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Dr Bart Sayle    

CEO & Founder of Breakthrough Global; Expert In Business Culture, Leadership & Innovation

Dr. Bart Sayle is the CEO and Founder of Breakthrough Global - expert practitioners in enterprise-wide innovation, leadership and business growth. As a Director of Innovation with Unilever, Bart developed a powerful approach to accelerate innovation and business growth. This evolved into the Breakthrough Process®; now used by companies and institutions around the world to design and deliver powerful and sustainable futures. Over a hundred thousand business professionals have now experienced Breakthrough in more than sixty countries.

Dr. Bart Sayle is a global authority in business culture, leadership and innovation. A trusted advisor on vision and strategy; Bart has spent over twenty-five years working with the world’s top business leaders to build high-performance organisations and winning cultures that deliver breakthrough results on a global scale. Bart has achieved notable success in companies such as Danone, Mars, Ferrero, Wrigley, T-Mobile, Nike, Pepsico and Procter & Gamble.

Bart started his career as a scientist conducting research into the biochemistry of chemotherapeutic agents. From there he went on to work on the psychophysiology of human perception. Moving into education he studied creativity with young children and how this changes as they grow up. Bart has postgraduate degrees from the University of Manchester, University of California at Berkeley and Harvard Business School.

Bart has coached and regularly coaches C-Level Leaders, from organizations such as Danone, Mars, Unilever and P&G. He works with leaders to develop their strategy, regularly delivering Executive Programs which run for up to 3 days for 10-120 people.

Bart is a founding board member of the Washington DC Think-Tank, The Ocean Health Council, advising on vision and strategy for the global initiative on the Oceans supported by The World Bank and The World Economic Forum. This is a collaborative approach between Business, Science and 15 Governments including China and the USA to lead the way forward and create healthy oceans for a more sustainable future.

Bart is a sought-after adviser, speaker and author. He is known for his energizing and inspiring talks around the world in which he shares his insights on culture, growth, leadership and innovation.

Bart is author of the best-selling business book, "Riding The Blue Train: A Leadership Plan for Explosive Growth." With his background as scientist, business leader and entrepreneur, Bart Sayle has made a lifelong study of human creativity, human performance, and human systems. Driven by a vision that the world of business can be much more effective, more creative and more purposeful for everyone.

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Response Ability: Business and Bears
The Law of Requisite Variety is the Variety of Response and the Ability to Respond for a species in a changing natural environment. This Law can be taken from nature and applied to the business world. Through a comparison of bears in their ever-changing environment, this article will demonstrate the importance of business agility and transformation, and show how leaders can turn industrial shifts into positive opportunities.
More Innovative about Innovation – Interview with Bart Sayle
Ecochem, the first Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering Platform interview's Bart on how to transform the industry.

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