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Rasmus Ankersen

The High Performance Anthropologist

Rasmus Ankersen is a bestselling author, entrepreneur, 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.

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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 overview

While organizations talk a lot about how to achieve success, they talk way too little about the consequences of success. About the complacency, arrogance and resistance to change, which often follow as a shadow of success. In his new book “Hunger in Paradise” Rasmus describes how successful companies can stay successful and eliminate complacency.

Gold Mine Effect overview

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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How to Create Hunger in Paradise

While organisations talk a lot about how to achieve success, they talk way too little about the consequences of success. About the complacency, arrogance and resistance to change, which often follow as a shadow of success. Success often produces complacency. It happens to individuals, companies and nations.

For the past two years, Rasmus Ankersen has studied how successful companies can stay successful, and in this speech he will share his answers to questions like: How do you stay humble when the company cashes in record profits? How do you provide people with the feeling that they are standing on a burning platform when there are no flames in sight? Or put it in another way: How do you create hunger in paradise?

The Gold Mine Effect

Why are 137 of the world’s 500 best female golfers from South Korea? How did one athletic club in Kingston, Jamaica, succeed in producing 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? And how has one village with 500 inhabitants in Sweden managed to produce the best skiers in history?

Rasmus Ankersen decided to travel the world to explore why small, rural places like these are able to produce one world class performer after another. For six intense months he literally trained and lived with the world’s best athletes and their coaches. In this speech Rasmus presents his surprising conclusions on how any business, organization or team can learn to create a true high performance culture by adopting the secrets of the gold mines.

“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 a 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." 

Google UK

Regardless of where you are in your business cycle the timing of his lecture is always right, the findings of his studies are always relevant and the way it will change your view on how to act to safe guard your businesses is very simple and mindblowing! Listen to him before it is to late!

Volvo Group Trucks Operations

Outstanding! Rasmus Ankersen’s charismatic and compelling presentation challenges your assumptions and will change your view of how successful companies stay successful. A “call to action” for all business leaders.

Clearwater

Time with Rasmus is time well spent if you're serious about challenging assumptions, facing taboos and having a different dialogue.

TUI

Publications

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Hunger in Paradise

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The Gold Mine Effect

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Fees & Details

Fees From*

  • UK:

    £7k to £15k

  • Europe:

    £7k to £15k

  • US:

    £7k to £15k

  • Africa/Asia/ME:

    £7k to £15k

Travels From

  • United Kingdom

Languages

Danish, English

* This Speaker's fee falls within the ranges shown above. Ranges are presented as a guideline only. Speaker fees are subject to change without notice. For an exact quote, please contact us.

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