Sweden Speakers 2017

Åsa is the pastor who has taken storytelling to a higher level. Holding a masters degree in alpplied cultural analysis, she uses storytelling as a strategic tool in marketing. Her company is called Cow AB (storyakademin.se) and she has helped several entrepreneurs to present complex services and products in an interesting and desirable way. Åsa is considered an inspiring speaker, both at a national and international level. She teaches how to present complex concepts in an entertaining way. Åsa is also a Nordic champion in public speaking and does stand-up comedy. My selected theme vertical is T-35 Driving the future through business beyond bias. My own contribution within this theme, would be the workshop: “Rock Your Story. How to become visible by the power of your story” Society and organisations are often blind to new possibilities due to the fact that they only see that which is “in the box”. This workshop will help the auience understand the forces that holds them back and empower them to become visible as the experts and accomplished women theyare, thus being able to contribute to a thriving future.

Erika Mikaelsson, born in Sorsele, Sweden, in April 12 1953 ,has an academic degree in Journalism (Gothenburg University) 1976 she became the first female sports journalist in Sweden She has worked over 20 years as a news journalist in news papers, local radio stations and at a regional TV-station, before she in 1990 entered the national late night news as an anchor woman and editor. She also worked as a news reporter and was an editor for the foreign news in the morning national TVnews broadcasts. As early as 2005 she started a good news channel that 2010 became greatpeople.tv. 2012 she travelled with her team to Uganda to educate young women as grass root reporters in constructive journalism. She has written 5 books, among them the latest titled “Good news for an even better world”. That is a description of the big change that is taking place in the media area in Scandinavia and soon in the rest of the world. She has been a guest teacher in Halmstad University and is now a project leader for a refugee project in her town of birth, Sorsele Sweden. Back to her roots in Swedish Lapland Erika Mikaelsson has also made a documentary. The movie The Nordic Sound, is about a sami rock singer searching for the origin of music. The composer Benny Andersson, World known from the pop group ABBA is also performing in the movie. Last but not least: She is a proud mother of a 23 year old daughter, now studying to become a waldorf teacher in Stockholm

MARIA Appelqvist, Ph.D is a Professional Coach, Published Author, Speaker, Radio Host and Entrepreneur. Maria help female entrepreneurs break-through their income plateau by showing them how to discover their feminine power. Maria lives in Sweden and represents the leading edge of personal transformation. She brought professional coaching to Sweden as one of the founders of the National Chapter of International Coach Federation. During the past ten years, she has helped hundreds of her coaching clients to achieve success in business and life. She is also an award winning professor at Malmö University, teaching her Leadership students in relationships and communications.Her recent research is bridging together the area of sexuality and leadership into an interdisciplinary study of how to understand personal power.