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Fredrik Sträng
”The mountain remains steep, indifferent to my whining and complaints. What I can alter is my attitude toward its incline.” – Fredrik Sträng Fredrik Sträng, once bullied and gripped by a paralyzing fear of heights, sought therapy for his death anxiety. Yet, he emerged as Sweden’s preeminent high-altitude climber, conquering seven peaks above 8000 m ...
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Mikael Meijer
Mikael Meijer is a prominent leader and entrepreneur with a solid background in e-commerce, retail, and digital marketplaces. With a proven ability to generate exponential growth and multi-billion-dollar revenues, Mikael has become a sought-after speaker and advisor in the field. His passion for delivering outstanding results and his ability to develop effective marketing and sales ...
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Costas Markides
Costas Markides holds the Robert P. Bauman Chair of Strategic Leadership at the London Business School. In recent years, Costas has turned his attention to how management ideas can be used to address social issues. In 2011, 2009 and 2007 Thinkers50 placed him among the list of most influential thinkers. “Costas Markides is an expert ...
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Tobias Persson
Tobias Persson has written and performed Stand up comedy in Swedish for over 20 years. He did his first-ever gig in English in London 2009. REVIEWS: “Persson’s insights are sharp, his analysis is intelligent and his everyday dilemmas over how to be a good human being come from the heart…it’s clear he’s got it in ...
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Gustav Stenbeck
Gustav Stenbeck is an entrepreneur and a business angel. Incurable tech optimist, a capitalist, an evangelist for the business/sustainability combo and keynote speaker. He has for 15 years worked in the area where business and sustainability intersect. As an entrepreneur and investor he get’s involved in various startups and help them grow. He has a ...
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Sean Pillot de Chenecey
Sean Pillot de Chenecey is a seasoned public speaker with a track record of delivering keynotes in diverse regions such as the US, EU, MENA, and Asia for over a decade. He has spoken at a wide range of venues, including boardrooms, congress halls, stadiums, and festivals.
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Shahrzad Kiavash
What do we do when life does not play out as expected? Shahrzad Kiavash was 28 years old, happy and healthy when she suddenly got an unusual form of sepsis (blood poisoning). The doctors gave her a minimal chance to survive. She did survive, miraculously. But she lost her two legs. A drastic change, in ...
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Annelie Pompe
Annelie Pompe is a professional adventurer from Sweden. She works as an inspirational speaker, adventure guide, yoga and breathing teacher, author, and photographer. Amongst her adventurous achievements is a world record freedive to 126m in one breath, as well as being the first Swedish woman to summit Everest from the north side and climbing the ...
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Al Pitcher
Al Pitcher moved to Sweden in 2010, and has quickly made a name for himself in the Swedish standup scene. In 2011 he won ”Best male comedian” at Svenska Standup galan and the following year he went out to do the celebrated and sold out ”Fika tour”, which was quickly followed by another successful tour ...
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Petra Malm
Petra Malm is a former soldier of the Swedish Special Forces who shifted her secret life in the military and became a lecturer and a trainer. As the first female Petra Malm passed the test to SOG (Swedish Special Forces). Over a decade, Petra lived a secret life as an elite soldier on the front ...
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Linda Hammarstrand
Linda Hammarstrand is a popular lecturer in subjects such as performance culture and values. She has 20 years of experience in communication, HR, and education within the Stena sphere. Her most recent assignment within Stena was to visualize Stena’s business philosophy and values for 22,000 employees worldwide. Linda Hammarstrand was the ”Director of Passion” and ...
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Mary Juusela
Mary Juusela is one of the Nordic region’s foremost experts in values, tolerance and humane sustainability. She lectures on human behavior and on how individuals and groups go further by being open, more inclusive and empathetic. Mary is often hired as an inspirational lecturer during leadership conferences, staff days and many tailor-made events throughout Sweden, ...
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Mårten Nylén
Mårten Nylén is known as the head trainer in four seasons of the TV show ”Biggest Loser” in Sweden, as the host of Ninja Warrior, and as a well-known personal trainer phenomenon. With a long client list with well-known names such as Wyclef Jean, Joel Kinnaman, Daniel Ek, Marie Serneholt, and Will Smith, most people ...
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Linda Johansson
Linda U Johansson is a futurist and entrepreneur. She is the founder of both Volvo Cars and Lynk & Co’s e-commerce, and an experienced lecturer. Linda provides an exciting and inspiring vision of the future with digital commerce and AI. With her own experiences in the industry and in her role as CEO at eCom ...
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Ted Burk
As a Naval Officer, Ted Burk was recognized as a talented fighter pilot and innovative problem solver. As a TOPGUN graduate, he identified cultural gaps and built bridges between warfighters and engineers - optimizing performance in both weapons and tactics.
