After fifteen years as a leader and executive in the IT industry, Annicken R Day jumped off the corporate treadmill in 2012 to start her own company, Corporate Spring, with a mission to make the corporate world a happier place. Since then she and her team have helped and trained thousands of leaders around the world on how to build thriving corporate cultures, high performing teams, and successful businesses. Annicken is the founder and CEO of Corporate Spring, co-author of the book Creative Superpowers, a public speaker, executive advisor, and a passionate maverick for new ways of thinking, working, and leading in the new world of work. Annicken spends the majority of her time between Oslo, London, and Los Angeles, where also her singer-songwriter daughter Matilde Redbridge lives.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I guess the biggest difficulty was me managing others including my own fear and me just walking away from a really stages, safe and well-paid job. I had a company car and certain social standing in my… Especially my dad’s opinion. And at the age of 44 kind of like starting all over, learning to do a lot of things that had no idea how to do like starting a business and just accepting that life as I knew it would totally change. And whether it would be for the better or worse I actually did not know… I think it’s like emotional difficulties that I had to overcome in order to take that step”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography Book by Walter IsaacsonFavourite Quote:
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by its breath-taking moments.”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Oprah Super Soul Sunday is the daytime series on OWN that delivers a timely, thought provoking, eye opening and inspiring block of programming designed to help viewers awaken to their best selves and discover a deeper connection to the world around them
- LinkedIn – LinkedIn is a business and employment-oriented service that operates via websites and mobile apps. Founded on December 28, 2002, and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking, including employers posting jobs and job seekers posting their CVs.
- Forbes is a global media company, focusing on business, investing, technology, entrepreneurship, leadership, and lifestyle
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“enjoyed the ride, don’t take things too seriously, have a laugh, things always work out in the end”…[Listen for More]
More About Annicken R Day:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.” Robert T. Kiyosaki
Other Quotes From the Chat with Annicken R Day:
- “passion for what you do and passion what you are there to do”
- “I need to be able to simplify something that is extremely complex. Because you can’t go into a meeting with someone who hasn’t really given this a second thought that people are important or the culture is important and just tell them that it is, you need to have the research, and the data that backs it up. You also need to build to present it in a simplified way so that people actually see that this is doable”
- “I do think you have to be a little bit crazy to be an entrepreneur”
- “what I found out with corporate culture and team dynamics you cannot handle it as an Excel sheet”
- “I know a lot of passionate people. I know people and they are just like fighting, they are grinding, they are just like I have got to do this. But there is no joy in that”
- “I am truly enjoying what I do”
- “passion and joy to me like the two main ingredients for success as an entrepreneur but also as a leader or in business in general or life in general”
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