Speakers and Chairs Bios
- Alex Adamopoulos
- Guillaume M. Alvarez
- Neila Benzina
- Steve Blank
- Tamzin Booth
- Alexandra Borchardt
- Charles-Édouard Bouée
- Curtis Carlson
- Laurent Choain
- Sarah Cliffe
- Virginie Coulloudon
- Jenny Darroch
- Steve Denning
- Erica Dhawan
- Yves Doz
- Tamara J. Erickson
- Sydney Finkelstein
- Bill Fischer
- Jean-Noël Fourel
- Pankaj Ghemawat
- Sarah Green Carmichael
- Hal Gregersen
- Anil K. Gupta
- John Hagel III
- Charles Handy
- Rahaf Harfoush
- Lisa Hershman
- Andrew Hill
- Julia Hobsbawm
- Heiko Hutmacher
- Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño
- Michael G. Jacobides
- Gabriel Joseph-Dezaize
- Julia Kirby
- Angelica Kohlmann
- Ashok Krish
- Joan Snyder Kuhl
- Wolfgang Lassl
- Andreas Ludwig
- Isabella Mader
- Roger L. Martin
- Rita Gunther McGrath
- Nilofer Merchant
- Timo Meynhardt
- Markus Müller
- Joseph Ogutu
- Efosa Ojomo
- Alexander Osterwalder
- Tony O’Driscoll
- Jean-Marie Penven
- Carlota Perez
- Deepa Prahalad
- Karl Franz Prüller
- Martin Reeves
- Johan Roos
- Michael Skapinker
- Allyson Stewart-Allen
- Richard Straub
- Irene Yuan Sun
- Don Tapscott
- Ali Rushdan Tariq
- Julie Linn Teigland
- Ricardo Vargas
- Julia Wang
- Haiyan Wang
- Karen Ward
- Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg
- Stefan Zapotocky
Institute Director,
Martin Prosperity Institute, Rotman School of Management
Biography
Roger Martin is the Institute Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management and the Premier’s Chair in Productivity & Competitiveness. From 1998 to 2013, he served as Dean. In 2013, he was named global Dean of the Year by the leading business school website, Poets & Quants.
He has published 10 books the most recent of which are Getting Beyond Better written with Sally Osberg (Harvard Business Review Press, 2015) and Playing to Win written with A.G. Lafley (Harvard Business Review Press (HBRP), 2013), which won the award for Best Book of 2012-13 by the Thinkers50. He has written 21 Harvard Business Review articles.
In 2013, Roger placed 3rd on the Thinkers50 list, a biannual ranking of the most influential global business thinkers. In 2010, he was named one of the 27 most influential designers in the world by Business Week. In 2005, Business Week also named him one of seven global 'Innovation Gurus.'
Roger is a trusted strategy advisor to the CEOs of companies worldwide including Procter & Gamble, Lego, IDEO and Verizon.
A Canadian from Wallenstein, Ontario, Roger received his AB from Harvard College, with a concentration in Economics, in 1979 and his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1981.