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Are you looking for a motivational speaker, an industry expert in your field, a thought-provoking visionary, or an inspiring attitude speaker for your event? Our diverse and constantly evolving portfolio of top business leaders, industry experts, sports personalities, and entertainers guarantees that we are able to find a perfect speaker for your event. To provide valuable insights and perspectives, spark conversations or inspire and entertain – live, digital or hybrid. Impressive and insightful speaker content takes your event to the next level. When the speaker content of your event is carefully designed to support the goals of the event as well as to address the right message to the target audience of the event, the presentation by a top professional speaker is guaranteed to be one of the best highlights of the event. Whether your event is a joint staff kick-off, a team day, or a get-together for your customers and stakeholders, a professional and insightful speaker is the heart of your event. Below please find speakers we work with. We will be happy to assist you in designing the perfect speaker content for your event. Get in touch and let’s plan together with the most impressive content for your next event!

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Keynote Speakers

Company Culture

Future & Society

Human Connection

Inspiration & Motivation

Interpersonal Skills

Listening-Led Leadership

Mimi Nicklin

Mimi Nicklin is a globally recognized advocate for empathy, listening, and human connection, widely regarded as the world’s leading expert in her field. As a bestselling author and the founder of Empathy Everywhere, she bridges the gap between biological neuroscience and corporate performance, reframing empathy and belonging as ”hard” skills and biological strengths. Mimi is ...

Keynote Speakers

Company Culture

Critical Decision Making

Emotional Intelligence

Hostage Negotiation

Influence and Persuasion

Interpersonal Skills

Nigel Taberner

Former UK Hostage Negotiator & Expert Speaker Nigel Taberner is a former UK hostage negotiator and a preeminent authority on high-stakes communication, influence, and negotiation. With a distinguished career spanning over 30 years of operational experience within the Greater Manchester Police and Counter-Terrorism Policing North West, Nigel operated at the very sharp end of law ...

Keynote Speakers

Company Culture

Health & Wellbeing

Inspiration & Motivation

Psychological Safety

Rob Hosking

Dubbed ‘The Mighty Motivator’ by Chris Evans, Rob Hosking is an international TEDx motivational speaker and former front-line Police Officer, renowned for his ability to inspire teams and leaders to adapt in fast-changing, high-pressure environments. With years of experience responding to unpredictable situations, Rob has developed a deep understanding of how individuals and organisations can thrive in the midst ...

Keynote Speakers

Creativity & Innovation

Entrepreneurship

Health & Wellbeing

Inspiration & Motivation

Joost Rigter

Leading in the Dark: Transforming Change Through Human Leadership Keynote Speaker on Change, Perspective and Human Leadership Joost Rigter is one of Europe’s most impactful keynote speakers on change, perspective and human leadership. Diagnosed with the progressive eye disease Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP), Joost is slowly going blind, a reality that has forced him to redefine ...

Keynote Speakers

Artificial Intelligence

Change Management

Company Culture

Creativity & Innovation

Future & Society

Sales & Marketing

Silvia Garcia

Silvia Garcia, ex Worldwide Director at Coca-Cola, helps organizations not only navigate complexity, change and the new frontier of human–AI collaboration, she helps them understand the psychological, strategic and cultural mechanisms behind it. With the rare combination of scientific grounding, recognition as a TEDx Editors’ pick, and C-level global leadership experience, Silvia shows companies how ...

Keynote Speakers

Company Culture

Creativity & Innovation

Future & Society

Health & Wellbeing

Inspiration & Motivation

April Rinne

April Rinne is one of the world’s most respected voices on how humans navigate change and uncertainty. A globally recognized futurist, change navigator, and bestselling author of Flux: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change, she helps leaders, teams, and organizations reimagine their relationship with uncertainty and develop the capacity to thrive in an ever-shifting world. ...

Keynote Speakers

Communication & Interaction

Company Culture

Creativity & Innovation

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion DEI

Future & Society

Interpersonal Skills

People-First Culture

Shola Kaye

Shola Kaye is an award-winning international keynote speaker, author, and empathy-at-work specialist who helps organisations replace fear with connection. Working at the intersection of inclusive leadership, communication, and people-first culture, she equips leaders and teams to build workplaces grounded in empathy, trust, and courageous dialogue. Shola’s keynotes are relatable, actionable, and evidence-based. She speaks on ...

