Be it for a breakfast, a function, a conference, or for kicking off a strategy session, a future focused keynote can help you set the tone, challenge ideas, provoke curiosity, and heighten creativity among the audiences.
A keynote is a great way to create awareness and impart knowledge of a specific subject. It energizes, it provides tools for tackling new challenges, and it provides insights into possible strategic directions.
The below 9 themes are popular keynotes created and delivered by Per, covering both the future, intercultural management, and his experiences from living, working, and traveling to over 90 countries across 6 continents.
Please talk to me about your specific requirements and what you want to achieve, and we can create a keynote that suits your needs.
Get in touchWhen we hear about AI and robots, we immediately think about how “they” will come and take our jobs, and in our heads, we picture Hollywood’s deadly robots in doomsday movies walking in the streets and offices. This is as far from reality as we can get. This talk will address what Artificial Intelligence is, what Augmented and Virtual Reality are, what they can and can’t do, and what the role of humans is when AI and robots run the world. (This is a futuristic talk, and not an AI technology session.)
To decode the future, we need new thinking tools and techniques, tools that let us see behind the obvious and imagine the possible. In this engaging keynote, we’ll analyze the past, the current, and the future by using different thinking tools such as (but not limited to) Environmental Scanning (what is going on around us?), Futures Wheels (identifying 2nd and 3rd order implications of current events) , and Scenario Planning (creating visions and options for the future). We’ll analyze everyday examples from different industries to show how a small changes in one industry over time can generate huge impacts in another.
In a world of smart cities, smart cars, smart factories, 4D-printing, additive manufacturing, space explorations, and smart bio-enhanced humans, can we normal humans survive? In this talk we’ll explore the tech mega trends that is currently shaping the world, discuss the VUCA and BANI concepts, how they will affect our workplace, and what we as humans must do to remain relevant and ensure we are not leaving people behind.
Water is life and over half the globe is oceans that feed us, generate oxygen so we can breathe, energy for our machines, and is home to a vast number of species. Yet our human desires threaten the oceans’ ability to give life, the very same ability that we rely on for our own survival. In this talk, we will explore the future of the oceanic biosphere, our attitude to it, how we extract its resources, and the long-term effect we humans have on it.
The overseas postings are coveted jobs, providing status, monetary gains, and memories for life. Sometimes though, life throws a curveball, and these material gains mean very little for your survival. In this talk we will explore 5 lessons I learnt from the civil unrest in Indonesia in ’98, the civil war in Sierra Leone in ’00, and getting stuck in a coup d’état in Ivory Coast in ’00. We will explore each of the five lessons (Communication, Transparency, Flexibility, Keep Calm, and Cash is King) through real life events..
How do you get 20 people from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and countries to gel into a homogeneous and effective team? In this talk I draw on my experiences of having built effective project teams in Southeast Asia and Africa. We will address basic intercultural theory and look at techniques to build trust, respect, understanding, and most of all, making cultural differences fun.
