Anette presents unforgettable and highly engaging keynotes that are insightful and inspiring.
Your audience will gain useful tools and knowledge that can be easily applied.
Anette is one of the most requested and popular keynote speakers in Denmark.

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”An inspirational firework. Anette Prehn has blown us away!”

Anette Prehn is a pioneer in applied neuroscience and the go-to-person if your organisation is in the midst of change, your employees are experiencing too much negative stress or you want to move from old habits to innovative result creation? Anette makes the complicated field of neuroscience research understandable to all types of audiences and shares findings on how best to change a mindset, make change stick, lead, and collaborate. She turns the cutting-edge insights of neuroscience into down-to-earth tools for leadership, collaboration and change management and has developed the patented reframing method Framestorm ® which boosts mental flexibility and emotional regulation.

Anette Prehn is a social scientist (M.A.), leadership trainer, motivational speaker and professional certified coach. She has clients like A.P. Moeller-Maersk / Grundfos / Novo Nordisk / Nordea / Danfoss / Copenhagen Business School / 40+ municipalities / 100+ educational institutions and schools.

She has been honoured the title “Trainer of the Year – Leadership/Coaching” by Confex. Clients call her “a brilliant motivational speaker” and “a world class trainer”. Anette’s speeches and workshops are varied, engaging and inspiring experience – shifting between presentation, videos, exercises, down-to-earth tools, engaging anecdotes, tips & tricks and reflective questions. The participants are encouraged to co-create the atmosphere and constantly bridge the learning environment and their daily experiences/challenges for maximum application and benefit.

Anette authored 20+ published books with her own brain, before AI became common property. She thinks originally and communicates in ways that are easy to understand, remember, and apply. All Anette's motivational talks are spiced up with humor and thorough research.

Anette is available for keynotes, courses, and competence development programs that leave a real mark. Highly engaging and contagious. Tailor-made contributions. Exceptionally high client satisfaction!

Book Anette and have your leaders and employees say things like: “In my life and leadership there is a before and after Anette Prehn” or “Anette Prehn has blown us away – and I understand why.”

Customer Reviews

Powerful, challenging, and world-class. A sublime expert within the field of NeuroLeadership.

Trine Brahm Novozymes

Anette Prehn delivered an outstanding performance at our conference and was the best speaker of the day. She contributed with brand new and useful knowledge to the participants. At the same time, Anette is both entertaining, energetic, and charming. I give Anette Prehn my best recommendations to others, who need energy, joy, and new tools to understand the brain’s mechanisms.

Thomas Torp Grakom

Anette Prehn is a generous and attentive speaker with a formidable ability to make difficult things easy to comprehend. She translates neuroscience into useful tools. Her speaking style – oscillating between presentations and audience participation – is simply excellent and she manages to create a sense of togetherness in the room, which boosts learning.

Olav Keblovszki Port of Aarhus

We had a very captivating virtual lecture with Anette Prehn focusing on the brain’s reactions to change. It is of course always difficult to evaluate the exact effects of such interventions. However, I have to say that I am impressed with how well my employees have been able to cope with the change afterwards … the largest change ever in the history of Grundfos.

Per Kjertan Thamsen Grundfos

Anette Prehn’s BRAINSMART concept offers a unique and clear understanding of why people cope with strong emotional experiences so differently, and how we may give them a better chance of staying mentally healthy and fit under extraordinary pressure. Anette Prehn is a powerhouse and continues to turn complex neuroscience into easy-to-apply principles and tools that can be learnt and used. On top of this, Anette Prehn is a fantastic communicator, in her books as well as while presenting. She has a stage presence second to none, a playful approach to learning and life and she vividly engages everyone in a room. My warmest recommendations!

Warrant Officer H.F. Bech Royal Danish Air Force

Anette Prehn is impossible to miss when she is on stage. She is brilliant in leading her audience and diversifying public speaking methods that charms audience and facilitates active listening. Also, I consider Anette’s book ‘Play Your Brain’ to be the missing ingredient in the conventional business world.

Skirmantas Letukas Siemens Wind Power

It’s not too often one attends a seminar and can see the benefits immediately – Anette Prehn provided exactly that environment for us.

Bobby Kaura Roche

Anette Prehn is a highly experienced and reliable speaker. She communicates neuroscience in a way that makes it both relevant and concrete for leaders – with lots of illustrative examples, a varied training style and brain-friendly principles and exercises. We had Anette do a tour where she gave the same inspirational workshop in four different locations across the country – and every time she delivered with the same commitment and vitality.

