Leadership

Aapo Cederberg is an internationally recognised cybersecurity expert and strategic speaker who helps organisations understand what cyber threats mean for business, leadership, and national security.

Professor Alf Rehn is an internationally acclaimed speaker known for challenging assumptions and questioning conventional wisdom. His appearances make audiences laugh, gain insights, and think in new ways. Rehn's talks combine sharp analysis, surprising perspectives, and charismatic stage presence.

Aliisa Holkko is a social psychologist, author, and interpreter of humanity at work. Her expertise has been built in some of Finland’s most successful and innovative growth companies, and she specialises in developing working life through mental well-being, culture, and relationships. As a speaker Aliisa is energetic, warm, and insight-driven.

Andreas Forsberg is a speaker, leadership anthropologist, behavioral analyst, and experienced international coach who helps leaders understand how behavior affects performance, engagement, and team dynamics. Andreas is known for his energetic and insight-driven style on stage—he challenges, inspires, and gets audiences thinking in new ways.

When the back row needs waking from a coma, call Perho. Anna Perho is an award-winning keynote speaker and an experienced host of seminars and events.

Anssi Rantanen is a keynote speaker and serial entrepreneur who studies what the most successful individuals, teams, and organisations do differently—and how those principles can be put into practice fast. He won the Nordic Business Forum Speaker Contest in 2019 and has since spoken in more than ten countries.

Antti Vanhatalo has more than 30 years of experience in close protection with the security staff of five Presidents of the Republic of Finland, including 18 years as a supervisor. As a speaker he helps leaders and workplaces build a culture of safety that holds under pressure, change, and conflict.

Benjamin Särkkä is an award-winning speaker, hacker, and security leader known for making complex technology understandable and inspiring. He founded the Disobey event, is the face of the popular Team Whack TV series, and is one of Finland's best-known cybersecurity experts.

Elina Hiltunen is an internationally recognized futurist and triple PhD (doctor of business administration, doctor of military science, and honorary doctor of business administration) and MSc in chemical engineering, listed by Forbes as one of the world's 50 leading female futurists.

Emma Kimiläinen is a Finnish motorsport athlete and media personality with more than 30 years of experience in motorsport. In 2024 Emma made history by winning the world championship with Team Brady in the E1 series, the world's first all-electric powerboat championship. Emma is known as an energetic, articulate, and inspiring keynote speaker who shares her experiences and concrete tools for self-leadership and teamwork.

Harri Gustafsberg is an expert in psychophysiology and mental performance whose rare experience in the Finnish police special intervention unit Karhu meets researched knowledge of how the human mind works. He offers insightful talks on stress management, leadership, and building a winning team.

Henrik Dettmann is an internationally respected top coach and world record holder, with more than 400 national team games coached for Finland and Germany. As a highly regarded coach he has worked with Dirk Nowitzki, Lauri Markkanen, Petteri Koponen, and Hanno Möttölä, among others.

Jaakko Sahimaa is an organisational psychologist and working-life explorer who has worked in dozens of Finnish workplaces on the #Koeaika research journey and the Työkylässä series. That is why he knows what hurry, frustration and a good workday actually feel like.

Johannes Karjula is an experienced speaker and serial entrepreneur who helps organisations turn customer experience into a measurable competitive advantage. He also trains people in time management and how to use a calendar: hundreds of participants have used his method to get a grip on both their work and their free time. Johannes is the founder and CEO of Trustmary.

Jukka Jalonen is Finland’s most successful ice hockey coach and a respected leadership figure who has also taken his place as the boss of the Finnish edition of The Apprentice. He has led the Lions to Olympic gold and several world championships, and he knows what it takes to build a winning team.

Kati Huusko-Viikilä is Finland's leading voice on Revenue Operations and a guide to modern B2B sales and commercial leadership. Her 2024 book Monikanavaisen myynnin johtaminen (Kauppakamari) became a defining work on Finnish RevOps leadership.

Klaus Härö is one of Finland's most successful filmmakers. His films have won dozens of awards and drawn nearly a million viewers. As a speaker he shares insights on storytelling, leadership, teamwork, and creativity in the same personal, captivating style that defines his films.

Maria Wahlroos is an exceptionally versatile and compelling expert whose career combines elite sport, leadership, and medicine. She is a specialist in anaesthesiology and intensive care who now works as a physician leader. She coached Finland’s women’s cheerleading national team for ten years and led the team to four world championships.

Marjo Rantanen developed atmosphere design, tunnelmamuotoilu, and she is one of Finland's most sought-after professional speakers. She helps organisations and individuals build success by leading atmosphere on purpose. Marjo combines deep expertise, practical insight, and an engaging style that brings the audience with her.

Matti Waitinen is a rare professional in security, leadership and community. He combines academic research, operational experience from the rescue services and pedagogical skill. He is a Doctor of Philosophy and a Master of Security, recognised among other things as Firefighter of the Year and with the Safe Workplace award.

Mika Aho is one of Finland’s most experienced data and AI strategists. Over a career of more than 20 years he has helped hundreds of organisations use data and AI to develop their business — creating new services, streamlining processes, and building AI-ready organisations.

