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Fredrik Haren's speaking fee falls within range: $20,000 to $25,000
Fredrik Haren is The Creativity Explorer, a global keynote speaker on Business Creativity, Innovation and Change.
He has delivered over 2,000 presentations, lectures and workshops in over 75 countries on 6 continents and has inspired over a million people from the stage to become more creative and to look at the world in a new way.
He celebrated 25 years as a professional speaker in year 2025 and spoke in 19 countries on 4 continents in 2025 alone.
He is the author of ten books, including “The Idea Book” which was included in “The 100 Best Business Books of All Time”. His latest book, The World of Creativity, was launched just before Christmas 2025, with Wiley Publishers. The book is the summary of what learning from creative people in 75 countries during the past 25 years has taught Fredrik about how we can discover our full creative potential.
Fredrik has been inducted in “Speaker Hall of Fame” on 2 continents. He is a CSP as well as Global Speaking Fellow. He is a recipient of “TIA”, given by The Global Speakers Federation and considered the highest award in the international speaking community.
Fredrik Härén explains in his keynote speeches and workshops why creativity is important and also why it can be difficult; he offers solutions to help your employees become more creative. His theme is that most people are both less creative than they think and more creative than they can imagine. He also explains how the creativity now flowing from developing countries is going to change the world.
Fredrik has spoken to over one million people and he customizes his proactive style to his targeted audience. Whether you want to know about creativity for your salesforce, for leadership, for education or for customer service he can help you to realize and capitalize upon the creativity within.
The World of Creativity
After traveling to over 75 countries on 6 continents to discover as much as possible about human creativity, Fredrik Haren - The Creativity Explorer - will share valuable insights that he learnt from interviewing thousands of creative people around the world.
Live a creative life
Creativity is the most powerful human superpower. Nothing else has the same potential for changing one's life for the better. It’s through creativity and imagination that we can dream up our perfect lives - and make them happen. Fredrik helps one do just that!
Business Creativity
The World Economic Forum had named “creativity” as the #1 most important skill of the future. Nothing is more important for an entrepreneur than maximizing their skills in business creativity.
Fredrik has a specialized practical workshop to better understand creativity.
The workshop will cover things such as (not limited to):
- Tools for helping one become more creative at work - Techniques to develop new ideas - A better understanding of the creative process to increase one's creative abilities - Exercises one can do alone or with their team to generate more and better ideas
The Watt Com Boom
Fredrik is passionate about the change that is happening in the energy market right now and has a special speech called “The Watt Com Boom” about how the Energy Industry is going through a transformation at the moment. It’s a speech he has done for the largest energy conference in Sweden as well as for the top leadership team at the largest energy company in Sweden (Vattenfall) amongst others.
Creativity to the Power of Computers
This is a speech on creativity and how to use AI to become even more creative and about how our views of what creativity is and can be, is being challenged by the fast developments in AI.
The Power of Global Creativity
Fredrik explores how creativity is both universal and deeply shaped by culture. Drawing on insights from over 75 countries, Fredrik shows how diverse ways of thinking drive innovation, strengthen partnerships, and prepare organizations for an uncertain future. The talk offers a forward-looking perspective on how global creativity becomes a strategic advantage in a connected world.
Unlocking Your Creative Potential
Fredrik explores how creativity is not a rare talent, but a skill we all possess. Fredrik reveals practical ways to tap into new thinking, challenge habits, and turn ideas into meaningful impact - both individually and collectively.
Creativity Across Cultures
This topic explores how creativity is universal, yet expressed differently around the world. Drawing on perspectives from over 75 countries, Fredrik reveals how cultural context shapes ideas, problem-solving, and innovation - and why this matters for global collaboration.
From Ideas to Impact
Fredrik shows how organizations can move beyond ideas to action. Drawing on global insights, the talk highlights how creativity, structure, and partnership transform innovation into sustainable results.
SPEAKING.COM: What do you want people to learn / take away from your presentations?
