Speaking
I regularly give keynote speeches at business conferences but specifically also at company meetings, for instance a firm’s annual Top 100 meeting. I do not have a standard talk that I roll out but, instead, adapt the keynote to the specific interest of the audience. It usually concerns issues related to strategic transformation, strategy execution, managing innovation, or organisational culture.
Videos
- TEDx talk on corporate viruses
- Acceptance speech at the Wiener Strategy Forum
- At Innotown on management myths
- Life Changing Ideas: Why bad practices persist
- TEDx talk on bad management practices
- Freek’s opening keynote speech of Cordial 2012
- On gaining competitive advantage for the Harvard Business Review
- On Strategy (in Dutch) for the magazine Management Team
- Freek talking about “strategic imitation“
- Speaking about the case of Sadler’s Wells theatre
- Freek interviewed about his book “Business Exposed” – also available on Youtube
- Talking about future research on innovation
Keynote Speeches (sample)
- Five Reasons Why Management Myths Persist – Innotown
- Strategy & Leadership – Credit Suisse
- Shaping Your Future – PwC HR Forum
- Making Strategy in Times of Uncertainty – OTP Bank
- Making a Big Shift (and why that is easier said than done) – Cordys
- Disrupt to Create – iGATE
- Trends in Business Strategy – Ernst and Young
- How Bad Practice Prevails – Danish Centre for Leadership
- How to Spot a Management Myth – Goldman Sachs
- Strategy under Uncertainty – Swissotel
- Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Innovation – DMGT
- Communicating Strategy – Lundbeck
- “Lean and Mean” instead of “Lean and Lame” – Aedes
- The Challenge of Change – PwC
- Entrepreneurialism – Q-Med
- Unconventional Strategy – Benchmark for Business
- Strategy under Uncertainty – UFI Global CEO Forum
- Strategic Innovation and Corporate Entrepreneurship – Lufthansa
- Business Exposed – Textile Services Association
- New Solutions for Strategic Problems – PerCapita (CEO Forum)
- What Really Goes on in the World of Business? – PwC
- Why Good Business Can Go Bad – Swedbank
- The Challenge of Change – Penna
- Surviving Profitable Growth – Galderma
- Strategic Management of Services – European Textile Services Association
- Making Strategy Happen – ReedElsevier
- Entrepreneurialism – The Man Group
- The Success Trap – Nordea
- Change for Change’s Sake – Implement