Keynote Speakers

Cognitive Science

Company Culture

Creativity & Innovation

Interpersonal Skills

Alex Moffat

Alex Moffat is one of Australia’s most distinctive keynote speakers, a rare fusion of neuroscience, leadership expertise, and world class cognitive magic. He brings to the stage a combination of analytical precision and theatrical mastery that few speakers in the world can match. A certified NeuroLeadership practitioner, Brain-Based Coach, and HBDI® practitioner, Alex has spent ...

Keynote Speakers

Change Management

Creativity & Innovation

Dr. Mark DeVolder

Global Expert on Change, Transformation & Resilience Dr. Mark DeVolder is one of the world’s top motivational change management speakers – a global authority on transitions, transformation, and the human side of change. With contagious energy, deep expertise, and a gift for storytelling, Mark equips leaders and teams to move confidently through disruption and uncertainty. ...

Keynote Speakers

Company Culture

Creativity & Innovation

Customer Experience

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion DEI

Entrepreneurship

Future & Society

Inspiration & Motivation

Interpersonal Skills

Sales & Marketing

Salime Nassur

“AI isn’t the future. It’s now. And most leaders are already behind.” Salime Nassur is a transformation strategist, international keynote speaker, and former Marketing Director at Google Cloud. With over 25 years of experience across tech, business, and culture, he helps executive teams and employees unlock the mindset, skills and structures they need to thrive, in ...

Keynote Speakers

High-Performance

Mental performance

Neil Edge

Neil Edge is a corporate mental performance speaker and ultra-endurance athlete who helps leadership teams build resilience, prevent burnout, and improve cognitive performance in high-demand roles. Drawing on lived experience, from competing in ultra endurance events to navigating cancer treatment, Neil blends real-world adversity with evidence-based tools from psychology, cognitive behavioural therapy, and high-performance sport. His talks provide ...

Keynote Speakers

Artificial Intelligence - AI

Decision-Making

Future & Society

Geopolitical Trends

Global Affairs and Politics

Global perspectives

The Rt Hon James Heappey

Former UK Minister of State for the Armed Forces (2020–2024)Expert in Geopolitics, Global Security & Strategic Leadership The Rt Hon James Heappey is a globally respected political leader, strategist and former UK Minister of State for the Armed Forces who helped shape Britain’s response to some of the most defining security challenges of the 21st ...

Keynote Speakers

Creativity & Innovation

Health & Wellbeing

Higher Human Performance

Inspiration & Motivation

Interpersonal Skills

Sport Psychology

Heikki Huovinen

Heikki Huovinen | Human Performance Coach and Co-founder | MSc Sport Psychology & MSc Exercise Physiology With over 15 years of experience in coaching corporate leaders, consultants, several Formula-1 and Rally1 drivers – including Sebastian Vettel and two other world champions – Heikki has dedicated his career to unlocking higher human performance in brain work. As both a ...

Keynote Speakers

Creativity & Innovation

Future & Society

Health & Wellbeing

Human-Centered Leadership

Sustainable Happiness

Work-Life Integration

Miia Huitti

Miia Huitti is an inspiring speaker, valued for her ability to combine relatable real-life stories with practical, research-based tools that support daily recovery and strengthen well-being. Before becoming a full-time coach and keynote speaker, Miia built a career as a bank director and HR consultant, gaining firsthand insight into leadership, organizational change, and the pressures ...

Keynote Speakers

Architectural acoustics

Auditory distraction

Cognitive hearing science

Health & Wellbeing

Internationalization

Tom Campbell

Tom Campbell has thirty years of experience investigating auditory distraction, with ten in cognitive hearing science, the new science of speech intelligibility. These are hot topics in this new era of open plan offices and open classrooms. His doctoral thesis brought us new insights into the nature of the auditory distraction. He has since conducted, ...

Keynote Speakers

Aeronautical Innovation

Creativity & Innovation

Entrepreneurship

Future & Society

Richard Browning

Richard Browning is the Founder, CEO and Chief Test Pilot of the pioneering aeronautical innovation company, Gravity Industries, who has turned the impossible dream of human flight into a ground-breaking $80m+ business. Once thought impossible, Richard has delivered a dream mankind has had for millennia. Launching the world’s first human Jet Suit in 2017, and ...

