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Keynote SpeakerAnnicken R. Day

Bestselling Author and Pioneer in Organisational Culture, Leadership and High-Performing Teams

Annicken R. Day is a true pioneer in the field of organisational culture, leadership, and high-performing teams. With 20 years of experience building purpose-driven teams, strong identities, trusting relationships, growth mindsets, and team spirit of passion and joy, she has helped organisations worldwide deliver outstanding performance. As an executive advisor... Read more

Biography

Annicken R. Day is a true pioneer in the field of organisational culture, leadership, and high-performing teams. With 20 years of experience building purpose-driven teams, strong identities, trusting relationships, growth mindsets, and team spirit of passion and joy, she has helped organisations worldwide deliver outstanding performance.

As an executive advisor for startup founders and Fortune 500 companies such as Accenture, Microsoft, AWS, and Cisco, Day’s work has resulted in multiple Best Places to Work Awards, management innovation prizes, and extraordinary performance for the companies she has worked for.

Annicken R. Day is also a bestselling author, TEDx speaker, contributor for Huffington Post and Business Insider, and founder of Corporate Spring, where she and her team have developed the Corporate Spring Model™, a science-based, proven method that helps engage and strategically align organisational culture. The model has been implemented by hundreds of teams worldwide with great success.

In addition to her work with Corporate Spring, Day is the founder of Happy Life Happy Work, where she promotes self-leadership, self-awareness, and self-empowerment for personal and professional growth and happiness. Her bestselling novel, Fly, Butterfly, is an inspirational story and lesson in leadership, culture, and the pursuit of purpose and joy in life and at work.

Drawing from her global experiences as a culture expert and entrepreneur, combined with her Scandinavian down-to-earth-style, Day provides inspiring, authentic, and bold insights into how the new world of work requires new ways of thinking and leading. She believes that business success is closely intertwined with employee wellbeing and happiness, and she teaches organisations how to create these kinds of workplaces by making culture a strategy for growth.

If you want to inspire, strengthen, or transform your organisational culture, develop a strong sense of purpose, passion and joy, and achieve outstanding performance while working hybrid, Annicken R. Day is the speaker for you.

"Annicken R. Day has a gift for transforming bureaucracies into businesses that buzz with creativity and joy." Adam Grant, NYT Bestselling Author of Give and Take, Originals and Think Again
"Annicken R. Day delivered a most intriguing session for our leadership team at Amazon Web Services, focusing on Purpose, Identity and Leadership for the new world of work. Her ability to transport the listener to a deeper, inner, more connected realm is almost surreal. I thoroughly enjoyed her session, insight, and leadership." Denning Tan, StartUp Lead, Amazon Web Services, APAC.
"We love working with Annicken. She 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
"Annicken R. Day is an engaging, thought-provoking, and inspirational speaker. She has an infectious passion coupled with great knowledge and years of practical experience that makes her a speaker that is both enlightening and entertaining." Jennifer Walker, Customer Experience Lead, Cisco
"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 her uniquely energetic personality and “no b.s.” attitude is the reason we not only hired her for our own company but also recommend her to our clients." Martin Falch, CEO 360Leaders
"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
"Annicken R. Day´s book “Fly, Butterfly” is an absolutely amazing, page-turning novel that also teaches some of the most valuable life and business lessons imaginable." Bob Burg, Hall of Fame Speaker, and Bestselling Author of «The Go-Giver Series»

Popular Talks by Annicken R. Day

  • Cultivating Thriving Cultures: A Blueprint for High Performing Teams
  • Tech with Heart: Navigating the Human Side of AI
  • Leading Through Storms: How to Thrive in Times of Change and Uncertainty
  • Fostering Success: The Business Impact of a Happy and Engaged Workforce
  • Chill, Connect, Create: A Refreshing Approach to Creativity, Innovation, Life and Work