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In late 2005, Lewis Evans created a stir in the world of currency trading by discovering something fundamental about currency movements that challenges much of the collective wisdom of the foreign exchange industry. His revolutionary new way to set up charts reveals the universal framework that governs all currency movements. He calls it the Absolute Fibonacci Framework. Combining this with powerful mindset techniques developed by Olga Sheean, he created LEFT Brain Trading to help traders improve their confidence and performance.

Mary is an industry professional with 25 years’ experience in merging process and people by implementing process improvements for better bottom line results. She is the CEO/CTO of The McDonald Consulting Group, a process improvement consulting firm headquartered in Austin Texas. The McDonald Group specializes in helping small to medium size companies improve or establish management practices that yield reduced costs, improve market performance and increase customer satisfaction. Mary holds a Bachelors of Science in Environmental Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts, and a Masters of Science in Industrial Administration from Union College in Schenectady, New York. She has by has received numerous formal and informal awards and recognition during her career.McDonald Consulting Group's tagline is "merging process and people", which speaks to our process improvement activities; and my brand was bestowed upon me by a traveler who asked what I do -- when I explained, she, nodded and said, "Got it! You're the efficiency doctor we call in when our business is sick or bleeding money!" and I thought YES! That's it! So I have adopted that, and now am "The Efficiency Doctor". Mary is active in several professional organizations, including the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society, where she is a Fellow, and former National President; the American Society for Quality, as a Senior member and former Vice-Chair in the Energy and Environmental Division; and the International Business Academies Limited, where she is Director, encouraging others to connect/network. Mary is the author of two published books – Integrating Quality, Environmental, and Health and Safety Systems, ©2001 Government Institutes Press; and Eliminating Speed Bumps For Peak Performance, © 2004. Her next book series, The Virtual Assistant Series, will be published in 2009.

As an entrepreneur Christer Söderberg has developed an intimate relationship with the multiple aspects and interdependency of international business. Christer started and managed a NGO coordinating humanitarian aid during the war in Bosnia, managed a telecom product design company based in Hong Kong and as Director of a Swedish multinational in Brazil, established the industrial products company in six South American countries. Christer has lived in nine countries and speaks the languages of seven, experiencing first hand the differences in culture and working conditions on four continents. After returning from Brazil in 2002 Christer started Zero Aeons AB, a Stockholm based Business Leadership and Communications consultancy. In 2006 he introduced Brazilian art, furniture, and design to Sweden and helped develop a business based on a triple bottom line. Open World Foundation builds on the spirit of these two businesses, and with the Open World Café & Gallery creates meeting places to inspire leadership, learning, and environmental awareness.

I’m very happy to be speaking today with B. Joseph Pine II, an internationally acclaimed speaker and an author as well as a sought after management advisor to Fortune 500 companies. A Visiting Scholar with the Design Lab at MIT, he co-founded Strategic Horizons LLP to help businesses conceive and design new ways of adding value to their economic offerings. His latest book, co written with James H Gilmore, is titled Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want, recognizes that in a world of increasingly paid-for experiences, people no longer accept the fake from the phony, but want the real from the genuine. He also wrote the award-winning Mass Customization and co-wrote the best-selling The Experience Economy: Work Is Theatre & Every Business a Stage. Today I will be exploring with Joe what 'Consumers Really Want'. Time Magazine recently selected Authenticity on its list of “10 Ideas That Are Changing The World.” http://authenticitybook.com/

Lee White talks about his new consulting firm Decision 3 D that helps organisation use collaboration to move information in a powerful way.