President's Lectures
These free public evening lectures are open to all and scheduled to coincide with ongoing Berlin School EMBA program modules. Please join us and other members of the local and international creative community in fostering a vibrant dialogue on leadership practices in the creative industries.
Click here to watch previous Berlin School of Creative Leadership President's Lectures.
Please see below the full list of Berlin School President's Lectures:
David Droga (New York City President's Lecture)
Founder & Creative Chairman
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"Creativity with a Purpose"
January 31st, 2013
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Jean-Marie Dru
Chairman
TBWA/Worldwide
"Calling for a New Age of Imagination"
November 8th, 2012
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Thomas Burrell
Chairman Emeritus & Founder, Burrell Communication
Adrian Botan
Creative Partner/Regional Creative Director Central & Eastern Europe, McCann Erickson Romania
"The Power of Perception: Overcoming Inferiority Complexes Through Effective Communication"
July 25th, 2012
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Harry Hui (Shanghai President's Lecture)
Managing Director
CP Equity Partners
"Leading Successful Strategic Marketing in China"
May 14th, 2012
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Peter Brabeck-Letmathe
Chairman of the Board & Former CEO
Nestlé
"The Transforming Landscape of Marketing and Consumer Engagement"
March 20th, 2012
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The Freitag Brothers
Founders/Owners
FREITAG Bags
"IDEAS. The FREITAG Gasoline" Growing, nurturing and building a cult brand is no easy task"
September 13th, 2011
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Hartmut Ostrowski
Chairman and CEO
Bertelsmann AG
"Creativity and Entrepreneurship - The Forces That Drive an International Media Company"
September 7th, 2011
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Sir John Hegarty
Chairman & Worldwide Creative Director
BartleBogleHegarty
"Hegarty on Advertising - Turning Intelligence into Magic"
July 27th, 2011
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Dr. Mathias Döpfner
CEO
Axel Springer AG
"Primacy, Not Piracy - Why Content Matters More Than Ever"
March 23rd, 2011
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Cindy Gallop
CEO
IfWeRanTheWorld
"Stop Talking, Start Doing: From Social Graph To Action Graph With IfWeRanTheWorld"
January 26th, 2011
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Alan Boyd
Former Worldwide CEO
Freemantle Media
"Unknown Unknowns. The Building of a Global Brand"
November 11th, 2010
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Sir Martin Sorrell
CEO
WPP Group
"Do Creative Businesses Require Creative Leadership"
September 7th, 2010
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Dr. Rainer Esser
General Manager
ZEIT Verlag
"How to grow in spite of crisis"
August 10th, 2010
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Kitty Lun
Chairman/CEO
Lowe China
"Advertising with No Lipstick"
May 31, 2010
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Stephan Erfurt
Director
C/O Berlin
"Managing Museums in Critical Times"
April 15th, 2010
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Claudia Langer
Founder
Utopia
"Utopia: A community that wants to change the world"
March 4th, 2010
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Jeff Jarvis
Associate Professor & Director of the Interactive Journalism Program
City University of New York, Graduate School of Journalism
"Beta"
January 20th, 2010
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João Daniel Tikhomiroff
President Jodaf Mixer Brazil
Toni Segarra
Executive Creative Director *S,C,P,F Barcelona
"The Art of Mixing: Advertising + Film + TV.
Competing is the past Collaborating is the future"
September 17th, 2009
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John Hunt
Worldwide Creative Director
TBWA
"The Art of the Idea"
November 2nd, 2009
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Filip Nilsson
Chairman & CCO
Forsman & Bodenfors
"Because We're Different"
November 10th, 2009
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Joachim Sauter
Founder
ART+COM
"Pioneering New Media and Communication in the Digital Age"
August 27th, 2009
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Minister Jörg Schönbohm
Minister of the Interior
Brandenburg
"What creatives can learn from military leadership"
April 2, 2009
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Sir John Hegarty
Chairman & Worldwide Creative Director
BartleBogleHegarty
"Irreverence"
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Seymour Stein
Co-founder & Chairman
Sire Records
"Mentorship"
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Masayoshi Tsuchiya
President
Sony Creative Works
"How to inspire a highly innovative and productive design culture"
January 29th, 2009
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Miha Pogacnik
President
Institute For The Development Of Intercultural Relations Through The Arts
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Jeff Steinhour
Managing Partner
Crispin Porter & Bogusky
"Pushing beyond the traditional boundaries of marketing"
September 25, 2008
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Jean Marie-Dru
President/CEO
TBWA Worldwide
"Disruption and beyond"
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Washington Olivetto
President
W/Brasil Publicidade
"Joy of Competition"
27th July, 2007
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Marcello Serpa
Co-CEO & Creative Director
Almap/BBDO
“Dankeschön, Deutschland: How Germany influenced my life -- And what Brazil and Germany can learn from one another"
January 22, 2008