Keynote Speakers

Contemporary Russian Politics

Future & Society

Global Affairs and Politics

Inspiration & Motivation

Leonid Volkov

Leonid Volkov Ph.D. is one of the leading figures of Russia’s democratic opposition and the political director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), the main organization of the anti-Putin and anti-war movement founded by Alexei Navalny. For more than a decade, he has been at the heart of the resistance against authoritarianism, advocating for transparency, free ...

Keynote Speakers

attitude & change

Company Culture

Future & Society

Internationalization

Shadia Rask

Shadia Rask is an awarded speaker and columnist, known for her radiant energy and ability to talk about difficult issues with compassion and clarity. As a researcher and professional in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), she is an expert in questions related to diversity in working life, immigration and social sustainability. Shadia has broad expertise ...

Keynote Speakers

Artificial Intelligence - AI

Entrepreneurship

Future & Society

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.

Keynote Speakers

Creativity & Innovation

Nicolas Krauze

Nicolas Krauze is a talented conductor and captivating keynote speaker, offering engaging and interactive presentations centered on the themes of management, cohesion, and inclusion. Nicolas boasts an impressive educational background, having graduated from both the Washington DC Conservatory and the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with five first prizes. Throughout his musical journey, he has been influenced ...

Keynote Speakers

Company Culture

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion DEI

Future & Society

Inspiration & Motivation

Caroline Farberger

Caroline Farberger is a transformational leader and a trailblazer in the world of inclusive leadership and diversity advocacy. With a remarkable career spanning over 25 years in the financial industry, Caroline has held numerous prominent roles, including serving as the CEO of ICA Insurance. Over six years, she successfully built the company from the ground ...

Keynote Speakers

Company Culture

Creativity & Innovation

Customer Experience

Future & Society

Inspiration & Motivation

Interpersonal Skills

Sales & Marketing

Tuija Seipell

Tuija Seipell is an internationally renowned Canadian keynote speaker, business advisor, and editor. For nearly two decades, she served as editor of The Cool Hunter, where her articles on design, architecture, and pop culture reached millions of readers monthly. In her presentations and consulting, Tuija focuses on customer experience, strategy, clarity, branding, and storytelling. With ...

Keynote Speakers

Business Strategy

Creativity & Innovation

Environmental, Social & Governance ESG

Inspiration & Motivation

Sustainability & Regeneration

Louise Kjellerup Roper

Louise Kjellerup Roper is an accomplished entrepreneur, visionary, and thought leader in regenerative and transformative business. With a career spanning the cutting edge of innovation, Louise has consistently broken new ground in technology, sustainability, and circular economy models, leaving a profound impact on industries and organizations across Europe and beyond. Starting her career in the ...

Keynote Speakers

Company Culture

Creativity & Innovation

Interpersonal Skills

Guðrún Snorradóttir

Gudrun Snorradottir is recognized as one of Iceland’s top executive leadership coaches. With over a decade of senior leadership experience and a passion for positive and organizational psychology, she has developed a unique and practical approach to leadership coaching. Her methods combine cutting-edge research with real-world expertise to deliver actionable strategies that resonate with leaders ...

Keynote Speakers

Artificial Intelligence

Digital Regulation

Environmental, Social & Governance ESG

European Union law

Future & Society

Global Affairs and Politics

International Trade Policy

Internationalization

Anu Bradford

Anu Bradford is the Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organization at Columbia Law School, where she also serves as the director of Columbia’s European Legal Studies Center and a Senior Scholar at the Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business at Columbia Business School. A leading authority on European Union law, digital ...

Keynote Speakers

Creativity & Innovation

Environmental, Social & Governance ESG

Future & Society

Global Affairs and Politics

Internationalization

Petteri Taalas

Petteri Taalas is a world-renowned expert in climate change, disaster management, and atmospheric science, with over three decades of experience. With a distinguished career at the Finnish Meteorological Institute and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), he has been at the forefront of climate science, disaster prevention, and international cooperation. Taalas holds a PhD in meteorology ...

Keynote Speakers

Creativity & Innovation

Entrepreneurship

Growth/development

Tarun Sharma

Tarun Sharma is a dynamic venture leader, accomplished TEDx speaker, and captivating storyteller, currently serving as Partner & COO at Nokia Ventures. With over two decades of experience in venture investments, corporate innovation, and building high-growth businesses, he bridges the worlds of Fortune 100 leadership and startup grit. Having held senior roles at Microsoft, IBM, ...

