Keynote Speaking:
As a keynote speaker, I specialize in turning complex business concepts into actionable strategies. Each presentation is custom-tailored backed by in-depth research and real-world experience. My presentations and workshops are fast-paced, content-rich, and focused on delivering ideas and tools that the audience members can implement immediately. Whether to a small group of executives or more than 20,000 people in the audience, I have the experience to deliver excellence in every presentation.

Business Agility became an imperative in the era of industry digitalization. In order to became an agile company, culture shift towards purpose-driven and empowered teams must be facilitated. And with pressing digital disruptors without the legacy baggage, companies need to learn how to act quickly and learn how to adapt.

In this keynote address, we talk about impending changes in how we use, control, and monetize our data. In the next 2 to 5 years each individual will be able to manage and control their personal data.

During this discussion, you will learn about:

? The types of data you generate with every action, every day
? Where your data is stored, who controls it, and how much money they make from it
? How you can manage access and monetization of your own data
? Restricting data access to only companies and organizations you want to support
? The history of how we think about data, and why that is changing
? The new data ecosystem being built right now for your benefit

We discuss the true nature of data ownership, and how you can turn your data from resource that others benefit from into a financial asset for your benefit.

Up to now companies have had free rein to log every click, purchase, and “like” you make, and to earn money from your data. But across the globe new laws have been written, passed, and are coming into force that give you—the individual—the right to access, delete, and monetize your own data. This session outlines how you can use these new laws, regulations, and services to directly benefit from your data in new and lucrative ways.

The Critical Role of Middle Matters in Organisational Success

A Gallup study revealed that middle managers account for 70% of team engagement variance. These individuals, often considered as influencers and shapers of organisational culture, play a pivotal role in the engaging the workforce and driving business. Known as the “doers” and reliable pillars in stressful times, their significance is undeniable. In today’s world of work, we must challenge if organisation’s fully grasp the challenges middle managers face. This session aims to shed light on tackling these pain points through unlearning and offer strategies to optimise middle management performance, thereby enhancing overall organisational effectiveness.

Three Key Takeaways:
Exploring the value of middle managers for the success of every business: the triple corporate conquest.
Busting myths on what works and doesn’t work for optimising middle manager performance.
From complex to simple: the one thing that will amplify performance.

The Critical Role of Middle Matters in Organisational Success

A Gallup study revealed that middle managers account for 70% of team engagement variance. These individuals, often considered as influencers and shapers of organisational culture, play a pivotal role in the engaging the workforce and driving business. Known as the “doers” and reliable pillars in stressful times, their significance is undeniable. In today’s world of work, we must challenge if organisation’s fully grasp the challenges middle managers face. This session aims to shed light on tackling these pain points through unlearning and offer strategies to optimise middle management performance, thereby enhancing overall organisational effectiveness.

Three Key Takeaways:
Exploring the value of middle managers for the success of every business: the triple corporate conquest.
Busting myths on what works and doesn’t work for optimising middle manager performance.
From complex to simple: the one thing that will amplify performance.

In the dynamic realm of modern business, middle managers play a pivotal role as the bridge between organisational vision and day-to-day operations. In the captivating speech, “The Five Key Ingredients (& Secret Sauce) of High Performing Middle Managers,” we delve into the essential habits that set apart exceptional middle managers who drive sustainable success.

At its core, this discourse centres on the intrinsic connection between values, self-awareness, legacy, communication, and developing others. A thought-provoking exploration ensues, underscoring how “your values are what you stand for” and how “your legacy says what you stood for.” These mottos resonate as guiding principles for middle managers to align their actions with personal and organisational values, ensuring a legacy that endures.

Emphasising the notion that “leaders are lifters,” this speech unpacks the power of effective communication as a tool for uplifting teams and fostering a collaborative environment. Furthermore, the critical role of self-awareness in harnessing strengths and mitigating weaknesses is illuminated, showcasing its pivotal influence on managerial excellence.

The pivotal aspect of developing others, cultivating talent, and nurturing growth becomes evident as the speech unfurls. Through poignant anecdotes and empirical evidence, attendees will gain insights into how high-performing middle managers contribute to a culture of empowerment and innovation.

Ultimately, “The Five Key Ingredients (& Secret Sauce) of High Performing Middle Managers” encapsulates a blueprint for elevating managerial prowess, transcending conventional approaches, and leaving an indelible mark on organisations and individuals alike. This presentation promises to be a transformative experience, inspiring leaders to embrace their roles with renewed zeal, guided by a clear set of values, self-awareness and the commitment to uplift their teams.

Main Takeaways:
Key Takeaway 1: Values and Legacy Alignment Align actions with personal and organizational values to create a lasting legacy.

Key Takeaway 2: Communication for Uplifting, Effective communication is a powerful tool to inspire and collaborate.

Key Takeaway 3: The Power of Self-Awareness Self-awareness is essential for managerial excellence, helping leverage strengths and address weaknesses.

Key Takeaway 4: Developing Others and Cultivating Talent Middle managers play a pivotal role in nurturing talent, fostering empowerment and innovation.

