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Terhi Majasalmi
Terhi Majasalmi is a serial entrepreneur, an influencer in the money and investment world and a real estate investor. In 1995 she became interested in managing her own finances due to her father’s unemployment. Terhis own wealth story began on March 31, 1998, when she deposited her first FIM 1,000 in an ASP account. Over ...
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Julia Langkraehr
Julia Langkraehr built three multi-million pound retail businesses in three European countries and is now a strategic coach. In 2014 she founded Bold Clarity which provides facilitation, coaching and training to entrepreneurs, CEOs, their leadership teams and peer groups. “A respected business and retail entrepreneur” Julia Langkraehr moved to London in 1999 to develop new ...
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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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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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Jamie Anderson
Jamie Anderson, professor, has been named as a "management guru" in the Financial Times, and as one of the world’s top 25 management thinkers by the journal Business Strategy Review. Another industry magazine recently included Jamie as one of the ’top 40 under 40’ most influential young business minds worldwide. “Jamie’s wit and humour have ...
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Duncan Bannatyne
Duncan Bannatyne is one of Britain’s most recognisable entrepreneurs, as well as being a philanthropist. Duncan is most famous for his appearances as a business angel on the BBC programme Dragons’ Den. “Know your numbers, know your percentages” Duncan’s business career began with an ice cream van bought for £450; he soon expanded by buying ...
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Johan Norberg
Johan Norberg is the lecturer, documentary filmmaker, writer and historian of ideas who knows how to separate facts from assumptions and anecdotal storytelling. He has lectured all over the world, from Stockholm to Sydney, Buenos Aires to Beijing, Cairo to Capitol Hill. Celebrated for his ability to simplify complex ideas, he has made a name for himself among students as well as politicians and leaders of major corporations.
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Antoni Lacinai
Communication between people is like electricity in a modern society — without it, we die, says Antoni Lacinai, an authority in Workplace Communication Culture and a global speaker on Employee engagement, Leadership communication and Customer experience. With his 20 keys to outstanding workplace communication, he improves peoples’ skills when they lead people, serve clients and ...
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Åsa Caap
Åsa Caap is a Stockholm based entrepreneur, intrapreneur, founder and former CEO of Our/Vodka. Her new entrepreneurial venture is a consultant and coaching business, where she helps corporations fuel and foster corporate entrepreneurship. Her hacks and lectures are based on her own experience from founding and running Our/Vodka, a controversial business that she built under ...
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Judith Wolst
Judith Wolst is an entrepreneur, digital adviser, and author. Since 2005 she has worked with digital change work in both business and the public sector. Among other things, Judith Wolst today runs the think tank SusTechable – a movement dedicated to exploring the intersection of technology and sustainability.digitalization, future trends, and technologies as AI, blockchain, ...
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Andreas Ekström
Andreas Ekström focuses on the Digital Revolution seen from the role of a futurist looking at all disciplines of society. He is a senior writer at the Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan and an author of several books. In his acclaimed volume ‘The Google Code’ his journalistic curiosity turns towards the growing influence of Google in our ...
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Siri Wikander
Siri Wikander has been in HR leadership and People Growth positions for the past 20 years in large stock-listed companies like Axfood and Scandic Hotels as well as in start-up and scale-up firms.
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Oskar Kihlborg
Oskar Kihlborg is one of Sweden’s most experienced adventurers and speakers, with over 30 years of expeditions spanning from dense jungles to arctic climates—situations where human trust, group collaboration, and inner drive are constantly put to the test. In 1990, together with Mikael Reuterswärd, Oskar became the first Swede to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
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Charlotte Signahl
In the last two decades, Charlotte Signahl has been talking about “unpleasant” topics i.e. undesired powerstructures between people in groups, organizations and in society. How those power structures affect the individuals, their performance, and well-being, but also how an understanding of the same power structures makes everyone feel better. Charlotte talks about Human Rights and ...
