Professor
Nick Bontis is not only a pioneer in the field of intellectual
capital, but one of its real experts as well.
Thomas A. Stewart
Board of Editors (Author: Intellectual Capital)
FORTUNE
New York, USA
ThosStew@aol.com
Professor Bontis has justifiably developed a solid reputation both as a
rigorous thinker and researcher in the area of intellectual capital as well
as an insightful and engaging presenter of new perspectives on the
organization. He continues to make a very important contribution to this
emerging domain.
Hubert Saint-Onge
Senior Vice-President, Strategic Capabilities
Clarica
Waterloo, Canada
Hubert.Saint-Onge@clarica.com
Prof.
Nick Bontis is a leading expert in the field of Intellectual
Capital specifically as relates to the leveraging of Human Capital
through Structural Capital and into value. Nick produced the first Ph.D.
thesis on Intellectual Capital in the logical positivistic School. Dr. Bontis
is continuing to make important contributions to the IC field using
communication channels appropriate for the speed at which the field
develops.
Industrial Prof. Göran Roos
Chairman of Intellectual Capital Services (ICS) Limited
London, UK
goran.roos@intcap.com
Dr. Bontis created a significant impact with our audience, many of whom were
leading exponents in the field of KM. His engaging and highly interactive
delivery kept everyone enthralled; more importantly, he delivered some
challenging and valuable insights into this complex field, based upon his
extensive research background and practical experiences. Thanks to Nick's
presentation, we closed our conference with style and credibility among our
customers.
Carrie Hamer
Marketing Manager, EMEA
Dataware Technologies
Cambridge, USA
chamer@dataware.com
Dr. Bontis is a unique individual who mixes together
three key ingredients.
First, his academic credentials are terrific and his thought leadership is
recognized and appreciated globally.
Second, his entrepreneurial spirit drives
him to present a practical business orientation in every issue he
discusses.
Third, his energetic and warm personality acts like a magnet for all those
who meet him. Most importantly, whenever I put
together a world-class
conference I know that I can count on him to consistently deliver a high-
performance keynote that leaves the audience buzzing.
Jane Dysart
Program Director: KM World,
Internet World, InfoToday
Dysart & Jones Associates
Toronto, Canada
jane@dysartjones.com
Professor Bontis continues to be one of our highest evaluated speakers at
the Enterprise Intelligence World Summit.
His presentation provides food for
thought and plans for action as well.
He is insightful, provocative and
inspiring!
Bill Doherty
President
International Conference Development
Marlborough, USA
bdoherty@icdevents.com
The transition from the industrial paradigm to one focused on knowledge is
more than a "mind-shift" it creates a need for a new kind of person,
one who
takes others with him by engaging their worldview. Nick does this when he
talks Knowledge Strategy, opening this new world to his audience by making
it human and accessible. In a field in danger sometimes of being overrun by
recycled informationalists re-bottling the same offering in new ways, true
apostles of the new age are rare, Karl-Erik Sveiby is one of them, Nick
Bontis another.
James van der Westhuizen
Principal
KnowHouse
Johannesburg, South Africa
james@knowhouse.co.za
When it comes to knowledge-sharing in the area of intellectual capital, I
have heard no one with as much expertise and enthusiasm. Dr. Bontis is a
public speaker with extraordinary talent.
Mady Gorrell
Director, Corporate Communications
HireSystems, Inc.
San Francisco, USA
MGorrell@hiresystems.com
Changing everyone's paradigm is tough job. Nick Bontis considers this to be
his "day-to-day pursuit". He stands out as a pioneer in stimulating
companies to embrace the vital role of intellectual capital through his
strong presence and interactive presentations to create 21st Century
Companies.
Frank Lekanne Deprez
Knowledge Manager - Co-author of "The Knowledge Dividend"
KPMG Knowledge Management
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
LekanneDeprez.Frank@kpmg.nl
Professor Nick Bontis was one of the first academic researchers to see the
value in documenting the evolution of the knowledge movement. His techniques
are thorough, his insights compelling and his broad initiative to innovate
within the community laudable.
Debra M. Amidon
Founder and Chief Strategist
ENTOVATION International Ltd.
Wilmington, USA
debra@entovation.com
Dr. Bontis has special skills that are obvious to those of us who have heard
him. He spans the boundaries between academics and managers, summarizing
and illustrating how theories may be transformed into decisions and deeds.
Nick brings a dynamic, crowd pleasing sense of knowing and humour to his
presentations.
