Sidebar #4: The Bureaus Speak: Today's 40 Hottest Business Speakers on the Association Circuit

Washington Speakers Bureau Top 10

Mark King, CEO and president, TAYLORMADE/ADIDAS GOLF

JIM STENGEL, former global marketing officer, PROCTER & GAMBLE

SIR KEN ROBINSON, internationally acclaimed expert on creativity and innovation and author of Out of Our Minds

MIKE ABRASHOFF, former Navy commander and author, It's Your Ship

LOUIS V. GERSTNER, former chairman and chief executive officer, IBM

ANNE MULCAHY, former chairwoman and CEO, XEROX CORP., and chairwoman, SAVE THE CHILDREN

WILLIAM TAYLOR, founding editor, Fast Company, and co-author, Mavericks at Work

JIM COLLINS, business management guru, author of Good to Great and Built to Last

DANIEL PINK, behavioral expert, author of Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us and A Whole New Mind

TOM PETERS, author, In Search of Excellence, and one of the most influential business thinkers of all time

Speakers Platform Top 8

BILL CAPODAGLI, management consultant and author, The Disney Way: Harnessing the Management Secrets of Disney in Your Company

CHESTER ELTON AND ADRIAN GOSTICK, “the Carrot Guys.” Elton and Gostick are VPs at THE CARROT CULTURE and co-authors of The Carrot Principle

BRUCE WEINSTEIN, “The Ethics Guy,” who writes a column on ethics for Business Week

TODD BUCHHOLZ, former White House Economic Director, hedge fund manager, economics professor at HARVARD UNIVERSITY, and author

ROBERT KRIEGEL, former advertising executive, expert on change management and leadership, and author of If it ain't broke…BREAK IT!

MITCH DITKOFF, co-founder and president of IDEA CHAMPIONS, a management development firm specializing in breakthrough thinking

DAN COUGHLIN, management consultant and author of several books including The Management 500: A High-Octane Formula for Business Success

ROBERT GENETSKI, economist, investment adviser, and author of several books including, A Nation of Millionaires and Taking the Voodoo Out of Economics.

Brightsight Group Top 10

BILL GEORGE, professor, HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL, former CEO of MEDTRONIC, and author, True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership

CHIP HEATH AND DAN HEATH, Fast Company columnists, co-authors of Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

BERT JACOBS AND JOHN JACOBS, co-founders of LIFE IS GOOD

FREDERIC MISHKIN, former Federal Reserve Board Governor and a professor of Banking and Financial Institutions at COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

CHIP CONLEY, CEO, JOIE DE VIVRE HOSPITALITY, California's largest boutique hotel company and author of Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo From Maslow.

DAN ROAM, author of The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas With Pictures

GRETCHEN RUBIN, author, The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

ROBERT SUTTON, professor at STANFORD UNIVERSITY and author of Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best … and Learn From the Worst

JOHN HOPE BRYANT, founder, chairman, and CEO of OPERATION HOPE, co-founder of GLOBAL DIGNITY, and one of the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders. Author of Love Leadership: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World

ROBYN WATERS, former head of trend, design, and product development at TARGET and author of The Hummer and the Mini: Navigating the Contradiction of the New Trend Landscape

Speak Inc. Speakers Bureau Top 12

ROSS SHAFER, former comedian and talk show host turned motivational speaker with a focus on customer service. Author of Customer Empathy

MARK SCHARENBROICH, motivational business speaker and author of Nice Bike: Making Meaningful Connections on the Road of Life

JASON DORSEY, “The Gen Y Guy.” Speaker on generational dynamics and author of My Reality Check Bounced and How to Y-Size Your Business

ERIK WAHL, artist and motivational speaker on THE ART OF VISION

STEVE GILLILAND, comedian, storyteller, and author of Enjoy the Ride

ROBERT STEVENSON, entrepreneur, business leader, author of How to Soar Like an Eagle in a World Full of Turkeys

SCOTT KLOSOSKY, expert on leadership and technology, CEO of three successful startup companies

LIBBY GILL, branding and public relations expert

DOC HENDLEY, founder of the nonprofit organization, WINE TO WATER, which brings clean water to people around the world

JEANNE BLISS, customer experience expert, author of I Love You More Than My Dog, Five Decisions That Drive Extreme Customer Loyalty in Good Times and in Bad

MIKE MULLANE, astronaut, expert on leadership and teamwork

MIKE STAVER, business coach, leadership consultant

The Big Names

On World Affairs

TONY BLAIR, former prime minister, Great Britain

GEORGE BUSH, former U.S. president

GORDON BROWN, former prime minister, Great Britain

ALVARO URIBE, former president of Colombia

COLIN POWELL, former U.S. secretary of State

CONDOLEEZZA RICE, former U.S. secretary of state

MADELEINE ALBRIGHT, former U.S. secretary of state

JAMES BAKER, former U.S. secretary of state

ALAN GREENSPAN, former head of the Federal Reserve

BILL CLINTON, former U.S. president

JAMES WOLFENSOHN, president of the World Bank

JOSÉ MARÍA AZNAR, former prime minister of Spain

On Domestic Issues

SARAH PALIN, former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate

RUDY GIULIANI, former New York City mayor

THAD ALLEN, retired U.S. Coast Guard admiral and national incident commander for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

T. BOONE PICKENS, financier and well-known energy entrepreneur

DAVID PLOUFFE, a campaign adviser to President Obama

ROBERT REICH, former U.S. secretary of labor

JEB BUSH, former Florida governor

BILL BRADLEY, former New Jersey senator

Source: Washington Speakers Bureau