Ali Farhoomand is Professor of Business, founding Director of Asia Case Research Centre, and Coordinator of Business Design and Innovation Programme at The University of Hong Kong. A consultant to business and government organisations, he has been engaged in numerous in-company programmes. He has taught and conducted research in universities across the world, including INSEAD and MIT Sloan School of Management. He has received numerous awards, including two Outstanding Teacher Awards. For hobby, he dabbles in painting, plays drums and engages in armchair philosophy. His passion in life is to put people in the right frame of mind to think creatively.

Wolfgang Grulke was founder and CEO of FutureWorld, a global network of business practitioners helping organisations understand their future business context, choose their ideal future and fast-track its creation. He is a Fellow of the Centre for Management Development at the London Business School and teaches regularly on a number of programmes including the School's flagship Senior Executive Programme (SEP). Grulke’s best-selling books "Ten Lessons from the Future" was published internationally in 2000 and is now also available in Chinese. He has addressed audiences in more than 20 countries, in person, on radio and on television.

Lorraine Justice is the Swire Chair Professor, Head of the School of Design at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She has served in higher education for the past 20 years, teaching in the areas of industrial design and human computer interface design. Justice serves on the advisory board of two international design journals, Design Issues and The Design Journal, as well as jurist and reviewer for international conferences. In 2006, she was named one of the Top 40 Designers in the world by ID Magazine in New York City.

Nirmalya Kumar is Professor of Marketing, Director of Centre for Marketing at London Business School, and Co-Director of Aditya Birla India Centre. He has worked with 50 Fortune 500 companies in 45 different countries as coach, consultant, seminar leader and speaker on strategy, marketing, branding, retailing and distribution. He is known for this penetrating insights and thought-provoking delivery. Kumar was the author of Marketing as Strategy: Understanding the CEO’s Agenda for Driving Growth and Innovation (2004) which has been translated into major Asian languages. Other books include Global Marketing (2006), Private Label Strategy (2007) and Value Merchants (2007).

Costas Markides is holder of the Robert P Bauman Chair in Strategic Leadership; Chair, Strategic and International Management Faculty at London Business School. Markides was the author of Game Changing Strategies (2008), Fast Second (with P Geroski, Jossey-Bass, 2005); Strategic Thinking for the Next Economy (2001); and All the Right Moves (1999). Having taught on numerous in-company programmes, Markides is one of Europe's most experienced and respected global business strategists, and one of the most sought-after speakers. He is a captivating and engaging speaker and designs his lectures with the right blend of humour and actionable information. He is ranked by the Times as one of the world’s top business gurus.

Bernd Schmitt is Robert D.Calkins Professor of International Business at Columbia Business School in New York, where he also directs the Center on Global Brand Leadership. He is widely recognized for his major contribution to branding through his unique focus on the customer experience. Schmitt has authored or co-authored seven books which have been translated into 20 languages, including Experiential Marketing and Customer Experience Management and Big Think Strategy. Schmitt is a frequent keynote speaker at conferences worldwide. He advises business executives on strategy, creativity and innovation. Schmitt is currently a Visiting Professor at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, where he is the Executive Director of the Institute on Asian Consumer Insight.

Robert Sutton is Professor of Management Science and Engineering in the Stanford Engineering School and a cofounder and active member of the new “d.school,” a multi-disciplinary program that teaches and spreads “design thinking.” He is also an IDEO Fellow and a Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Sutton (and Jeffrey Pfeffer) wrote The Knowing-Doing Gap which was selected as Best Management Book of 2000 by Management General. Other books include Weird Ideas That Work which was selected by the Harvard Business Review as one of the 10 best business books in 2002 and the more recent ones The No Asshole Rule (2007) and Good Boss, Bad Boss (2010).

Jay Lee is Ohio Eminent Scholar and L.W. Scott Alter Chair Professor at the Univ. of Cincinnati and is founding director of National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center on Intelligent Maintenance Systems which is supported by over 40 global companies including P&G, Toyota, GE Aviation, CISCO, AMD, Caterpillar, Siemens, Harley-Davidson, Nissan etc. He is well-known for integrating service innovation into product offerings and serves as advisor to a number of global organizations.

Dr. Srikumar Rao has done pioneering work in motivation and helps senior executives become more engaged in work and discover deep meaning in it. He conceived the pioneering course Creativity and Personal Mastery at the Columbia Business School and London Business School. This is the only business school course that has its own alumni association. Dr. Rao is the author of international best sellers "Are You Ready to Succeed: Unconventional Strategies for Achieving Personal Mastery in Business and Life" and “Happiness at Work: Be Resilient, Motivated and Successful – No Matter What” . He has conducted workshops attended by and spoken before executives of many Fortune 100 companies.

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We have close associations with thought leaders in Hong Kong and worldwide. They can deliver keynotes and run customized strategic workshops for boards and senior executives on the subject of design, creativity and innovation. Our thought leaders include:

• Prof Ali Farhoomand, Director, Asia Case Research Centre, University of Hong Kong
  

• Wolfgang Grulke, Founder and CEO, FutureWorld
  

• Prof Nirmalya Kumar, Director of Centre for Marketing, London Business School

• Prof Jay Lee, Ohio Eminent Scholar and L.W. Scott Alter Chair Professor at University of Cincinnati

• Prof Costas Markides, Chair, Strategic and International Management Faculty, London Business School

• Dr Srikumar Rao, motivational expert

• Prof Bernd Schmitt, Director, Center on Global Brand Leadership, Columbia Business School

• Prof Robert Sutton, Co-Founder, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford (the Stanford d. School)