HAREN: I was once called “an inspirational kick-in-the-butt” by a client. It was meant as a compliment, and I took it as such. 😉
The most effective – but also the most difficult – speech to give is one that is both inspirational and provocative at the same time. The audience leaves feeling empowered and challenged simultaneously.
SPEAKING.COM: Have you had any particularly memorable speaking engagements / unusual situations arise while on the road?
HAREN: I have done more than 1500 speeches in over 60 countries, and there are so many memorable engagements that I have done. But let me share some from the last month:
a) I got to speak to 4000 business people in Ukraine – a country torn apart by internal fighting, and yet the business people there were so hungry for inspiration on how to develop their businesses. b) I gave a speech to a very small, but exclusive group of global HR managers of the largest multinational Chinese companies – to learn how Chinese companies are now trying to become more global. c) I gave a speech to all the employees of BMW Brazil. This was the first time I spoke in South America, which means I’ve now given talks on all continents except Antarctica. (That same month I also spoke in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Germany and Norway.)
SPEAKING.COM: What types of audiences would most benefit from your message?
HAREN: My specialty is to speak to global audiences (i.e. an audience consisting of people from many different countries). I am mostly booked for global (or international) conferences. I am not focused on any specific industry since business creativity, change and global business are themes that are relevant for virtually all businesses.
SPEAKING.COM: Which of your keynote speaking topics are your favorites and why?
HAREN: Right now my favorite topic is to speak on change, because it seems that so many industries are going through such rapid change right now. In my 20 years of speaking on change and innovation, the pace of chance has never been faster than now.
SPEAKING.COM: Your talks on Business Creativity are based on your best selling book, The Idea Book. What do you teach in these talks?
HAREN: The sad thing is that according to studies that we have conducted, 98% of employees do not think that their company is doing enough to develop the creativity of its staff. Yet most people think that creativity is important in their job.
In my talks, my main goal is to get the audience excited and confident about their own creative abilities. Because if you do not think that you are creative, then there is a big chance that this lack of confidence – by itself – stops you from having great ideas. So while I can teach many specific techniques on how to develop your own creativity, the most important part of my speech is to leave the audience with a feeling of “I am now going to try to do things differently.”
SPEAKING.COM: What inspired you to start doing speaking engagements?
HAREN: I wrote a book about the Internet and marketing in 1995, which was quite early so I was asked to speak a lot. (I was 27 years old at the time.). Around the year 2000, I stopped speaking specifically on the Internet and started speaking more generally on innovation and business.
SPEAKING.COM: How much do case studies, personal stories and/or humor factor into your keynote speech content?
HAREN: I am a speaker who relies a lot on stories. I think humans are programmed to learn the best from a strong message communicated through a story. I take pride in the fact that a very high percentage of my stories are personal anecdotes that I myself have collected from the companies I’ve worked with, as opposed to “hearsay-stories” about big companies that the speaker has never worked with.
SPEAKING.COM: What are some of the successes you’ve helped clients make?
HAREN: I have a file on my computer where I save extra-inspiring speaker feedback. It has 1500+ emails in it. One strong email came from a young woman who had been depressed and for six weeks had not left her apartment. But after a friend brought a video of one of my speeches, she snapped out of her depression and took charge of her life again.
In the corporate world the most common long-term feedback I get is that I have helped the organizations to think differently. Last month, a client told me right after my speech, “You did more in 45 minutes than we (the global marketing department) have been able to do in 5 years.”
