Colleges & Universities

Invaluable speakers for colleges and universities, available through IPG Speakers Bureau

Josh Linkner

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Josh Linkner is on a mission to help business discover its creative mojo. His call to action — it’s better to reimagine what’s possible and disrupt your organization before your competition does; hugging the status quo is the fast road to obsolescence. Read More

Sahar Hashemi : Founder, Coffee Republic

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The dynamite entrepreneur, Sahar Hashemi, founded Coffee Republic, the UK’s first US style coffee bar chain with her brother and built it into one of the UK’s most recognised high street brands with 110 bars and a turnover of £30m. Today she is an international voice for entrepreneurialism, business growth and innovation. Read More

Janine di Giovanni: War Correspondent

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Janine di Giovanni is one of Europe’s most respected and experienced journalists, with vast experience covering war and conflict. Her reporting has been called “established, accomplished brilliance” and she has been cited as “the finest foreign correspondent of our generation”. Read More

Richard St. John

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Richard St. John can tell you what leads to everyone’s success. On the prestigious TED.com website, St. John’s talk is consistently in the top 20 “Most Viewed” (out of 1,000 talks) along with Bill Gates, Richard Dawkins, Tony Robbins, Stephen Hawking, and Malcolm Gladwell. His talk has also ranked highest in many TED categories, including “All Time Favorites,” “Most Inspirational,” “Funniest,” “Most Emailed,” and “Most Translated into other Languages.” Read More

Cindy Gallop

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Cindy’s 30 years of experience in brandbuilding, marketing and entrepreneurialism, combined with a razor-sharp analytical mind, wide-ranging business experience, future-forward approach to technology, a compellingly charismatic presence and a uniquely inspirational approach, equip her perfectly to address the theme of leadership and inventing the future across a range of business sectors. Read More

Pamela Meyer : Liespotting

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Fraud expert, Harvard MBA and bestselling author of “Liespotting,” Pamela Meyer reveals the deception epidemic plaguing our society. Meyer believes you should know everything a CIA operative knows about deception. She trains corporate executives on facial micro-expression reading, advanced interrogation techniques, body language analysis, and behavior elicitation techniques. Read More

Mike Rowe : Dirty Jobs

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Mike Rowe is a co-creator and the host of the series Dirty Jobs, now in its fifth year on the Discovery Channel. On the show, he learns and performs hundreds of jobs that require, it’s fair to say, a little bit of getting dirty. Read More

Ben Stein

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The world-famous keynote and business speaker, Ben Stein, graduated from Columbia University in 1966 with honors in economics. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1970 as valedictorian of his class by election of his classmates. Ben Stein also studied in the graduate school of economics at Yale. Read More

Jeremy Rifkin

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Jeremy Rifkin is a frequent keynote speaker for governments, businesses, labor and civic forums. He has lectured at hundreds of the world’s leading corporations as well as more than 200 universities in some 30 countries in the past 30 years. Read More

Peter Haas

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Keynote speaker Peter Haas, a Yale graduate from Rhode Island, is a social entrepreneur – a pioneer of innovation that benefits humanity. Peter Haas is a leading keynote speaker on the Haitian earthquake disaster, where he teaches the local builders confined masonry techniques. “Haiti,” Haas once said to a large audience at a TED conference in Oxford, “was not a natural disaster. It was a disaster of engineering.” Read More