverage third places to expand their capacity to attract and connect with the best talent?

BOX - a physical space on a university campus that provides a new type of innovation and community space - brings together companies, academic institutions and wider organizational networks to explore complex problems. How could your organization benefit from a virtual innovation and community space?