Upcoming Thought Leader for 2010
Distinguished HR Visitor Public Forum & HR Masterclass
20 - 21 April 2010

Michael Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. An award-winning author, he has written nine books, including The Critical Path to Corporate Renewal, which won the Johnson, Smith & Kinsley Award for the best book on executive leadership of 1990 and was a finalist for the Academy of Management’s Terry Book Award, and Managing Human Assets (1984), a ground breaking book that was first to frame human resource management as a general management responsibility.

Clever, Leading Your Smartest, Most Creative People
Distinguished HR Visitor Public Forum
12 Nov 2009

Gareth Jones, he is a Visiting Professor at INSEAD and IE Business School (Instituto de Empresa) in Madrid and a Fellow of the Centre for Management Development at London Business School. Prof Jones was previously Director of Human Resources and Internal Communications at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Senior VP for Global Human Resources at Polygram. He is one of Europe's leading speakers and consultants in knowledge intensive businesses (e.g. pharmaceuticals, professional services and media) where creativity is critical to success.

Innovation in the Development of Human Capital
Distinguished HR Visitor Public Forum
29 Sep 2009

Robert Sutton, he is an IDEO Fellow, Professor and co-Founder of Stanford University's new Hasso Platner Institute for Design, and author of the best selling book, "The Knowing Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action". Prof Sutton is highly sought after for his insights into the process of innovation and execution.

HR Metrics and Information Systems that Drive Strategic Change
HR Masterclass
12 Jun 2009

Beyond HR… Is the HR Profession Evolving?
Distinguished HR Visitor Public Forum
11 Jun 2009

Evidenced-Based HR Management:
Hard Facts and Dangerous Half-Truths
HR Masterclass
8 Apr 2009

Building Competitive Advantage in Good Times and Bad:
Building Profits by Putting People First
Distinguished HR Visitor Public Forum
7 Apr 2009

Jeffrey Pfeffer, the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. Prof Pfeffer serves on the board of directors of the for-profit company Audible Magic as well as nonprofits Quantum Leap Healthcare and The San Francisco Playhouse. He has also won the Richard I. Irwin Award presented by the Academy of Management for scholarly contributions to management and numerous awards for articles and books.

The HR Value Proposition:
Can HR make an integral difference to organizations' bottom-line?
Distinguished HR Visitor Public Forum
22 Oct 2008

Dave Ulrich, a professor of business at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, is also a Partner and co-founder of The RBL Group. Prof Ulrich has helped generate multiple award winning data bases that assess alignment between strategies, human resource practices and HR competencies. He has also consulted and done research with over half of the Fortune 200.

Living Strategy: Putting People at the Heart of Corporate Purpose
Distinguished HR Visitor Public Forum 
16 May 2008

Hot Spots Movement
CEO Masterclass
15 May 2008

Lynda Gratton was voted second in the HR Magazine's HR Top 100 Most Influential list in 2007. She is the Professor of Management Practice at the London Business School (LBS). A trained psychologist, Prof Gratton had worked as an occupational psychologist for British Airways, and subsequently as the Director of HR Strategy for PA Consulting before joining the LBS. As the founder of the Hot Spots Movement, innovation has always been a key consideration in Prof Gratton's research. In 2008, Prof Gratton, together with her colleague Andreas Voigt, began an analysis of the current productive and innovative strengths of teams in Singapore. They also piloted and developed an exciting set of tools and techniques aimed at boosting the performance and innovation of these teams. The research focused on teams because collaborative work is crucial for organisations to increase their bottom-line impact in a highly interconnected business world.

Building Competitive Advantage Through People
Distinguished HR Visitor Public Forum
22 Jan 2008

HR Leadership
Masterclass for HR Directors
21 Jan 2008

Patrick Wright, William J. Conaty Professor of Strategic Human Resources and Director of the Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS) in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University. Professor Wright teaches, conducts research and consults in the area of Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM). For his leadership in the field, he was inducted as a Fellow of the US National Academy of Human Resources in 2005.

Talent Management
Masterclass for CEOs, CFOs, Senior HR professionals and Directors
24 Sep 2007

Peter Cappelli, the George W. Taylor Professor of Management at The Wharton School and the Director of Wharton's Center for Human Resources. In 2004, Prof Cappelli was elected to the US National Academy of Human Resources, a community of top HR academics and leaders, for his contributions in this field. He was also named by Vault.com as one of the 25 most important people working in the area of human capital, and by Recruit.com as one of the top 100 people in the field of recruiting and staffing.