Pekka Pohjakallio

Innovation and people have been central to Pekka's career. Pekka Pohjakallio's first love in working life was text messages at Nokia before they were used commercially. Around the same time the slogan was born: "Always on, always connected." At the turn of the millennium that was a dream. Now it is reality—and we pay the price.

Pekka worked at Nokia for 19 years in total, moving from text messages through image services to responsibility for Nokia's music offering and the N70 series. He left Nokia in 2011 to co-found 925 Design with Saku Tuominen and Juha Tynkkynen, a design agency for a better working life.

The idea behind 925 was to reshape the knowledge worker's week, because "people doing clean indoor work burn out." The result was a service company, Työkirja, its own magazine, a conference, and a YouTube channel.

In 2015 Hintsa Performance acquired 925 Design's business. Since then Pekka Pohjakallio has helped companies and leaders live life on their own terms and perform at their optimal level. Pekka also led Hintsa's Corporate & Individuals business.

Today Pekka is an independent ICF-certified executive coach working both independently and through Hintsa Performance. He has studied and researched logotherapy and positive psychology and certified as a coach in the EQ-i 2.0 emotional intelligence model.

Pekka's main themes in his talks are hope, breakthrough thinking, life as an introvert in working life (having gone through burnout), and leading well-being and performance.

Alongside work, Pekka is a passionate competitive cheerleading fan and photographer.