	Annie McKee, Founder & Managing Director of Teleos Leadership Institute, executive coach, author and faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania Annie McKee advises some of the largest corporations in the world. A scholar on the cutting edge of leadership, organizational culture and change, she is dedicated to making good leaders better and world-class corporations even more successful. Her latest book, Becoming a Resonant Leader, a follow-up to Resonant Leadership, is a hands-on guide to developing emotional intelligence, renewing relationships and sustaining effectiveness. McKee also co-authored the bestseller, Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence with Daniel Goleman and Richard Boyatzis. With engaging speeches and interactive seminars, McKee demonstrates that “the best leaders create resonance — a reservoir of positivity that inspires passion and motivates people to perform at their best.” She believes that resonant leaders do more than simply chart a strategy or manage resources — they move people, creating a deep emotional connection that is characterized by hope, a shared belief in a compelling vision, and a sense that together, we can achieve anything. Named by Business Week as “The high priestess of executive coaching” and as one of the 100 Best Leaders of 2005, she works closely with senior management teams at international firms such as Reuters, UniCredit Banca, Starbucks and Merrill Lynch.
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	Barbara Annis, Barbara Annis is a leading edge thinker – a dynamic and compelling keynote speaker who has designed and delivered major initiatives on the value of Gender Intelligence™ to Fortune 500 companies and other organizations worldwide for more than 20 years. Considered an authority on and diversity to more than 3,000 corporate workshops and keynotes. guides men and women beyond “he said, she said” to a higher level of understanding. Men and women come to recognize the strengths that both genders bring to business and are able to use it as a powerful competitive advantage. This transformational shift in thinking results in ultimate success for corporations. Barbara Annis is the Chair-elect of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government Women’s Leadership Board. She also teaches at Harvard’s International Leadership Institute on Gender Intelligent Leadership for global leaders. Her extensive studies have included work with exceptional thinkers such as Dr. Fernando Flores, Ph.D. Program, Linguistics, University of Berkeley; Neuroscientist Ruben Gur, University of Pennsylvania; Psychologist Virginia Satir; and the late Dr. Willis Harman, Founder of Noetic Sciences Foundation and The World Business Academy. Prior to establishing Barbara Annis & Associates Inc., Barbara was the first female sales manager of the Sony Corporation. Over the seven years she spent at Sony, she was the company s top producer and the recipient of 14 Outstanding Achievement Awards, as well as Sony s prestigious MVP Award. About Barbara’s Books Barbara s latest book, Leadership and the Sexes, was published in September 2008. It was co-authored by Michael Gurian, a pioneer in the field of applied gender neurobiology. The combination of Michael s expertise in brain science and gender studies with Barbara s years of real-world and fulfilled in the workplace, leading to an improved bottom line. Barbara s first book, Same Words, Different Language, available in more than 20 countries, provides the insights and tools for creating powerful win-win relationships between the genders, and shows ways we can break through the latest gender barriers. Some of the tools Barbara uses to teach us how to better understand the other gender include: recognizing how our words and actions impact on others; fine-tuning our listening so we really hear what the other gender is saying; and making convincing arguments, interacting so as to increase our credibility and power. 2008 Keynote Testimonials Greenberg Traurig.. “It takes a smart person to explain any type of complexity to people, but it takes a genius to drill it down to perfect, simple messages that anyone can benefit from. Barbara , your engaging gender messages are so powerful and crystal clear. I gained so much from your keynote.” Cesar Alvarez, CEO Succession Capital Group “I was totally mesmerized by Barbara s talk, I couldn’t t believe my eyes and ears, and I kept saying myself, „Where was this twenty years ago? I could have avoided so many blind spots in my career and my personal life.” Dana Goldinger, Partner RBC Investment “Barbara, you are a marvel at communicating practical ideas and stories that stick to the psyche – that promote new mindset, new talk, new behavior. Your message is an energizer, a think tank and a call to action.” Charles Coffey, Executive Vice President
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	Ahmed Al Khalifa Job Title : Group GM Human Resources & Development Entered the Batelco as Senior Manager Employee Relations in 1997, coming from an engineering background having been an aircraft engineer, he made the transition from machines to people smoothly. From 1999 he added recruitment to his responsibilities. Ahmed was later took part as a team member in Project Get Ready in 2002, responsible for preparing Batelco to face competition. The experience widened his experience in HR which led to his appointment as acting GM HR in mid 2003. He became GM HR in mid 2004 and more recently added Government Relations to his portfolio. With the competitive market intensifying, the key responsibilities led by Ahmed is, transforming Batelco’s culture in to a high performance culture, leadership development and talent management. As GM HR, E-learning was introduced in 2006 with great success as part of the overall HR strategy to drive the transformation of Batelco to a learning organisation. A founding member of Injaz Bahrain ( A Junior Achievments Chapter in Bahrain ) and a Board Director in Bahrain Training Institute.
