Ansgar Thiessen is Global Head of Operational Excellence and a member of the Operations Management Committee at Swiss Re Corporate Solutions where he was founding member of the Strategy Activation Group. Prior to that, he spent many years in leadership positions in change and management consultancies. For over a decade, he has been a thought leader in how organizations can make their strategies and transformations broadly accepted and most impactful. Today, Thiessen is a regular lecturer and author on the subject at international business schools such as CBS Copenhagen and IMD Lausanne.

Robert Wreschniok is the CEO of TATIN Institute for Strategy Activation (Munich, Basel, Hong Kong, Zurich). For more than 20 years he has advised organizations on activating strategies and accelerating transformations. He is Chairman of Cluster for Innovation and Digital Transformation (CIDT) and member of the Design Strategy Board. As co-founder of the Future of Leadership Initiative, he has created one of today's leading networks on cross-industry, cross-generation dialogue about digital transformations. Wreschniok is also a lecturer and author of numerous publications on the subject.