Conor Neill
professor
Managerial Decision Sciences
IESE Business School Universidad de Navarra
Spain
Biography
Conor Neill is President of MLK Events. Conor is a serial entrepreneur, writer and keynote speaker. He has founded 4 companies, raising capital, hiring teams and reaching over 10M euros in sales. He spent 6 years creating a revolution in private jet travel with his company Taxijet. He has invested in 2 start-ups. He is Past-European Area Director for Entrepreneurs' Organization the world's leading community of entrepreneurs. He is the proud father of a wonderful daughter, Alexandra. Conor runs the IESE Leaderships Communications courses for MBA and Executive MBAs and many senior director programs. He has worked with organizations such as Accenture, Applus, Barcelona Activa, The UK Labour Party, Microsoft, Novartis, IBM, ISDIN, Partido Popular, and Puig delivering seminars on Leadership through Communication. Conor has a degree in Psychology and Artificial Intelligence and an MBA from IESE Business School. His hobbies include kicking footballs (the round ones), running long distances, tennis, mountain biking up steep forest slopes, travel to historic places and breaking out of his personal comfort zone at least once a month.
Research Interest
Managerial Decision Sciences
Publications
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Neill, Conor; Mueck, Florian; Leggett, Brian O'Connor, "Effective Evaluation of Spoken Communication: A checklist for evaluating speaker performance", IESE, DPON-92-E, 06/2010
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Neill, Conor; Ferraro, Fabrizio, "Creating and Nurturing your Social Network: The Art of Building Long-term Mutually Beneficial Relationships", IESE, SMN-676-E, 05/2011
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Neill, Conor, "Developing the Logos-Based Persuasive Speech", IESE, DPON-110-E, 03/2014