Keynote speaker
I specialise in thinking and bring strong content to the room.
Keynotes and talks for kickoffs, staff days, leadership days and client events. 30–90 minutes, in English or Finnish. Keynotes from €2,500 + VAT.
Keynote topics.
These are the three topics I speak on most at the moment. Each one is also available as a training day or a programme, if you want to keep practising after the keynote.
Leading Thinking
Why facts don't settle disagreements and how a leader gets people to see the same direction. A volunteer talks about their work for one minute, and I tell the room what I heard.
Leadership days and managersCool Head
Mental resilience in uncertain times: why stress doesn't end when the situation ends, and how to get judgement back under pressure.
Staff days, wellbeing at workThinking in the Age of AI
How to keep your own thinking sharp when the machine answers faster than you can think. The room estimates a number before and after seeing the AI's answer.
All staff, kickoffsOther topics
Thinking about thinking
Metacognition at work. How to notice your own thinking before it has already decided the matter.
All staffChange that lasts
Why a good plan doesn't turn into everyday practice and what a manager can do about it.
Leaders and managersThe mind of sales
How the buyer thinks and in what state of mind the seller succeeds. Including the line where influence turns into pressure.
Sales teamsHow top performers think
What the best do differently in their heads. Based on work with elite athletes, special forces soldiers and leaders.
Experts and leadersThink differently
Creativity as a skill, and ways to get stuck thinking moving again.
Product development and leadershipIn the room
First we try it, then I explain.
The audience tries the effect for themselves first, and only then do I explain what happened. An experience stays in mind better than a slide. Cool Head, for example, starts with everyone thinking for a moment about an email they don't want to open on Monday and noticing the reaction in their own body.
I use a lot of humour and stories. Even a heavy subject can be talked about in a way that keeps people listening. The content is always fitted to the event: before the keynote we go through the audience, the goal of the event and what is going on in the organisation right now.
As a trainer, Ilkka Rajala has my full trust because of his professional skill and his warmth with people. I'm happy to recommend him even to my closest friends. (Translated from Finnish.)
Speaker fees and lengths.
Prices exclude VAT. The final price depends on the length, how much of the content is tailored and where the event is.
Keynote
A 30-minute opening, a 45–60 minute keynote or a 90-minute talk with more exercises. The same starting price applies to all lengths.
from €2,500Training day
When you want to continue from the keynote into your own situations. The same topic, more practice.
from €5,700If you're not satisfied with the keynote, I won't invoice you.