Fredrik Härén's Blog, page 40
July 31, 2017
31 July
July News: Vacation (mostly). July tends to be my vacation month, and this month I spent most of the month with my family on our private island in Sweden. But I did manage to squeeze in a speech in Macau for Asian managers of AVNET and a speech in Toronto for 4000+ clients and partners…
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June 30, 2017
June News: A diverse and international month.
June was a inspirationally diverse month.
I got to speak to:
– Business leaders in Hong Kong, invited by the Swedish government to represent Swedish creativity.
– Global tax managers at a EY conference in Barcelona.
– Global HR managers from the law firm DLA Piper having a conference in Warsaw.
– Global customers of BMW attending a customer event in Munich (3 speeches over 3 days)
– Young leaders from 50+ countries taking part in the Queen’s Young Leaders program in Cambridge.
– German entrepreneurs at a conference in Berlin.
and
– Global clients of steel company Voestalpine at a customer event in their factory in Belgium.
I also did two talks for professional speakers. One in Hong Kong and one in Irland, where I spoke about being a global keynote speaker. I think the month of June shows that that is what I am.
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30 June
June News: A diverse and international month. June was an inspirationally diverse month. I got to speak to: – Business leaders in Hong Kong, invited by the Swedish government to represent Swedish creativity. – Global tax managers at an EY conference in Barcelona. – Global HR managers from the law firm DLA Piper having a…
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May 31, 2017
May News: Spring is in the air, speaker is in the air.
May took me flying around the world to speak. I spoke for:
– A global group of lawyers meeting in London, UK.
– A group of global tax experts meeting in Shanghai, China.
– A group of global business developers from IKEA meeting in KL, Malaysia.
As you can notice all the examples above are for global groups, part of my strategy to be “The Global Conference Speaker” as in: the preferred speaker of choice for global conferences. (See: http://www.globalconferencespeaker.com for more information.)
(I also, like most months, did a couple of speeches “at home” in Singapore, including for PayPal this month.)
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31 May
May News: Spring is in the air, the speaker is in the air. May took me flying around the world to speak. I spoke for: – A global group of lawyers meeting in London, UK. – A group of global tax experts meeting in Shanghai, China. – A group of global business developers from IKEA…
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April 30, 2017
April News: Island month.
Last year I started a project which I call: “The Human Island Project”, where I plan to visit 100 islands around the world in 100 months. I do it to learn more about humanity by visiting islands. (You can read about the project here.)
As it turned out April was a month where I only spoke in Islands. I did a series of speeches in Mauritius (and brought my wife so we could extended the stay and combine it with a island vacation.)
And I also did some speeches on my “home island” of Singapore, including one at the Speakers Academy teaching other speakers about how to become a global keynote speaker.
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March 31, 2017
March News: Return business.
In March I did speeches in Sweden, Germany, India and Singapore.
As a speaker it’s always good to get invited back, it’s a sign of very happy clients.
And in March I had a few examples if that, for example:
– One of two keynote speakers at the Business Times Leadership Conference in Singapore where I was the keynote speaker last year (!) and they invited me back again this year. (Having the same closing keynote speaker at a conference two years in a row is very, very rare.)
– In December I spoke at the OpenText client conference in Singapore (which was the second time in 2016 I did that) and that got me to get invited to speak at the OpenText client conferences in Sweden and Germany too this month. (Meaning they flew me in from Singapore to Europe rather than taking a locally based speaker.)
– Prudential. Because of the speech I did for prudential in February I got invited back in March to do another speech.
All examples of return-business based on great results.
But the high light of the month was getting to be the dinner speaker at an event organised by the Swedish Prince Daniel in order to celebrate Creativity and Entreprenurship in Sweden.
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February 28, 2017
February News: Disruption in financial services
February was a months where work for financial institutions dominated my bookings. Some of the more interesting speaking assignments were Prudential, EY and FWD.
For more than 20 years I have been speaking on change and disruption and it has never been more of a relevant topic than right now. Almost every industry is talking about “change and disruption” and no industry more than the financial services industry.
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January 31, 2017
January News: A global start to the year.
The new year started off with a bang from the perspective of being a global speaker: I spoke in 4 different countries on 3 different continents, and raked up almost 60 000 km in the sky.
(To put that into perspective: one trip around the world is 40 000 km).
Now, it wasn’t the hours in planes that I remember. It was the amazing experiences of speaking in countries like the Philippines, Sweden, Holland and Namibia. The highlight of a great month was to be taken on a safari in a game reserve the size of Singapore while I was in Namibia to speak.
Watch a video here on the workweek that took me from Namibia to Sweden in one week.
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December 31, 2016
December News: Looking back at another global speaking year.
As we are now closing 2016 I have done an inventory of my global speaking year.
2016 Summary:
Countries spoken in: 23 different ones in 2016. (Bringing the total number of countries I have spoken in to 63.)
Continents spoken on in 2016: 4. (Asia, Europe, Africa and North America).
Number of speeches delivered: 64.
Months off: 3 (January, July and August, to be on paternity leave with my kids),
Number of global (or international) conferences that I spoke at: 23 (more than 1/3 of all my speeches).
Percentage of speeches done outside my home country of Singapore: Ca 65%.
Here is a video to hopefully give you a glimpse into what that year looked like, felt like and was like. I hope it will inspire you to speak more globally too.
If you want to watch a video of what the year of a professional speaker looks like you can click here and see a short video on what speaking in 23 different countries in on year looks like, feels like and is like.
ps. If you are interested, here is a list of the countries I spoke in 2016:
Austria
Bangladesh
China
Egypt
Germany
India
Indonesia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Hong Kong
Macau
Malaysia
Nigeria
Philippines
Singapore
Spain
Sweden
Taiwan
Thailand
Turkey
USA
UK
Vietnam
And here a list of the global, or international conferences I spoke at:
BMW Engine Global Management Conference
APLMA Annual APAC Syndicated Loan Market Conference
IATA Africa/Middle East Conference
Anoto Global Management Conference
Tata Communications Global Marketing Conference
FWD Asia Management Conference
LIMRA Global Conference
Nu Skin Asia Management Conference
LSB Global Conference
Kaufmann Fellows Global VC Conference
Grant Thornton Global Partners Conference
Templeton Global Investor Conference
DLA Piper Global Services Conference
Qmatic Global Customer Conference
EY Global Mobility Conference
ATD Asia Pacific Conference & Exhibition
EO Global Conference
Home Instead Global Conference
DLA Piper Global Lawyers Conference
The Queens Leadership program
OMB Asia Management Conference
EY Asia Pacific/Global Tax Conference
Morison KSi Global Conference
I am now looking forward to 2017, which I already know will be another global year that will (at least) take me to speak on 4 continents, and most likely 5.
I wish you a happy new year and look forward to working with wonderful clients all over the world in 2017.
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