Rehn.
The ideas that make the most difference are usually the ones nobody in the room wants to say out loud. Alf says them, and makes you glad he did.
The Creative Class Contrarian.
Creativity, culture, and the management of ideas, taken seriously but never solemnly. Free, and home to the 5-Minute Innovator.
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Speaking
From global business conferences to boardrooms. Intellectually rigorous, consistently memorable, and, despite the depth, genuinely entertaining.
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Writing
Twenty-two books on creativity, innovation, and the stranger edges of management, written across three languages and more than twenty years.
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Strategic counsel for executives who want honest engagement with creativity, innovation, and emerging technology, including AI and quantum.
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& CODES
Professor of Innovation, Design, and Management at SDU. Director of CODES, the Center for Organizational Datafication and its Ethics in Society. Where academic rigor meets the questions that actually matter.
CODES & ResearchTalks that stay with people.
Alf speaks to senior audiences worldwide, from strategy conferences to leadership retreats and boardrooms. Every talk is built for the room it is given in rather than pulled off a shelf.
On creativity, innovation, management,
culture, and the ideas that unsettle.
We very much enjoyed Alf’s keynote speech, which evoked new ways of thinking and was definitely one of the highlights of this year’s strategy meeting.
Most people ask
about keynotes.
Not everyone does.
Some ask about advisory work or a seat on a board. Some want a research collaboration, an article written, a course built. Some arrive with a request that fits no category at all, and those are often the good ones.
Bookings run through SpeakersNet in Stockholm, who handle dates, fees and contracts. Everything else finds its way to Alf.
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