Robin Speculand lives and breathes strategy and digital implementation. He supports C-suite and boards in transforming their organizations and is well known for his innovative approaches and passionate delivery.

Robin is among the world’s most prolific writers on the subject, having published nine books including World’s Best Bank: A Strategic Guide to Digital Transformation (sold over 25,000 copies in seven languages) and his latest, Implement: Doing It Right in a Digital World.

In 2000, after recognizing the imbalance between strategy and its implementation,he started Bridges Business Consultancy Int to support leaders in delivering world-class implementation. He later co-founded and co-runs the Strategy Implementation Institute and Digital Leadership Specialists.

Robin has pioneered a number of breakthrough methodologies and techniques that feature the Implementation Compass™, a proprietary framework built on the eight areas for excellence for execution; the Implementation Canvas© for identifying an organization’s right actions; the Ticking Clock© Model, a framework for creating a digitally driven organization; the Digital Maturity Index, a self-assessment;and the Digital Best Practices Benchmark.

In 2014, while working with two early adopters of digital transformation—the world’s best bank and the world’s largest luxury company—Robin recognized that digital transformations presented tougher challenges than previous strategy implementations. To understand what organizations face, he conducted research with over 4,000 leaders across four continents in 2019 and again in 2024. This resulted in publishing two highly acclaimed business white papers, “Transforming Your Company into a Digital-Driven Business” and “The Digital Leadership 2024 Perspective.”

Robin’s innovations have been featured in such media as BBC World, CNBC, and Forbes.A TEDx speaker, adjunct faculty at Singapore Management University, and educator for Duke CE, IMD, and the National University of Singapore, he is also a Harvard-listed and award-winning case study writer.

In 2021, Robin was co-nominated with Piyush Gupta, CEO of DBS Bank, for the Thinkers 50 Ideas into Practice Award. In both 2021 and 2022, he was awarded the Business Strategist Singapore title. Constantly included in the Top 10 list of Global Management Gurus, he addressed the prestigious Global Peter Drucker Forumin 2023 and 2024 and is recognized in the Singapore speakers Hall of Fame.

The First Minister of Scotland has named this Scotsman a Global Scot for his passionate contribution to international business. Outside of work, Robin competes in Ironman events.

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