Fredrik is an acclaimed speaker whose speeches genuinely resonate with audiences across the globe. He listened to our brief and adapted his content perfectly for our global tax event in Singapore, his presentation style visibly lifted the audience’s – Manager Global Strategic Events, Big Four Accounting firm
“One of the guests said it was the best speech he had heard in his life. Almost everyone said that they felt highly motivated. So thank you very much again, it’s been a pleasure having Fredrik with us and it has also been great working with you!” – Blumberry (Event booked by Speakers Platform)
“Fredrik Härén spoke at our kick off and everyone who attended was extremely impressed and were all inspired to create new innovations. Fredrik’s speech was the only thing everyone talked about at the end of the conference. I highly recommend to bring Fredrik in as a key note speaker.” – Mikael Pawlo, CEO,Mr Green
“Thank you so much for giving such an interesting presentation at our conference in Stockholm. We have had an extremely good feedback.” – Sarah Garside, Praxit
“I’ve never heard someone speak on creativity so creatively.” – Tom Estad, Singapore Management University
“At our regional conference Fredrik demonstrated an unique ability to both challenge and inspire an extremely diverse global Leadership group. He has set a hard act for anyone to follow.” – Paddy Crawshaw, OMD (OMD Asia Management Conference)
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The World of Creativity: A Journey Across 37 Countries to Discover the Secrets of Creative Minds
Unlock your creative potential and explore the world of creativity
In The World of Creativity, author Fredrik Haren embarks on a fascinating journey to explore the essence of creativity from every corner of the globe. The book addresses the universal quest of people longing to uncover their own creative power by presenting insights gathered from a 25-year trek across 75 countries. Fredrik Haren, known as “The Creativity Explorer,” combines interviews with thousands of creative individuals, from executives in Silicon Valley to isolated nomads in Mongolia – he even went to North Korea, all to help readers unlock their unique creative abilities and tackle life’s challenges with innovative solutions.
The World of Creativity offers a unique and comprehensive perspective on human creativity by sharing experiences from people in diverse environments. Each chapter is dedicated to insights from a different country allowing readers to gain inspiration from the creative processes of individuals like a paper artist in Bangkok and a glass artist in Barcelona, enriching their own approach to creativity.
The Idea Book
A book on creativity should not be like other books.
The Idea Book is 150 pages of ideas, 150 empty pages for your own idea. It’s an idea book.
The “book part” consists of 63 different chapters on how you can develop new ideas. Every chapter ends with a practical activity, or exercise, where the reader can practice the lesson of that chapter.
The book is full of stories, anecdotes, and quotes about how to generate ideas. The “notebook part” is a place for you to work on and store your best ideas. Follow the tradition of a long line of creatives who have used a small, black notebook to catch their ideas.
The combination of creativity boosts from the chapters, and a beautiful notebook for your ideas makes The Idea Book the perfect companion for anyone who wants to nurture their creativity.
The Developing World: How an Explosion of Creativity in the Developing World Is Changing the World, and Why the Developed World Has to Start Paying Attention
There is an explosion of creativity happening in the developing world right now. Best selling creativity author and keynote speaker Fredrik Härén wanted to understand what this creativity explosion means, what it will lead to and how it will change the world. So he set out to find out. For five years Fredrik Härén went to 18 developing countries (and 8 developed countries) and done more than 200 interviews with people who in some way are involved with business and creativity. He has met with cosmetics executives in Russia, professors in South Africa, creativity consultants in Egypt, IT-journalists in Iran, hotel managers in Dubai, designers in Indonesia, government officials in Thailand and mobile phone designers in South Korea and many, many more. The result of his research is this book. A book about “The Developing World.” In this book you will learn about the advantages of being a creative person in a developing country, about what the developed world can learn from the developing world, and most importantly, you will read about the dangers of defining yourself as “developed” in a world that has never been developing faster than now. It is a book that may turn your view of the world up-side-down, and that hopefully will inspire you to become more curious about the great changes happening in the world right now.
One World One Company: How some of the best companies in the world are becoming global and why you should too
It is time to update the way we view the world of business. In this book, Fredrik Härén argues for why—and how—companies need to become global in the way they conduct business. Learn how some of the most successful companies, big and small, have been able to make this transition; what other companies can learn from them; the challenges you will face when going global; and the dangers that loom for those who choose not to.
A perfect business consulting book for executive education as well as a great case source for business schools who are building the foundation of our future leaders today.
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