16 Apr April 16, 2026 – Lateral Thinking Paul Sloane and AD “The Kingmaker” Dunbar
Paul Sloane – Speaker on Lateral Thinking and Innovation and Author of
If real people don’t have a pain which you’re solving,
“then chances are your business not going to work.
Paul Sloane
Paul Sloane writes and speaks on lateral thinking and the leadership of innovation. He gained a master’s degree in Engineering at Cambridge University. He joined IBM where he came top of Sales School. He was Marketing Director and then Managing Director of the database leaders, Ashton-Tate. He was appointed VP International for MathSoft and became CEO of software start up, Monactive. He is the author of 25 books which have sold over two 2 million copies in all. Titles include The Art of Unexpected Solutions, The Leader’s Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills, and Lateral Thinking for Every Day. He speaks at conferences and facilitates workshops for corporate clients. He has over 25,000 students for his online courses on Udemy. He is a visiting lecturer at Cambridge University, Lancaster Business School, Henley Business School and the Mumbai Institute of Technology. He is a recognized thought leader on innovation topics and has 38,000 followers on X. He lives near Windsor in England and is married with three daughters. Corporate clients include: Airbus, AKQA, Bayer, Bertelsmann, Liverpool University Business School, Microsoft, Reckitt Benckiser, Glaxo Smith Kline, Nike, Novartis, SABIC, Swarovski and Unilever.
AD “The Kingmaker” Dunbar – CEO of Dunbar Consulting
Your number one job as a man in a relationship with a woman
is not to provide, is not to protect… it is to keep her attraction to you high.
AD Dunbar
AD “The Kingmaker” Dunbar is a Relationship Performance Strategist who helps high-achieving married men become desired leaders again by restoring masculine leadership, polarity, and presence inside their marriages without therapy, emotional negotiations, or choreplay. He works with CEOs, founders, and executives earning $200K–$2M+ who dominate professionally but feel their authority and attraction quietly eroding at home. AD reframes marriage as a leadership arena, not a compromise, and teaches men how to lead with certainty, calm authority, and internal gravity.