Anders Sorman-Nilsson

Waves of Change

Categories: Business, Creativity, Digital, Fintech, Future of Work, Futurist, Generations, Innovation, Leadership, Motivational, Strategy, Technology, Trends

As the Swedish-Australian founder of Thinque, Anders Sorman-Nilsson (LLB MBA) has become a valued strategist to Fortune 500s and ASX leaders, converting provocative questions into proactive, predictive strategies. A global thought leader since 2005, Anders works across four continents as a speaker, futurist and author.

Anders is an active member of TEDGlobal and has keynoted at TEDx in the United States and Australia, was nominated for the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leader in 2015, and was the keynote speaker at the G20’s Y20 Summit in Australia. His presentations are meticulously researched, highly energetic and always fascinating with content tailored to the audience, which is why clients like Apple, Cisco, Mercedes Benz, Hilton, SAP, Gartner and Macquarie Bank have turned to Anders over the years to help them to push the bounds of the status quo — translating research into valuable foresight and business impact.

Featured regularly in international media including Monocle, Business Insider, Sky News Business, CIO Magazine and BOSS, Anders has authored two books; Digilogue: how to win the digital minds and analogue hearts of tomorrow’s customer and Thinque Funky: upgrade your thinking. His new book is out and it is called: Seamless: A Hero’s Journey of Digital Disruption, Adaptation and Human Transformation.

SEAMLESS
Digital adaptation and human transformation.

How do you design frictionless customer experiences where customers can seamlessly navigate between digital and analogue touchpoints?

This is the main question Anders explores in this thought-provoking keynote. Emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality and the Internet of Things are enabling more and more brands to become truly ’seamless’.

This presentation will provide you with fascinating case studies and best practices from smart brands that understand how intelligent technologies can amplify customer service, create compelling customer experiences, remove friction and transform our lives.

FUTURE THINKING

The world has changed and it’s a little out of whack. Organisations and leaders are struggling to find their bearings, and many feel overwhelmed by the changes they are facing. Globally, tidal waves of new ideas and thought currents are smashing old school thinking to smitherines. You and your leaders need a thinking strategy that is as flexible as a GPS, and that enables you to stay on trend, to adapt with the times, and successfully navigate a constantly shifting business landscape.

Are your leaders tuned into, driving and manifesting the latest thinking from across the globe? Is your organisation on trend, or is it likely to be smashed by disruptive innovation? Are your teams able to cope with the changes they are tasked with, or are they still coming to grips with the last change roll-out? Is your salesforce still knocking on doors, making cold calls, and refusing to leverage their efforts in an age of sales innovation?

Attendees will leave with an understanding of how to:

Spot disruptive trends, feel the underlying currents of change, and position their ideas successfully
Create future scenarios and future-proof your company based on their observations and thinking
Successfully ride disruptive innovation, generation and communication trends

DIGILOGUE

How to win the digital minds and analogue hearts of tomorrow’s customers.
As some organisations careen recklessly into the digital future and others are left behind by remaining steeped in the ways of old, thought leaders are coming to realise there is an important middle ground. Most often that’s where your customers and clients want you to be, the place where digital and analogue converge – the ‘digilogue’. In the digilogue it is understood that digital satisfies a customer’s mind while analogue soothes the heart.

Knowing Where This Place is Demands:

An understanding of the parts of your business that simply cannot be allowed to go digital
An intimate knowledge of the customer experience, of the touch points that thrill them, that speak to their hearts and not their heads
An understanding of how your organisation tells its story to its public
A recognition of the artisanal skill, or customer service, that keeps customers coming back
Every business must know where its middle ground lies, where the old-school artisan meets the efficiency and power of the future. This customised presentation will help your people find where that place is.

WAVES OF CHANGE
GLOBAL TRENDS THAT WILL DISRUPT YOUR EXISTENCE

Waves of change are rolling towards us and you’d better be prepared. But how do you spot the waves, or identify what’s going on in the market? How do you sense the direction of the currents, or establish what it means for your business? And how do you best position yourself so you’re not washed away, or choose a market position and ride the wave?

