Billy Beane

With great insight and signature wit, Billy Beane conveys his innovative, winning style of management and leadership, which involves identifying undervalued assets to create and sustain a competitive advantage. By striking parallels between baseball and business, he inspires with his unforgettable winning underdog story.

Beane has transformed the team into one of baseball’s most consistent winners since he became General Manager after the 1997 season. Over the years, he challenged traditional MLB beliefs that high payrolls lead to more wins by using a data-driven approach. This strategy helped the Oakland A’s, with one of the lowest payrolls, win 7 AL Western Division titles and reach 10 playoffs. This approach is known as the “Moneyball” philosophy, named after the best-selling book and Oscar-nominated film about Beane’s rise from General Manager to hero and management genius. Beane is a four-time Major League Baseball “Executive of the Year” award winner and was named by Forbes as one of the “100 Greatest Living Business Minds.”