Rasmus Ankersen is a bestselling author, an entrepreneur, a speaker on performance development and a trusted advisor to businesses and athletes around the world.
In 2012 Rasmus published The Gold Mine Effect, in which he explores how some countries and cities develop a disproportionate amount of top talent.
In 2016 Rasmus published Hunger in Paradise: a book about how successful organisations can remain successful by eliminating complacency.
Rasmus is also the chairman of FC Midtjylland, his childhood football club in Denmark, and a director of the English club Brentford FC. Both are known as some of the world's most innovative football clubs, especially recognised for their use of big data to drive decision-making.
Over the past few years, Rasmus has been hired to share his research on high performance cultures by global brands like LEGO, Google, Boston Consulting Group, IKEA, Google, Facebook, Hitachi, Roche, Ernst & Young and many more.
Rasmus Ankersen is a bestselling author, an entrepreneur, a speaker on performance development and a trusted advisor to businesses and athletes around the world.
In 2012 Rasmus published The Gold Mine Effect, in which he explores how some countries and cities develop a disproportionate amount of top talent.
In 2016 Rasmus published Hunger in Paradise: a book about how successful organisations can remain successful by eliminating complacency.
Rasmus is also the chairman of FC Midtjylland, his childhood football club in Denmark, and a director of the English club Brentford FC. Both are known as some of the world's most innovative football clubs, especially recognised for their use of big data to drive decision-making.
Over the past few years, Rasmus has been hired to share his research on high performance cultures by global brands like LEGO, Google, Boston Consulting Group, IKEA, Google, Facebook, Hitachi, Roche, Ernst & Young and many more.
Hunger in Paradise
"From a competition perspective, the iPhone is nothing but a niche product" The famous words belong to Nokia's CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo when he on the 17th April 2008, barely a year after the iPhone's release, was asked if he saw iPhone as a commercial threat.
Kallasvuo's answer came to stand as a monument to the arrogance that sent Nokia into a free fall towards the abyss. In six years Nokia's smartphone market share dropped from 50% to 3%. The same people who made...
Hunger in Paradise
While we talk a lot about how to achieve success, we talk way too little about the consequences of success. About the complacency and arrogance, which often follow as a shadow of success.
In this presentation Rasmus Ankersen explains how successful organizations can create hunger in paradise.
The Gold Mine Effect
Why are 137 of the worlds 500 best female golfers from South Korea? How did one athletic club in Kingston, Jamaica, succeed to produce most of the world's best sprinters?
What is the reason that the world's best marathon runners grew up in the same village in Ethiopia? What is the secret behind Brazils mass production of soccer super stars?
How has one village with 500 inhabitants in Sweden managed to produced the best skiers in history?
For six intense months, Rasmus...
The Gold Mine Effect
The secrets of high performance...
For six intense months Rasmus Ankersen travelled the world and literally trained and lived with the world's best athletes and their coaches. In The Gold Mine Effect Ankersen presents his surprising conclusions on what it takes to build a gold mine of world class performers.
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PwC
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H.V.S.A., CEO / Territory Senior Partner, PwC
Rasmus delivered the best presentation ever in a partner and directors meeting.
Google UK
On-Site
G.S., j, Google UK
Rasmus has consistently been rated as one of the best speakers to take the stage at Google events. Importantly, he was able to draw on wide range of experiences and stories that resonated with a particularly diverse audience, which is often one of the most challenging aspects when searching for inspirational key note speakers.
