Angela & John talk with guests Brad Lindenberg, and four of the speakers from the SHIFT2014 Conference - Marcus Cros, Dan Gregory, Kieran Flanagan and our very own Angela Vithoulkas.

 

ABOUT OUR GUESTS

 

Brad Lindenberg - ShopReply

Brad is the founder and CEO of ShopReply. Brad brings product vision and execution to the ShopReply team. He's built and sold tech businesses in the past, including Lind Golf (acquired in 2010 by OO.com.au). He’s addicted to the entrepreneurial journey of creating something from nothing. Brad believes that transactional advertising is the future of commerce. He holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from University of Technology Sydney. Brad’s blog:http://www.lindventures.com/blog/category/shopreply/

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Dan  Gregory - The Impossible Institute

Dan Gregory is a specialist in human behaviour exploring our motives, drives and belief systems, the things that make us buy and those that pulls our strings. His business acumen is matched by a rapier wit as witnessed on ABC TV’s The Gruen Transfer where he is a regular guest.

As a thought leader in marketing and communications, Dan has worked with the biggest global
brands and won awards around the world for creativity, effectiveness and ROI. He regularly advises Boards and the C-suite on how to lead with the power of a purposeful and compelling identity in a rapidly changing world and lectures post-graduate students at the University of Sydney and Macquarie University.

He is the co-founder and CEO of The Impossible Institute, an innovation and engagement
organisation founded to make what’s not... possible, and the co-author of Shift with Kieran Flanagan

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Marcus Crow - 10000 Hours

It all started giving the team’s vote of thanks for the 13C’s cricket coach on Knox’s gillespie playing fields in March of 1985. Since then when an opportunity to talk presented itself, Marcus got handed the microphone. His two big sisters asked in him to shut up or find a job doing it, and in 1997 he began as a rookie with Rogensi in their Sydney office. In 1999, he co-founded Oxygen Learning, and he and his two co-founders took it from a hunch and a handshake to a thriving business with a 18 people across three offices delivering over 1,000 days of facilitation and workshop training a year. In 2005, Oxygen Learning was purchased by John Singleton’s STW Group in a six year earn-out which concluded in 2011.

Now in start-up once more, Marcus is the co-founder of 10,000 Hours. This business exists to help adults learn. It does that by offering Daring Ideas in Safe Pair of Hands. The daring ideas are the content of the keynotes, facilitations and workshops, and the safe pair of hands are the small and growing team of professionals who have all done their own 10,000 hours of deliberate practice and are seasoned operators in their field.

At SHIFT2014 Marcus will talk about a simple and reliable method of innovation that businesses large and small can comprehend quickly and use immediately.

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Kieran Flanagan - The Impossible Institute

Kieran Flanagan is one of the few female leaders in the “Mad Men†world of advertising and the co- author of Shift, a book that explores the way perceptions, people and products are shifting and changing at an unprecedented rate.

She is a passionate advocate for the commercial power of creativity and a return to more human engagement, cultures and leadership. She shares her message with diverse audiences around the world from the UN in Singapore (as part of a group working to end human trafficking) to sales teams for Coca Cola on how our success is determined by understanding trends in technology, communications, society, culture, values, the marketplace and our economy.

At 20 when she was one of the youngest creative directors to lead an award-winning advertising agency and went on to direct the strategic and creative teams behind the most successful new product launch in Australian history and to Australia’s premier creative advertising school. She is currently cofounder and Chief Creative Officer at The Impossible Institute (a research, training and innovation think tank) and also lectures at The Miami Ad School

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