Nick has worked with top teams and their organisations around the world widening the view and effectiveness of leadership and strategy implementation in VUCA environments.

As practitioner he was an Army major in his late 20's and a FTSE 100 director in his 30's (with operational line responsibility for 12,000 staff and change responsibility for 45,000 people involved in a complex programme of 850 projects).

He was also the CEO and then Chairman of an innovative renewable energy company in the UK. As a consultant he was a senior strategy consultant for Ernst & Young, and ran their Research Associates practice as well as managed complex strategy assignments around the world.

In his 40's he was a professor for leadership at Nyenrode (MBA Professor of the Year) and Visiting Professor of Leadership/Fellow at London Business School and INSEAD.

His latest book "Complex Adaptive Leadership – Embracing Paradox and Uncertainty" has become a Gower best seller witth the 2nd edition pubished in paperback in 2015. He is a qualified project manager and has written a short book “Leading Complex Projects”, published on amazon for kindle.

Dave Snowden is the founder and chief scientific officer of Cognitive Edge. His work is international in nature and covers government and industry looking at complex issues relating to strategy, organisational decision making and decision making. He has pioneered a science based approach to organisations drawing on anthropology, neuroscience and complex adaptive systems theory. He is a popular and passionate keynote speaker on a range of subjects, and is well known for his pragmatic cynicism and iconoclastic style.

He holds visiting Chairs at the Universities of Pretoria and Hong Kong Polytechnic University as well as a visiting fellowship at the University of Warwick. He is a senior fellow at the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies at Nanyang University and the Civil Service College in Singapore. His paper with Boone on Leadership was the cover article for the Harvard Business Review in November 2007 and also won the Academy of Management aware for the best practitioner paper in the same year. He has previously won a special award from the Academy for originality in his work on knowledge management. He is a editorial board member of several academic and practitioner journals in the field of knowledge management and is an Editor in Chief of E:CO. In 2006 he was Director of the EPSRC (UK) research programme on emergence and in 2007 was appointed to an NSF (US) review panel on complexity science research.

He previously worked for IBM where he was a Director of the Institution for Knowledge Management and founded the Cynefin Centre for Organisational Complexity; during that period he was selected by IBM as one of six on-demand thinkers for a world wide advertising campaign. Prior to that he worked in a range of strategic and management roles in the service sector.

His company Cognitive Edge exists to integrate academic thinking with practice in organisations throughout the world and operates on a network model working with Academics, Government, Commercial Organisations, NGOs and Independent Consultants. He is also the main designer of the SenseMaker® software suite, originally developed in the field of counter terrorism and now being actively deployed in both Government and Industry to handle issues of impact measurement, customer/employee insight, narrative based knowledge management, strategic foresight and risk management.

Gunther has over 20 years of experience in software development and IT management, of which 11 years of experience in IT consultancy. He initially worked as functional analyst and project manager, but only really felt at ease after he discovered eXtreme Programming in 2003 and led some projects on XP before adding Scrum in 2004 and being trained by Ken Schwaber. He was an early adopter of Agile in the Benelux. And since the foundation of Scrum.org in 2009 Gunther has been following up on it closely, starting with joining the early assessment programs. In 2010 he achieved level I and II certification as Professional Scrum Master, followed by level I and II certifications as Professional Scrum Product Owner in 2011. He is Professional Scrum Trainer in both programs. In 2010 Gunther joined Capgemini to consolidate various singular, grassroots Agile initiatives in Belgium and the Netherlands. He soon grew into a global leader position for Scrum within Capgemini. He was a valued publicist, mainly on Scrum, on the international Capgemini Technology Blog.

In 2013 Gunther engaged as Director of the Professional Series with Scrum.org. He is the Product Owner of all Professional Scrum courseware, assessments and certifications, including Professional Scrum Foundations, Professional Scrum Master, Professional Scrum Product Owner and Professional Scrum Developer. Gunther is co-developer of the Scrum.org framework "Agility Path" to guide enterprise-wide adoption of agile thinking.