stay with
people.
Alf speaks to senior audiences worldwide, from strategy conferences to leadership retreats and boardrooms. Intellectually rigorous, genuinely funny, and reliably willing to say the thing the room has been avoiding.
Every keynote is written for the room it is given in. There is no shelf of ready-made talks to pick from, because what is useful depends on who is in the audience, what they have already been told this year, and what the organization is actually wrestling with. What stays constant is the territory.
Creativity & Innovation
Why most innovation work quietly fails, and what it takes to build creativity as a discipline rather than wait for it as a gift.
Leadership Under Data & AI
What changes when organizations treat people, culture, and judgment as data, and which choices a leader cannot hand to a system.
The Future of Work
Less prediction theater, more useful thinking about what is genuinely shifting in how we work and what is simply being sold to us.
Culture & Its Edges
What management can learn from the parts of culture it would rather not discuss, including the criminal ones.
A few of the talks Alf has given lately. They are here as examples of where the thinking goes, not as a menu to order from. Yours would be its own.
- 01Of Transcendence and Transformers: Human Excellence in the Age of the Mediocrity Engines
- 02AI As the End of Management?
- 03Humane Leadership in Inhumane Times (?)
- 04Reclaim Creativity, or, How to Beat a Machine
- 05The Many Futures of Consulting
- 06Innovation and the Reprehensible: On Finding Inspiration in Unlikely Places
- 07A Philosophy of the Polycrisis
- 08On Innovation, New and Old: Assemblies, Algorithms, Ambition, and the Anodyne
Keynote
The signature format: big ideas, sharp delivery, and a through-line your audience keeps talking about afterward. Built to the length the room needs.
Masterclass
Half or full day. For groups that want the method and not just the momentum, with room for the arguments a keynote has to skip.
Keynote + Advisory
Pair a keynote with a closed executive session, so the thinking continues once the main stage lights go down. See advisory
Virtual
The same energy through a camera. Built for a screen rather than simply pointed at one.
Bespoke
Series, off-sites, executive programs. If it needs an original mind on the bill, ask.
Your presentation made a considerable impact. It was very well received. The following days a lot of reference was made … this probably was the most positive of all.
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.
Your speech raised the exchange of opinions we hoped for and resonated well with the team.
Languages
Keynotes in English, with Swedish and Finnish available for Nordic audiences.
Availability
Global, in person and virtual. Alf travels, and plans well ahead when he does.
Lead time
The good dates go early. If you have a date in mind, start the conversation now.
Your audience
deserves better
than a safe talk.
Available globally for keynotes, strategy events, and executive programs. Bookings are handled by SpeakersNet, who will have dates and fees to hand.
Tell Alf about your event, your audience, and the idea you want them to leave with. You will hear back, usually within 48 hours.
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