Keynote Speakers

Cassie Kozyrkov

Cassie is the #1 AI speaker for an executive audience, inspiring leaders to take charge in an AI-first world.

Keynote Speakers

Entrepreneurship

Equity & Inclusion DEI

Future & Society

Global Affairs and Politics

Global perspectives

Inspiration & Motivation

Internationalization

Interpersonal Skills

Sales & Marketing

Professor Kishan Devani BEM

Global Strategist, Entrepreneur & Diplomatic Advisor Professor Kishan Devani BEM is a world-renowned polymath whose career operates at the intersection of international trade, high-stakes politics, and social advocacy. Honored with the British Empire Medal by Her Majesty the Queen and recognized as a Freeman of the City of London, Kishan is a “Global Bridge Builder” ...

Keynote Speakers

Creativity & Innovation

Future & Society

Neurodivergence

Antti Rantanen

Pioneering Voice in Industrial AI Antti specializes in artificial intelligence for the manufacturing industries—how it will transform all industrial core processes and integrate future organizational operating models. Antti Rantanen is a transformative speaker who empowers businesses to harness the full potential of artificial intelligence on a global scale. Through compelling real-world examples and actionable insights, ...

Keynote Speakers

Entrepreneurship

Environmental, Social & Governance ESG

Sales & Marketing

Hery Henry

Hery-Christian Henry is an internationally renowned keynote speaker specializing in Entrepreneurship, Behavioral Science, and Sustainability. As a serial entrepreneur and co-author of the first 5-year Carbon Zero strategy for a plastic packaging company, Hery delivers keynotes that offer a unique perspective on the evolving business landscape. His talks cover practical strategies for building successful ventures, ...

Keynote Speakers

Company Culture

Interpersonal Skills

Iida Mäkikallio

Boost Team Performance with Emotional Intelligence and Psychological Safety: Book Iida Mäkikallio for Your Next Event Iida Mäkikallio (MSc Psychology) is a leading expert in emotional intelligence, psychological safety, and workplace wellbeing. As a sought-after speaker, she helps organizations like PwC, Deloitte, Fortum, DNA, Nordea, IF, and the Finnish Government enhance communication, build trust, and ...

Keynote Speakers

Ruth Buscombe

Ruth Buscombe is one of Formula 1’s most highly respected race strategists, now working for the Formula 1 Group following a career spent supporting some of the sport’s best known drivers and teams. Her expertise lies in data analysis and race strategy management, critical capabilities for teams competing in this complex, data-driven sport. A first-class ...

Keynote Speakers

Inspiration & Motivation

Perry McCarthy

Perry McCarthy’s incredible story is legendary. He is a championship winning racing driver, best-selling author and was ‘The Stig’ from the BBC Top Gear motoring show. With over 1500 corporate appearances to date, Perry is in high demand to deliver inspirational and motivational speeches linking his unique experience and attitude to the world of business ...

Keynote Speakers

Future & Society

Graham Norris

Dr. Graham Norris has spent a lifetime studying change and its impact on knowledge workers. He is an expert in futures thinking and decision-making, helping leaders around the world think more clearly about the future so they can realise their ambitions. As an organisational psychologist and futurist, he equips decision-makers with practical frameworks that convert ...

Keynote Speakers

Creativity & Innovation

Future & Society

Katja Schipperheijn

Katja Schipperheijn is an internationally recognised author, strategist, futurist, lecturer and keynote speaker. Her expertise focuses on AI and pioneering innovations that create a human-machine symbiosis to enable learning ecosystems to flourish. In doing so, she advocates adopting a learning mindset at the personal, team and corporate levels not to become overwhelmed, but to thrive ...

Keynote Speakers

Host & Moderator

Freda Liu

A sought-after global speaker, best-selling author, broadcast journalist, emcee, moderator, and trainer, Freda Liu has conducted close to 10,000 interviews with thought leaders like Simon Sinek, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus of Grameen Bank, Former Prime Minister and President of Finland Alexander Stubb, author Stephen Covey, to former GE CEO Jack Welch. An author ...

