Described as an ideas generator, strategic adviser and one the most influential creative people in the world, we are excited to confirm Charles Leadbeater as a keynote at SLF 2008. He is Tony Blair’s favourite corporate thinker.

The New York Times anointed Charlie’s idea, The Pro-Am Revolution, as one of the 12 biggest global ideas of 2004. In 2008, Spectator Magazine described him as “the wizard of the web”. Charlie writes regularly for the Financial Times and the Guardian. In 2002 he was listed by GQ magazine as one of the 40 Most Powerful Men in the United Kingdom, in 2003 Accenture, the global management consultancy, ranked him one of the 30 top management thinkers in the world, and in 2007 the Financial Times ranked him the outstanding innovation expert in the UK. A prolific writer, Charlie specialises in innovation and entrepreneurship. He has written reports on entrepreneurship in knowledge based business, creative business and the public sector. Charlie’s current research is on new, open and networked approaches to innovation, a project which has taken him from Finland and Holland to Singapore, Bangalore, Shanghai, Brazil and Dubai, as well as the United States. That project is hot on the heels of his Atlas of Ideas report for DEMOS, the think tank, charting the rise of science and innovation in China and India.

His latest book ‘We-Think: The Power of Mass Creativity’ was published in March 2008.

For more information on Charlie, visit www.londonspeakerbureau.co.uk

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