Discovery Invest will bring together some of the most innovative and forward-thinking minds in global business when it hosts the Discovery Invest Leadership Summit on 22 July 2009 at the Sandton Convention Centre.

This one-day leadership summit will feature a range of local and international business heavyweights including Sir Richard Branson, Malcolm Gladwell, Adrian Gore, Shaun Tomson, Wendy Luhabe, Mathews Phosa and Ronnie Apteker.

The summit will showcase the latest, cutting-edge approach to leadership in an effort to nurture the next generation of up-and-coming maverick thinkers in South Africa.

The guest speakers have been specifically drawn from a range of disciplines including media, technology, politics and business to discuss the complete panoramic spectrum of current leadership.

Virgin’s Sir Richard Branson will share his Business Stripped Bare concepts and ideas; while Malcolm Gladwell, New Yorker staff writer, renowned author of the bestsellers The Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers, and one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People, will discuss ‘Outliers: Why some people succeed and some don’t’.

Ronnie Apteker, businessman, movie producer and founder of Internet Solutions will look at why ‘there are no bad businesses, only bad people’; and Discovery CEO, Adrian Gore, will discuss the ‘Attributes of Success’, presenting exciting new concepts and ideas in this field.

Shaun Tomson, multiple world surfing champion, businessman and surfing pioneer will share with guests the ‘Surfer’s Code: 12 simple lessons for riding through life’.

Wendy Luhabe, University of Johannesburg chancellor, author and chairman of the Industrial Development Corporation and the International Marketing Council, will share her ‘Defining Moments’, and Mathews Phosa, ANC treasurer general and businessman, his views on the ‘Future of Business and Politics’.

This stellar local and international line-up promises to deliver provocative and challenging insights into leadership of the future.

The Discovery Invest Leadership Summit is organised by Synchronised Marketing & Event Agency and takes place on 22 July 2009 from 07h30 until 17h00. For further information visit www.theleadershipsummit.co.za or call 0861 000 749

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