Speakers of the 9th edition (2024)

Dr Bart Sayle is a global authority on business culture, leadership and innovation and a thought leader in human systems and performance.

A trusted advisor on vision and strategy; Bart has spent over twenty-five years working with some of the world’s top business leaders to build highperformance organisations and winning cultures that deliver breakthrough results. Bart has achieved notable success in companies such as Danone, Mars, Ferrero, Wrigley, T-Mobile, Nike, Pepsico and Procter & Gamble. Dr Bart Sayle is the Founder and Chairman of Breakthrough Global - expert practitioners in enterprise-wide innovation, leadership and business growth. Bart has created a powerful system to unleash the full potential within organisations to accelerate innovation and business growth.

This evolved into the Breakthrough Process®; now used by companies and institutions around the world to design and deliver powerful and sustainable futures. Over a hundred thousand business professionals have now experienced Breakthrough in more than sixty countries. Dr Bart has postgraduate degrees from the University of Manchester and Harvard Business School.

Bart is a founding board member of the Washington DC Think-Tank, The Ocean Health Council, advising on vision and strategy for the global initiative on the Oceans. This is a collaborative approach between Business, Science and Governments to lead the way forward and create healthy oceans for a more sustainable future.

Dr Bart is a sought-after adviser, speaker and author. He is known for his energising and inspiring talks in which he shares his insights on culture, growth, leadership and innovation. Bart is author of the best-selling business book “Riding The Blue Train: A Leadership Plan for Explosive Growth.”

With his background as scientist, business leader and entrepreneur, Bart has made a lifelong study of human creativity, human performance, and human systems. Driven by a vision that the world of business can be much more effective, more creative and more purposeful for everyone. Bart has made it his mission to achieve this.