Rasmus Ankersen
Expert on high-performance cultures
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- Best selling author
- Author of The Gold Mine Effect and Hunger in Paradise
- Trusted advisor on performance development to organisations around the world.
- Chairman of FC Midtjylland, and Director of Brentford FC – both known as some of Europe’s most innovative football clubs, especially recognised for their use of big data to drive decision making
- Hired by some of worlds leading global brands to share his research on high performance cultures.
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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.
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 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? 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?
Presentation formats: – 25-90 min presentation – 2-3 hours workshop
Why are 137 of the world’s 500 best female golfers from South Korea? How did one athletic club in Kingston, Jamaica, succeed in producing 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? And how has one village with 500 inhabitants in Sweden managed to produce the best skiers in history?
Rasmus Ankersen decided to travel the world to explore why small, rural places like these are able to produce one world class performer after another. For six intense months he literally trained and lived with the world’s best athletes and their coaches. In this speech Rasmus presents his surprising conclusions on how any business, organization or team can learn to create a true high performance culture by adopting the secrets of the gold mines.
Presentation formats: – 25-90 min presentation – 2-3 hours workshop
A couple of years ago Harvard Business Review published an article with the title: “The sexiest job of the 21st Century is a data scientist.“
The article captured the big data revolution and how analytics is now providing us with insights we could only have dreamed of 15 years ago.
Rasmus Ankersen is the Chairman of FC Midtjylland and the Co-Director of Brentford FC: two football clubs driving the big data revolution in sports.
Based on intelligent use of big data the clubs have produced spectacular results, which have made the international press name them “the Moneyball projects of football”.
In this speech Rasmus will explain:
– How data can override cognitive biases
– Why data without context is meaningless
– How to choose the right metric
– Why you should start with the questions, not with the data
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