Nordic Business Forum 2027 Speaker
Rachel Botsman
Rachel Botsman is a leading authority on trust in the modern world, known for connecting history, technology, and human behaviour in fresh and engaging ways. She is the author of three influential books: What’s Mine is Yours, Who Can You Trust?, and How To Trust & Be Trusted.
Rachel was the first Trust Fellow at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School, where she teaches leaders and entrepreneurs how to lead with trust in a changing world. Recognized as one of the world’s top 30 management thinkers and honoured as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
Alongside her writing and teaching, Rachel explores how art and design can spark new ways of thinking. Her installation Roots of Trust was featured at the London Design Biennale, where audiences were invited to experience trust not as an abstract concept but as a living system.
Rachel at Nordic Business Forum 2027
The Art of Thinking Clearly, Slowly and Deeply
In this keynote, Rachel Botsman will explore how leaders can resist the pressure for instant answers and create space for deeper thinking. She will share how thinking more slowly, clearly, and deeply can help cut through complexity, improve decision-making, and unlock creativity in an increasingly distracted world.
Learning points:
- Thinking slowly: Discover how to resist the pull of the instant answer.
- Thinking clearly: Learn how to cut through noise to see what really matters.
- Thinking deeply: Explore how sustained attention unlocks creativity and better problem solving.
Rachel at Nordic Business Forum 2027
VIP Session: Trust in the Age of Synthetic Everything
In this VIP session, Rachel will explore how trust is changing in a world defined by uncertainty and rapid change. She will share a new perspective on trust as a confident relationship with the unknown and examine how trust and risk shape our decisions about who and what to trust.
Learning points:
- How and why trust is changing: a clear, macro view.
- Why trust is a confident relationship with the unknown, and what that means for leaders.
- How a risk lens and a trust lens shape your decisions about who and what to trust.
More from Rachel Botsman
Read
The shift from trust in institutions and leaders to trust in strangers, technologies, and digital platforms. Rachel explains how the age of “distributed trust” is rewriting the rules of trust and changing how it is built, managed, lost, and repaired in the digital age.
Watch
What Does It Really Mean To Trust? In this episode of High Performance podcast, Rachel explores trust, doubt, and what it means to trust the unknown. She explains how humility and stepping outside your comfort zone can help drive high performance.
Listen
In this episode of How to Be a Better Human podcast, Rachel and Chris Duffy discuss trust in many forms, from asking AI medical questions to understanding what is real and what is false online.
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