English | Annika R Malmberg

"Seeing Annika on stage is like a play, like poetry. Except for the fact that you don’t even notice it happening, you just experience it, you’re just in it. Her dedication to providing you with the absolute best is unique in Sweden. And it’s thanks to that dedication that Annika is being awarded the first DIAMOND SPEAKER accreditation, according to 110STEPS, to be awarded to a Swedish female speaker”
– David JP Phillips 110STEPS

“Annika is an amazingly inspiring speaker. She’s spoken at our two events with several hundred participants and everyone gives her the highest marks and wants to hear her again. Her energy is palpable and her message moves and creates insights that hit the spot and strike a deep chord. Annika is professional and respectful in her relationship with us as a customer. She’s easy to work with and always gives her utmost when she’s on stage”
- Katarina Sand, Project Manager,Wise Professionals

"Annika gave six talks to all our employees, 3000 people in total. It was absolutely amazing. Her inspirational talk on communication and collaboration made us laugh and gave us a lot to think about. It was something that everyone on the team could relate to and take with them. Annika is one of the very best speakers I’ve seen and I hope we’ll have the opportunity to work together again in the future!” - Victoria Dahl, HR, Municipality of Nässjö

"In May 2023, I participated in AstraZeneca's event Campus Celebration, where approximately 3800 employees from Södertälje and Stockholm attended. In addition to dinner and festivities, some team activities were conducted – with around 1200 people in each group. One of the activities was the lecture 'People & Sustainability – different personalities.' Annika's lecture was filled with recognition and 'aha' moments, both regarding work and private life. Her presentation was highly appreciated by our employees and attracted many laughs."

- Titti Schilström, Project Manager/Event Lead AstraZeneca

Annika R Malmberg is in a class of her own as a speaker, artist and author who mesmerises her audience. There are few people who are able to do what Annika does and describe people’s differences and show how to create working relationships with everyone who isn’t like you with such warmth and humour.

Annika has over 30 years’ experience from podiums and stages and is also the founder of the Talarnas.se agency for speakers, the CEO of Hamilton Group and the author of five books. Her background as both a salesperson and a manager means that she knows what she’s talking about.

Her personal comedy show, The Relationship Show, is a success all over the country and she is also a success on TV, including as a favourite expert of Filip & Fredrik in the popular TV show Breaking News. Annika has been named one of Sweden’s Super Communicators and is the only woman in Sweden to have received the Diamond Speaker award. She has been ranked as one of the most popular speakers in Sweden for five years in a row. Annika also coaches an elit Adventure Racing team in cooperation and being the best when it counts.

Books

Only available in Swedish but the titles in English are "Ten tricks for not losing each other - The relationship compass","Take shit and make gold out of it", "Make It Work - A guide to working relationships", "Ignition fluid - In life, career, and for your own sake" and "Golden opportunity - This is how you succeed as a seller"

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The Relationship Show

More than 30 public sold-out shows around Sweden. Parts of The Relationship Show can also be given as a talk. The Relationship Show is a comedy show by and with Annika R Malmberg. It is a colourful show that deals with a subject that has seldom been more important than it is at the moment – our relationships.
Our relationships, both at work and at home, deserve and benefit from a bit of extra attention. And what could be more appropriate than being able to laugh together while getting to know one another a little bit better. “The most common mistake we make in relationships is to base our approach on ourselves”, says Annika R Malmberg. “We interpret other people’s actions according to the standard of what we ourselves would have done and we treat others the way we ourselves would want to be treated. This leads to quite comical situations in which we literally run and talk past one another and it rarely takes long for us to start clashing”

In The Relationship Show you’ll experience laughter, recognition and “aha” moments. Annika includes a liberal helping of her own experiences of relationships, including shortcomings and mistakes as well as times when it was easy and felt right. With this show under your belt, you’ll be able to cope! So, the relationship.

Things that have been said about Annika and The Relationship Show:

“A brilliant show with so much laughter and recognition”

“EVERYONE should experience this”

“What a show, what a fireworks display, what an amazing night”

“Heartily recommended. Annika really hits the spot.”

“Absolutely brilliant”

“Annika is a star”

“I laughed so much I got cramp in my cheeks”

“Wonderful to laugh so much”

“The best thing I’ve seen on a stage!”