Gary Anderson
Regional Manager, Information Ontario
Human Resources Development - Government of Canada
Ottawa, Canada
gary.anderson@hrdc-drhc.gc.ca
I have known and worked with Professor Bontis since 1996. During that time
I have engaged him on several occasions as a speaker and consultant. I have
found him to be consistently entertaining and extremely well-founded in the
topics he offers. His style is engaging and his knowledge of the first
order.
Dr. Jac Fitz-enz
Founder & Chairman
Saratoga Institute
Santa Clara, USA
JacFitz-enz@saratoga-institute.com
Professor Bontis combines interesting content, wit, and a smooth speaking
style in a way that makes one want to invite him back often. Nick has
spoken at several events I have hosted and he has always been voted one of
the "best" speakers on the agenda.
Dr. Patrick Sullivan
President
ICM Intellectual Capital Management Group
Palo Alto, USA
psullivan@icmgroup.com
Dr. Bontis did an outstanding job at our recent Global KM Seminar.
Out of a total score of 5.0, participants rated him 4.86 for the overall
topic, 4.66 for whether the information was useful in future
job responsibilities and 4.94 for whether he was effective.
Comments from participants included: he was the highlight of the
conference; his stories and metaphors were useful and fun; his was
one of the most compelling presentations I have seen; he was the best
speaker I have seen in years, he taught me how to sell KM to clients
and his high energy level and enthusiasm offered many new perspectives.
Christian Winslow
Marketing Manager, Collaboration & Knowledge Management
Andersen Consulting
St. Charles, USA
christian.h.winslow@ac.com
Nick Bontis brings alive the topic of KM in such a way that everyone
understands this new and complex field. His energetic approach, his
sound research base, his practical application of the knowledge is an
absolute delight for his participants. My colleagues in Jamaica are
still talking about his presentation at the conference and the radio
interview afterwards. We are truly grateful for his input.
Nsombi Jaja
Principal
Quality Management Consulting
Jamaica, West Indies
qmccoltd@infochan.com
Dr. Nick Bontis is a fine presenter with a rare and deep knowledge of
knowledge management, intellectual capital and organizational learning,
created through a refined combination of practical business experience and
serious scholarship.
Bryan Davis
Vice President - Knowledge Management Strategies & Research
The Delphi Group Canada
Toronto, Canada
bdavis@skmi.com
I jumped at the opportunity to have Dr. Bontis keynote one of my larger
training conferences. His topic (Knowledge Management & Intellectual
Capital) was very timely. His style was interactive and exciting. His
passion was undeniable! There is no doubt that Nick and I will do a lot
more work together in the future.
J. Curtis Skene
Training & Certification Program Manager
Microsoft Canada Co.
Mississauga, Canada
cursha@home.com
Dr. Bontis has an outstanding ability to communicate complex concepts in a
simple concise manner. This coupled with his enthusiasm and in-depth
knowledge enabled him to leave a lasting impression with us.
Neel Chauhan
Analyst
Arthur Andersen Business Consulting
London, United Kingdom
neel.chauhan@uk.arthurandersen.com
Grounded in theory and loaded with practical examples, Nick Bontis'
presentations illuminate content while challenging and enervating audiences.
A presenter with flair and panache, Nick provides a learning experience not
to be missed.
Debra Wallace, Ph.D.
Assistant to the Dean - Knowledge Management Initiatives
Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
wallace@fis.utoronto.ca
Dr. Bontis is an engaging and compelling. He clearly has his finger on the
pulse of key management trends in the new economy. His work on intellectual
capital management is influential and important, and I expect his influence
to grow considerably over time.
Britton Manasco
Editor & Publisher, Knowledge Inc.
Senior Partner, The Knowledge Capital Group
Austin, USA
Manascob@aol.com
Energetic, enthusiastic and a great entertainer - a man who really knows
what he is talking about.
Ken Standfield
Director KM Research
KNOWCORP Inc.
Melbourne, Australia
ks@knowcorp.com
Professor Bontis is an exceptional presenter. He provides credible,
research-based
content in a manner than is practical and useful. Nick is enthusiastic and
engaging
as he offers up several new and important ideas on the management of
Human Capital.
Michael H. Mitchell
Founder & Principal
Greenlight Management
New York, USA
mmitchell@greenlightmanagement.com
Nick Bontis has the remarkable ability to define, demonstrate and then scope
out
the issues related to intellectual capital and knowledge management in a
language that is accessible to a wide range of audiences. I have seen Dr.
Bontis
engage senior management and speak to large groups of employees from the
federal public sector and in both cases he was successful in addressing their
questions
and concerns about this newly emerging field. He is dynamic, pedagogical,
extremely
knowledgeable and easy to comprehend.
