Maike van den Boom

Maike van den Boom – Happy work and workplaces

Maike van den Boom – Your topics are often not your topics at all. Take a closer look: you gain agility through freedom with responsibility. Digitalization can only be promoted through trust. You get courageous employees when you first love your own mistakes and weaknesses. Continuous Innovation is only possible when people are allowed to be free and unique. You receive commitment and motivation simply by taking care of the life and families of your employees. And people and teams have the big picture in mind when you relax regulations and structures.

The solution? Just make sure your employees and colleagues are happy.

Because all the factors that we need for the future of work are identical to those that make people happy. So, it’s worth taking a look at the working world of the Scandinavians. They’re not only the most innovative residents of Europe, but are also among the happiest in the world. Why? Maike will tell you why, among other things, this very question is the key to success.

Maike van den Boom Speaking Topics

HAPPY PEOPLE – HAPPY BUSINESSES – The success code for employer branding

ALL PEOPLE! ALWAYS! – The „how“ of successful teams without leadership – Looking at Scandinavia

NO RISK – NO HAPPINESS! – Innovation? Digitization? Automation? Why not! How the Nordics are already living the future of work 4.0 today

PEOPLE MAKE INNOVATIONS – Why humanity makes the Nordics win economically

SHOW ME THE WAY TO HAPPINESS! – Take the value road and then straight ahead

Your Expert in matters of happiness Maike is one of the best-known happiness researchers in Europe. She’s a keynote speaker and media expert for happy companies. Her clients include non-profits, medium-sized businesses, and large corporations such as banks and insurance companies as well as numerous family businesses from Germany, Austria, Sweden, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Maike regularly appears in the media on topics such as „happiness at work and life“, „the Scandinavian world of work“ and „new forms of corporate management“. In her new book she cracks the code of happiness and success among Scandinavians and shows us the success factors of countries that have long since arrived where we want to go in terms of modern work.

Maike shows what makes people and especially employees and executives happy. These are the same factors that make companies and whole countries successful and ready for the future—quite apart from the fact that happy people are on average 20 percent more productive. In addition, happy countries and happy companies benefit from optimally developing potential and successful teamwork as well as courageous, future-oriented and creative thinking and working.

Maike shows you what’s important and creates a desire for change that goes deeper than simple motivational talks. It is not difficult to make people laugh. But it is an art to make them think. Charming, cheeky and stirring, she gives you her first-hand knowledge, stories that touch you and wisdom that takes you further.

No dry studies, no short-term promises of success, but substantive, down-to-earth inspiration with a lot of humor and silent thoughts that move people and above all stay for a long time. Tailoring her approach to your questions, this Half-Dutch Swedish-by-Choice phenomenon will crack the Scandinavian happiness and success code before your eyes so that you and your team can master the future challenges of the working world with ease.

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Why’s that? She’s refreshingly different. Thoughtful. She’s professional. Personal. She gives people the courage to ask questions, take risks, do cannonballs, so that you and your crew can conquer the stormy future.

Maike has set herself the goal of making Germans happier. She’s travelled the globe in search of the secret of the 13 happiest countries in the world. Her book „Wo gehts denn hier zum Glück?” (So How Do We Get to Happiness? was on the SPIEGEL bestseller list for 25 weeks in 2015. But already in 2016 she set off again, this time accompanied by a TV team. For two years, three happy countries, 30 companies, 300 people and experts. In 2018 her new book „Acht Stunden mehr Glück” (Eight Hours More Happiness) appeared. It takes us to the Scandinavians, the happiest and most successful people in Europe. World market leader and role model in terms of digitization, innovation, sustainability, and education systems. Since 2019 Maike is part oft he steering group „European Bildung Network“. What can we do differently to match the Vikings in the and to create a better world? Her short answer: everything. Curious?