Talks

The talks are so full of recognisable examples that participants laugh out loud, but they also stop to think about their own responsibility for how people deal with one another. To accept that we are different and that we all need to get better at adapting and meeting one another half-way in order to avoid unnecessary clashes. With specific tools and advice on how everyone can get better at collaborating and communicating, Annika shows how we can really raise one another up.

Raise one another up

– and we will be powerful together

Annika has a lot of experience of coaching groups and teams for success and her talk demonstrates how we can work together to create a workplace for the future in which we can all feel satisfied and healthy and in which we can all develop.
It’s about being reminded of our differences and how we can get better at empowering and energising one another, how we can use feedback to get stronger and take responsibility for who we are and what we need in order for us all to function at our very best at work. But also how we can get better at making use of one another’s strengths, even if we don’t work in the same group or the same department. It’s about building a team – a department, even though we’re made up of different parts – and making everyone feel that we’re on this journey together.
Annika has also promised to send us her best tips on how to strengthen the group and make it last for a long time to come. How we can get better at designing meetings so they suit everyone, including meetings that will continue to be held digitally. How to find our lighter fluid and how to give one another something practical such as our instruction manual. This is to enable the group, the collaboration and the individual to last in the long run.
Few people can do what Annika does and describe, in such an entertaining and inspiring way, how a group can get even better at collaborating by getting to know one another. But she not only inspires, she also shares some of the most powerful tools in existence to really strengthen the team and the group.

Stronger together

How we can all become more self-aware

in order to coach ourselves to move in the right direction. There is no wrong way to react, just as no personality is wrong. However, everyone can benefit from becoming more aware of how they themselves act in different situations. To better understand how different we are and to what extent we are responsible for, as far as possible, meeting everyone’s need to feel healthy and find the power and the satisfaction in our workplace.
How to use feedback as a tool for strengthening the team and the group. Both as a way of showing what we appreciate and value highly in our business by highlighting good performance and good behaviour and also of knowing how to help one another to make the necessary changes to enable us to become even more successful as a team. Or how I need you to act differently to enable me to do the best job I can. We are linked to one another in our work and we also need to take responsibility for how strong that link between us is. Sometimes, in order to last, it needs to be adjusted. Both between individuals and also between different groups that are also linked to one another. Get specific check lists and tools on how to do it.
Different lighter fluid – to become aware of what makes me light up and how I can get better at being involved and bringing about work situations that increase my and others’ motivation instead of the other way around and also to reflect on how I define job satisfaction and how it can differ from one person to another. It’s by no means certain that we mean the same thing and need the same thing in order to feel satisfied at work.
Produce our instruction manual and give it to one another. Get better at taking responsibility for who we are and what help we need (and don’t need) from the team in order to facilitate collaboration, work on change and finding satisfaction together. Get a specific tool.
Practical tips on how to communicate effectively and build a team with team and meeting rules, team and meeting roles and other effective tools for strengthening the team.

Giving and taking criticism

How you can use criticism so it motivates and strengthens rather than divides.

To show what feedback means in practice, in a fast-paced, entertaining and thought-provoking way, as well as the positive effects that can come about if criticism is given and taken in the right way.
The talk shows how we need to change our own way of giving and taking criticism and
From the contents:
-Credibility. How is it that we listen to some people but not to others?
- What you should think about if you want to be a person that others listen to and take notice of
- What happens when we give one another feedback? A brief description of the basis for human behaviour.
- How to use praise and appreciation so it gives rise to motivation and job satisfaction and doesn’t go down badly
- What happens when we get negative criticism? - Review of defence mechanisms
- How should criticism be given? A simple model for feedback that works and that everyone can use
- How our differences affect the way we give and take criticism
- Also, if relevant: complaint techniques and the best way for you or your organisation to deal with dissatisfied and/or disappointed customers

Annika is one of the selected advisors in the Wisory service. A digital initiative in learning and advice. The service is for companies that want to provide their employees with access to a sounding board via video meetings with leading advisors whenever they need it. Book Annika and get wise advice!

To book Annika or to get advice on which talk is most suitable for you, you are very welcome to contact her husband and colleague Johan Hamilton by filling in the form or by email or phone on +4670 868 45 68