Keynote Speakers

Sales & Marketing

Fredrik Jacobson

Meet Fredrik Jacobson, your guide to change through the sales perspective. With over four years of experience in David JP Phillips’ world-leading team and as Sweden’s representative at World Speech Day 2021, Fredrik is an expert in rhetoric, presentation techniques, and storytelling. As a recognized authority in sales and communication, Fredrik has been invited to ...

Keynote Speakers

Creativity & Innovation

Future & Society

Stefan Moritz

Stefan Moritz is a Senior Design Director co-leading McKinsey’s Veryday studio in Stockholm. Stefan brings 20+ years international experience from leadership roles at Global companies, award-winning agencies and as advisor across industries. As a thought-leader on service design, future of work and innovation he helps organizations to empower employees to deliver stellar customer experience and ...

Keynote Speakers

Environmental, Social & Governance ESG

Pia Heidenmark Cook

Pia Heidenmark Cook divides her time between senior advisor and non-executive director assignments across Europe and the US. She sits on boards in international companies operating in the healthcare, retail, sustainable materials, and restaurant sectors. She is also a Senior Advisor with Teneo, working with the ESG and Sustainability team to advise clients on how ...

Keynote Speakers

Future & Society

Elina Hiltunen

Elina Hiltunen is a world-class futurist and versatile thinker, whose career has gained international recognition and domestic appreciation. Forbes has listed her among the top 50 leading female futurists globally, and her expertise spans a broad field including business studies, chemical engineering, and forecasting in science fiction. Weak signals in organizational future learning Elina is ...

Keynote Speakers

Global Affairs and Politics

Sharon Gai

Sharon Gai is an international female keynote speaker who helps organizations see how leading companies use AI and innovative business models to disrupt their industry and exceed their competitors. Using her experience from the east and west, she is able to provide a more balanced and nuanced view to her topics. She was born into ...

Keynote Speakers

Creativity & Innovation

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion DEI

Future & Society

Growth/development

Binette Seck

Binette Seck, a social entrepreneur and Obama Leader 2023, is dedicated to democratizing tech worldwide. As the co-founder of ChangersTech and partner at iCog Anyone Can Code, she empowers tens of thousands of young adults from under-resourced communities, granting them access to transformative tech education and opportunities. Binette’s journey as a black woman from humble ...

Keynote Speakers

Adam Karnama

Adam Karnama is a renowned impact executive, entrepreneur, and investor. He has a PhD from MIT in Sustainable Energy Systems and two MSc degrees (Entrepreneurship and Sustainability) from KTH–RoyalInstitute of Technology in Sweden. Adam has his own Google Knowledge Panel inSustainability. With 20 years of professional work experience in executive roles at Ericsson, Accenture, and ...

Keynote Speakers

Company Culture

Creativity & Innovation

Customer Experience

Entrepreneurship

Future & Society

Global Affairs and Politics

Pascal Coppens

Pascal is a leading China expert, rooted in his deep understanding of the country as a sinologist and tech entrepreneur in China since 1999. He is a thought-provoking speaker and author on innovation, leadership & trends in China as well as the impact of China on business, technology and world affairs. Since 2018, Pascal travels ...

Keynote Speakers

Creativity & Innovation

Entrepreneurship

Future & Society

Sina Kahen

Sina Kahen is a renowned innovator, speaker, and author in the fields of AI, healthcare, and philosophy. He brings a wealth of experience from his extensive career in international sales and innovation management. Sina has advised both industry giants like Amazon, Google, and BBC and led innovative start-ups in the AI space. He is also ...

Keynote Speakers

Steven Dossou

Steven Dossou is an Inspirational TEDx Speaker, Author, co-founder of Leadership University, and Owner of SailForce Catalyst, a motivational platform designed to help people and businesses transform and also train coaches and speakers. Steven Dossou has impacted thousands of lives globally. Nicknamed ”Action Man”, he is viewed by his peers as a charismatic visionary who ...

Keynote Speakers

Creativity & Innovation

Future & Society

Internationalization

Jennifer Vessels

Jennifer Vessels brings 30 years experience leading growth, innovation and transformation for world’s leading companies including Adobe, Cisco / Tandberg, Google, Novartis, RaboBank. As a Silicon Valley native, living in Norway, she accelerates leaders success in the future of work, powered by AI/advanced technology. Her proven methodology for change with PEACE (Purpose, Exploration, Action, Collaboration, ...