Upcoming events

  • Nordic Board Education

    • 10 Aug 2026
    • 08:30 - 09:15
    • Online
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    Tervetuloa Nordic Board Education info-webinariin 

    Suomen ensimmäinen pohjoismainen hallituskoulutus - juuri sinulle, joka haluat vaikuttaa hallitustasolla myös Pohjoismaissa.

    Käymme läpi tämän hetken megatrendejä hallitustyöhön liittyen, miten pääset pohjoismaisille hallitusmarkkinoille, mitä pohjoismainen hallitusosaaminen käytännössä tarkoittaa ja miten rakennat oikeat verkostot sen tueksi.

    Webinarissa puhuvat  Mona-Maria Ilola, Managing Director Finland & Baltics ja Peter Agergaard, Head of Board Services, Group. 

    Ota selvää, onko Nordic Board Education sinun seuraava askeleesi. Lisää tietoa koulutuksesta täältä: birnboardservices.com/fi/nordic-board-education


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  • Introduction to SelectionF

    • 19 Aug 2026
    • 08:00 - 08:30
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    Join us for an online introduction to SelectionF and discover a trusted network of accomplished female leaders, executives, and board members.
    The session offers a chance to learn more about our community, our activities, and the value of connecting with like-minded women who are shaping leadership and governance across the Nordics.


    Your hosts: Satu Yrjänen, Chair of SelectionF in Finland and Anette Holm, Chair of SelectionF in Denmark


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  • Strategic Foresight - Competitive advantage in a world shaped by disruption

    • 20 Aug 2026
    • 08:30 - 10:30
    • VTT FutureHub, Tekniikantie 21, Espoo
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    Strategic foresight is becoming a defining capability of high-performing boards and executive teams. In this keynote, Antti-Jussi Tahvanainen shows how foresight helps leadership move beyond short-term risk oversight toward long-term opportunity creation, resilience, and strategic renewal. Drawing on concrete cases, the session demonstrates how organizations can build future-proof technology strategies, identify breakthrough innovation opportunities, explore new growth spaces, and support major investment decisions under uncertainty. Participants will gain a practical perspective on how weak signals, long-term scenarios, and structured future-oriented methods can sharpen strategic focus and strengthen the board’s role as a shaper of long-term value. The central message is clear: strategic foresight is not an add-on to governance, but a capability that helps secure relevance, legitimacy, and competitive advantage in a world shaped by disruption.

    Dr. Antti-Jussi Tahvanainen

    As Head of Strategic Foresight, Antti-Jussi leads VTT’s Strategic Foresight unit, a 12 expert team that helps companies detect disruptive signals, evaluate bets across technology, markets, policy, sustainability, and society, building resilient growth strategies when stakes are high and time horizons stretch to 2030–2050. As long time faculty in Aalto EE’s MBA/EMBA foresight modules, he translates complex foresight into practical methods leaders can apply immediately.

    Over two decades, Antti Jussi has worked at the intersection of technology, markets and policy. At the Finnish Forest Industries Federation, he advanced RDI and industrial policy at EU and national levels, giving companies a vantage point on how regulation, sustainability and technology co evolve—and how to position ahead of the curve. Earlier at ETLA, he directed multinational, cross disciplinary programs, securing multimillion euro funding while leading large expert teams on the topics of competitiveness and technology-driven business. He has also served as a Research Scholar at Stanford University’s Center for Design Research, contributing to research on radical innovation practices that inform corporate foresight today.

    His clients’ outcomes include (1) 2050 horizon technology strategies that anticipate shocks from sustainability, regulation and science; (2) breakthrough materials, processes and product technologies that reset cost/performance frontiers; (3) “New Defense” entry paths for dual use value chains; (4) post conflict, cross border investment theses to de risk capital deployment; (5) data and digital infrastructure monetization via platform, service and ecosystem plays; and (6) user centric mobility offerings aligned with evolving urban lifestyles for the 2040s.

    Antti Jussi is co author of the widely used Playbook for Strategic Foresight & Innovation and co editor of VTT’s Guidebook for Organising Corporate Foresight, a practical manual for embedding foresight into decision making. He also writes on how foresight strengthens value creation in the C suite and boards. His expert views have been featured in sector and policy forums as well as mainstream media.


    Participation in the first two events is free of charge. By registering for a third event in SelectionF, you will automatically be enrolled as a member and invoiced for a 12-month membership period

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  • Creative Intelligence - NORDIC online workshop

    • 2 Sep 2026
    • 17:00 - 18:30
    • Online
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    Why your unique way of thinking is a strategic asset in executive management and the boardroom

    When it comes to diversity in executive management and the boardroom, the evidence is clear: diverse leadership teams make better decisions, challenge blind spots and strengthen business performance.

    Yet too many leadership teams still lack one of the most important forms of diversity: cognitive diversity - the different ways people think, solve problems, spot risks and create opportunities.

    This interactive workshop will help you understand why your unique way of thinking is not just valuable, but a strategic asset. You will gain fresh, powerful arguments that move the diversity conversation beyond traditional gender-based perspectives and into the boardroom’s core agenda: better decisions, stronger governance and future-ready businesses.

    Combining Matthew Syed’s team of clones model with the Creative ID™ psychometric tool, the workshop explores:

    • What cognitive diversity is, what it looks like in practice, and why it matters
    • How creative intelligence brings cognitive diversity to life and makes it actionable
    • Why cognitive diversity is essential in executive management and the boardroom
    • How different thinking styles can strengthen decision-making, innovation and business resilience

    The workshop is hosted by Hanne Kristiansen, Creative ID™, and Astrid Jørgensen, consultant and board professional.

    Bio – Hanne Kristiansen

    Hanne Kristiansen is a people-obsessed corporate innovator who is on a mission to make the world of work a more human, agile and inclusive place to be. She spent the first half of her career working in innovation for Diageo, McVitie’s and latterly Kellogg’s where she was Head of European Innovation. Since 2007, Hanne has collaborated with The University of Sheffield (UK) to develop Creative ID™, a research-based psychometric tool which puts creative intelligence within reach of everyone, not just the lucky few! 

    Bio – Astrid Jørgensen 

    Astrid Jørgensen´s professional portfolio consists of roles as consultant, board professional, facilitator and interim C-level roles (e.g. CEO, CCO). She specialises in subscription based business models, both BtC and BtB and holds experience from interim C-level positions drawing on P&L experince (CEO and CCO). She loves helping professionals unlock the powers of strategic networking. 

    She draws on 17 years of subscription experience from JP/Politikens Hus and Bonnier Publications. Board member and interim CEO (spring 2026) at A4 Medier. Interim CEO Ungdomsøen May 2026 - January 2027. Former Commercial Director at Politiken and Chair of the Board, Monitormedier.

    Only open to MEMBERS of SelectionF. 


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