Michelle Boulet
Knowledge Management Advisor
Health Canada – Government of Canada
Ottawa, Canada
Michelle_Boulet@hc-sc.gc.ca
Professor Bontis is the kind of speaker people come to conferences hoping
to hear: a speaker who combines the skill to communicate clearly and
effectively, with the talent to inspire, provoke, and move his audience.
Dr. Bontis is that rare coming together of energy and erudition.
Dr. Chun Wei Choo
Associate Professor
Faculty of Information Studies – University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
choo@fis.utoronto.ca
Dr. Nick Bontis is not only an expert in the field of organizational learning,
knowledge management and intellectual capital management, but also an
extremely interesting speaker. He surely knows how to catch and keep the
attention of the audience.
Dr. Ante Pulic
Professor
Austrian IC Research Center
Vienna, Austria
ante.pulic@kfunigraz.ac.at
Nick is an energetic and learned speaker, who bridges the world of the
academy and business. Both professor and consultant, he is a knowledgeable
and engaging thinker. Dr. Bontis ranges comfortably between the theory and
practice of knowledge management and organizational learning--and makes an
engaging addition to any professional program.
Brook Manville
Chief Learning Officer
Saba
San Francisco, USA
bmanville@saba.com
It was a "knock your socks off performance" that was wonderful.
Professor Bontis’ presentation was insightful, challenging to my basic
assumptions, extremely dynamic, tremendously well-focussed to the audience,
very practical and evangelistic to the KM movement. He delivers true wisdom.
I felt motivated to carry the message to almost anyone who would listen.
Further, Nick made me want to learn more. It was a real treat. I would be
more than honoured if Dr. Bontis would speak for us again.
Pat Selden, LL.B., Esq.
Executive Producer
The Strategy Institute
Toronto, Canada
selden@strategyinstitute.com
Dr. Bontis has energy, passion and a well-honed intellect. He is a pioneer
in the field of knowledge management and just the kind of individual needed
to make business sit up and listen.
Graham Westwood
President Domain Knowledge Inc.
Toronto, Canada
westwood@domainknowledge.com
Dr. Bontis is an enthusiastic and engaging speaker on Knowledge Management.
He articulates leading edge thinking on both the theoretic and practical front
–
advancing both the "science" of KM and its understanding by the
layman.
He communicates using analogies and real-life examples that make the subject
of intangible assets both concrete and compelling.
Dave Pollard
Global Director for Knowledge Innovation
Ernst & Young
Toronto, Canada
Dave.L.Pollard@ca.eyi.com
Dr. Bontis’ presentation was outstanding! As a conference producer we ask our
delegates to rate all of our speakers. The overall average out of 10 was 7.23
which is quite high. Nick’s score was 9.58 which is truly remarkable.
Laszlo von Altmann
President
Infonex
Toronto, Canada
register@infonex.ca
The field of knowledge management is both vast and complex. Dr. Bontis has
a unique combination of academic expertise and dynamic presentation style
which makes this important new area very accessible to the corporate world.
Frances Horibe
President
Vision Arts Inc.
Ottawa, Canada
fhoribe@magma.ca
Dr. Bontis’ enthusiasm and eloquence filled me with electricity –
I could feel the learning happening at a cellular level in my body.
Dan Randow
Director
GroupSense
Christchurch, New Zealand
dan@groupsense.co.nz
I thought Dr. Bontis’ presentation was energising and his content
thought provoking and leading edge in the area of knowledge management.
Terry Neill
Managing Partner, Knowledge Management
Andersen Consulting
London, UK
terry.neill@ac.com
Thank you Dr. Bontis for your effort in keeping up the energy level
when you must’ve been bushed after a week of plane hopping.
Everyone I spoke to enjoyed your knowledge management presentation
and found it useful – especially within the context of government.
Adrian Sparrow
Management Assurance Advisor
The Treasury
Wellington, New Zealand
adrian.sparrow@treasury.govt.nz
I am pleased to support the credentials and the credibility of Dr. Nick
Bontis as an expert in the KM field. He is an enthusiast who can inspire
people to be more involved in Knowledge Management in the global
economy through his very professional presentations. He takes pains
to customise his material for a particular audience and theme. He mixes
very well and is a good ambassador for his profession and his country.
Lyall Lukey
Co-ordinator
SmartNet Workshops
Christchurch, New Zealand
lyall@lukey.co.nz
Professor Bontis’ presentation style was very inspirational and fuelled
even more my desire to pursue a life long career in KM and related
disciplines of Organizational Learning and The Total Life Plan.
