Rasmus Ankersen

DNA of a Winner

Categories: Business, Leadership, Motivational, Performance, Sports, Strategy

Rasmus Ankersen is a bestselling author, entrepreneur, speaker on performance development and a trusted advisor to businesses and athletes around the world.

In 2012 Rasmus published The Gold Mine Effect, in which he explores how some countries and cities develop a disproportionate amount of top talent. In 2016 Rasmus published Hunger in Paradise: a book about how successful organisations can remain successful by eliminating complacency.

Rasmus is also the chairman of FC Midtjylland, his childhood football club in Denmark, and a director of the English club Brentford FC. Both are known as some of the world’s most innovative football clubs, especially recognised for their use of big data to drive decision-making.

Over the past few years, Rasmus has been hired to share his research on high performance cultures by global brands like LEGO, Google, Boston Consulting Group, IKEA, Google, Facebook, Hitachi, Roche, Ernst & Young and many more.

The Gold Mine Effect

Why are 137 of the worlds 500 best female golfers from South Korea? How did one athletic club in Kingston, Jamaica, succeed to produce most of the world’s best sprinters? What is the reason that the world’s best marathon runners grew up in the same village in Ethiopia? What is the secret behind Brazils mass production of soccer super stars? How has one village with 500 inhabitants in Sweden managed to produce the best skiers in history?

Rasmus Ankersen, a performance specialist, quit his job, spent his last pennies booking flight tickets and for six intense months travelled the world and literally trained and lived with the world’s best athletes and their coaches in these six gold mines of talent. In this speak Rasmus presents his surprising conclusions on how any business, organization or team can learn to dramatically improve their ability to identify, grow and motivate talent by understanding the secrets of the gold mines.

You will learn:

How to spot the talent that the competition overlook
The difference between “talent that shouts” and talent that whispers”
Why breakthroughs often come from outsiders, not from insiders
How practice and persistence beat IQ and raw talent
Why a performance environment should never be too comfortable

Hunger in Paradise

While organizations talk a lot about how to achieve success, they talk way too little about the consequences of success. About the complacency, arrogance and resistance to change, which often follow as a shadow of success. Success often produces complacency. It happens to individuals, companies and nations.

For the past two years, Rasmus Ankersen has studied how successful companies can stay successful, and in this speech he
will share his answers to questions like:

How do you stay humble when the company cashes in record profits?
How do you provide people with the feeling that they are standing on a burning platform when there are no flames in
sight?
Or put it in another way: How do you create hunger in paradise?

Rasmus spoke at two events that we ran in 2014, and he was consistently rated as one of the best speakers to take the stage. Importantly, he was able to draw on wide range of experiences and stories that resonated with a particularly diverse audience, which is often one of the most challenging aspects when searching for inspirational keynote speakers.
~ Graeme Standing Google UK.

Rasmus Ankersen attended the English Institute of Sport’s annual National Conference as a keynote speaker and to say he was excellent would be an understatement.Rasmus engaged with everyone in the room, scientist; medics and business services departments tailoring the content of his keynote not only to the audience but also utilising the conference theme as a thread that run through the whole presentation, delivering key messages which resonated with the staff. The way Rasmus was able to link between sport and business was seamless and it was without doubt one of the best keynotes we have ever had in the 12 years the conference has been running.Rasmus was very articulate, thought provoking and entertaining and our staff were fully engaged with the content leaving the conference buzzing and rushing home to buy his book
~ Peter Elliott MBE, Director of Operations, English Institute of Sport (EIS)

“Rasmus Ankersen gives an in-depth understanding of how you can achieve optimal performance. His humor, illustrations and real life examples makes him an exciting and entertaining speaker – at the same time as true value is given to the listener”
~ Hilde & Ørjan Sæle, Founders of Zinzino

“On top of every global CEO’s agenda is ‘talent’ and what it takes to nurture and systematically build ‘talents’; yet rarely has there been a topic with so many misconceptions and well intentioned but counterproductive initiatives. The business world owes Rasmus much gratitude for his facts based, in depths studies of what it takes to be, identify and build talent”
~ Jorgen Vig Knudstorp, CEO and President, The LEGO Group

Rasmus is an inspiration for anyone wishing to deliver high performance. His work and ideas are just fascinating and have not only challenged me, but also helped me improve the quality of my daily training.
~ Tom Kristensen, racing driver, the only person to win the 24 Hours at Le Mans eight times

“Rasmus deeply understands the DNA of world class performance. He is the ultimate coach”
~ Casper Stylsvig, Global Sponsorship Director, Manchester United

“As i highly ambitious athlete, I have always sought knowledge about how to improve on my performance. I was first introduced to Rasmus Ankersen four years ago, and have since read all his books and also experienced him speak. By challenging the usual ideas about performance and talent, he has thoroughly reminded me that there is no way around doing the many hours and miles of training for years and years. As a father of two little girls, I have also been given valuable tools by Rasmus as to how I can securely stimulate them to becoming ambitious and self-motivated human beings and perhaps athletes.”
~ Rasmus Henning, Triathlete, Olympian, Ironman winner

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