Key Takeaway 5: A Blueprint for Excellence This speech provides a transformative blueprint for middle managers to make a lasting impact on organisations and individuals.

I am a keynote speaker but also a well-accomplished influencer marketing panel host. I have interviewed major brands like Facebook, Unilever, Pernod Ricard, Oxfam and many others. If you are interested in curating a marketing conference with influencer marketing as part of it, I would love to help you. I have many contacts with influencers too

This program is perfect for:

entrepreneurs
sales and growth responsables


We will dive into:

1. The exponential age: We explore how AI and automation can have a massive leverage effect on your sales.

2 Customer expectations 2024: What do customers want? – Speed, innovation, and simplicity are key.

3. Indispensable tools: Tools such as ChatGPT, Dealcode, or Tome.ai are becoming indispensable for modern sales. And this is how your team benefits from them

4. Outlook for the future: Before the end of this year, AI agents will replace websites and metaverse showrooms will replace a number of sales force visits, and the first cold call bots will also become active in Germany. And this is how you use this opportunity.

5. What can we expect after that? An outlook on what comes after ChatGPT.



The audience will leave:

- with a set of tools they can use right away

- motivated to use cutting-edge AI-tools in their work

- with an understanding of what their customers want and need

- with a spirit to thrive using exponential technology

Available for panel discussions on emerging technologies and strategic innovation
Focus areas:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Agentic AI
- Digital Transformation
- Responsible AI
- Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
- Trust in Automation
Sharing insights from experience in AI and automation strategy
Open to virtual or in-person engagements

Explore the realms of Digital Transformations, Technology-driven Innovation and Project Management with Fabio Turel, a seasoned expert dedicated to guiding leaders and professionals through the complexities of modern IT and project landscapes.
Discover actionable strategies and innovative insights tailored for today’s digital challenges.

Innovating at the Intersection of Digital Transformations, Technology-driven Innovation and Project Management. Actionable strategies and innovative insights tailored for today’s digital challenges.

A variety of topics can entertain, provoke thought and foster serious discussions on the profession of health and safety. Speaker, panel, or keynote available.

is a recognized Global Digital Expert and Organic Growth Leader. She has over 20 years of Digital, Brand Management and Consumer Marketing experience, and was recognized as a Rising Star by both Ogilvy North America and Grey Worldwide. Anika is a regular speaker at companies like Google, Bing, and Lenovo as well as at several US universities, including NYU Stern.

Anika has an exhaustive leadership history, including ‘Mobile first’, Social, Precision Activation, Digital Strategy, and CRM amongst others, She has led several large scale digital transformations involving Content Strategy, Content Development, Search Engine Optimization, Re-platforming, eCommerce, Website Redesign, Social as well as Amazon initiatives. These initiatives have been for global brands as diverse as Dubai Tourism, Starwood Group of Hotels, MTV, Unilever, Teflon, Kevlar, Mignon Faget, Jaguar, Land Rover, Ashley Stewart, Lenovo, and luxury brands such as Hanky Panky lingerie, Corelle Brands, Evian and Bosch amongst others. The digital transformations involved navigating complex global portfolios and client+agency teams across markets such as the US, Canada, UK, Spain, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, Columbia, Russia, India, China and Australia.

At Ogilvy, Anika was the Global Business Lead for the Starwood Group of Hotels. She led multi-functional teams to drive a precision-targeted digital transformation, utilizing sophisticated CRM techniques to millions of Starwood Preferred Guest members in 110+ countries. She is credited for adopting several new initiatives, including ‘Mobile first’, video email marketing, geo-targeting and the re-launch of the ‘experiential’ member engagement initiative. These initiatives were launched across Starwood’s entire digital ecosystem, including the website and the app.

She also led DuPont’s B2B2C businesses leading profitable multi-million dollar, multi-country digital transformation of their Food & Beverages, Cosmetics, Automotive, Advance Materials and Packaging businesses. These digital initiatives were at a corporate, BU and brand level. She globally repositioned iconic brand Teflon, leading cross-functional glocal teams to execute a 360 degree integrated brand campaign for the B2B and the B2B2C space. Other brands she led to successful digital transformations included Kevlar, Nomex, Sentryglas, Corian and Tyvek. Anika was recognized as a Rising Star by Ogilvy North America.

As BBDO’s Digital Global Account Lead on Dubai Tourism, Anika led the team responsible for transforming Dubai into a global tourist destination well on its way to reaching its goal of 25 million visitors, establishing Dubai as a top 10 tourist destination by the year 2020. The digital transformation of the ‘Brand Dubai’ experience included the launch of the new Dubai website, the Dubai app, social media and content strategy across 5 global markets as well as several other Omni-channel experiences such as the #mydubai social initiative. Anika was also responsible for initiating and launching an integrated multi-media campaign to drive seasonal traffic from 16 countries to Dubai.

