Magnus Penker

Play Bold — How to win the business game by creative destruction

Warning! This keynote is disruptive! Implementing its insights may result in double-digit percentage growth, outperformed competitors, new revenue streams, much faster and cheaper processes, and revamped business models. In short, it could put you at the top of your competitive market.

This keynote is based on Magnus Penker’s upcoming book of the same title.

Audience takeaways:

• Based on an investigation of over 5,000 organizations in 105 countries, Magnus Penker presents thought-provoking, data-backed new insights on how to lead, organize, and nurture an unbeatable culture in order to prepare for the competitive environment, now
  and in the future.
• What can we learn from history to help us make calculated decisions about the future?
• How to prepare your team to embolden the organization, get the job done, and continuously stay on top.

Taking your organization to the forefront of global innovators

Everyone talks about it, but only 10% of businesses make it. Why? Magnus Penker and his team have conducted the largest study of worldwide businesses and have built an extensive database for analyzing organizational culture, leadership, and strategy. Now you can benefit from its data-driven insights. Position yourself to deliver innovation and get ahead of the curve.

Audience takeaways:

• What blockers are hindering corporate innovation?
• What amplifiers can be used to intensify your effectiveness and success rate?
• We show you how to assess your organization in order to close the gaps, use the amplifiers to get rid of the blockers, and start delivering world-class innovation.
• Do you have organizational alignment around your strategic direction? In other words: do the management and employees interpret your aspiration in the same way? And do you have the ability to execute on that aspiration?

How to get back in the saddle after a crisis

Right now we are experiencing the most turbulent time in the past 300 years. There is a proactive way for your organization to handle the stressors of this business environment. Based on science, extensive studies, and years of experience of delivering projects to organizations ranging from Fortune 100s to start-ups, Magnus and his team have defined the most important capabilities —and how to build them at the speed of light. Use Magnus Penker’s deep organizational knowledge to learn how to get back to business after a crisis.

Audience takeaways:

•  The key to motivating: look beyond the horizon during a crisis.
• How to lead and organize to get back in the game quickly.
• How do you increase your organizational adaptability for enhanced readiness and strategic response, today and tomorrow?

Decision-making in uncertain times

How do you make a decision when so much is unknown and so much is on the line? How can you defend your decision? Whether it is a pandemic or Artificial Intelligence and the black box syndrome, this is what all senior leadership teams are facing right now.

Learn how to cope in this environment of unknowns. Learn about the models available to help you and the techniques at hand. Speaker Magnus Penker will share his insights from firsthand experience in leading hundreds of projects and advising top executives, monarchies, ministries, and nonprofits all over the world.

Audience takeaways:

• Does culture eat strategy for breakfast? Might sufficient high-quality data turn out to be the only insights you need for successful decision-making? This keynote will give you a breakdown of how culture, data, and strategy intersect when
  making decisions.
• Real-life experience of hard-won battles, and how they played out.
• You get models for making decisions under extreme uncertainty and learn how to implement them in your organization.