Rasmus Ankersen

Rasmus Ankersen Profile

Former football player Rasmus Ankersen, a.k.a. “The High-Performance Anthropologist,” has carved himself a unique niche in the worlds of coaching and performance improvement. Always sought-after as a speaker and adviser to businesses and athletes, he travels the globe to research, advise major corporations and give keynote speeches.

Rasmus has lived his research to the full; he has trained with the world’s fastest sprinters in Jamaica, played football with the aspiring talents of the Brazilian favelas, which produce the most talented players on earth, and followed the female golfers of Korea to investigate how they have managed to overwhelm the international golfing world.

Based in London, Rasmus uses the knowledge he has gained from his research to show companies, organizations, and teams how they too can assume the mental habits necessary for world-class performance. He takes down our fundamental ingrained beliefs and replaces them with winning strategies that have been proven to work in the real world.

Personal coach to top athletes and senior executives, Rasmus has published a number of books that have been bestsellers in his native Denmark.

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  Rasmus Ankersen is an ex-footballer, a bestselling author, a speaker on performance development and a trusted advisor to businesses and athletes around the world. You′ll never find him in one place for more than a few days – he is always on the move, flying from city to city to do new research, advise major companies or address sold-out audiences.

  Ankersen, alias The High Performance Anthropologist, is the only speaker in the world to have literally lived and trained with the best athletes on earth. For six months he traveled the globe, to live with the fastest people on earth in Jamaica, to train with the boys of the Brazilian favelas, the infamous shanty towns that produce the world’s best football players and to discover how Korea’s female golf machines have taken the world by storm, achieving massive domination of the international golf scene.

  Now back in London, Rasmus is teaching companies, organisations and teams how to adopt the mindset and the kind of habits which produce World Class performance. With his powerful, refreshing style Rasmus challenges our most fundamental beliefs about success, leaving us with new, effective strategies, which he knows will work. The High Performance Anthropologist walks the talk.

  In his early 30s, Rasmus has already published a number of highly-successful books that have sold more than 35,000 copies in Denmark alone. His latest book, Hunger in Paradise: How to Save Success from Failure, was released in 2016.

  In addition to coaching top athletes and senior executives, he is the chairman of FC Midtjylland, his childhood football club in Denmark, and a director of the English club Brentford FC. Both are recognized as among the most innovative football clubs, noted for their use of big data in decision-making.

  Rasmus has been sought out to speak on high performance cultures by global companies including Lego, Google, IKEA, Ernst & Young, and many more.

  Rasmus pumps winner’s DNA into the blood of his audiences, and his primary principle is: CUT THE CRAP! No empty theories or clichés. He never leaves his audiences unmoved! He may inspire, shock, disturb or even blow them away.

  But indifferent – never!