Jonas Ridderstråle

Keynote Speaker

Jonas Ridderstråle 2024 Speech Titles

Funky Business
Karaoke Capitalism: Management for Mankind
Forces of Funk: What Drives Change?
Life in the Funky Village: Business Megatrends
The Future Firm: The Shape of Things to Come
The Holy Grail of Business: Compete of Fitness and Sex-Appeal
Re-Energize! Making Change Happen
Leading Leadership: Developing a Corporate Religion
The + Factors: New Recipes for Success

Dr. Jonas Ridderstrale's Biography

Dr. Jonas Ridderstråle is one of the world’s most influential business thinkers and speakers. Since bursting onto the international scene with the bestseller Funky Business in 2000, Jonas has remained at the forefront of the new generation of management gurus. Recently, the Global Top 30 Management Gurus ranking put him at number 23 worldwide and among the top 5 in Europe.

Jonas’ diverse client list includes Fortune 500 companies, major government bodies and sports teams. He is currently a visiting professor at Ashridge in the UK.

A Speaker With a Difference Who Makes a Difference
In his speaking engagements Dr. Ridderstråle works with a modular “Lego-style” approach. This design enables him to be flexible in adapting both content and length of his presentations to the context and specific needs of the client. In keynotes, workshops and after-dinner speeches, Jonas shares his insights into what’s changing in the new world of business. Depending on the client, the impact of these trends is then linked to implications for issues such as business strategy innovation, talent management, new organizational solutions, leadership challenges, etc. Examples used are aligned to the industrial and cultural setting.

Author of Bestselling Books
Funky Business (co-author Kjell A. Nordström) quickly became an international phenomenon, selling in excess of 300,000 copies. The book was recently ranked at number 16 in a Bloomsbury survey of the best business books of all time. The sequel, Karaoke Capitalism, came out in 2004. His latest manifesto for how to make in the new world of business is called Re-energizing the Corporation (co-authored with Mark Wilcox). Jonas is currently working on a new book, provisionally titled Agile. So far, his books have been translated into 30+ languages and published in more than 50 countries worldwide.