Digital Leadership and Transformation

With digital transformation impacting a variety of industries simultaneously, there is a need for a new approach to leadership and work methods. The expectations of the co-worker of the digital era, as well as the extended skill set they offer will exert significant impact on the future of value creation. The rapid technological development and its disruptive nature, requires agile leadership, open to co-creation and interdisciplinary engagement. Claudia highlights best-practices that digital leaders have adopted and provides strategic guidance in leveraging new technologies for greater impact.

REMOTE LEADERSHIP AND CHANGING DIGITAL BEHAVIORS

Remote work has become a fact of life for many organizations in the COVID-19 era. Effective collaboration in a virtual environment is now a requirement for many leaders and employees. Once the crisis passes and employees return to their offices, remote work will continue to play a vital role in day-to-day operations. Companies that can find a new balance between virtual and in-office work will be tomorrow's winners.

Claudia provides concrete guidance on how you can change your mindset to adapt your leadership to the new remote and online working environment. Learn to overcome common challenges that occur while leading remotely and get the tools to take your team to the next level!

How to digitalize: ENTREPRENEURSHIP and innovation in large companies

With the fourth industrial revolution reforming our business models, there is a need for companies and governmental organizations to develop agile and growth oriented strategies for the digital world. To stay ahead of the game, businesses need to adopt key technologies, redesign parts of their value-chain, and develop partnership strategies in order to scale innovation. Based on her international experience and research into best practices in entrepreneurship and innovation within larger corporations, Claudia highlights methods, key-success factors and practical solutions from industry leaders that can help businesses take the lead in their industry. She also provides concrete recommendations to facilitate companies to better understand how to digitalize their units and ventures. Through her inspiring talk, Claudia helps the participants to understand how they can capture the full potential of opportunities in the digital age.

Exponential Technologies AND ETHICS

Fast-paced developments in artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics and synthetic biology are already affecting our lives and remodeling our markets, businesses and societal functions. Claudia shares the insights she had gained through research in Japan, Singapore, Sweden, South Korea and Silicon Valley, as well as through her engagement as a member of the World Economic Forum Future Council on Values, Ethics and Innovation. She presents cutting-edge applications of emerging technologies and also their potential impact on various industries. Claudia’s lecture focuses on the challenges that these exponential technologies can help solve and both the opportunities and ethical dilemmas they present.

The Future of Jobs and skills

The future labor markets will be shaped by the accelerating technological developments as well as our globalization and increased global mobility. Many current jobs are becoming automated, and robots are entering our workplaces in both physical and virtual forms. The global human workforce is also moving online, engaging to a greater extent in the platforms created as a part of the growing freelance economy. Old structures for employment, remuneration, interaction with colleagues and clients, are experiencing rapid change. A new job market is taking shape. Claudia shares insights from her research into the jobs of the future, highlighting major trends and their impact as well as the key measures that employers should consider to attract future talent. Claudia’s lecture focuses on unraveling the opportunities and challenges that the global digital labor market presents.

"During our 100-year anniversary conference of Alecta, Claudia Olsson was a highly appreciated keynote speaker alongside former Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt. Claudia shared her expertise into how cutting edge technology is disrupting the global labor market. Her presentation was highly inspirational, informative and dynamic and demonstrated a high level of understanding for the changing conditions of the global markets. Her insights in the following debate were mind opening for the audience and enabled us to take the discussions to the next level. Claudia’s insights are directly applicable to our organization, enhancing our strategic analysis with the new perspectives Claudia offered from her research and implementation work."

“KES is Brazil’s leading platform for innovation, and future-oriented leadership development. We work with global experts that go beyond the obvious, that are provocative, and that see further than most. Claudia Olsson is one of the most brilliant minds we have had the privilege to work with, and we have engaged her both as part of our flagship executive discovery program to Stockholm as well as at multiple occasions with public and private leaders in Brazil. We praise her openness and willingness to understand the challenges that the participants face and to focus on the opportunities which will create the most value for them. She has a unique way to translate complicated concepts into actionable insights, always placing the humans in the center. In terms of the knowledge and insights Claudia shares, they are always spot-on!”

“Claudia Olsson has the rare gift of explaining complicated matters in a clarifying way. During the TeknikföreDagen summit, she pointed out the landmarks of the future in the digitalized landscape. For Teknikföretagen this was of great value, since our member companies are right in the middle of a vast transformation of industry and production. Where the rules now are being altered on a profound level. Digitalization, AI and additive production are forces that will have a deep impact on how we work and organize."