Louise Opprud

The Future of Work

The mindset, skillset and toolset for a desired work life 

In the next 5 years up to 70% of work in front of a computer can be automated, and 44% of all skills will be irrelevant due to AIs impact on work, according to the World Economic Forum.

The most important skills of the decade are now creative and analytical thinking, technological learning and human resilience. 

How do we design work in new ways that represent this value shift? Where meaningful and creative work has the upper hand, and we are not run by our inboxes and digital distractive cultures? How do we ensure that our employees and teams have the mental capacity for the increasing demand work will bring? 

By using cognitive, behavioral, and neuroscience strategies, showing the way to peak brain states and optimal mental performance – you can have the same cutting-edge techniques leveraged by some of the world’s most innovative companies. We will turn popular work beliefs on it´s head and challenge the digital always-on cultures, while looking into the new ways of working that makes humans and performance flourish together. 

This talk gives you: 

• A general understanding of the skillset of tomorrow
• A mindset to think differently about the most important elements of tomorrows work – and see clearly how they differ from todays “busy-productivity-mindset” 
• The toolset to organize and design work in new ways with inspiration from science and forefront leaders and companies

The Science of Happiness

Why mental wellbeing is at the core of the future of work  

In the age of AI, creativity has become the most valuable human skill, and mental wellbeing is the key to unlocking it. 

What if you knew that happiness boosts your brain’s innovation capacity by 300%, while enhancing your cognitive flexibility, enhancing your problem solving and improving your decision making? Would you think differently about the priority of your mood and mental wellbeing at work then? 

Your level of happiness even increases your learning and memory – while making you better at handling unexpected changes. In short – all the features we need more of in the future of work. 

In this keynote, we’ll explore happiness, mental wellbeing, engagement, flow and joy from a scientific standpoint that will show you how differently your brain operates in different moods. We will look at the cost of stress on creative performance and how our digital cultures and tools are wearing on our mental wellbeing – and what to do about it. 

This talk will teach you: 

• How leading companies like LEGO and Google harness these insights, build new cultures that are human-centric and lead new daily rhythms at work that enhance all aspects of mental wellbeing. 
• Practical, research-backed strategies—ranging from work rituals to meditation—that individuals, teams and leaders can use to enhance mental wellbeing, unlock creativity, and thrive in the future of work.

Creative Leadership

How the worlds most innovative companies design their ways of working  

At Youtube meditation is mandatory, at Pixar creative meetings starts with intention, at LEGO Ventures some meetings are held in nature and at Bjørn Borg exercise is woven into the weekly regimen. 

Does this all sounds a bit woowoo to you? 

Well, it´s not when you look at the neuroscience of creativity and what your state of mind has to do with your performance at work. 

In this talk, we´ll go on a tour de force through the rituals and ways of working used by global innovation allstars to build creative cultures – you will get their strategies on organizing work, their methods to enhance performance and productivity and their daily hacks that enhances creativity immediately. 

We will talk about the neuroscienfic insights on creativity, deep work, movement, meditation and rest – and how to use ‘psycho-technologies’ (meaning cognitive enhancing methods) to elevate work, outcomes and engagement at work. 

You will get:

• A case-based tour de future of work from Pixar, LEGO, Spotify, Bjørn Borg, X at Google and many more 
• Practical, research-backed methods you can apply immediately in your own work 
• Strategies for creative leadership 

Focus is the New IQ

Personal productivity in the age of distraction

‘Attention is more predictive for success than IQ’ states Nobel prize winner Daniel Kahneman, yet in todays digital distractive work cultures, this truth, seems to drown in notifications it self.

The average employee gets distracted 56 times at work a day, loosing up to 40% of their productivity* due to multitasking and task switching, all while driving stress levels up and mental performance and wellbeing down. 

When it comes to bringing out our best thinking, deep, slow, and focused work rituals have all the power – but the urgent and the fast seem to get all the attention and fill our days to the brim. Focus is the new IQ – and one of the most important skills of the decade. It is the foundation for the skills on the rise – as focus is a magnifier for your best thinking and learning. 

In this keynote we will look at:

• The cost of digital distractions – on productivity, stress and mental wellbeing 
• How to intentionally design your work days to allow for deep and focused work rhythms that will boost performance, creativity and mental wellbeing 
• Digital team rhytms – the best of the research from the 4-day work week related to digital habits and strategies 
• Methods and tools that can be used on an individual or team basis to ensure productivity, progress on meaningful work and greater mental wellbeing