Everything you missed @ Stockholm Final
August 15th made company history for Nordic Business Forum! It was the final round of our Speaker Sourcing Contest, which took place in the heart of Stockholm, and we had audiences joining us in person and online via our livestream broadcast. This event was the culmination of a half-year-long contest to find fresh, new talent […]
Speaker Spotlight: Talking Strengths with Marcus Buckingham
About Marcus Buckingham Marcus Buckingham is a global researcher and thought leader focused on unlocking strengths, increasing performance, and pioneering the future of how people work. Building on nearly two decades of experience as a senior researcher at Gallup Organization, he currently guides the vision of ADP Research Institute as head and talent expert. He […]
Speaker Spotlight: Getting to Flow with Steven Kotler
About Steven Kotler Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author, an award-winning journalist, and the co-founder & director of research for the Flow Research Collective. He is one of the world’s leading experts on ultimate human performance. His 2016 book, BOLD: How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World, is a […]
Speaker Spotlight: Rapid Fire with Lindsey Vonn
About Lindsey Vonn Lindsey Vonn is the most successful female alpine skier in the history of the sport and is on her way to becoming the most successful ski racer ever. Over the course of her career, she has captured a world-record 82 World Cup wins en route to 20 FIS Alpine World Cup titles […]
James Hewitt Wins Speaker Sourcing Contest
James Hewitt will join our Nordic Business Forum 2018 speaker lineup and will be paid a 30,000 € speaking fee. The Speaker Sourcing Contest finale was held today in Stockholm. James Hewitt, Head of Science & Innovation at Hintsa Performance, won the competition and will join the Nordic Business Forum 2018 speaker lineup and will […]
Join Our Speaker Sourcing Contest Final in Stockholm
Join our FREE Speaker Sourcing Contest finale on Wednesday 15 August at the Coor Conference Center in Stockholm. What a ride these last few months have been! Our shiny, brand new Speaker Sourcing Contest set out earlier this year to find individuals with fresh perspectives and management ideas and give them a platform to speak […]
#NBForum2018 Speaker Protips
Our brand new Speaker Sourcing Contest has hit the ground running this year, and it’s hard to believe that we are already in the home stretch. The contest, which set out to find individuals with fresh perspectives and management ideas and give them a platform to speak, is coming to a close on Wednesday 15 […]
Speaker Spotlight: Separating Minds from Machines with Andrew McAfee
About Andrew McAfee Andrew McAfee is the co-founder and co-director of the Initiative on the Digital Economy and a principal research scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He studies how digital technologies are changing business, the economy, and society. His 2014 book on these topics, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity […]
Speaker Spotlight: Number Crunching with Aswath Damodaran
About Aswath Damodaran Aswath Damodaran is the Kerschner Family Chair Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University. He teaches the corporate finance and valuation courses in the MBA program. In addition to being the author of multiple books on valuation, his accomplished teaching has earned him the Stern School […]
Speaker Spotlight: Feeling the Power with Amy Cuddy
About Amy Cuddy Social psychologist and bestselling author Amy Cuddy is an expert on the behavioral science of power, presence, and prejudice. She is known around the world for her 2012 TED Talk, which is the second-most-viewed talk in TED’s history. Amy, who teaches leadership at Harvard, earned her Ph.D. from Princeton University and has […]
Speaker Spotlight: Getting Strategic with Gary Hamel
About Gary Hamel Gary Hamel is one of the world’s most influential and iconoclastic business thinkers. He has worked with leading companies across the globe and is a dynamic and sought-after management speaker. Hamel has been on the faculty of the London Business School for more than 30 years and is the director of the […]
Everything You Missed @ Oslo Qualifier
Our third and final Speaker Sourcing Contest qualifying round took place on June 5th in Oslo. As with the previous qualifiers, 8 contestants competed for two spots in our Stockholm final in August. The presentation topics covered the three themes of our Nordic Business Forum 2018 event: Strategy, Peak Performance, and Artificial Intelligence. Most of […]