At SWF:

• · Friday, October 30th, 9:30 - 10:45AM, Sustained Peak Performance and the Human Spirit

Biography:

Kevin Roberts is CEO Worldwide of Saatchi & Saatchi, one of the world's leading marketing and creative communications companies, with 162 offices in 92 countries and annual billings of more than US$7 billion. Saatchi & Saatchi's mission is to be revered as a hothouse for world-changing creative ideas that transform its clients' businesses, brand and reputations. Among its blue-chip multinational clients are Procter & Gamble, Toyota, Hewlett-Packard, DuPont, Eastman Kodak, General Mills, Johnson & Johnson, and Delta Air Lines.

During his thirty year international business career Kevin Roberts has been responsible for marketing on every continent with some of the world's leading consumer. He has a passionate management style and a record of provocative and imaginative thinking. He regards one of his primary roles as nurturing the creativity of the people who make up Saatchi & Saatchi, and who constitute the organisation's primary strength and the key to its future success.

Roberts is a Senior Fellow at the University of Waikato Management School in New Zealand where he is an influential contributor to the graduate programme and a part of a team developing the revolutionary Peak Performing Organizations model. The model is a blueprint for continuous peak performance within organisations which minimises the need for formal, hierarchical management structures.

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University of Waikato
Kevin Roberts
Saatchi & Saatchi