Marc de Swaan Arons CEO, Institute of Real Growth (IRG)
Marc de Swaan Arons is a global (marketing) leadership thought-leader, coach, inspirator, author, teacher, consultant, and entrepreneur. With over 30 years of innovation and growth leadership experience, Marc enjoys simplifying complexity and inspiring positive change to generate business results. Marc is a SAID Business Associate Fellow at Oxford University and co-leads the Institute for Real Growth (IRG) – a prestigious executive leadership program to help business leaders drive more humanized growth within today’s stakeholder economy.
Dutch and American by birth, Marc speaks four languages, travels extensively, and has lived in Berkeley, Amsterdam, London, Rotterdam, New York, and Woodstock. He is a proud New Yorker, husband, father and grandfather and serves on the boards of youth leadership organizations in Kenya, Panama and US.
Having learned from and collaborated with many of the world’s most prominent business leaders, Marc is a frequent keynote speaker at business schools, companies, and industry conferences. He has been quoted and appeared in The Financial Times, Fortune, Forbes, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, The Atlantic, Advertising Age, Fast Company, Campaign Asia, and Marketing Week.