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McKinsey & Company Jennifer brings to McKinsey’s client services a wealth of experience with several of the best-known and most successful companies in experience design, digital media, and social networking. She focuses on integrating best business practices with compelling design to delight customers and enhance profitability. Essential to that effort is the development of forward-thinking design teams that can work seamlessly across organizational functions—an area where Jennifer brings deep expertise. Equal parts business strategist and creative visionary, she has served as a principal and executive creative director for digital design studios where she built teams, a client base, and products and services from the ground up. She holds patents for several products she designed. Jennifer has directed initiatives for Fortune 500 companies across a range of industries, as well as for start-ups and nonprofits. She advises clients on driving innovation and the behavioral change required to support it while creating products, services, environments, and ecosystems that improve the bottom line. Jennifer is inspired by the next generation of design thinkers. She has been a guest lecturer in the graduate design, technology, and social-innovation programs of New York University, IIT, and The School for Visual Arts, and was formerly on the board of the New Media Consortium and a chair for Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA). She has judged major design awards and spoken on design at leading global forums. After graduating from Oxford and the University of Tübingen, West Germany, Stephen worked for The Boston Consulting Group for a total of seventeen years before subsequently joining the Ashridge Strategic Management Centre in 2001. He teaches on executive programmes at several business schools, including Ashridge, and is a regular guest speaker at the Royal College of Defence Studies in London. He also works as an independent consultant and conference speaker. His first book on military history, Oonie Chase is a conductor in a world of bursting complexity - specializing in designing relationships, transitions, and new things that create a meaningful, simple, playful wholes from emergent and complex parts. She is a staunch (ardent, passionate) believer that design practiced in this way is a first principle in the success of modern business, and in making the world a better place. She is currently Executive Creative Director at Frog Design. Oonie “…brings gestalt-inducing insights to designing for seduction, empathy, and emotional connection – she is also a badass experience design superhero whose only discernible weakness is her shoe fetish the semiotics of which some future cultural anthropologist could spend a lifetime deconstructing.” – will evans / @semanticwill In previous lives, she was a Director of Experience Design at Weiden & Kennedy, Group Creative Director at DigitasNY, Executive Creative Director at Blast Radius and SVP/Digital Director at GMMB (the folks who brought you Barack Obama). She has concocted digital experiences for the likes of American Express, New York Times, EASports, BioWare, LinkedIn and USAID ranging from the tragically dull to the epically hot and everything in between, some of which have won awards, required patents and/or changed the world (more at about.me/ooonie). Dr. Rebecca Homkes is a Teaching Fellow at the London Business School (LBS)’s Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship as well as its Centre for Management Development. She is also a Fellow at the London School of Economics’ Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) and a Director at the Ashridge Strategic Management Centre. Through her boutique consultancy firm, she works with CEOs and executive teams of the top global companies and fast-growing enterprises on developing and executing strategies under uncertainty, developing and executing strategies for growth, and internal scaling and growth. Homkes is also a partner at GrowthX Corporate Academy, Director of Corporate Innovation at GrowthX Academy and mentor at GrowthX, where she combines her experience working with entrepreneurial start-ups and enterprises attempting to embed more innovative ways of working. She is also a co-founder of Next Wave Innovation, a member of several advisory boards including the Silicon Valley Growth Syndicate, directed the joint McKinsey & Co and LSE Centre for Economic Performance Global Management Project since 2007 and serves on several commissions relating to productivity, management and competitiveness policies. She regularly speaks at international conferences and forums on these topics, has written for publications such as the Harvard Business Review, Fast Company . A Marshall Scholar, she received her PhD and MSc from the LSE in International Economy and was Indiana University’s top graduate and its sole Herman Wells Scholar, where she earned a BS (Honours) in business administration with majors in finance, accounting and international studies alongside a BA (Honours) in Political Science. She previously served as a Fellow at the White House’s President’s Council of Economic Advisors and has worked in management and strategy consulting for Bain & Co. in Chicago. : the courage, wisdom and capacity to decide when to manage and when to lead. In 2000 President Clinton awarded her a President's Service Award, the nation's highest honor for volunteer service directed at solving critical social problems. She is also the two-time recipient of the James S. Kemper Jr. Grant in Business Ethics. In addition to her responsibilities at Chicago Booth, Ginzel is the president of Kids In Danger, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting children by improving children's product safety. She also served as director of the Consumer's Union, the nonprofit publisher of . She is a charter member of the Association for Psychological Science, as well as a member of the Academy of Management. Ginzel received her bachelor's degree with distinction and Summa Cum Laude in psychology from the University of Colorado in 1984. She studied experimental social psychology at Princeton University where she earned a Master's degree in 1986 and a PhD in 1989. While working on her PhD, she also worked as senior consultant in training and development for Mutual of New York's Group Pensions and Operations Center. Ginzel has taught at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. She received the 2011 Faculty Excellence Award, the Inaugural Global Hillel Einhorn Teaching Award in 2013 and was named an Impact Professor by the class of 2014.