At Lowe and Grey Worldwide, Anika led a portfolio of global consumer accounts including Unilever and Johnson & Johnson across global markets and channels. For Unilever, Anika was the Account Head responsible for the Soaps and detergents category, trusted with the successful relaunch of the world’s largest volume brand. Anika won the Unilever Chairman’s award for outstanding performance.
At Grey, Anika launched the Cough and Cold OTC offering for Johnson & Johnson, was the global lead for Evian Water and launched Bosch’s Home offerings. She was recognized as a rising star by Grey South East Asia.

In her most recent role, Anika was the Vice President of Client Services & Growth at NetElixir, leading eCommerce strategy portfolios for NA clients and key partnerships with Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and UPS to deliver profitable portfolio YOY growth of more than 40% for clients such as Lenovo, Walkers Shortbread, Corelle Brands and Hallmark.

Anika is an Adjunct Professor of Marketing, Digital Marketing, Digital Strategy, Social Media and Mobile-first Marketing at the NYU Stern School of Business, the FDU Silberman College of Business and the Rutgers Business School. She was instrumental in the conception and launch of the Masters of Science in Digital Marketing program at Fairleigh Dickinson, a testimonial to her expertise in this field.
Anika recently launched a weekly column with Adage called #MobileWatch, a playground for all things digital with an emphasis on consumer journeys. She holds an MBA in Marketing and a BA in Psychology. Anika has also completed the Digital Marketing, Social Media and eCommerce course from The Wharton School of Business.

Anika can be reached at: anikadas@gmail.com
Anika’s Adage column can be accessed here: http://www.adageindia.in/tagsearchlist/tag-key,query-mobile-watch.cms
Connect with Anika on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/digitalanikasharma/

Modern organizations are under immense pressure—restructuring, AI disruption, tighter margins, and return-to-office friction. But what breaks under pressure isn’t strategy—it’s human connection.

In this keynote, Nir Megnazi challenges the outdated belief that emotions don’t belong at work. Instead, he shows how emotions—when acknowledged and skillfully used—become the catalyst for clarity, trust, and execution. Through real-world stories and his COPE model, Nir equips leaders to expand their emotional capacity, shift from reactivity to responsiveness, and unlock measurable improvements in engagement, retention, and performance.

Emotions aren’t the problem—they’re the pathway to business results that last.

Imagine if you could learn Walt Disney's Secrets to lead and create your very own award wininng Disney-like culture and magical customer experience today. Attract more cutomers, build customer loyalty for life, hire the right people, and have a winning team customer focused environment today.

Deanne delivers a wide range of webinars, keynote presentations and is available for panel discussions.

As an expert in Critical Control Management (CCM), Jessica specialises in the identification and analysis of critical controls to prevent or mitigate unwanted events, assisting global organisations to build robust, compliant, critical risk programs.

There is passion behind any innovation. But, unless you are a multibillionaire playing to innovate just for hobby -without further consequences- no innovative venture should be decided “gut instinct”, despite the environment you are working on. Education environment is not an exception of course.

For education institutions, as well as for business, innovating has become a key strategy for being competitive. The problem is that individuals as well as institutions often make the mistake of thinking that:
A) a good idea is enough to innovate
B) innovation can be done during “free-time” or between production and operations workload without any systematization.

While the first assumption can be the cause of innovation, the second assumption is a very big mistake; innovation requires time, effort, budget, talent, frameworks and a lot of data analysis in order to be effective and efficient.

During the last four years I had the opportunity to collaborate with one of the most prestigious private higher education institution in Mexico (Mexico’s #1, LATAM’s #5, World’s #29 according to the 2020, TOP 200 QS World University Rankings), first as head of the Instructional Design team, inside the content factory of the Learning Innovation Office, and then, as founder and leader of the Research-based innovation centre for learning innovation and continuous improvement for the Learning Innovation Vice-chancellor´s Office.

This work presents:
1) the needs that motivate me to seek the creation of a team specialized in research to support the decision making behind learning innovations for the institution,
2) the challenges faced to convince directors and boards of its relevance,
3) the team characteristics for this centre,
4) the framewor and methodologies used,
5) some of the most relevant researches done,
6) lessons learned from the first year and
7) the future for this kind of research-based innovation centre and why it is relevant for any kind of institution interested in consolidating the learning innovation processes.

In a nutshell, the principal motive to promote this centre was the need to take innovation out of the “I think/feel” sphere and bring it to the data-based one by providing the required information to determine each project viability, opportunity and convenience.

Perhaps the big challenges were the usual resistance to change, the uncertainty of what is new and of course the strong gravitational force caused by the production and operation work-flow. Finally, after two years of gathering evidence of the importance of integrating research and data-analysis to boost innovation ventures and convince the decision-makers to support and invest, while making a more efficient use of talent and time when designing new learning solutions, the research-based innovation centre was approved, with a small but very talented team of 5 people.

From the beginning, the design of the team was intended to be as multidisciplinary and horizontal as possible, and together with our framework based on the design-based research methodology, it proved to be the right decision in order to generate reliable and opportune information that fuels the iterative macro-process of learning innovation and continuous improvement.

The centre started with interesting EdTech projects related the institution’s program to rethink their entire core educational model. Many lessons had been learned and the future for this type of efforts proved to be not just promising, but essential.