Kjell Nordstrom Biography
Amid the madness and hyperbole sorrounding the new economy, Dr KJELL NORDSTRÖM is the enfant terrible of the new world of business. The 2009 Thinkers 50, the biennial ranking of management thinkers, ranked Nordström number 23 in the world and put him in the top five list for Europe. His dynamic style makes him a highly appreciated speaker through out the world. He has served as an advisor/consultant to several large multinationals as well as running smaller interactive workshop sessions.
Swedish Academic
Kjell Nordstrom holds an Economic Licentiate degree and a doctoral degree in International Business from the Stockholm School of Economics. His research and consulting focus is on the areas of corporate strategy, multinational corporations and globalization. Kjell has published three books and numerous articles on the internationalization process of firms.
Kjell Nordstrom has been responsible for the International Business course at the Stockholm School of Economics and is one of the founders of the schools most prestigious management programs, "The Advanced Management Program - AMP". AMP is a five week top-management program that attracts the elite of Scandinavian executives. He is also on the board of directors of several companies.
Funky Business
The book Funky Business
Karoake Capitalism
The new book Karoake Capitalism
With his colleage, Jonas Ridderstråle, he recently co-authored, Funky Business Forever, the long awaited update to the international bestseller. Funky Business Forever takes a look back on the later half of the millenniums first decade and provides evolved thinking and commentary in a way that is truly funky and down to business
Kjell Nordström and Jonas Ridderstråle are rebels with a cause. With their unorthodox combination of academic rigor, forceful logic and funky free-thinking they once again re-write the rules for revolutionaries. This is a true work-out for the wits. In March 2004 the authors appeared on CNN's program "Global Office" for a long interview, recorded in Stockholm, on the ideas behind Karaoke Capitalism.
Kjell A. Nordström is an extremely sought after lecturer. He enjoys keynote presentations as well as smaller work shops.
Topics
- Talent Makes Capital Dance - How to Thrive in the New World
- Articulate and Tacit Knowledge
- Creating and Defending Competitive Advantages
- The Role of the Leader When We Are Free to Know, Go, Do and Be
- The Ultramodern Multinational: Strategies, Structures and Leadership
- Multinational Corporations, Recipes and Global Tribes
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Amid the madness and hyperbole sorrounding the new economy, Dr KJELL NORDSTRÖM is the enfant terrible of the new world of business. The 2009 Thinkers 50, the biennial ranking of management thinkers, ranked Nordström number 23 in the world and put him in the top five list for Europe. He has been nominated for the Thinkers50 2011. Kjell’s dynamic style makes him a sought after keynote speaker throughout the world. He has served as an advisor/consultant to several large multinationals as well as running smaller interactive workshop sessions.
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Kjell Nordstrom Reviews
Kjell Nordstrom has spoken and appeared at a number of recent corporate events. Please find some client speaker testimonials and reviews for Kjell Nordstrom for a number of these events and conferences. If you would like some additional information as to how to book Kjell Nordstrom for your corporate event, then please contact one of the Speakers Corner booking agents on +44 (0)20 7607 7070 or email info@speakerscorner.co.uk
Very interactive, professional, interesting and entertaining. Something for everyone - could have listened all day.
On behalf of all the conference participants and the employees of MGG Conferences, I would like to thank you most sincerely for a fantastic seminar. Your independent thoughts, confident summaries and tone of optimism has given real support and inspiration to the participants to go out and look for new, fresh solutions to their business problems.
You have been a Swedish surprise to us. It has been quite some time ago that I can remember that a lecture has been so inspiring, thought provoking, personal, humorous and entertaining. Without any exception I have received similar feedback from my fellow partners, including our global team
The response to Dr Nordstrom's session has so far been truly outstanding. I've heard many comments from very experienced conference goers that Dr Nordstrom is the best speaker they have ever seen
Our clients and my colleagues were impacted by your performance. We were able to enjoy a very entertaining while at the same time provoking speech outlining a wealth of ideas about the new world.
Your presentation was tremendous and scored top marks on our delegates evaluation sheets!
We thank you for the lecture you kindly gave to our future leaders onto the subject Emotion, Behaviour and Management. The participants of the Management Group Seminar seventh class appreciated in its real value this performance and in their name and that of my team, we really want to thank you warmly.
Your presentation received some fantastic feedback. Attendees described it as refreshing, entertaining and truly inspiring. It really out the emphasis of the conference on new thinking which was exactly what we wanted to achieve. We continue to get so many positive comments about your talk. It was excellent and helped people to think differently.
What a great performance! Thank you so much for making our mini conference into a seriously unique get-together!
Always a pleasure to work with Kjell, and made a very good impression on thre client.
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