BERND SCHMITT Robert D. Calkins Professor International Business at Columbia University, USA, the Director of the Center on Global Brand Leadership, and CEO of the EX Group. He is a frequent keynote speaker at conferences worldwide, and has appeared on BBC, CNN, and on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Schmitt has written for The New York Times, the Asian Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times, and is also the author of a handful of books, including Big Think Strategy, Customer Experience Management, and Experiential Marketing, which have been translated into more thantwenty languages.