With his charisma, unique abilities and rare prophetic accuracy in predicting the future, Kjell A. Nordström is one of the world's most popular and sought-after lecturers.

As an expert on multinational organisations, Nordström has been helping companies – and even entire societies – navigate times of growth and crisis since the 1990s. His mastery of his field, his keen eye for detail and his extensive experience shape his keynotes and leave hardly anyone in his audience unimpressed.

He recognised differences and ‘otherness’ as competitive advantages, cities as the new major players in the world, and the subtle but profound impact of women permeating all levels of society – long before other great minds in business. And although we can only predict the future based on what we know today, a lecture by Kjell Nordström is your chance to equip your company with the latest insights.

Kjell Nordström lecture topics

-The modern multinational company: strategies, structures & leadership

- Pandenomics – The global economy after the pandemic

- The future of leadership: three paths to modern leadership styles

- The monkey and capital – A recurring economic history

- MOMENTUM – From crisis to opportunity

- Economic Darwinism – Survival of the Sexiest

- Funky Business Forever – Talent Makes Capital Dance

Dr Kjell Nordström bases his observations and predictions on reliable research findings, the latest movements on the global market and his unparalleled experience and insight. In the 1990s, he conducted research in Lahore and Beijing and observed and supported the reconstruction of countries such as Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

For three decades, he has worked with the world's most influential and innovative companies and regularly tops the lists of Europe's greatest management experts. As such, Kjell Nordström is in a unique position to observe the movement of powerful global forces and show his audience how the future will unfold.

When Kjell Nordström takes the stage, you can expect an elegant and captivating presentation that promises to inspire, inform and enthral.

With several best-selling books and years of cutting-edge research behind him, Kjell Nordström's lectures are guaranteed to make your company a stronger competitor on the international stage. Will our globalised world continue to expand, or will it break down into regional ‘oligons’?

Will tomorrow's workforce be dominated by educated women in cities? How will working conditions and society change when city centres are hollowed out into doughnuts? Is climate change the greatest economic opportunity since the Industrial Revolution?

These are just some of the questions Dr Kjell Nordström attempts to answer – and his answers will surprise you.

Be inspired to look to the future. Discover the hidden potential in your company. Explore the opportunities offered by global markets. Get to know the next generation of business, work and social structures. In a tailor-made and unique event with Nordström, be it a keynote speech or a management workshop, you will learn to recognise and understand the global forces shaping the future so that you can make your own predictions.

Economic philosopher Kjell Nordström: his outfit, his bold theories and his attitude as a professional provocateur have catapulted him out of the crowd of Fredmund Maliks and Peter Druckers of this world. Business philosopher Kjell Nordström has become a brand. A magnificent marketing achievement and proof of a thesis by its creator himself: Kjell Nordström is the perfect embodiment of a 21st-century economic visionary.

Kjell A. Nordström made his international breakthrough with the influential book Funky Business (1999), which he co-authored with Jonas Ridderstråle. His successful predictions about the new millennium established his career as an international speaker and led to frequent appearances on news channels such as CNN and CNBC, as well as countless interviews in other news programmes and magazines. Further successes followed with Karaoke Capitalism (2003) and Funky Business Forever (2007).

Together with his co-author Per Schlingmann, Kjell Nordström wrote the bestsellers Urban Express (2014) and Corona Express (2021), books that deal with the jobs, cities and societies of the future. In their book Momentum (2022), they describe how tomorrow's leaders and managers will be shaped by war, pandemics and climate change. Kjell Nordström's book The Monkey and the Capital (2023) has been an international bestseller since its first week of release.

Kjell Nordström holds a PhD in International Business from the Stockholm School of Economics, where he also played a central role at the renowned Institute for International Business as one of the founders of the school's most sought-after management programme, the Advanced Management Programme (AMP). AMP was a top management programme that attracted the elite of Scandinavian executives.

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