With JOY
as Guiding Star
Bestselling Author
Culture Strategist
Keynote & TEDx Speaker
“Annicken R. Day has a gift for transforming bureaucracies into businesses that buzz with creativity and joy”
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Founder Corporate Spring
Drawing on two decades of experience,combined with science-backed, proven methods, Annicken R. Day advises and supports startup founders to Fortune 500 executives in how to build thriving, high-performing teams and innovation cultures.
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Bestselling Author
Annicken R. Day’s debut novel “Fly, Butterfly” became an instant bestseller and has been translated into multiple languages. The story is about a business woman’s personal and transformational journey, not unlike Annicken R. Day’s own story.
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Global Keynote Speaker
Global keynote speaker and moderator, Annicken R. Day has spoken on hundreds of stages worldwide, including United Nations and TEDx, about leadership, culture, and how to build thriving teams and businesses in the new world of work.
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Tuscany Chill Connect Create Camps
Annicken hosts intimate Chill Connect Create Camps in Tuscany for curious humans who want to step away from everyday life, slow down, connect, get inspired – and enjoy themselves immensely.
At the age of six, Norwegian-born Annicken R. Day declared her life and career ambition: to be happy.
Joy has been something of a guiding star ever since – through a life and career that has taken her from Norway to Silicon Valley, from startups to Fortune 500 companies, from corporate boardrooms to stages arounthe world, and eventually to the hills of Tuscany, where she now lives and writes.
Annicken is a bestselling author, culture strategist, keynote and TEDx speaker, and founder of Corporate Spring. For more than 25 years, she has been fascinated by what makes people – and the places where they work – truly come alive.
That curiosity runs through everything she does. Her work with leaders and organizations. Her writing. Her speaking. Her Chill Connect Create Camps in Tuscany. And perhaps most of all, the choices she has made in her own life.
She believes deeply in the power of purpose, courage, curiosity and joy. In creating cultures where people can thrive. In choosing what makes us feel more alive. And in remembering that success is not only about what we achieve, but about how we spend our days along the way.
These days, when she isn't working with leaders and organizations around the world, Annicken can often be found writing somewhere in Tuscany, having long conversations over equally long lunches, exploring yet another little Italian town – or following whatever breadcrumb life puts in front of her next.
Meet Annicken R. Day
Corporate Spring
Corporate Spring is a global boutique consultancy that helps a range of clients, from ambitious startups to Fortune 500 companies, build and cultivate thriving, high-performance work cultures.
Rooted in the rich values of their Scandinavian heritage, with expertise and a unique experience of working with culture, leadership, and communications in some of the world’s leading companies, the Corporate Spring team consults, supports and helps their clients change, grow and achieve business success.
Said About Corporate Spring:
The Corporate Spring Model™ – and the people behind it – puts deep knowledge, structure and process into the not-so tangible process of building, and constantly evolving a thriving culture.
- Camilla Nilsson, CEO, Kyoto Group
Bycombining theory, experience, and neuroscience with excellent facilitation skills, the Corporate Spring Team has provided tremendous value to our global team.
- Jason Angelus, Director Engineering, Cisco
Corporate Spring was instrumental in the process of helping us define the common values and culture for our merged companies and help us focus on what matters most to build high-performing teams.
- Ingrid Woodhouse, Chief People Officer, Pexip
Fly, Butterfly
Annicken R. Day’s debut novel “Fly, Butterfly” is a personal and professional metamorphosis story that takes the readers from cut-throat corporate New York to chill Hawaii and back again, telling a story about the importance of being true to oneself, and dare to choose joy, both in life and in business.
The book, inspired by many true events, became an instant international bestseller, and inspires readers around the world.
Said about the book:
Fly, Butterfly is a page turner that draws you in and makes you nod furiously, laugh deeply, and then sob with empathy. This is a powerful novel that has the energy to inspire change.
– AMY BRANN, Author of Engaged, Make Your Brain Work and Neuroscience for Coaches.
Annicken R. Day ́s book “Fly, Butterfly” is an absolutely amazing, page-turning novel that also teaches some of the most valuable life and business lessons imaginable.
– BOB BURG,Hall of Fame Speaker and Bestselling Author of The Go-Giver Series
Keynote Speaking
Annicken R. Day is a pioneering force and global authority in the field of culture transformation, leadership for the new world, high performing team cultures and personal mindsets and motivation.
Based on her unique experience combined with scientific evidence, she brings a well of knowledge and inspiration to her audience with high energy and that Nordic no-nonsense attitude.
Said about Annicken R. Day:
Annicken R. Day has a gift for transforming bureaucracies into businesses that buzz with creativity and joy. I have yet to meet a more insightful shaper of culture.
- Adam Grant, NYT Bestselling Author of Give and Take, Originals and Think Again.
What an amazing experience we had when Annicken R. Day explained the importance of Culture as a Growth Strategy and how High Performing Cultures work!
- EvaPanarese, Marketing Director,Camurus
Annicken R. Day delivered the most intriguing session for our leadership team, focusing on leadership for the new world of work. Her ability to transport the listener to a deeper, inner, more connected realm is almost surreal.
- Denning Tan, StartUp Lead, Amazon Web Services, APAC