Nordic Business Forum 2027 Speaker
Trevor Noah
Trevor Noah is best known for being the Emmy Award-winning host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central and for hosting the Grammy Awards for six consecutive years. He has written, produced, and starred in 14 comedy specials, and his Off The Record tour sold out worldwide.
He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, as well as the #1 New York Times bestseller Into the Uncut Grass.
He launched the Trevor Noah Foundation to improve access to quality education for underserved youth in South Africa.
Trevor now hosts an original SiriusXM podcast titled What Now? With Trevor Noah and heads up his production company Day Zero Productions.
Trevor at Nordic Business Forum 2027
Finding Common Ground
In this moderated discussion at Nordic Business Forum 2027, Trevor Noah explores how to connect with people who see the world differently, drawing on a life shaped by growing up in South Africa and speaking many languages. He’ll share why curiosity, language, and humour can lower people’s defences, and how leaders can build common ground without first needing everyone to agree.
Learning points:
- How to connect across different perspectives.
- Why curiosity, language and humor can lower defenses.
- How to build common ground without requiring agreement.
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Simon Sinek and Trevor Noah discuss what real kindness means, arguing that it is different from niceness, generosity, and empathy. Kindness requires action, discomfort, and sometimes sacrifice, such as giving hard feedback or showing up for someone who is struggling. Their view is that kindness means seeing others as the same kind as us, a foundation of community and trust that today’s personalized algorithms and AI imitations of empathy can’t replace.
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Trevor currently hosts a weekly podcast titled What Now? with Trevor Noah. In this podcast, listeners get a chance to hear Trevor like never before. Trevor is joined each episode by celebrities, thought leaders, athletes, and friends to chat about the contemporary topics on everyone’s minds. He brings the kinds of conversations that happen behind the scenes to light – full of radical candor, authentic back-and-forths, and honest reactions, with Trevor bringing to bear his classic, effortlessly playful and equally probing style.
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