Biography

Best-selling Author and Business Strategist.

Rowan Gibson is a popular speaker with an upbeat presentation style. His big-picture insights, compelling observations and fresh business thinking have impressed a wide range of audiences across Europe, the USA and Asia. Gibson mixes insight, inspiration and information in a way that always leaves an audience feeling energized.

Rowan Gibson is co-founder and chairman of Rethinking Group, a company focused on helping organizations to rethink strategy, innovation, branding and culture. Over the years his international clients have included ABN AMRO Bank, Avery Dennison, Apple Computer, Adaptec, Bose, CAP Gemini Ernst & Young, Deloitte Consulting, EURO RSCG, ESA (European Space Agency), General Electric, Heineken, Mercuri International, Mövenpick, Origin, Philips, Procter & Gamble, Rexam, Rubbermaid, Sara Lee, Steelcase and Symantec.

Rowan Gibson was born and educated in London, where he began his career as an advertising executive in the early eighties.

He spent almost two decades in the advertising, brand strategy and marketing business, including several years as an international creative director with Euro RSCG, one of the world’s largest advertising agency networks.

In addition to his responsibilities at Rethinking Group, he is also European head of the US-based Center for Global Leadership Inc., located in California, and is on the Advisory Board of the International Strategic Management Association in Singapore.

Rowan Gibson is a global business strategist, a bestselling author and an expert on radical rethinking. His powerful ‘rethinking’ message has moved organizations and individuals around the world to make important, far-reaching changes and to take charge of their own futures. Gibson’s focus is on rethinking business in the new innovation economy.