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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 […]

Journey to the Speaker Contest with James Hewitt

James Hewitt

After our first ever Speaker Sourcing Contest this year with 171 applicants, the qualifying rounds in Helsinki, Stockholm and Oslo in May and June, and the exciting final in Stockholm in August with 6 finalists, we got our first ever Speaker Sourcing Contest winner: James Hewitt, head of science & innovation, Hintsa Performance with the […]

Leadership, Innovation, and Public Speaking with Alf Rehn

In this episode of Business as Unusual, Pep talks to Alf Rehn. Alf is a Finnish professor, author, and speaker based in Finland. He currently holds the Chair of Management and Organization at Åbo Akademi University in Finland.

Flow, Machine Learning, and AI with Steven Kotler

In this episode of Business as Unusual, Pep talks to Steven Kotler. Steven is a New York Times bestselling author, an award-winning journalist and the co-founder & director of research for the Flow Genome Project. He is one of the world’s leading experts on ultimate human performance.

Why Do You Work?

I heard a really good conversation opener during a break at the Nordic Business Forum recently. Instead of the standard question about what I do for a living, I was surprised to be asked: “Why do you do what you do for a living?” It was a fresh, thought-provoking way to start up a conversation […]