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 success is driven by his ability to identify areas of untapped potential within organizations, develop the unique thought processes needed to profit from them, and then catalyze the key individuals to take the risks required to make it a reality. Clients consistently remark on the depth of his insight, the global nature of his business perspective and the comprehensive research he does into their industry, their organization, its model and the current threats and opportunities they face.

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 the founder and CEO of ChangeLabs™, which partners with leading brands to create innovative change programs that transform communities, build brand equity and create sustainable competitive advantage.

Through partnerships with leading companies such as Apple and IBM, ChangeLabs™ has created and executed on some of the largest change initiatives on earth. These include; the multi-award winning StartSmart program which has taught invaluable financial literacy skills to over a million young people since its inception; the groundbreaking BeyondChalk program which has transformed the way more than 50,000 teachers use technology in the classroom, helping to create thousands of 21st century learning environments; and The Productivity Project which has unleashed the power of collaborative technology to create new market value in hundreds of the world leading companies.

All ChangeLabs™ projects benefit both the brands that support them and the communities which those brands serve. In short, ChangeLabs™ changes the world in partnership with visionary brands, in a way that drives better business results.

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 2,000 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: Creative Strategies for Turning Challenge into Opportunity and Change into Competitive Advantage - Are you looking to give your leaders a more cutting-edge perspective on the world? Are you looking to exploit the opportunity that change brings?
  
  
  • Embrace change and break free from thinking that made you successful in the past, but could undermine your success in the future
  • Re-think competitive advantage; leverage intangibles to manufacture tangible points of difference in the market
  • Improve your margins by driving non-sexy innovation, and finding new and better ways to do what you do
  • Turn chaos into opportunity by leading the market in response to new regulation, customer expectations and technology
  • Be inspired to take the intelligent risks required to innovate and drive change
  
  
• Making Money in the Cracks: Counter- Intuitive Strategies for Finding and Exploiting New Market Opportunities - Are you looking to unleash innovation in your company? Do you want to know how to find the opportunity in the "white space"?
  
  
  • Inspire leaders to take the risks necessary to make money in the white space
  • Find creative solutions to business problems by facilitating interdisciplinary thought
  • Build structures that not only generate, but shine light on the best ideas in your business
  • Tap into the world's best and brightest minds - risk free - for the betterment of your organization
  • Break the cultural norms that squash the innovative new ideas you need to thrive
  
  
• Moving the Market: Accelerate Your Impact By Influencing How and Why Buyers Make Decisions - Is your sales process sophisticated enough for today's buyer? Are you capitalizing on the science behind the way people think, act and buy?
  
  
  • Position your offer in line with the four basic drives underpinning all human behavior
  • Learn how the world's most profitable companies avoid competing on price, and how you can too
  • Activate the most powerful buying triggers consistently ignored by current sales and marketing techniques
  • Leverage the power of social identity theory to differentiate you and your offer
  • Market your value in all 3 currencies in which exchanges are made
  
  
• Talent [R]evolution: Future-Focused Strategies for Leveraging Human Capital - Are your leaders getting the most from their people? Are you solving problems with the best brains in your business?
  
  
  • Understand the changing expectations of talent and transform your organization into a magnet for smart and engaged people
  • Explore the changing nature of leadership and employ new models for developing capability in your organization
  • Get inspired by case-studies of what real companies are doing to leverage their human capital
  • Drive collaboration inside and outside your 4 walls and harness the discretionary efforts of people on and off your payroll
  • Get in front of changing demographics and generational trends, separate myth from reality, and learn what real companies are doing to win the war for talent