Fredrik Haren
Expert on business creativity and idea generation, and best-selling author of The Idea Book.
Fredrik Haren: Profile
Fredrik Härén is an author and speaker on Business Creativity. He has delivered over 1,500 presentations, lectures and workshops in over 50 countries and has inspired hundreds of thousands of business people to become more creative and to look at the world in a new way. He is the author of nine books, including “The Idea Book” that was included in “The 100 Best Business Books of All Time”.
Fredrik Härén has quickly become one of the most talked-about names in the field of creativity. Based in Singapore, he is an accomplished author and speaker who has delivered over 1,000 presentations, lectures and workshops across 25 countries, focused on creativity, idea generation and entrepreneurship.
He was voted “Speaker of the Year” in 2007 in Sweden and was nominated “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2003 by the Swedish magazine Shortcut and has received honorary mentions in the “Innovative Thinker of the Year” award, run by the Swedish Post Office's small business magazine, You & Co. Fredrik is the founder of interesting.org, a company whose business idea is to do business from ideas!
Fredrik presents on a range of topics including: From the Information Age to the Innovation Age; Why business creativity will become even more important in the future; Why we are less creative than we think - but more creative than we can imagine! He punctuates his messages with a number of amusing examples to help the audience understand the value of thinking in new ways, yet appreciate just how difficult this is to accomplish.
Fredrik has worked with clients including ABB, American Express, China Mobile, China Telecom, Ericsson, GE, HP, IBM, INSEAD, IKEA, Microsoft, Ministry of Finance Singapore, Nokia, Ogilvy, Pfizer, Saab, Sandvik, SonyEricsson, Swedish National Bank, Swedish Radio, Swedish Parliament, Stockholm School of Economics, TeliaSonera and many others.
Fredrik was born and raised in Sweden, and following a period of time living and working in Beijing is currently based in Singapore. He is the author of The Idea Book (2004), which is a book and notebook combined, designed to awaken creativity. This has sold over 50,000 copies of the Swedish version alone and is now produced and sold in countries all over the world. His second book, The Developing World (2009) is about creativity, dreams and a curiosity about the world, written about change and awakening and the dangers of not seeing what is going on in the world today.
Fredrik Härén has unique way of combining interesting content with an inspirational delivery. Almost all of his business comes from referrals and he has been invited to speak more than 1500 times by clients in virtually all industries based in 45 different countries. Fredrik lives in Singapore but travels the world. In 2012 alone he spoke in 23 different countries
Fredrik Härén has quickly become one of the most talked-about names in the field of creativity. Based in Singapore, he is an accomplished author and speaker who has delivered over 1,000 presentations, lectures and workshops across 25 countries, focused on creativity, idea generation and entrepreneurship.
He was voted “Speaker of the Year” in 2007 in Sweden and was nominated “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2003 by the Swedish magazine Shortcut and has received honorary mentions in the “Innovative Thinker of the Year” award, run by the Swedish Post Office's small business magazine, You & Co. Fredrik is the founder of interesting.org, a company whose business idea is to do business from ideas!
Fredrik presents on a range of topics including: From the Information Age to the Innovation Age; Why business creativity will become even more important in the future; Why we are less creative than we think - but more creative than we can imagine! He punctuates his messages with a number of amusing examples to help the audience understand the value of thinking in new ways, yet appreciate just how difficult this is to accomplish.
Fredrik has worked with clients including ABB, American Express, China Mobile, China Telecom, Ericsson, GE, HP, IBM, INSEAD, IKEA, Microsoft, Ministry of Finance Singapore, Nokia, Ogilvy, Pfizer, Saab, Sandvik, SonyEricsson, Swedish National Bank, Swedish Radio, Swedish Parliament, Stockholm School of Economics, TeliaSonera and many others.
Fredrik was born and raised in Sweden, and following a period of time living and working in Beijing is currently based in Singapore. He is the author of The Idea Book (2004), which is a book and notebook combined, designed to awaken creativity. This has sold over 50,000 copies of the Swedish version alone and is now produced and sold in countries all over the world. His second book, The Developing World (2009) is about creativity, dreams and a curiosity about the world, written about change and awakening and the dangers of not seeing what is going on in the world today.
