After Dinner Speakers: Jonas Ridderstrale, Little Richard, Penny Lancaster

Dr. Jonas Ridderstrale is at the forefront of the new generation of European-based business gurus. The 2001 Thinkers 50, the world's first ranking of management thinkers, ranked Ridderstrale and his partner Dr. Kjell A. Nordström at number 17 (one place ahead of Stephen Covey). Jonas' uncompromising, imaginative and decidedly funky take on contemporary business life has made him one of today's most sought after speakers. Jonas practices what he so persuasively preaches. He is an advisor, lecturer and consultant to a number of international corporations and is also on the board of several companies. Jonas Ridderstrale's day job is as an assistant professor at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Leadership at the Stockholm School of Economics from where he also has a doctorate and an MBA. His research focuses on new organisational models and leadership styles in the information age and has been published in leading academic journals, magazines and newspapers. He has also run the School's Advanced Management Programme, a five-week top-management programme that attracts the elite of Scandinavian business leaders. Jonas was recently recognised as Sweden's outstanding young academic of the year. His latest book, Funky Business: Talent makes capital dance (co-authored with Kjell A. Nordström) is a manifesto for the new world of business and is already an international bestseller. So far, it has been translated into more than 25 languages.