The Waves of Change Threatening Every Business Are:

Digital Disruption – managing the tension between the analogue and digital touch points
Media Madness – realising that every company must think like a media company
Data Driven Dominance – working out how to turn data into competitive knowledge

This keynote will provide you with the following foresights:

Which new markets you should target, and how to identify and engage them
How to step back and deconstruct your own business model to identify new, non-traditional partnerships
How to sort through the data storm to turn customer insight into intelligent and strategic business assets
How to build innovation strategy that disrupts your competitors

“At the US event, after two solid days, Ander has the entire audience on their feet and a room full of 130 people plus were more engaged than I have ever seen. His knowledge around trends in innovations, communication, and generations is unparalleled and the research he does into adapting his style cross-culturally was incredible. If you haven’t heard on of his keynotes yet, add it to your bucket list!”
~ Eli Lilly, America

“I needed my opening keynote to not only energize the crowd but to also help set the tone of the conference for the full week. Anders delivered all the above and so much more, helping us kickoff one of our best conferences to date. He adopted his speech to the unique demographics of our audience, heeding all my recommendations and requests. His informative, energetic and quirky / entertaining style was a huge hit with our attendees. I highly recommend him for any speaking engagement and look forward to calling on his services again.”
~ Marketing Communications Manager, Cisco Systems, Inc

Anders’ delivery was schmick! He had a room full of Real Estate Agents in stitches & engaged throughout his presentation. Cheers!
~ Ausnet Real Estate Services

On both occasions that we have hired Anders to speak, Anders’ message has been diverse, clear, interactive whilst delivering great meaning which all attendees have obtained and subsequently implemented within their individual environments. We will continue to incorporate Anders into our future seminar calendar due to numerous and impressive feedback received and would recommend Anders to any company wishing to inspire “funky” thought processes to their target market.
~ National Sales Manager, Schwarzkopf / Henkel

I have recently had the pleasure of working with Anders during reparation for a national congress, where Anders was voted Best Speaker’. In all my dealings with Anders I found him to be extremely accommodating and helpful. Our timelines were incredibly tight but he was able to work within the parameters with no issue. He makes his presentations so applicable and relevant to the audience. I have been lucky enough to have attended a couple of Anders’ sessions and have come away each time with new strategies to try, which is otherwise rare and I am pleased to say the strategies have been effective!
~ Clinical Operations Manager, Novotech Pharmaceutical

Anders presented to a group of leading finance executives on behalf of the CFO Ambition forum. His topic was very well presented, with a mix of media and interaction that maintained and captured the whole audience. He is very knowledgeable, inspires thought and creates motivation to change our thinking. He is without doubt one of the most engaging speakers out there!
~ Research Manager, Ambition Recruitment

“Anders is like a B12 shot in the arm……you go in feeling lethargic, exhausted, lacking motivation. You leave feeling energised, enthused, alive. He enables you to get back out there and tackle your problems head-on with practical solutions you can implement today. Do yourself a favour ……get a shot.”
– Emergency Staff Specialist, Queensland Health

Thanks again for your participation and cooperation with our past event, you were a dream to work with and I will tell everyone in the “game” who is looking for a special presenter for their next event!
~ Events Coordinator – Mater Education Centre, Mater Health Services

Anders was the perfect opening keynote for our marketing-focused conference. He listened to what we wanted to achieve and he delivered exactly what we asked for. His energy, creativity and engaging speaking style help us set the tone, excitement and focus we wanted to achieve from the kickoff for our event.
~ Vice President, Juniper Networks

I was looking for an engaging and thought-provoking speaker for our conference in early December 2010. I needed my opening keynote to not only energize the crowd but to also help set the tone of the conference for the full week. Anders delivered all the above and so much more, helping us kickoff one of our best conferences to date.
~ Cisco, Barcelona

Anders is a fabulous speaker. He was engaging, charismatic, informative and created an amazing buzz in the room. His presentation was also perfectly matched to our brief. Our audience loved him!
~ University of Sydney

Anders provided a Keynote and Plenary session at our State Conference both of which were detailed, informative, interesting and interactive – our delegates really enjoyed Anders presentations. I would love to work with him again in the future and I have no problem recommending Anders’ services to others.
~ IPWEA

Anders Sorman-Nilsson

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