Rasmus Ankersen
Best Selling Author, Entrepreneur and Keynote Speaker on Talent and High Performance Culture
Rasmus is a trusted advisor to businesses and athletes around the world. In 2012 he published The Gold Mine Effect, in which he explores how some countries and cities develop a disproportionate amount of top talent. This was followed in 2016 by Hunger in Paradise: a book about how successful organisations can remain successful by eliminating complacency.
Speaker enquiryRasmus is a bestselling author, entrepreneur, speaker on performance development and a trusted advisor to businesses and athletes around the world.
Rasmus is also the author of two books: The Gold Mine Effect, in which he explores how some countries and cities develop a disproportionate amount of top talent and Hunger in Paradise, a book about how successful organisations can remain so by eliminating complacency.
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.
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.
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“Rasmus is a truly fascinating man with a real insight into high performance both for individuals and teams. Rasmus is not just about theory, his lessons are rooted in real hard field research.”
Sir Clive Woodward, Rugby World Cup Winning Coach
“Rasmus has consistently been rated as one of the best speakers to take the stage at Google events. Importantly, he was able to draw on a 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
“From Rasmus you don’t just get theories, you get concrete tools working in the real world. He is the ultimate coach.”
Casper Stylsvig, Global Sponsorship Director, Manchester United
Hunger in Paradise
While organisations 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 five 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?...
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The Gold Mine Effect: Crack the Secrets of High Performance
We all want to discover our hidden talents and make an impact with them. But how? Rasmus Ankersen, an ex-footballer and performance specialist, quit his job and for six intense months lived with the world's best athletes in an attempt to answer this question. Why have the best middle distance runners grown up in the same Ethiopian village? Why are the leading female golfers from South Korea? How did one athletic club in Kingston, Jamaica, succeed in producing so many world-class sprinters?...
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