Sheena Iyengar – Lead By Choice (VIP Session)
“Back in the day,” Sheena Iyengar told the audience at the 2023 NBF VIP Session, “the average individual got married to somebody who lived or worked within a 4-block radius of them. Today, you have over 6,000 different dating apps around the globe for you to find your ‘perfect soulmate.’” And while this may sound […]
Patrick Lencioni – Healthy Leader, Healthy Team, Healthy Organization (VIP Session)
Patrick Lencioni began his VIP session at NBF 2023 with an unusual request: “I love to be interrupted. I’m really more of a talker than a speaker, and I’m a consultant at heart. So if there’s something that you wanna ask, raise your hand. And we’ll take that question during my talk. That will be […]
Erin Meyer – Lead, Negotiate, and Get Things Done Across the World
Globalization has become so much the norm over the last half-century that it can be easy to forget that doing business with people from a country at the other end of the world is, well, doing business with people from the other end of the world! Despite the use of common languages, concepts, and tools […]
Rutger Bregman – The ROI of an Optimistic View of People
Historian and author Rutger Bregman’s basic question to those in attendance at the Nordic Business Forum is this: are people inherently selfish, or are people inherently helpful? When put to a vote, the majority of the audience (58%) believes that we are inherently selfish, while 42% believe the opposite. Bregman’s talk aims to show two […]
Randi Zuckerberg – What She Learned on the Front Lines of Social Media
Randi Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Zuckerberg Media, began her marketing career at a time when the term digital marketing was new. Her brother’s startup The Facebook completely changed the face of digital marketing and paved the way for Zuckerberg’s innovative, entrepreneurial career. Her main message throughout her talk was how anyone can become […]
Alex Osterwalder – Building the Invincible Company
Even “if you have room to expand your innovation abilities,” it does not mean that you actually should, began Alex Osterwalder, the inventor of the business model canvas. Osterwalder started by telling the classic tale of Kodak’s fall. Although an early inventor of digital cameras, Kodak did not prepare for the eventuality of digital. Instead, […]