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Andreas Forsberg

Leadership anthropologist | Speaker | Coach

Andreas Forsberg is a speaker, leadership anthropologist, behavioral analyst, and experienced international coach who helps leaders understand how behavior affects performance, engagement, and team dynamics. Andreas is known for his energetic and insight-driven style on stage—he challenges, inspires, and gets audiences thinking in new ways.

Andreas Forsberg as a speaker

Speaker profile

Who is Andreas?

Andreas Forsberg brings leadership to the stage in a way that combines scientific precision, practical experience, and narrative impact. He argues that leadership is simple—but not easy.

His core message is clear: a leader's behavior directly affects a team's psychological safety, engagement, and results.

Andreas coaches leaders and leadership teams around the world and has worked with leaders from diverse cultural backgrounds at the heart of different industries. He helps organizations build an environment where people and ideas can grow and thrive, and where results come through trust, not fear.

Andreas's style as a speaker is bold and honest. He does not shy away from difficult questions or uncomfortable truths, but responds with a gentle approach that emphasizes human understanding. He inspires leaders to take steps they may already have considered but not yet dared to take.

He holds a master's degree in education from the University of Helsinki and has collected more than 54,000 data points on leadership team behavior, along with over 1,000 hours of qualitative behavioral analysis. Andreas Forsberg belongs to the executive education networks of Duke Corporate Education, Hanken & SSE, and Turku School of Economics, and was named Leadership Educator of the Year in 2017.

In 2024 Andreas published The Black Book of Leadership, a novel that is a unique blend of thriller and leadership guide—a work that stirs emotions and offers practical insights.

Andreas speaks fluently in Finnish, Swedish, and English.

Talks

Topics and presentations

01

Leadership is simple

but not easy

02

Behavior is what matters

how a leader's actions shape team performance

03

A psychologically safe and productive workplace

how to build one

04

Leading through change and uncertainty

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