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Tuomas ”Tunna” Milonoff

Award-winning director | Producer | Non-fiction author | Speaker

Tunna Milonoff is a storyteller familiar to Finns, an award-winning creative leader, and the creator of the Madventures and Docventures phenomena. He is an experienced speaker who has succeeded in combining wisdom gathered from around the world and an adventurer’s attitude with the challenges of modern working life. Tunna’s talks offer listeners deep insights, but above all concrete tools for a better everyday.

Tuomas ”Tunna” Milonoff as a speaker

Speaker profile

Who is Tuomas?

Tunna Milonoff has established his place as one of the country’s most compelling storytellers, whose work has shaped a whole generation’s view of the world. His background as a director and producer has given him a unique perspective, which he now harnesses to developing Finnish working life. Tunna is a speaker who does not settle for inspiration alone: he wants to bring about a genuine change in his listeners’ thinking and action. For him it matters that words turn into a new way of acting.

Tunna has become especially known for his honest, open talk about coping. His successful book Liekki has sparked wide discussion about the transformation of working life and the root causes of burnout. The book’s lessons are a solid foundation for his talks. Tunna skilfully addresses how the complexity of working life can be unpacked into manageable wholes, and how the “vagueness of work” is overcome with clarity.

Tunna’s keynotes are adventurous journeys into the landscape of the mind. He teaches how anyone can learn to navigate accelerating change and lead themselves with survival skills and peace of mind familiar from the Amazon rainforest. At the centre are resilience, psychological safety, and the ability to relight an inner fire without the compulsion to perform. Tunna shows that humanity and hard results are not opposites, but forces that support each other.

Organisations benefit from Tunna’s insights in concrete ways, because a thriving workplace is also, in research, more productive. When employees and leadership understand the mechanisms of the mind and the meaning of a shared direction, collective work ability is born. Tunna Milonoff helps companies calibrate their compass and find a way to make work meaningful again. His talks offer listeners “the keys to a flowing life”, which help people cope better in constant change.

Talks

Topics and presentations

01

Flowing working life: how to find clarity, direction, and meaning in the middle of constant change. Tunna shows how the complexity of working life can be unpacked into a manageable whole

and how anyone can lead themselves more clearly and sustainably towards flowing work.

02

The anatomy of burnout: why people do not burn out from the amount of work, but from the vagueness of work? A deep, concrete talk on the structures of modern working life and how organisations can prevent costly overload.

03

Resilience, the power of the mind, and the capacity to recover

understanding and leading one’s own mind. Tunna offers the tools for how each of us can build a stronger, more flexible everyday by grasping the mechanisms of the mind — and its endless power.

04

Self-leadership

a skill needed both in the Amazon rainforest and in modern working life. How do you set the right goals, hold on to direction, and build a working life that looks like your own and feels meaningful.

05

Relighting the flame: how to restore flow, focus, and excitement at work. Through deeply human stories and insights, Tunna tells how work engagement is born and how the flame is lit again from finding meaning, clarity, and recovery

not from performing.

06

Navigating accelerating change: practical, mind-opening tools for the pressures of working life. How simple shifts of perspective build capacity, safety, and the ability to act in a time when change is the only constant.

07

Collective work ability

the importance of an organisation’s shared direction. Calibrate everyone’s compass. Tunna shows why a shared direction, sharpening meaning, and psychological safety decide an organisation’s performance — and how they raise not only well-being but also productivity.

08

Psychological safety

trust is the key to everything. Why is a workplace where people feel seen and heard, can show their weakness, and receive genuine appreciation both well and productive? Tunna opens the mechanisms of psychological safety and practical ways to strengthen trust at the everyday level.

09

The anatomy of working life

what structures we do not see until they break us. Tunna opens the core ideas of his book about the invisible mechanisms that steer workplaces — and how they can be influenced.

10

Preventing burnout

In this talk Tunna shares the means by which individuals and organisations can avoid the pitfalls he himself stepped into. How even small shifts in thinking release hidden superpowers in us and help organisations flourish through human well-being — and from there reach super-productivity.

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