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Growth 101 with Brené Brown: Dare to Lead (free download)

Download a Dare to Lead Sneak Peek! Leaders in organizations ranging from small entrepreneurial startups and family-owned businesses to nonprofits, civic organizations, and Fortune 50 companies, are asking the same question: How do you cultivate braver, more daring leaders, and how do you embed the value of courage in your culture? Based on twenty years […]

Growth 101 with Steve Wozniak: Apple’s Early Days

Who is Steve Wozniak? A Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for more than thirty years, Steve Wozniak has helped shape the computing industry with his design of Apple’s first line of products the Apple I and II and influenced the popular Macintosh. In 1976, Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Computer Inc. with Wozniak’s Apple […]

Growth 101 with Costas Markides: Leadership and Emotion

Who is Costas Markides? Costas Markides is Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the London Business School (LBS) where he holds the Robert P. Bauman Chair of Strategic Leadership. He is also the Faculty Director for Executive Education at LBS. He is considered one of the world’s leading experts in the areas of business strategy […]

Growth 101 with Alex Osterwalder: Harnessing Innovation

Who is Alex Osterwalder? Dr. Alexander (Alex) Osterwalder, inventor of the Business Model and Value Proposition Canvases, and co-founder of innovation powerhouse Strategyzer, made it his mission to help senior leaders best position their organizations for these challenges and design an innovation culture, innovation portfolios, and the corresponding organizational structures. Established companies and their leadership face […]

Journey to the Speaker Contest with Tobias Dahlberg

As we are on a lookout for the next speaker talent ready to walk on stage at Nordic Business Forum 2019, we have another source of inspiration for all aspiring speakers! To help you get going with the applications for the Speaker Contest 2019, we interviewed Tobias Dahlberg, one of the finalists in Speaker Sourcing Contest […]

Growth 101 with Juliet Funt: Simplification Questions

Who is Juliet Funt? Juliet Funt is the CEO of WhiteSpace at Work, a training and consulting firm that helps organizations, their leaders and employees flip the norms of business in order to reclaim their creativity, productivity and engagement. With thought-provoking content and immediately actionable tools, she has become a nationally recognized expert in coping […]

Journey to the Speaker Contest with Gopal RajGuru

As we are on a lookout for the next speaker talent ready to walk on stage at Nordic Business Forum 2019, we have another source of inspiration for all aspiring speakers! To help you get going with the applications for the Speaker Contest 2019, we interviewed Gopal RajGuru, one of the finalists in Speaker Sourcing Contest […]

Journey to the Speaker Contest with Raymond Hofmann

Raymond Hofmann

As we are on a lookout for the next speaker talent ready to walk on stage at Nordic Business Forum 2019, we have another source of inspiration for all aspiring speakers! To help you get going with the applications for Speaker Contest 2019, we interviewed Raymond Hofmann, one of the finalists in Speaker Sourcing Contest […]

Mel Robbins Unable to Attend NBForum 2019

We regret to inform that Mel Robbins has to back out of the Nordic Business Forum 2019 event held in Helsinki Oct 9-10, 2019. She has a daytime syndicated Television Show which, unlike previously known, will require her availability during the timeframe of the event. She sends her best to all. We apologize for the […]

NBForum Internship Company of the Year

Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences, together with its student union Helga, have presented Nordic Business Forum with the “Internship company of the year” award. The award was handed out to Nordic Business Forum’s Head of Customer Experience Salla Seppä by Haaga-Helia’s Planning Director Ari Hälikkä at the annual gala of the student union at Kulosaaren […]

Journey to the Speaker Contest with Mika Poutala

Mika Poutala

Get ready for Speaker Contest 2019! Last week, we interviewed the Speaker Sourcing Contest 2018 winner, James Hewitt, and to keep the inspiration coming, we continued on this year’s contest journey with one of the amazing finalists, Mika Poutala! With the 4-time Olympic speed skater, Mika, we got to dive into the theme of peak […]