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	Michael A. Potter Michael A Potter is an International Management Development Trainer and HR Consultant and has been CEO of MPA Consulting Ltd and Michael A. Potter International, Manchester UK, for the last 14 years. Michael holds an MBA and a 1st degree in Business Studies from the University of Liverpool UK together with an MA in Organisational Analysis and Behaviour from University of Lancaster UK. He is also a Chartered Fellow of the UK's Institute of Personnel and Development. He is a Member of the Association of MBA's and an active member of the North European HRM Forum, and a former visiting lecturer to the University of Liverpool. Michael has contributed many specialist articles to many Professional Journals and has just published his first book "Mentoring in the Fast Lane".
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	Alison Esse Alison Esse is a co-founder of The Storytellers, a pioneering UK-based consultancy that has developed a revolutionary approach to connecting people to strategy, vision, values and change on both a rational and emotional level. Her business works with some of the largest organizations in the world, and is considered one of the leading authorities on the practical application of storytelling in business today.
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	Michael Bungay Stanier Michael Bungay Stanier is the founder and Principal of Box of Crayons (www.BoxOfCrayons.biz), a company that works with organizations and teams around the world to help them do less Good Work and more Great Work. Their flagship service is the Coaching for Great Work program, a practical coaching program for managers and leaders within an organization. It addresses and solves the key points of resistance to coaching, so that coaching can be incorporated as a way of supporting more Great Work. Box of Crayons’ clients range from AstraZeneca to Xerox and come from all over the world. They have particular expertise in the professional service, pharmaceutical and consumer goods sectors. Michael’s latest book is Find Your Great Work: napkin-size solutions to stop the busywork and start the work that matters and is published already, while his first book, Get Unstuck & Get Going on the stuff that matters won a number of publishing awards. Michael was the 2006 Canadian Coach of the Year. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, and holds a Masters of Philosophy from Oxford, and law and arts degrees with highest honors from the Australian National University.
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	Jon Ingham Former HR Director, Ernst & Young Executive Consultant Strategic Dynamics Consultancy Services Jon Ingham graduated from Imperial College, London in 1987 and joined Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) as a systems development consultant. After ten years in IT, change and then HR consulting, Jon joined Ernst & Young as an HR Director, working firstly in the UK, and then, based in Moscow, covering the former USSR. He has since worked as Head of HR Consulting at Penna and Director of Human Capital Consulting at Buck / ACS. Jon now consults independently through Strategic Dynamics. In this role, Jon focuses on helping business that already have sound approaches to people management gain further improvements in the capabilities and engagement of their people, and the effectiveness of their organisations. Although based in the UK, Jon works across Europe, the Middle East and Asia. He has published a few dozen articles and is the author of ‘Strategic HCM: Creating Value through People’, published by Elsevier in 2006. Jon also blogs regularly about strategic HR issues at http://strategic-hcm.blogspot.com. Jon has a BA in Psychology, a Masters in Engineering and an MBA. He is a Certified Management Consultant, a member of the BPS and occupational psychology division, a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD and a Fellow of the RSA.
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	Richard Brady Richard Brady is a chartered organizational psychologist with 18 years‘ experience in providing solutions to improve performance at Global 500 companies and in the Public Sector. He has a Bachelor‘s degree in Psychology from University of Birmingham and a Master’s degree in Organizational Psychology from University of London. His early career was with UK Civil Service. Following three years’ working as psychologist for the UK Employment Department, he worked an as a Senior Psychologist at Ministry of Defence between 1993 and 1997 where he designed, delivered and evaluated assessment, selection and development programmes for Royal Navy and Army Officers and other ranks Since 1997 he has worked as a corporate psychologist with many international companies. Current clients include Barclays Bank PLC, Compass Group, TMobile, Deutsche Telekom Group, Metropolitan Police Service, and Chevron. He founded Mentis Consulting in 2003 –a human resources consulting firm which delivers proven solutions to talent management. Mentis has offices in London and Dubai
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	Naoshi Takatsu Naoshi Takatsu is Editor in Chief of “Works” magazine. “Works”, a most influential magazine on human resource management in Japan, has been published over a decade by Works Institute, a unique think tank established by Recruit Co., Ltd. Prior to assuming the current position, Naoshi was Executive Consulting Director for Human Capital Solution Group (HC) of Recruit Co., Ltd. In 2007 he wrote of behalf of HC a book entitled “Kanjiru Management”, which was widely read by Japan’s managers and HR leaders. The book covers his findings with HC colleagues on the establishment and international dissemination of corporate philosophy. Before joining Recruit he was Project Manager of Boston Consulting Group. He has a MBA from INSEAD in France and holds B.A. in Political Sciences from Waseda University in Tokyo. He studied design at Kuwasawa Design School.