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Tine Mejlbo Sundfør
Tine Mejlbo Sundfør has a master’s in clinical nutrition and a Ph.D. in Nutrition on the topic «Diets for weight loss and cardiovascular health in obesity» at the Faculty of Medicine – University of Oslo. She has broad experience from clinical work at Oslo University Hospital, from private medical centers, teaching students at bachelor and ...
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Karin Callin
Diversity and inclusion are nowadays a given – right? It should be, as well as the fact that it can be directly linked to business results and therefore must be integrated into the company’s strategy. Customers, owners, employees and our entire society benefit from diversity and inclusion. Karin Callin has for several years worked on ...
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Hanna Wallensteen
Inclusion, Exclusion and Minority Stress in the Workplace Since the summer of 2020 most organizations have realized the importance of raising awareness and knowledge in issues related to inclusion and diversity in relation to race and ethnicity in order to recruit, retain and represent their organization in accordance to their core beliefs and values. This ...
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John Thackara
John Thackara is a writer, advisor and event producer. He curated the celebrated Doors of Perception conference for 20 years, first in Amsterdam, later across India, and was commissioner of the UK social innovation biennial Dott 07 and the French design biennial City Eco Lab.
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Fredrik Hären
Fredrik Haren is The Creativity Explorer, a global keynote speaker on Business Creativity, Innovation and Change. He has delivered over 2,000 presentations, lectures and workshops in over 75 countries on 6 continents and has inspired over a million people from the stage to become more creative and to look at the world in a new way.
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Joshua Klein
Joshua Klein is a fervent hacker who will hack anything that moves. His latest project, though charmingly low-tech, has amazing implications for the human-animal interface. Right now, he is working at Frog Design as a Principal Technologist, while developing mobile/social applications, health care-related systems and other tools that improve people’s lives. Joshua Klein has practised, ...
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Mattias Fras
Mattias Fras has worked with change for most of his 23 career years. First half as a management consultant, and the second half within Nordea, introducing new technologies.
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Annie Lennox
Annie Lennox OBE is one of the world’s most renowned singer songwriters, formerly with the Eurythmics. She is celebrated as an innovator, an icon and a symbol of enduring excellence. Annie’s music career is peerless with over 80 million record sales to date. In 2007 Annie released her album, Songs of Mass Destruction to critical ...
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Colin MacLachlan
Colin MacLachlan is a former SAS soldier. He has more than 25 years of security and risk related experience. Colin is best known for appearing in Channel 4's SAS: Who Dares Wins and Channel 5's Secrets of the SAS.
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Joanna Lumley
Joanna Lumley OBE is an English actress, best known for her role as the eternally-inebriated, fashion-obsessed Patsy in the award-winning Absolutely Fabulous which brought her renewed fame, with the series going on to prove itself one of the classic British sitcoms. She is a passionate campaigner for the Gurkhas. Born in Kashmir, India, Joanna Lumley’s ...
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Pranav Mistry
Pranav Mistry is the inventor of SixthSense, a wearable device that enables new interactions between the real world and the world of data. He is passionate about integrating the digital informational experience with our real-world interactions. The genius behind the Sixth Sense technology, Pranav Mistry is a recognised inventor. The success he has achieved by ...
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Staffan Ehde
For over 20 years, Staffan Ehde has been an evangelist for the idea that purpose is the DNA that determines whether an organization succeeds or fails. He first realized this in the film industry, where direction is what makes the difference, something that translates directly into purpose within organizations.
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Michele Myauo
Michele Myauo, Ph.D. is a cybersecurity and IT executive, author, speaker and professor. She holds a doctorate in system engineering and is a director of cybersecurity & secure infrastructure services delivery for the global secure infrastructure practice at Microsoft. Michele has over 17 years’ experience leading cybersecurity, systems engineering, and IT services business execution across ...
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Daniel Sieberg
Daniel Sieberg is VP, Technology & Innovation Thought Leadership for Huawei and as a founder and strategic advisor Daniel has focused on developing technologies like AI, AR, blockchain, news aggregation and social media. He continues to serve as an advisor to Good Trust, building the future of how to manage your digital afterlife. Daniel was ...
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Ed Stafford
Ed Stafford became the first person to walk the entire length of the Amazon River. His adventure has been described as one of the most dangerous and difficult expeditions ever undertaken encountering venomous snakes, severe floods, electric eels, jaguars and hostile local tribes. After leaving the military in 2002 he led expeditions in Belize and ...
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Karren Brady
Baroness Brady is also a Senior Non-Executive Director of Syco and Arcadia Boards and Small Business Ambassador for the Conservative Party. Additionally she is Chairman of Mentore, a business to help accelerate development of female talent in their organisations to increase diversity at board levels in companies across the UK.
