Peter Sheahan has spent a decade teaching business how to flip their thinking and find opportunity where others cannot.

He believes that the real money gets made in the cracks, and that the opportunity for mind-blowing success is all around us. The problem is we get conditioned by our experience, blinded by our business models and conned by the popular media to believe success is a product of the economic conditions.

Peter will show you how to be up, in an upside-down world. He will not only help you and your people to develop the mindset required to find opportunity everywhere, he will mobilize you to exploit it. Peter's clients include Newscorp, Google, Hilton Hotels, GlaxoSmithKline, Harley Davidson, Cisco and Goldman Sachs. Many of which engage him on an ongoing basis to provoke their leaders to re-think their assumptions and challenge them to find innovative ways of doing business. He has been described by one of his clients as the "guy to call when you want your answers questioned."

Peter's fifth book Fl!p, an international best-seller available in 25 countries, emphasizes the need for leaders to have mindset flexibility. It explores the changing nature of leadership; evolving business models; and unpacks dozens of strategies for finding opportunity and making money in tough economic times.

Peter walks his talks, and can speak from personal experience. A former General Manager of a $10 million hotel business, Peter has established himself as highly successful entrepreneur. In addition to his world renowned thought leadership practice, Peter is also the CEO of the Centre for Skills Development (CSD). The CSD specializes in large scale social change projects and now runs the largest face-to-face financial literacy program for teenagers in the world. In partnership with Apple, the CSD developed and continues to run the ground breaking Beyond Chalk program, working with educators to create 21st Century learning environments. More recently the CSD has taken on IBM as a client and is running development programs in large corporations and Government departments teaching staff how to use technology to foster collaboration and drive productivity in their organizations.

In January 2010, Peter's sixth book was released - Making it Happen. This book guides individuals through the 5 key strategies required to turn good ideas into great results. Or better said, turn opportunity into profit.

Peter's outstanding achievements were first officially recognized in 2003 when Peter had the honor of being named Young Entrepreneur of the Year in his home state. He is best known though for his skills as a presenter and his ability to customize his expertise to meet the needs of the audience. He has delivered more than 2000 presentations to over 300,000 people in 15 different countries. In 2006, Peter was awarded the National Speakers Association Keynote Speaker of the Year, as voted by his peers.

Seen as a global thought leader, Peter's insights into business trends and the changing needs of customers and staff make him a regular presenter on Fox Business, as well as appearing on ABC and the BBC as well. In 2008 Peter was a featured expert in a five-part global series on Innovation on CNBC, and he has been written up in the Washington Post and Fast Company Magazine.

Peter Sheahan is a unique and inspiring speaker whose ideas and experiences are changing the face of the business world. Don't miss your chance to engage with this leading mind on innovative and entrepreneurial thinking!

• Fl!p: A Counter-Intuitive Approach to Driving Innovation, Adapting to Change and Building Sustainable Competitive Advantage - The thinking that has made us successful to date will not in the future. In many cases it will hinder us. The expectations of customers and staff are changing rapidly and leaders need to keep pace. Fl!p will show them how. Emphasizing a new philosophy for leadership, Fl!p will offer a counter intuitive approach to innovation and change, and inspire leaders to take the intelligent risks requires to find and exploit new value in the coming years.
  
  
• Making It Happen: How to Turn Good Ideas into Great Results - If the only way to get to Carnegie Hall is to practice, practice, practice...then the only way to make it happen is to execute, execute, execute. The world isn't short of new ideas. It is short of people with ability to turn these good ideas into reality. It is as though we have lost our commercial savvy! Making It Happen will bring it back and outline the 5 Competencies we must all master if we are to execute on our new ideas and plans for change. The 5 Competencies, which also formed the basis for the ground-breaking new book Making it Happen, will completely change the way you approach the marketing of your services, the implementation of your change agenda and even the way you position yourself.
  
  
• Talent Magnet: How to Build Powerful Employment Brand Through Impactful Leadership and Inspiring Cultural Change - Your future success is all about TALENT! And engaging the hearts and minds of this new thinker will take a brand new kind of leader. Talent Magnet will show you how to be that leader. People are not really your greatest asset. The right kind of people, who are highly engaged, are. Mind-blowing future success will require a new kind of thinker, or at the very least a new kind of thinking from the people we have. If you are to attract and engage this kind of innovative talent you will need to build a powerful employer brand, and then have your managers' deliver on the promise it implies. Talent Magnet will combine the best research on human behavior, with the changing nature of business models and what constitutes value to the client, with proven strategies for getting results through people to offer you a brand new mindset for leading your people. This mindset-shifting approach to talent can be best described as the art and science of employer branding. And be sure that this is not some HR fad. It is a whole new philosophy for leadership which will unleash the hearts and minds of the very people on whom your sustained success depends.
  
  
• Next-Gen Profits: Attract, Engage and Profit From the Next Generation of Customers and Talent - Generation Y represents one the most lucrative opportunities open to business today. Whether you want to unleash their creativity at work, get your share of the $200bn plus they spend annually, or align yourself to profit from the $17.8 trillion they will inherit, you will need a fresh approach to branding, sales and leadership. Based on the research presented in the international best seller Generation Y, this very funny and extremely insightful session will give you insight into the REAL differences between generations, pffer strategies for exploiting this new market opportunity and show you how successful organizations have adapted their leadership and management styles to this new employee group.