Keynote Speakers on Entrepreneurship

Turn bold ideas into successful ventures, navigate market shifts, and build resilient businesses with top entrepreneurial leaders.

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Starting, building, and scaling a business requires both visionary strategy and decisive action. Our keynote speakers on entrepreneurship are seasoned founders, business executives, and growth experts who share actionable frameworks, high-impact stories, and real-world tools to turn business ideas into sustainable successes.

Why Book an Entrepreneurship Speaker?

  • From Concept to Execution: Learn how to validate business ideas, build scalable models, and execute bold strategies with clarity.
  • Navigate Risk & Resilience: Discover how top founders overcome setbacks, manage uncertainty, and cultivate the grit needed to thrive.
  • Master Modern Growth Strategies: Explore key drivers for scaling operations, raising capital, and fostering an entrepreneurial mindset within any organization.
  • Real-World Founder Insights: Gain firsthand wisdom from entrepreneurs who have navigated global expansion, digital pivots, and industry disruption.

Winning Strategies in a Rapidly Changing Market

Digital transformation, globalization, and shifting market dynamics are redefining the rules of modern enterprise. How do you build a resilient, competitive business in today’s fast-moving environment? Our speakers highlight the most critical trends, strategies, and key execution tactics needed to build and sustain a thriving company, regardless of your industry.

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    Julia Langkraehr
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    International Speakers
    Entrepreneurship
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    Leadership - International Speakers

    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 ...
    Duncan Bannatyne
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    Entrepreneurship
    Entrepreneurship - International Speakers

    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 ...
    Johan Norberg
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    Entrepreneurship
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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.
    Antoni Lacinai
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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 ...
    Åsa Caap
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    Entrepreneurship
    Growth/development

    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 ...
    Robin Teigland
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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 ...
    Fredrik Sträng
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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 ...
    Mikael Meijer
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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 ...
    Gustav Stenbeck
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    Entrepreneurship
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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 ...
    Annelie Pompe
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    Entrepreneurship
    Health/well-being
    Leadership
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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 ...
    Linda Hammarstrand
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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 ...
    Mary Juusela
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    Diversity/inclusion
    Entrepreneurship
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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, ...
    Linda Johansson
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    AI
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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 ...
    Jonas Eriksson
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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.
    Andreas Piirimets
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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...
    Guy Kawasaki
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    Technology/digitalization

    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).
    Anna Gullstrand
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    Anna Gullstrand

    Anna Gullstrand is the Chief People & Culture Officer (CPCO) at Mentimeter. Mentimeter is a 240+ employee’s values-driven SaaS start-up with offices in Stockholm, Sweden and Toronto, Canada. Their audience engagement platform helps over 200 million users globally to participate in inclusive, interactive and impactful presentations, trainings, lectures and meetings. Since graduating from the internationally ...
    Arash Gilan
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    AI
    AI
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    Creativity/innovation
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    Technology/digitalization

    Arash Gilan

    Som vd för Viva, ett av Nordens största marknadsföringsbolag, har Arash Gilan inte bara bevittnat, utan också lett digital transformation på första parkett. Hans förmåga att förstå och navigera i det digitala landskapet har gett honom utmärkelser som “Årets inspirerande ledarskap” av Great Place to Work. Men hans passion sträcker sig bortom affärsvärlden. Med VD-podden ...
    Aurore Belfrage
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    AI
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    Aurore Belfrage

    Aurore Belfrage invests in cleantech, renewable energy, and energy efficiency technologies. With a background as an investor at EQT Ventures, a columnist for Svenska Dagbladet, and co-host of the +Katapult podcast, Aurore Belfrage brings extensive experience in how technology can strategically strengthen your business in a rapidly changing world.
    Fredrik Wikholm
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    Fredrik Wikholm

    Fredrik Wikholm is an innovative entrepreneur in the fields of communication, data science, fashion, and finance. Hailing from Sweden, Fredrik’s passion for planet-positive entrepreneurship grew out of his childhood in nature and many years in the climbing and snowboard community that later formed Uniforms for the Dedicated, the menswear company that Fredrik co-founded in 2007. ...
    Lisa Ekström
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    Lisa Ekström

    Lisa Ekström is a well-known Swedish speaker and inspirational performer. Lisa Ekström is the founder of the company Kamoja. The company name and word Kamoja springs from Lisa’s international upbringing. "Kamoj" means to borrow or snitch in Thai. An "a" at the end makes it a Swedish verb, so as in borrowing an idea or ...
    Pontus Wadström
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    Pontus Wadström

    Pontus Wadström works as an independent strategy advisor, lecturer and researcher. He has previously worked as strategy consultant and as head of various strategy, business development and change departments, portfolios and projects in publicly listed companies and in start-ups.  His expertise is how organizations strategize – do strategy for real and in practice – and ...
    Hélène Barnekow
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    Hélène Barnekow

    Hélène Barnekow was the CEO of Microsoft Sweden for three successful years from 2018 to 2021. She has more than 25 years of experience in the IT and telecom industry, including roles such as CEO at Telia Sverige and Director of Field & Partner Marketing at EMC in Boston, USA.
    JP Castlin
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    JP Castlin

    JP Castlin is a globally renowned expert in strategy, leadership and applied complexity science, who has been dubbed “a member of the Mount Rushmore of strategic management” and one of the world’s “most important voices in strategy”. He is the creator of the ABCDE framework for strategy under uncertainty, an author, and a columnist. JP...