Dr Bart Sayle

Dr. Bart Sayle is the CEO and Founder of Breakthrough Global - expert practitioners in enterprise-wide innovation, leadership, and business growth. As a Director of Innovation with Unilever, he developed a powerful approach to accelerate innovation and business growth. This evolved into the Breakthrough Process®; now used by companies and institutions around the world to design and deliver powerful and sustainable futures. Over a hundred thousand business professionals have now experienced Breakthrough in more than sixty countries.

Dr. Bart Sayle is a global authority in business culture, leadership, and innovation. A trusted advisor on vision and strategy; he has spent over twenty-five years working with the world’s top business leaders to build high-performance organizations and winning cultures that deliver breakthrough results on a global scale. He has achieved notable success in companies such as Danone, Mars, Ferrero, Wrigley, T-Mobile, Nike, Pepsico, and Procter & Gamble. His approach combines insights from his background as a scientist, business leader, and entrepreneur, focusing on topics such as "The Breakthrough Mindset" and "Culture is Your Greatest Competitive Advantage."

Bart started his career as a scientist conducting research into the biochemistry of chemotherapeutic agents. From there he went on to work on the psychophysiology of human perception. Moving into education, he studied creativity with young children and how this changes as they grow up. Bart has postgraduate degrees from the University of Manchester, University of California at Berkeley, and Harvard Business School.

Bart has coached and regularly coaches C-Level Leaders, from organizations such as Danone, Mars, Unilever, and P&G. He works with leaders to develop their strategy, regularly delivering Executive Programs which run for up to 3 days for 10-120 people.

Bart is a founding board member of the Washington DC Think-Tank, The Ocean Health Council, advising on vision and strategy for the global initiative on the Oceans supported by The World Bank and The World Economic Forum. This is a collaborative approach between Business, Science, and 15 Governments including China and the USA to lead the way forward and create healthy oceans for a more sustainable future.

Bart is a sought-after adviser, speaker, and author. He is known for his energizing and inspiring talks around the world in which he shares his insights on culture, growth, leadership, and innovation. He discusses energy management in his keynote "The Power of the Full On State" and shares insights from his work with major companies like Wrigley and Mars in "Magical Thinking and Heroic Action: How Breakthrough Creates Billionaires."

Bart is author of the best-selling business book, "Riding The Blue Train: A Leadership Plan for Explosive Growth." With his background as a scientist, business leader, and entrepreneur, Bart Sayle has made a lifelong study of human creativity, human performance, and human systems. Driven by a vision that the world of business can be much more effective, more creative, and more purposeful for everyone.