Funky Business Forever Author Dr Jonas Ridderstråle delivers FuturePrint Virtual Summit Opening Talk for Day 2
FuturePrint Virtual Summit organisers are delighted to announce that Dr Jonas Ridderstråle will deliver one of the opening talks to Days 2 on Leadership and Adaptation!
Dr Ridderstråle is one of the world’s most influential and respected business thinkers and speakers. Since bursting onto the international scene with the bestselling book Funky Business, co-authored with Kjell A. Nordström, Jonas has remained at the forefront of management thinking. Global Gurus, the research company has ranked him as one of the World’s Top 30 Management Professionals and placed him in the top 5 in Europe.
Dr Ridderstråle has an MBA and a PhD in International Business and is currently a visiting professor at Ashridge, the internationally acclaimed business school in the UK. He has spent the last 20 years giving people the competence, confidence and courage to think, feel and do things differently. In keynotes and workshops, Jonas conveys his message with passion and energy, bringing innovative thinking and inspiring the will and thrill necessary for change. His forceful blend of academic rigour, imagination, humour and highly dynamic presentation style has inspired audiences from Moscow to Mumbai and San Francisco to Shanghai. Jonas’ diverse client list includes Fortune 500 companies, major government bodies, sports teams and trade unions.
Jonas Ridderstråle speaks about what it takes to build a fast-forward organization for an agile age, capable of thriving in our turbulent times, how James Bond can provide us with a new perspective on strategy making, and why it is so much better for a company to have a dream than a five-year plan.
His most recent released book is called Fast/Forward (2017), co-written with Julian Birkinshaw, Professor and Chair of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the London Business School. They argue that the successful firms of the future will be those that understand the limitations as much as the benefits of information, and in particular the ones that are able to foster a culture of decisive action allied to emotional conviction will master the business environment.
Dr Ridderstråle’s ideas and work have attracted huge media coverage throughout the world. He has appeared in an extended interview on CNN’s ‘Global Office’ exploring the ideas behind his books, which have been translated into more than 30 languages and published in more than 50 countries. Elsewhere, he has been featured in Fortune, Fast Company, Time magazine, Financial Times, The Times, Stern, Newsweek, Paris Match, and many others.