The Deans
Joe Pine and Jim Gilmore are founders of Strategic Horizons LLP and authors of the best-selling book The Experience Economy: Work Is Theatre & Every Business a Stage. In their roles as authors, speakers, and business advisors, Pine & Gilmore challenge their audiences to see the world differently. Once a year, Pine & Gilmore take on an additional role – that of provocative hosts of their own two-day experience called thinkAbout.
The Guest Faculty
Martha Rogers, Ph.D., is co-founder of the Peppers & Rogers Group and co-author of five international best-selling books on 1:1 marketing and Customer Relationship Management. Her first book, The One to One Future, was named by Inc. magazine’s editor, George Gendron, as “one of the two or three most important business books of all time”.
Tim Sanders is Chief Solutions Officer of Yahoo! and author of the book Love Is the Killer App, published this year. This Lovecat’s refreshing take on business has won him ringing endorsements from a variety of personalities including Stephen Covey, Tom Peters, Seth Godin, Phil McGraw, and Faith Popcorn.
Pat Esgate is Executive Editor of Entertainment Management – the only magazine published exclusively for developers, owners, and operators of location-based entertainment centers. Her new, co-authored book, The Entertainment Revolution: Bringing the Moguls, the Media, and the Magic to the World, is an insider’s look at the new rules of entertainment marketing.
Gary Muszynski played a key role in the success of the 2000 thinkAbout in Chicago. As founder of One World Music – a leading-edge experiential learning company – his percussion-based creations, along with those his audiences co-create, transcend mere music to inspire, to invigorate, and to educate.
Dr. Sally Harrison-Pepper, professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Miami University of Ohio, is author of Drawing a Circle in the Square, which documents the fascinating culture of a colorful and eclectic set of street performers that inhabited Washington Square in Manhattan. Sally helped us hit the streets at the 1999 thinkAbout.
The Experience Stager of the Year (EXPY) Award Winners
1999: Amy Nedoss, American Girl Place, heads up all of marketing at the most compelling retail experience in the world, bar none.
2000: Robert Stephens, The Geek Squad, is the founder & Chief Inspector of this exceptionally engaging B2B stager of computer support experiences.
2001: Chip Conley, JDV Hospitality, is the founder & CEO of the company that individually themes its multiple hotels and other venues in an utterly unique and successful way – including the location of thinkAbout U, the Hotel Avante.