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Keynote Speakers on Business Growth & Development

Take your company to the next level with world-class growth and business development experts.

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Achieving sustainable growth requires more than just good ideas. It takes clear strategy, strong leadership, innovation, creativity, and bold action. Our keynote speakers on business growth and development share proven frameworks and mindsets to help organizations build scalable, resilient, and future-ready businesses.

Why Book a Business Growth & Development Speaker?

Scale with Strategy: Learn tested methods to transition from startup to scaleup or reinvent established business models.
Expand Domestically & Internationally: Gain strategic insights from leaders who have successfully executed market expansions and navigated global scaling.
Cultivate a Growth Mindset: Empower your management and teams with the courage, adaptability, and vision needed to seize new market opportunities.
Drive Measurable Value: Equip your organization with actionable tools to turn innovative concepts into long-term profitability and sustainable growth.

Real-World Experience in Business Development and Scaling

From early-stage startups to established corporate enterprises, our speakers have walked the talk. They have spearheaded major business transformations, launched disruptive models, and expanded organizations across competitive markets. Book a speaker to gain actionable strategies, practical tools, and real-world wisdom to take your company to the next level.

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Mikko Eerola

Mikko Eerola is one of the authors of the book The Block Chain Roadmap for decision makers (2019). He has worked throughout his career in business digitalization, both as a management consultant and as a business leader in growth and listed companies. Europe and the United States. Mikko has extensive experience in developing business globally ...

Creativity/innovation

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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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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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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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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 ...

Diversity/inclusion

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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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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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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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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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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).

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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 ...

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Mr. Q

Mr Q is the physical manifestation of the future that lies ahead of us. He is already a famous superstar who has co-hosted events with politicians and business leaders, starred in movies and entertained guests all over the world. Mr.Q can communicate with people on any free or pre-programmed topics, answer questions, recognize faces, take ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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.

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Katarina Matson

Katarina Matson utvecklade och genomförde utbildning i omedveten partiskhet (Unconscious Bias) för mer än 1500 ledare globalt, samt implementerade en global föräldraledighetspolicy för alla anställda på Volvo Cars. Sedan 2021 driver Katarina Matson verksamheten Let’s Tango AB, och föreläser och utbildar ledare och medarbetare som vill öka medvetenheten och få fördjupad kunskap i hur de ...

Creativity/innovation

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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...