When it comes to staying up to date with cutting-edge management ideas, there’s no resource quite like Thinkers50. As an organization dedicated to identifying and promoting the most innovative and impactful business minds of our time, Thinkers50 has become a trusted and reliable source for professionals looking to stay ahead of the curve. 

At BigSpeak, we’re honored to represent many of these notable Thinkers50 2023 award winning keynote speakers, giving audiences all over the world a chance to engage with their brilliant insights and strategies. 

Thinkers50 Keynote Speakers 

Marcus Collins
Considered America’s leading cultural translator since the success of his best-selling book, For the Culture: The Power Behind What We Buy, What We Do, and Who We Want to Be, Dr. Marcus Collins is the recognized authority on leveraging the power of culture to influence behavior, inspire collective change, get people to share your vision, and most importantly, move them to take action. Dr. Collins is a professor of marketing at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, former head of strategy at Wieden + Kennedy, New York, and a regular contributor to Forbes. An inductee in the American Advertising Federation’s Hall of Achievement, he is the architect behind some of the most notable campaigns of the last decade for brands including Nike, Apple, Budweiser, and Beyoncé.

Tiffani Bova 
Consistently ranked as one of the world’s top business thinkers, two-time bestselling author Tiffani Bova is an acclaimed expert on all things top-line growth. She has helped hundreds of companies around the globe respond to changing market dynamics and customer expectations while developing a customer-centric go-to-market approach.  Her energizing presentations ignite teams to succeed and provide transformative frameworks to unleash unparalleled growth. Unique as both a practitioner, academic, author, and influencer, Tiffani provides the perfect combination of research and real-world experience gained as the global growth and innovation evangelist at Salesforce and as an advisor to tech leaders including Microsoft, Cisco, Amazon-AWS and others.

Andrew Winston
Andrew Winston is a top environmental keynote speaker, a globally recognized expert on how companies can navigate and profit from humanity’s biggest challenges. Andrew’s first book, Green to Gold, was the top-selling green business title of the last decade, selling more than 100,000 copies in seven languages. Inc. Magazine included Green to Gold on its all-time list of 30 books that every manager should own.

Tsedal Neeley 
Tsedal Neeley is a top virtual work and organizational change expert, business thought leader, and a Professor at the Harvard Business School. Her 2022 co-authored book, The Digital Mindset: What It Really Takes to Thrive in the Age of Data, Algorithms, and AI helps companies and leaders see, think, and act in new ways. 

Rita McGrath 
Rita McGrath is a best-selling author, a sought-after advisor and speaker, and a longtime professor at Columbia Business School. Rita is one of the world’s top experts on strategy and innovation and is consistently ranked among the top 10 management thinkers in the world, including the #1 award for strategy by Thinkers50. McGrath’s recent book on strategic inflection points is Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019). Rita is the author of four other books, including the best-selling The End of Competitive Advantage (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013).

Geoffrey Parker 
Professor of Management Science, A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University Visiting Scholar and Research Fellow, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (IDE)

Rachel Botsman 
Rachel Botsman is a leading expert on trust in the modern world. Her two critically acclaimed books – What’s Mine is Yours and Who Can You Trust? – have been translated into 14 languages. She has been recognized as one of the world’s 30 most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50, and honoured as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Her TED talks have been viewed more than five million times.

Andrew McAfee
Andrew McAfee is the cofounder and co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy at the MIT Sloan School of Management, as well as being a top expert on how technological advances are changing the business and economic world. As a result of his work, McAfee has been named to both the Thinkers 50 list of the world’s top management thinkers and to the Politico 50 group of people transforming American politics.

Dorie Clark 
Dorie Clark has been named one of the Top 50 business thinkers in the world by Thinkers50. She is a keynote speaker and teaches executive education at Columbia Business School. She is also the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Long Game, Entrepreneurial You, Reinventing You and Stand Out, which was named the #1 Leadership Book of the year by Inc. magazine. A former presidential campaign spokeswoman, she writes frequently for the Harvard Business Review.

Susan David 
Susan David is a top emotional intelligence keynote speaker, a best-selling author, and the CEO of Evidence-Based Psychology. She has been named one of the world’s most influential management thinkers and recognized by the Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea Award for “insights that have the potential to forever change the way we do business.”

Erica Dhawan
When leaders want to break team silos, drive exponential growth and innovate through teamwork, they call Erica Dhawan. Erica Dhawan is an internationally recognized leading authority, speaker and advisor on 21st century teamwork, collaboration and innovation. Named by Thinkers50 as the “Oprah of Management Thinkers”, she is the author of two books Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence and Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection, No Matter the Distance. The world of business is increasingly digital and work practices have changed at a blistering rate. Erica shares innovative strategies to unlock the collective power of teams, build a culture of trust across any distance and create authentic engagement to ensure competitiveness. Rated #1 on the Top Women Keynote Speakers of 2020 and featured as one of the management thinkers most likely to shape the future of business, Erica frequently appears in Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and WSJ. She holds degrees from Harvard, Wharton and MIT.

Lynda Gratton
Lynda Gratton is a Professor of Management Practice at London Business School where she directs the program “Human Resource Strategy in Transforming Companies” considered the world’s leading program on human resources. Lynda is the founder of The Hot Spots Movement and for over five years has led the Future of Work Research Consortium which has brought executives from more than 80 companies together both virtually and on a bespoke collaborative platform.

Herminia Ibarra 
An authority on leadership and career development, Thinkers 50 ranks Ibarra among the top management thinkers in the world. A top business speaker, she is a fellow of the British Academy, a member of the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network, a judge for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, one of Apolitica’s 100 most influential people in gender policy, and the 2018 recipient of the Academy of Management’s Scholar-Practitioner Award for her research’s contribution to management practice.

Whitney Johnson
Whitney Johnson is a leading thinker on driving innovation via personal disruption, and the co-founder of a boutique investment firm with Clayton Christensen. A disruptor of ideas and wielder of influence, Whitney Johnson uses her talent to build movements. Having immersed her life and studies in the idea of personal disruption, this innovator and former Institutional Investor-ranked Wall Street analyst infuses communications with a palpable business story.

Roger Martin
Professor Roger Martin is a writer, strategy advisor and in 2017 was named the #1 management thinker in world. He is also former Dean and Institute Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto in Canada.

Navi Radjou
Navi Radjou is an innovation and leadership strategist based in Silicon Valley. He is also a Fellow at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, and a World Economic Forum (WEF) faculty member. He is a member of WEF’s Global Agenda Council on Design Innovation and a regular columnist on HarvardBusinessReview.org. In 2013, Navi was given the Distinguished Achievement Award for Innovation by the prestigious Thinkers 50.

Liz Wiseman 
Liz Wiseman is a top leadership keynote speaker, researcher, and executive advisor who teaches leadership to executives around the world.  She is the author of New York Times bestseller Multipliers:  How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, The Multiplier Effect:  Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools, and Wall Street Journal bestseller Rookie Smarts:  Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work. 

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