It is time to unfold the second name from the list of keynote speakers and workshop leaders in the YouFlow event series: Teo Härén.

A long-standing and enduring advocacy for creativity and how to unleash it, especially in business contexts, is the hallmark for Teo Härén and his twin brother Fredrik. A position that rendered them the prestigeous swedish Speaker of the Year Award 2006, from the swedish Eventakademin (“Event Academy”), called “Narren” (a mini-statue in the Oscar fashion – “the Fool” or the “clown”, a little Harlequin-type in the Swedish cultural history). The first time the prize was shared the same year of two persons :).

Motivation (my translation):

“Few speakers make more speeches than Teo and Fredrik; Teo averages 180 speehces the last years. Fredrik has managed almost 1 000 speeches the last six years in more than 20 countries. /…/But the reason that Teo and Fredrik Härén should win the title Speaker of the Year is that they inspired hundreds of thousands of people all over the country to dare to think different during their creativity speakers. They burn to transfer the message about the value in developing your creativity. They get the swedish people to dare a little bit more. Or as one headmaster recently stated after one of their speeches: ‘When you heard the brothers Härén, you change as a person’”.

Do you dare to change? Then, this is a workshop for you.

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The topic, besides creativity, that has been returning in the speeches of Teo the last years beyond the publishing of the related book, is the concept of “Here-working”, in swedish Härarbeta. In short, it means “work where you work at your best”. If it means to work on a terrace in Sri Lanka, at the top of a castle in Scotland, or at the closest pillow-floor-equipped café around the corner of your regular office block – work there. There is an obvious connection to the creativity-at-work message and “here-working”.

For our YouFlow workshop he has promised to deliver a workshop with an exposé of here-working; then, now – and in 2020.

I will return more to Teo’s ‘härarbeta’/'here-working’ paradigm when the topics of respective workshop are presented in more detail during the course of the coming days, together with the final title of his contribution.

Short bio: Teo Härén is general manager at Interesting.Org, the first idea broker firm in Europe, founded 2000. He has evaluated more than 30 000 ideas during his years as an idea manager of Interesting.org. During the course of the years, the books, speeches and workshops have been more intense and dominating the business.

In summary. If you want an idea evaluated, Teo is probably the right person to ask!