David Lett
Principal
SYSDOC
London, UK
lettdav@yahoo.com
A little 'Nick' ... goes a long way! Nick is a fantastic, exceptional,
funny, dynamic, open, honest, internationally-recognized, and authorative
presenter on this topic! I enjoyed his entire presentation. He was both
effective and entertaining. I was amazed at his awareness of the
explosion and development of knowledge-based implications
in the long-term health care sector. Dr. Bontis' presentation affirmed the
practices we have already being doing and established some wonderful
new ideas that can be directly applied to our situation.
Diane Harris
Performance and Training Consultant
Long-term Health Care Innovation and Leadership Institute
Tillsonburg, Canada
aharris@kwic.com
There are a few rules you should know about having Dr. Bontis
speak to your management team about the future of the workplace
environment in the information age. First, do NOT follow him as another
speaker. Second, do NOT skip him as a seminar participant. Third, do
NOT design a program without him as a conference producer. He is,
defacto, the reason why any one should attend an event he speaks at!
Anton van Elst
Management Training Officer
ING Bank
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
avelst@ing.nl
Dr. Nick Bontis brought a rare combination of insight and entertainment to
the subject of intellectual capital planning our Spring 2000 Government CIO
Summit.. He achieved one of the highest session scores ever, 4.9 out of
5,
from our knowledgeable and demanding audience of government Chief
Information Officers.
Steve LeCompte
Vice President
FCW Government Technology Group Inc.
Falls Church, Virginia, USA
"steve_lecompte"@fcw.com
Nick's speaking style is engaging, his material is rock solid, and his
enthusiam is positively contagious!
Verna Allee
President
Integral Performance Group
Walnut Creek, California, USA
vernaallee@home.com
Dr. Bontis has the rare combination of an outstanding and engaging
presentation style together with the academic brains to back it up.
He is inspiring, motivating, and quite frankly, a brilliant role model in
the knowledge world. Intellectual capital is his domain!
Rob Crawford
Partner
KPMG Consulting
Vancouver, BC, Canada
rcrawford@kpmg.ca
Dr. Bontis’
presentation at the V° International Human Resource
Conference held in Buenos Aires, Argentina on April 27-28, 2000 was a
great success. It was full of
interesting concepts in the Knowledge
Management arena and was greatly enjoyed by all the participants
not only from the content point of view but also for the way it was
delivered. He is an outstanding speaker who contributed enormously
to our event.
Alejandra Saggese
American Management Association
Director of Learning Solutions, Latin America
Buenos Aires, Argentina
ASaggese@amaint.com.ar
I want everyone to know what a fabulous presentation Dr. Bontis
gave. I was totally captivated by
his research of causation in HR
Measurements. I don’t have a
statistical background other than
what I have absorbed while working at SAS, but his delivery, ability
to relate and communicate to the audience was crafty and clever.
Margo Stutesman
Business Alliance Manager
SAS
Cary, North Carolina, USA
Margo.Stutesman@sas.com
I just wanted to say thanks for sharing Nick’s knowledge and expertise with
members of the Federal Government. He has ignited the sparks and they will
be hard to extinguish. I have to admit that this is the first initiative, in a
very long time, that has lent itself to immediate credibility. There have
been many flag wavers of various principals and theories that have come and
gone over the years – none sustainable and none that have struck me in a way
that I wanted to have any personal investment in them. This is not the case
with Knowledge Management theory and practice. My attendance at Dr.
Bontis’ one day introduction was as a result of the very high recommendation
from a colleague. Nick’s session
has created the same sense of enthusiasm
and wanting to share inside of me.
Both of us made a presentation to the rest
of our Division this week and we believe we have enough of an impression to
create a desire for our peers to attend your session(s). This includes our
Director who is in a position to incorporate KM theories and principals into
his initiatives. He champions and leads a variety of HR working groups and
has contact with all levels across the government and in the “real world” too.
My colleague and I have both said that your workshop was a topic of
conversation at each and every meeting that we have attended this week.
My background in marketing taught me that you can’t buy this kind of
advertising at any price. Just wanted Dr. Bontis to know that I personally
very much enjoyed his dynamic and refreshing presentation and that his
efforts and dedication are already showing rewards. This is a testament to
him and his dedication.
Craig Peabody
Manager
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
Ottawa, Canada
Peabody.Craig@tbs-sct.gc.ca
Dr. Nick Bontis has a gift for making the complex subject of human capital
valuation not only understandable but entertaining as well. His presentation
at our annual conference received the highest rating among a field of
impressive, knowledgeable speakers.
Gayle Selby
President
Saratoga Institute
Santa Clara, USA
GayleSelby@saratoga-institute.com