Unlock human potential and future-ready leadership with Annicken R. Day, culture strategist for Fortune 100s and bestselling author.
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Annicken’s presentation at our global kick-off was incredibly inspiring, professional, exciting, amusing and very informative. I would highly recommend her to any company where collaboration and culture-change is a topic.
Ralf Bauman, CEO
Stepstone
Book international keynote speaker Annicken R. Day to transform your workplace culture, ignite human potential, and future-proof your leadership. With real-world strategies and inspiring storytelling, she empowers organizations to thrive through trust, innovation, and purpose-driven performance.
Keynote Speaker Annicken R. Day is globally recognized for her transformative work in corporate culture, future-ready leadership, and the human side of innovation and AI. With over two decades of experience as a tech executive and culture strategist, she has helped Fortune 100 companies, visionary startups, and global leaders unlock human potential and drive meaningful change in a fast-evolving world.
Known for her unique ability to blend business insight with human-centered strategy, Annicken brings clarity, energy, and actionable tools to every keynote. Her talks are rooted in real-world experience and infused with Scandinavian directness, storytelling, and humor, creating a dynamic, practical, and inspiring experience for corporate audiences.
As the founder of Corporate Spring and bestselling author of Fly, Butterfly, Annicken’s mission is clear: when people thrive, business thrives. Her keynotes empower leaders to build high-performance cultures grounded in trust, joy, and purpose, resulting in improved engagement, innovation, and sustainable growth.
If your organization is navigating change, looking to boost morale, or aiming to build a thriving culture in today’s complex landscape, book Annicken R. Day for your event. Whether you're hosting a leadership summit, corporate retreat, or industry conference, her keynotes deliver long-lasting impact and measurable business value.
Book Annicken R. Day to inspire, energize, and equip your teams to lead with heart and create workplaces where people and performance, can truly flourish.
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Annicken’s presentation at our global kick-off was incredibly inspiring, professional, exciting, amusing and very informative. I would highly recommend her to any company where collaboration and culture-change is a topic.
Ralf Bauman, CEO Stepstone
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Annicken has a rare gift - an extraordinary intuitive understanding of culture. She has the ability to take stale, dispiriting organizations and make them into great places to work, and helps teams create inspired cultures that create wonders.
Erika Ilves - Chief Strategy Officer The Metals Company
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Annicken is inspiring, professional, detail-oriented, ambitious and she always gets excellent feedback from our participants. Her webinar “Culture as Strategy for Growth” received an all-time-high rating from our 3000+ participants.
Christoffer Omberg - Co-Founder and CEO Oslo Business Forum
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Annicken is by far the best “culture expert” I have ever come across, both as a subject matter expert and her ability to facilitate implementation. Her impressive background combined with a uniquely energetic personality and “no b.s.” attitude is the reason we hire her to speak at our events..
Martin Falch - CEO 360Leaders
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Annicken R. Day delivered a most intriguing session for our leadership team at Amazon Web Services, focusing on Leadership for the new world of work. Her ability to transport the listener to a deeper, inner, more connected realm is almost surreal.
Denning Tan - StartUp Lead Amazon Web Services, APAC
Keynote by Annicken R. Day:
In a world shaped by disruption and AI, human connection is your superpower. This keynote explores why culture is no longer a “nice-to-have” it’s your most powerful strategic asset and how future-focused companies are building human-centric cultures that drive trust, innovation, and performance.
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Leadership today requires more than agility, it requires a mindset shift. Based on the science-backed, proven Corporate Spring Model™, this keynote offers a transformative roadmap for leaders to move from control to trust, from burnout to energy, and from rigid hierarchies to dynamic, purpose-driven teams.
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As AI accelerates, the need for emotional intelligence, creativity, and connection grows. This keynote explores how leaders can harness the power of AI while amplifying the very qualities that make us human and why empathy, trust, and culture are more critical than ever.
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Joy is not a soft skill, it’s a strategy. This keynote explores how joy, creativity, and connection fuel engagement and performance and what leaders can do to design workplaces where people thrive.
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Culture doesn’t happen by accident, it’s a design choice. This talk gives leaders a proven framework for building trust, psychological safety, and purpose-driven performance, inspired by the science-backed, proven Corporate Spring Model™.
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Inspired by her bestselling book Fly, Butterfly, this keynote invites audiences to embrace transformation from the inside out. Whether navigating culture change, career shifts, or personal growth, Annicken offers a powerful message: small, intentional shifts can lead to extraordinary outcomes. Playful, profound, and deeply relatable, this talk is a celebration of human potential in motion.
Watch Annicken R. Day in action!
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