DigitalNow: Association Leadership in the Digital Age

Emmanuel Gobillot

Emmanuel Gobillot is author of The Connected Leader: Creating Agile Organizations for People, Performance, and Profit and Leadershift: Reinventing leadership for the age of mass collaboration establishes him as one of the foremost thinkers on new leadership models.

Described as "the first leadership guru for the MySpace generation" and "the freshest voice in leadership today", Emmanuel has worked with organizations ranging from Astra Zeneca to Zurich Financial Services via The United Nations. One of Europe’s most sought after leadership speakers, his keynotes have been enjoyed by audiences worldwide in both the public and the private sector.

Prior to his consulting career Emmanuel was the Director of Leadership Services for Hay Group. He also worked in financial services where he held a number of positions in line and project management. A French National, Emmanuel moved to the UK in 1985. He holds an International Baccalaureate from the United World College of the Atlantic, a Masters of Arts with Honours from St Andrews University and a Diploma in Management Science from the Nottingham Trent University.

Ian Ayres

Ian Ayres is the  William K. Townsend Professor at Yale Law School and a Professor at Yale's School of Management and the author of Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart. Ian is the preeminent expert on new methods of prediction and decision making. He discusses how and why these predictive techniques work, how to apply them, and the impact they will have on business and everyday life.

Ian is a columnist for Forbes magazine, a regular commentator on public radio’s Marketplace, and regularly writes OpEds for The New York Times. His research has been featured on Prime Time Live, Oprah, and Good Morning America and in Time and Vogue magazines.

"There is a new wave of prediction that utilizes the wisdom of crowds in a way that goes beyond conscious preferences." - Ian Ayres

Rita McGrath

Rita McGrath is a Professor at Columbia Business School in New York, and is one of the world‟s leading experts on strategy in highly uncertain and volatile environments. She works with both Global 1,000 icons and smaller, but fast-growing organizations. Some current clients include F-Secure, Nokia, Microsoft (and its CEO Summit), AXA Equitable, General Electric, Novartis, PPG Industries, the Stena Group and the World Economic Forum.

In 2009, Rita was inducted as a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society, an honor accorded to those who have had a significant impact on the field. Her new co-authored book, Discovery Driven Growth: A Breakthrough Process to Reduce Risk and Seize Opportunity (2009) was endorsed by Clayton Christensen, Ram Charan and CK Prahalad, among others. She has co-authored two previous books: The Entrepreneurial Mindset (2000) and MarketBusters: 40 Strategic Moves that Drive Exceptional Business Growth (2005). MarketBusters has been translated into ten languages and was named one of the best business books of 2005 by strategy+business. It was featured by Bill Gates at the 2005 Microsoft CEO Summit, whose theme "New Pathways to Growth” was derived from the book‟s main topic.

This dynamic lineup of experts will energize you with new ideas, expand your reach with new tools, and empower you to develop and maintain a culture that is driven by vision, marked by innovation, and grown through a culture of effective execution. Make your commitment to innovate, inspect, and integrate; register for DigitalNow 2010 today.