Fredrik Härén has unique way of combining interesting content with an inspirational delivery. Almost all of his business comes from referrals and he has been invited to speak more than 1500 times by clients in virtually all industries based in 45 different countries. Fredrik lives in Singapore but travels the world. In 2012 alone he spoke in 23 different countries
Speaking Topics
Below is a list of Fredrik’s most popular speeches.
Most popular speeches.
Fredrik is almost guaranteed to have experience of a similar group or industry to yours. He is also able to personalize the message to your organisations need, whatever they might be. But to make it easier for you as a client to make a decision, here are some of the most asked for speeches at the moment.
Popular Speeches:
Title: Business Creativity.
(Based on the research for The Idea Book)
Title: A Rapidly Developing World.
(Based in the research for The Developing World)
An inspirational and provocative speech for business leaders from both the developed and the developing world.
Title: One World. One Company – About being a Truly Global Company.
(Based in the research for One World. One Company.)
Fredrik can also speak on, for example, Creativity and Customer Service, Creativity and HR, Creativity and Sales, Creativity and Leadership, Creativity and Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Change and other similar subjects. After spending the last 12 years working full time as a professional speaker and business author Fredrik has spend 1000′s of hours interviewing business leaders and creatives from all over the world for his research. That has given him a knowledge base that makes him very comfortable to speak on these issues regardless of type of audience.
Popular Workshop:
Title: Business Creativity Workshop
Most popular speeches.
Fredrik is almost guaranteed to have experience of a similar group or industry to yours. He is also able to personalize the message to your organisations need, whatever they might be. But to make it easier for you as a client to make a decision, here are some of the most asked for speeches at the moment.
Popular Speeches:
Title: Business Creativity.
(Based on the research for The Idea Book)
- What creativity is, why it is becoming more important and why we need to be more creative than ever.
- Why creativity is more difficult than we think but more important than we can imagine.
- How can we become more creative as companies, leaders and individuals?
Title: A Rapidly Developing World.
(Based in the research for The Developing World)
- The need for Idea Perception: seeing how the world is changing.
- How is creativity different in the developing world and the developed world?
- How to rapidly develop new ideas.
An inspirational and provocative speech for business leaders from both the developed and the developing world.
Title: One World. One Company – About being a Truly Global Company.
(Based in the research for One World. One Company.)
- To go from MNC (Multi National Corporation) to TGC (Truly Global Company).
- The Global Divide – how some companies thrive in a global world and some do not.
- Pitfalls and challenges when trying to become more global.
- Advantages of transforming your company to the next level.
- An Eye Opener on how to look at the world, and your company.
Fredrik can also speak on, for example, Creativity and Customer Service, Creativity and HR, Creativity and Sales, Creativity and Leadership, Creativity and Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Change and other similar subjects. After spending the last 12 years working full time as a professional speaker and business author Fredrik has spend 1000′s of hours interviewing business leaders and creatives from all over the world for his research. That has given him a knowledge base that makes him very comfortable to speak on these issues regardless of type of audience.
Popular Workshop:
Title: Business Creativity Workshop
- How to develop your creativity
- How to develop the creativity of your staff
- How to look at creating new ideas
- Learn now ways of turning problems into solutions
- Creative environment – what they are and how to use them
- What kills creativity and what develops it
- Learn from some of the most creative companies in the world.
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Fredrik Haren: Testimonials/Clients
“Fredrik Härén spoke at our kick off and everyone who attended was extremely impressed and were all inspired to create new innovations. Fredriks speech was the only thing everyone talked about at the end of the conference. I highly recommend to bring Fredrik in as a key note speaker.”
Mikael Pawlo,
CEO, Mr Green
“Thank you so much for giving such an interesting presentation at our conference in Stockholm. We have had an extremely good feedback.”
Sarah Garside,
Praxit
“I’ve never heard someone speak on creativity so creatively.”
Tom Estad,
Singapore Management University
Mikael Pawlo,
CEO, Mr Green
“Thank you so much for giving such an interesting presentation at our conference in Stockholm. We have had an extremely good feedback.”
Sarah Garside,
Praxit
“I’ve never heard someone speak on creativity so creatively.”
Tom Estad,
Singapore Management University
