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ANTHONY ROBINS Anthony Robins, Although his focus is not officially leadership, his strategies and methods support and develop leadership across the board making us change our initial decision and provide him his well-deserved title as one of the best leadership speakers in the world. He has taken Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) to new heights and created a num- ber of models used by leadership and sales trainers across the world today, Tony Robins is truly a pioneer in the area of Training and leadership development, and a large number of leaders of industry have at least attended a Tony Robins seminar. He is well known international speaker famous for being the most dynamic, energetic and inspirational of all the leadership gurus. Simon Sinek Simon Sinek is an unshakable optimist. He believes in a bright future and our ability to build it together. Described as “a visionary thinker with a rare intellect,” Sinek teaches leaders and organizations how to inspire people. With a bold goal to help build a world in which the vast majority of people go home everyday feeling fulfilled by their work, Sinek is leading a movement to inspire people to do the things that inspire them. Sinek is the author of three best selling books: – The global best seller, “Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action”, The New York Times and Wall Street Journal best seller, “Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t”. And his latest book, just launched September 2016, is the New York Times best seller, “Together is Better: A Little Book of Inspiration”. Simon has four more books pending, in- cluding “Find Your Why: A Practical Guide to Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team”, coming out late 2017. A trained ethnographer, Sinek is fascinated by the leaders and companies that make the greatest impact in their organizations and in the world, those with the capacity to inspire, he has discovered some remark- able patterns about how they think, act and communicate and the environments in which people operate at their natural best. He has devoted his life to sharing his thinking in order to help other leaders and organizations inspire action. TOM PETERS Tom Peters is certainly one of the best leadership thought leaders and speakers in the world and has been for longer than may of our new Top Leadership speakers/ trainers on this list. He became world famous when he wrote his best-known book In Search of Excellence with Robert Water- man. The book was written, at a time when the competitiveness of America was being threatened by Japan and demonstrated that there were still many excellent American companies. On the Management arena, they call him the Red Bull of management thinkers. Tom encourages leaders to strive more for excellence de- spite the trying and tough times. He is also the chairman of the Tom Peters Company. While his popularity as dwindled and Tom Peters mostly focuses on man- agement these days, he still has an impact on leadership devel- opment through his foundational ideas and is still a sought after Leadership Speaker. As a speak- er is structured and steady and while his book is internationally recognized, Tom Peters is mostly known in North America. HELLOBIZ NOV 2017 | 49