The Leadership in Conversation series is a platform designed to engage readers to a conversation with exemplary minds in leadership and management across disciplines. As the world experiences sweeping socio-economic, technological, and affective change, thoughtful leaders and discerning visionaries will provide the necessary strategies to meet new challenges. A primary aim of the conversations is to enthuse and motivate the wider reading public. Learning about the life-path of these leaders will inspire readers to engage more fully and successfully in their own professions and life-goals.

As the leading subject of this volume unravels his story, the biography of his ideas, and the trajectory of his life-path and profession as a financial executive, a collector, and a total leader, readers will see how personal goals act within the wider frame of international business leadership. An annotated time-line section within the book puts this personal story in a broader economic setting.