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Claes Ceverin
Over the past 100 years, we as individuals, leaders, and organizations have developed an ability to relate to and manage changes in the market. The evolutionary change takes place step-by-step and to which we have developed an approach over time. Claes Ceverin is a popular keynote speaker on the topic’s future and change. As a ...
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Robin Teigland
Robin Teigland is Professor in Management of Digitalization in the Entrepreneurship and Strategy Division at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, where she was recruited to build bridges between technology and the development of society. She is also the Director of Ocean Data Factory Sweden – Sweden’s national initiative for AI-driven innovation based on ...
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Gustav Molnar
Gustav Molnar, CEO, Public Speaker, and Digital Workplace Evangelist, is helping organizations to work smarter together in a digital ever-changing world. Gustav’s passions include leadership, engagement, and behavioral science. With plenty of energy, charm, and brand new research does Gustav Molnar share advice and experiences from organizations and leaders who have mastered the art of ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Claus Raasted
Claus Raasted has worked with designing extraordinary experiences for almost a quarter of a century. Today, he serves as the Director for The College of Extraordinary Experiences, is a Coach at McKinsey & Company, and hosts the podcast ”The Business of Extraordinary Experiences”. He is also a prolific author, with 30 books to his name, ...
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Serena Williams
Serena Williams sits at the top of the tennis world; she’s won 23 career Grand Slams, which is the most Grand Slam singles titles in history. Her remarkable tennis achievements combined with her off-court success in film, television, fashion and philanthropy makes her one of the most recognisable global icons in the world. In the ...
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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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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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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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Nathalie Nahai
Nathalie Nahai is one of the foremost experts in web psychology. With a background in psychology, web design and digital strategy, she coined the term ’web psychology’, defining it as ’the empirical study of how our online environments influence our attitudes and behaviours’. Nathalie is the founder of the Institute of Web Psychology, which helps ...
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Erik Brynjolfsson
Erik Brynjolfsson is the Schussel Family Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Director of the MIT Center for Digital Business, Chair of the MIT Sloan Management Review, and the Editor of the Information Systems Network. Erik Brynjolfsson earned his A.B., Magna cum laude, and S.M. in Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences at Harvard ...
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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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Adrian Gilpin
Adrian Gilpin is the founder and driving force behind the Institute of Human Development. Adrian’s work in the field of leadership development and peak performance coaching is rapidly becoming recognised by business leaders as cutting-edge. Adrian leads the IHD’s leadership research and programme development, mentors chief executives in the public and private sectors and coach’s ...
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Steve Howard
Steve Howard is a leading sustainable business professional and is a recognised authority on sustainability and climate change. Steve was Chief Sustainability Officer at IKEA Group and served on IKEA’s Executive Group Management from 2011-2017. In 2015, Steve co-founded We Mean Business, a leading climate change coalition of organisations which helped support the Paris Agreement ...
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John Kao
Dr. John Kao, dubbed "Mr. Creativity" and "a serial innovator" by The Economist, is a leading authority on innovation, business creativity, organizational transformation and emerging technologies. John is passionate about how leaders learn to innovate, and he has taught extensively in both public and private sectors. As a professor at Harvard Business School from 1982-96, ...
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Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki was the chief evangelist of Apple and a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation. Guy is the chief evangelist of Canva, an online graphic design tool. He is a brand ambassador for Mercedes-Benz and an executive fellow of the Haas School of Business (UC Berkeley). Guy has a B.A. from Stanford University and an ...
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Lars Silberbauer Andersen
Lars built Lego’s social media engagement from scratch and led a global team of social media & search marketers that drove real time engagement with consumers worldwide. In 2014 he also launched LEGO® TV in 40 markets. LEGO® TV is a native mobile experience for kids, where they can experience high quality animated LEGO content. ...
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Jonas Kjellberg
Jonas Kjellberg, founding creator of Skype is co-founder of Gear Up, a framework to help people to transform ideas into a high-potential venture in real time. He is also the CEO of Gourmetli which disrupts the existing food industry by connecting buyers and sellers of locally produced delights and global gourmet specialties. The academic roots...