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Chris Brauer
Dr Chris Brauer is Director of IMS at Goldsmiths, University of London and a world leading researcher and public academic in the intersections of human behaviour and emerging technologies. His projects have been featured in over 400 media outlets worldwide including the Financial Times, BBC, CNN and Wall Street Journal. Chris revels in the intersections ...
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Magda Chelly
Magda has a strong experience in cyber security as well as international and business co-operations. Throughout her career, she has been working with governments and corporations to advise on how they react to the increasing international cyber threats. Magda also chairs the British Chamber ICT committee and was interacting with the British Trade commission and ...
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Tim Cole
Tim Cole is an experienced publicist, author and TV moderator in the field of eBusiness and IT security. As editor of the business magazine Net Investor he has a proven track record for journalistic objectivity, as well as the ability to critically evaluate the impact of technology on business processes and markets. He is also ...
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David Coulthard
David Coulthard is one of the world’s most widely recognized sports personalities, celebrated for his achievements as a Formula 1 Grand Prix driver, television broadcaster, author, and entrepreneur.
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Jonas Eriksson
Jonas Eriksson is the most successful Swedish referee of all time. He was a FIFA international referee between 2002 and 2018 and has experience from international championships as the World Cup, the European Football Championship, and the Champions League.
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Susan Greenfield
Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE, is a British scientist specialising in the physiology of the brain, Susan researches the impact of 21st century technologies on the mind, how the brain generates consciousness and novel approaches to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Baroness Greenfield took a DPhil in the Oxford University Department of Pharmacology and ...
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Anil Gupta
Dr. Anil K. Gupta is widely recognised as one of the world's leading experts on strategy, globalisation and emerging markets. He is the Michael Dingman Chair in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland.
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Andreas Piirimets
In a captivating blend of animated rhetoric and pedagogy, Andreas Piirimets adeptly synthesizes the latest research on the brain, sleep, and stress, presenting it in an engaging and accessible manner. Drawing from a rich foundation of both scientific findings and personal experiences, he offers practical insights and hands-on strategies for effectively managing the challenges of...
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Ram Charan
Ram Charan is a world-renowned business advisor, author and speaker who has spent the past 35 years working with many top companies, CEOs, and boards of our time. He is known for cutting through the complexity of running a business in today's fast changing environment to uncover the core business problem.
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Joakim Odelberg
Joakim Odelberg is one of Sweden’s most in-demand and respected photojournalists, producers, and underwater filmmakers. Driven by a passion for nature on land and at sea, his work has taken him far beyond Sweden’s borders and built a large, dedicated following.
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Rodney Brooks
Rodney Brooks, the former director of MIT’s Computer Science and AI LAB, came to fame when he successfully founded iRobot. He has now cofounded Robust.AI, a robotics start-up which aims to build the world’s first industrial-grade cognitive platform for robots. Rodney received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford. In 1984 he joined MIT and ...
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Lindsay Herbert
Lindsay Herbert is the author of Digital Transformation, a Bloomsbury business book that has received international praise for its practical framework on how to drive major change through innovation at enterprise scale.
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Marc Randolph
Marc Randolph is a veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur, advisor and investor. He was co-founder of the online movie and television streaming service Netflix. Recently, Marc co-founded Looker Data Sciences and currently serves as an advisor, CEO, coach and/or board member to numerous other start-ups. At Netflix, Marc served as their founding CEO, as the executive ...
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Kenton Cool
With 11 Everest Summits under his belt amongst other incredible feats of human achievement, Kenton Cool is Britain’s most successful Everest mountaineer. He is the second most successful Western Mountaineer of all times on Everest and claimed an historic three peaks record for Britain in Everest’s 60th anniversary year. As a high altitude leader, Kenton ...
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Lewis Gordon Pugh
Lewis Gordon Pugh is an ocean advocate, pioneer swimmer and explorer who has put his hard-learned lessons into the context of a corporate environment. He shares the visualisation that enabled him to undertake the first swim across the sub-zero waters of the North Pole. Lewis has received a number of awards including France and South ...
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Kirk Vallis
Kirk Vallis is Google's Head of Creativity Development. He helps Googlers across the world to understand what it is about the approach, but vitally, the behaviours, that teams and individuals exhibit that time and again result in an awesome piece of innovation, a fresh way to solve a problem, or simply positive change.
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Olivier Oullier
Prof. Oullier’s research focuses on decision neuroscience applied to consumer and patient engagement and behaviour change. Olivier currently writes a column on neurotechnologies "This is your brain on business" in Fortune Magazine. Olivier designs, implements and evaluates evidence-informed multi-scale behavior and system change strategies for public and private organizations. He has developed a proprietary methodology ...