Mette Marie Langenge HK Kommunal

An inspirational firework! It was a true pleasure to witness Anette Prehn’s charisma and enthusiasm, humor, and ability to communicate complicated knowledge in a fantastically tangible manner.

Sebastian Schwarz Danish Export Association

One of the most interesting lectures I have attended.

Anders Garnell Bosch Rexroth

Anette Prehn manages to excite, even though the material is hardcore. When Anette lectures on how learning takes place, she herself uses methods that support learning. It is theory and practice combined at the same time, which provides double learning.

Grethe Risum Krog Rigshospitalet

I’ve taken part in lots of other seminars and watched numerous TED talks in my life, but never come across an active stage presence like Anette Prehn’s. She has a gift for being both highly professional, knowledgeable, and relevant to business whilst almost cartwheeling on stage with her bubbly and dynamic personality. My warmest recommendations!

Tore Falkenberg Nordea

Brilliant motivational speaker that connects 100% with the audience.

Thorbjørn Hededal Danske Bank

Anette was fantastic! All 135+ participants found her presentation to be engaging, relevant, and immediately applicable to their job positions.

Linda Ericsson

Keynotes

Keynote by Anette Prehn:

BrainSmart Leadership: Lead with the Brain in Mind

Great leadership becomes easier when you understand the brain you are leading.

The human brain follows several fundamental principles. Yet many organisations unknowingly work against them, creating unnecessary stress, resistance, mental overload and wasted potential. You can turn a brain into an ally, but you can also turn it into an opponent without realising it.

In this inspiring and highly practical keynote, Anette Prehn turns insights from neuroscience and social psychology into leadership tools that can be used immediately. Drawing on her bestselling book BrainSmart Leadership, she shows how seemingly small shifts in leadership behaviour can have a significant impact on focus, collaboration, learning and performance.

Discover how leaders can:

Reduce unnecessary threat and preserve people’s capacity to think clearly
Strengthen trust, focus, learning and mental flexibility
Create conditions that support learning, performance, collaboration and innovation
Help people navigate pressure and change without simply asking them to “cope better”
Navigate difficult interactions with greater flexibility and “flip” their perspective

You cannot lead without influencing brains. The question is whether you do it accidentally or intelligently. Work with the brain rather than against it, and both people and performance benefit.

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Keynote by Anette Prehn:

Feedback with the Brain in Mind

Why can perfectly reasonable feedback trigger resistance instead of reflection?

Feedback is never just about words. The brain is constantly scanning for signals of threat, status, belonging and intention, and if the alarm system is activated, even well-meant feedback can become difficult to hear, process and act upon.

In this inspiring and highly practical keynote, Anette Prehn – author of the bestselling book BrainSmart Leadership – reveals how to make feedback safer, sharper and far more likely to create learning and change.

You will explore:

Why feedback can trigger defensiveness before the other person has fully processed what you are saying
How in-group and out-group dynamics influence trust and receptiveness
What happens when the brain’s threat response reduces access to reflection, flexibility and self-regulation
How to give feedback in ways that increase the likelihood of genuine learning and behavioural change
How to keep your own mindset agile when conversations become sensitive

Understanding how people interpret their own performance and development is a crucial part of effective feedback. That is where BrainSmart feedback begins: with the other person’s perspective, not simply your own.

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Keynote by Anette Prehn:

Boost Collaboration with the Brain in Mind

Some of the most powerful signals in a team are never spoken aloud.

A raised eyebrow. A sigh. Turning away. Leaning in. Interrupting. Smiling at one colleague but not another.

These tiny signals, micromessages, continuously influence whether people feel included, respected and safe enough to contribute. Most teams dramatically underestimate their impact.

In this inspiring and highly practical keynote, Anette Prehn – author of the bestselling book BrainSmart Leadership – makes the invisible visible and shows how leaders and employees can use micromessages to strengthen both collaboration and performance.

You will discover:

How subtle non-verbal signals can affect confidence, participation and mental capacity
Why seemingly insignificant behaviours can strengthen or weaken psychological safety
How to recognise interaction patterns that unintentionally undermine colleagues
How to address difficult micromessages without escalating tension
How small behavioural adjustments can create surprisingly large changes in team dynamics

Collaboration is not only shaped by what we say. It is shaped by hundreds of tiny signals that tell other brains: “You belong here” or “Watch out.” BrainSmart leaders notice micromessages and know how to address them, tweak them and make them work for the team.

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