Nelli Såger is a change leader, engineer, and serial entrepreneur. She speaks about how people and organizations actually change, and about what the AI shift requires from companies, leaders, and people.

Olli Keskinen's A Better Working Day is a humorous talk on getting more done without stretching the working day. It starts with Kummeli's first TV deal and ends with habits you can take back to your own team.

Panu Luukka is Finland's leading expert on corporate culture, the official culture whisperer who combines years of experience, research, and blunt honesty in one package. He speaks about future-ready organizations, organizational culture, and leadership in a way that provokes, challenges, and inspires.

Pauli Aalto-Setälä is an experienced change leader, media influencer, and inspiring speaker with more than 30 years at the heart of business and communications. He has held executive roles in large groups, trained future leaders, and published several non-fiction books.

Paulus Arajuuri is a former professional footballer and captain of the Finnish national team, Huuhkajat, whose talks emphasize the power of collective play, psychological safety, and genuine teamwork. He brings to the stage experience from the world of sport on leadership, resilience, and the importance of emotional climate with a fresh, touching, and inspiring approach. Arajuuri's talks are energetic, sincere, and relatable.

Pekka Hyysalo is one of Finland's most compelling and sought-after speakers, and his story of refusing to give up is hard to match. A former professional freeskier, he suffered a serious accident in 2010 that changed the direction of his life in a second. Pekka has shown that attitude and willpower can carry a person through setbacks that feel impossible.

Pekka Pohjakallio is a speaker and workplace reformer whose career has been built on innovation and people. He started at Nokia when text messages were still an idea and went on to lead global product portfolios. Since then he has dedicated his career to humanizing working life and promoting holistic well-being.

Perttu Pölönen is a futurist, inventor, and non-fiction author known for his views on the future of work, technology, and education. At the age of 15 he developed the Music Bell and won Europe's largest youth science competition. Pölönen has studied at the Sibelius Academy and Singularity University at NASA's research center and founded a non-profit education company in Myanmar.

Crises, conflicts, and resolving them are themes in which Peter Liski is one of Finland's leading experts. As lecturer in interaction at the Police University of Applied Sciences, Peter is a professional of speech and encounter who combines the deepest lessons of crisis and hostage negotiation with practical working life in his presentations. Peter is known as an awarded trainer and speaker who has shared expertise from demanding negotiation situations.

I am Saana Nilsson, an expert in intelligence and security. I worked at the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service for almost 20 years, including as an investigator, chief analyst, and chief of staff. After that long career I founded a company where I share the best lessons of the intelligence world for anyone to use. I am an experienced speaker. I help organisations see what is coming and reach new insights.

Saana’s mission is clear and uncompromising: to help companies and individuals build a better working life, in which humanity and results go hand in hand. Saana Rossi is known as one of Finland’s most respected working-life pathfinders, and in her new role as an advisor on the Finnish edition of The Apprentice she brings her analytical approach and decades of recruitment experience straight into one of the country’s most watched programmes.

Saana Tyni is an award-winning entrepreneur and an inspiring speaker who transformed the cleaning industry by growing her company from zero to 500 employees and exiting it for an eight-figure sum. She is known for bold leadership, inventiveness, and an ability to build workplaces where people want to stay and succeed. Saana's talks are energetic and easy to relate to. She is honest about both her success and her setbacks.

Saku Tuominen is one of Finland's most experienced and respected speakers, who inspires audiences to see today's global challenges as enormous opportunities. With more than 35 years of entrepreneurial experience and 19 published books, Saku is an inspiring combination of practical experience, creative thinking, and clear strategic vision. His talks are inspiring, concrete, and narrative.

Toni is one of Finland's best-known brand and marketing strategists, having worked with both major international brands and growth companies. He is also known as an advisor on the Diili TV show. Toni has led the creative agency he founded 20 years ago, delivering effective marketing work while competing against the world's largest agencies.

Totti Nyberg is a Finnish brand builder, marketer, and business leader best known for transforming Makia from a small Helsinki startup into an internationally recognized lifestyle brand. As a speaker he combines nearly two decades of experience in brand building, leadership, and growth into practical, candid keynotes.

Ulrika Björkstam is Finland's first CReC-certified resilience coach, a luminous non-fiction author, and an award-winning speaker whose core expertise is strengthening human adaptability. In her talks Ulrika Björkstam combines a strong academic background, practical coaching experience, and a powerful personal growth story.

Valtteri's greatest hero story is founding Varusteleka in 2003. It brought him the Young Entrepreneur of the Year award last decade, while he was still young. Since then his own name, straight talk and opinions that defy expectations have become familiar to Finns from behind the Varusteleka curtain.

Ville Ahtiainen is an energetic creative leader and a sought-after speaker whose career path is hard to match. He is a man who has experienced the extremes of modern working life, from country director in cybersecurity to agent for international elite athletes and leadership roles in the music industry. Ville is known especially for his ability to turn major setbacks into global success stories. Through burnout — his own — he has found a new way to lead creatively.

Ville Ojanen is a psychologist with a PhD in brain research, a speaker, and a growth entrepreneur whose core topic is behaviour change. He connects neuroscience and organisational psychology to practice: from adopting AI to human sustainability and the future of work.