Leaders of the future

People refer to Chris as the Master Negotiator. He earned that nickname as the New York FBI's chief crisis negotiator and as the FBI's chief negotiator with the kidnappers. In fact, he helped to develop the field of negotiation across the entire federal agency, and hostage negotiators still use the principles established during his service today. Chris then also taught business negotiation at the University of Northern California, Georgetown, and Harvard. In 2008, he founded The Black Swan Group where he teaches how to use hostage negotiation techniques to never leave money "on the table" unnecessarily. In May 2016, he published the best-selling book "Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It" to help all people apply these essential negotiation principles to everyday life. Chris has negotiated with the world's worst terrorists. As a result, he is able to help companies in the toughest business negotiations where entire companies find themselves as legal hostages.

Radim is the only personal disciple of Chris Voss, George Kohlrieser and Joe Navarro in the Czech Republic and the only European co-author of Voss' new book Empathetic Leadership, a current world bestseller. He is the best known and most quoted by the media Czechoslovak negotiator and the author of the Czech bestseller on negotiation - The Art of Negotiating Anything. Radim is an experienced leader, having served as a board member of the world's second largest retailer. He is proficient in FBI and Mossad negotiation techniques and has received training in negotiating with kidnappers and terrorists. He is a member of the prestigious World Negotiators Club. He is also an expert in body language and lie detection. He assists TOP 100 companies in the Czech Republic and Slovakia in difficult negotiations. He also accompanies top politicians in difficult negotiations and has lectured to agents of the Security Information Service. As the founder of the Fascinating Academy, he has established negotiation as a science in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. He co-founded and as president leads the International Association of Negotiators.

Pavla has been ranked among the most influential women in the Czech Republic by Forbes magazine since the beginning. Before joining UNICEF to protect children and work on improving their living conditions, she worked as a financial analyst at the Dutch Chamber of Commerce and in the commercial department of the Danish Embassy in Prague. She then managed the finances of the municipality of the African city of Masvingo in Zimbabwe. She has participated in numerous humanitarian missions to conflict and war zones in Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Mali, Central African Republic, Cambodia and Myanmar. Based on her experiences of travelling to crisis areas, she published a book "Can you hear us?". Today, outside of the UN Children's Fund, she serves on the DMS Council of the Donors Forum and on the Legislation and Funding Committee of the Government Council for Non-Governmental Organizations. She is a mentor for Business Leaders Forum and Business Professional Women Prague. She lectures and publishes on current topics in the field of development programs, security and international affairs.

Daniel is an influential Czech manager and leader. For more than 20 years he has been working on leadership and corporate transformation. He studied leadership at IMD Lausanne, Oxford Leadership Academy London and Imperial College Business School. He regularly puts his knowledge into practice with a personal motto: "so that our managers are also world-class". He is currently working as CEO for Atalian, which is one of the most important companies in the Czech Republic in the service sector with more than 2200 employees. He has successfully transformed the company and today aspires to a turnover of CZK 3 billion. He also focuses on negotiation, human behaviour in organisations and communication. He personally learned from world-class negotiators Matthias Schranner, George Kohlrieser and Chris Voss.

Radek Jaroš is the only Czech and just the fifteenth person in history to summit all fourteen of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks—without supplemental oxygen or high-altitude porters. This earned him the prestigious "Crown of the Himalayas." In 2019, he completed the "Crown of the World" by climbing the highest peaks on each continent. Before him, only the legendary Reinhold Messner had achieved this without oxygen support. In 2002, due to the unpredictability of a career as a "professional" mountaineer, he left the construction company he co-founded. Over the years, he became a leader of high-altitude expeditions, as well as a photographer, cameraman, author, publisher, and motivational coach. Most recently, he produced the feature film The Goal is to Return and was honored with the national Medal of Merit, 1st Class.

David calls himself an infopreneur, a trader of information and wisdom. He draws information from the minds and books of smart people around the world, filters it, distills it, and combines it with his experience to deliver it in an understandable form and context to people who want to learn and move forward. David has worked for over 25 years for corporations and family businesses in various industries and parts of the world. He has also dabbled in the world of start-ups. In the Czech Republic, he is known as the former CEO of an innovative 3M company, co-founder of Digiskills, Modern Midlife Mentors and also the Red Button network. David has long been perceived as a promoter of responsible leadership, personal development and, last but not least, a healthy organizational culture. Today he represents and promotes this in his role as CHRO at Česká Spořitelna, the largest Czech bank. David continues to coach and mentor senior leaders. In his talk, David will share his insights and attitudes in the context of modern leadership. You will learn why it is good to have a personal clown and why it is good to work on your leadership tripod. You will also learn what has been true for years in the context of leadership and what needs to be rethought.

A graduate of the Faculty of Arts of Charles University, she started as a high school professor of French and literature, interpreter and translator. From 1997 to 2001 she co-founded the French-Czech Chamber of Commerce and after her departure she was repeatedly elected a member of the Board of Directors and Vice President. Since 2001, she has been the CEO of ManpowerGroup ČR, a staffing company that has been a market leader in its field for more than 15 years. She is a founding member and since 2010 President of the Association of Personnel Service Providers, which brings together the largest staffing agencies. She is also the President of the Association of Personnel Professionals, Vice President of the People Management Forum and Vice President of the American Chamber of Commerce. Her goal is to create the conditions for the successful development of a stable labor market and labor legislation that promotes greater fairness, openness and flexibility.