Global futurist known for her out-of-the-box thinking
Europe
United Kingdom
Anne Lise Kjaer is the founder and CEO of Kjaer Global, a company that has, for over thirty years, provided insights to governments and institutions to drive innovation.
Kjaer is a renowned global futurist and bestselling author. She has the unique ability to translate fledgling concepts into viable commercial activities. Her career thus far has seen her work with some of the world’s leading brands, including Unilever, IKEA, Sony, Amazon, Swiss Live, Volvo, Toyota, and many others.
However, her career started in Denmark. Anne Lise Kjaer worked in the design industry there before starting her company in 1988. She also lived and worked in Germany and France before choosing London as her base.
A frequent commentator in the international press, she has featured on BBC, CNN, and Aljazeera, to name but a few. Anne Kjaer has also contributed to numerous academic papers and publications. The bestselling author of “The Trend Management Toolkit”, her offering considers current media and industry interests in such aspects as trend spotting, scenario planning, and disruptive innovation. In 2020, she contributed to “After Shock: The World’s Foremost Futurist Reflect on 50 Years of Future Shock – and Look Ahead to the Next 50”.
Anne Lise Kjaer holds a BA in Design from TEKO Business School. Between 2005 and 2020, she served as a Copenhagen Goodwill Ambassador. In 2018, she was appointed the International Panel of Experts for Singapore’s Urban Development Authority (URA), supporting urban planning in 2060. Kjaer joined DEFRA, the ministerial Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (GOV.UK), in 2022.
As a leading trend, Kjaer Global has, for more than 30 years, provided organisations globally with insights to drive new business models and innovation. In the 21st Century, only organisations that foster visionary thinking, fast-cycle learning, and agility can respond effectively to the challenges of tomorrow’s world to satisfy people’s real needs and foster sustainable growth.
Anne Lise Kjaer operates from London, UK, and presents in English.
“Anne Lise is very professional and great inspiration to work with. Her energy and strategic way of looking at trends and the future is rare and helpful for many small and large companies in this fast changing world.”
“Anne Lise Kjaer is an inspiring, motivating and innovative thinker. She breaks down borders, patterns and conventional thinking as she translates trends into actionable strategies and products. Her work and vision has been very useful for our organisation and clients. I was challenged as a leader and as a product developer in a productive and positive way. I will not hesitate to engage Anne Lise again and can highly recommend her to Bro Kommunikation's customers and associates.”
“Anne Lise spoke at TEDxSalford for us and was a true inspiration and delivered a perfect presentation.I would highly recommend her as one of the top people in her field.And hope to work with her in the future.”
“We just had a great process together with Anne Lise Kjaer and Sandra Elfort from Kjaer Global looking at how the future trends will impact the way we should run our business. Certainly, it inspires to think differently than what you do in your daily business life, thanks for a well-prepared workshop, super session and we look very much forward to the follow-up.”
“I co-organised the Cranfield Executive MBA Capstone conference for which we could get Anne Lise from Kjaer Global Ltd. as speaker and panellist. Her contribution was about the theme of “Daring to Risk Success and Tomorrow’s Global Citizens.” The depth and rigor of her studies, analysis and conclusions are not just helpful but truly inspiring. At the conference, Anne Lise was one of our top personalities and her passionate style and lateral thinking is very refreshing. She clearly added a lot of value to make this conference very successful. I would like to just highlight a few aspects of her work which were particularly well received: Anne Lise’s 4P Model, the notion of Betapreneurship, the Good Life, and her work about trend analysis and the Trend Atlas. Many of these sparked interesting discussions and opened up new opportunities for many conference attendees.”
“Anne Lise was keynote speaker at the Cranfield EMBA 12/13 First Flight conference themed “Dare to risk success”. She is an outstanding public speaker and generously blended her professional views as futurist with personal stories (never boring, never conventional), which was exactly the right approach to this audience and occasion. Anne Lise is a globally renowned futurist and I can only recommend her to any organisation planning ahead or any person curious on what may come.”