Jan Eriksson
CVO | Outbound Futurist

The European Outbound Method

The Lounge

How do you approach outbound sales? Can you increase sales by leading with compassion and not compliance? What is the biggest reason behind outbound sales failures?

Jan Eriksson together with his employees and clients have developed a holistic method to outbound sales, The European Outbound Method. Across a series of three events we will explore the cornerstones of the method: The Self, The Business and The Outbound System.

Join us at Epicenter to explore the first cornerstone of The European Outbound Method: The Self. Jan will provide ideas and tools on how to get more inspired about your own personal growth and future.

Jan Eriksson

During his 15+ years as an entrepreneur Jan fell in love with commercialisation and outbound sales. Within the first year of founding his latest company Awareness Momentum, he signed a deal with a 1BN€+ company in the Netherlands to join their Nordics go-to-market. He has been re-inventing outbound with SaaS companies and software consultancies in all of Europe.

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Marine Liesenhoff
Co-founder, Hippo Campus

The 5 Pillars of Growth

The Lounge

The changing seasons provide the perfect time for self-care and self-assessment as it gets colder and days become shorter. We are excited to invite you to the kick off of the Growth month featuring Hippo Campus!

During this two-hour workshop, you will be invited to kickstart (or continue) your growth journey to become more performant at work and more resilient in life. The Five Growth Pillars framework will serve as a basis for understanding your growth potential. The five pillars consist of emotional, mental, physical, spiritual, and social growth. Subsequently, you will be given the tools to take the first steps of your sustainable growth journey.

Hippo Campus is a movement aimed at empowering people to take control of their growth. Founding growth addicts of Hippo Campus, Marine Liesenhoff and Bram van Oijen, will guide you towards an innovative approach to personal growth.

Marine Liesenhoff

Throughout her seven years of experience, Marine has been developing new ways to innovate personal growth, which she is thrilled to bring along to Hippo Campus. Her aim is to support people build the future they want for themselves both personally and professionally. She has been doing so by working in innovation for entrepreneurs and international companies (e.g. ING, Luminus) as well as a life coach and author of the upcoming "The impactful Growth mindset". Marine believes that by developing a growth mindset, people can become more resilient to change, more open to embracing uncertainty, and more likely to unlock their full potential.

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Bram Van Oijen
Co-founder, Hippo Campus

The 5 Pillars of Growth

Bram Van Oijen

Bram has been a personal growth addict since 2011. In 2013 he launched his first company with the aim of helping students in their personal growth. Over the years Bram has helped both people and companies with their growth, from corporates like Unilever, Deutsche Telekom, Maersk, and Mediq to startups and scaleups. In Hippo Campus he is excited to bring together all the lessons learned over the years, from CEOs and experts, to individuals and teams from all over the world. Crafting a sustainable way of growth will bring you fulfilment and a happier life.

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Joey Bayer
Head of Community, Epicenter Helsinki

Afterwork: Growth Stories

The Lounge

At this afterwork, you’ll hear from Ari Heiskanen, Commerical Manager at Httpool, about their growth journey, successes, and pitfalls. 

Not your typical Thursday afternoon, this is the chance to connect, network, grow and learn with and from Epicenter members!

Joey Bayer

Joey Bayer has been responsible for creating conversations that matter for more than 16 years.

From creating the space, to connecting key players, to driving / setting the agenda, Joey brings together individuals for moments that both transform and inspire.

Over the course of his career, Joey has hosted the world's most fascinating and influential people - from world leaders, like Bill Clinton, to iconic legends like Liza Minelli, to the CEOs of today's Fortune 500 companies.

Joey's intuitive ability to connect with others, his passion for people and dialogue, and ability to get directly to the heart of the discussion have earned him a reputation of trust and respect with leaders around the world, and made him a central figure in today's most important conversations.

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Ari Heiskanen
Commercial Manager, Httpool

Afterwork: Growth Stories

Ari Heiskanen

With over 17 years BtoB sales experience, Ari has held positions in IT-Sales, Digital Marketing Sales and Leadership. He is very passionate about entrepreneurship, couch surfing, cycling and Latin dancing.

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Sebastian Selenius
Master Trainer | Body Movement Expert

Body Movement: How to Stay Physically Active at Work

The Lounge

Master trainer, and body movement expert, Sebastian Selenius will showcase exercises and small movements you can incorporate into your daily work routine to improve your mental and physical health.

Exercise at work can help reduce stress and prevent illness. Sitting and standing for hours on end can have a drastically negative impact on your health. According to WHO, more than 1.4 billion adults globally are not getting enough exercise. Back pain, risk of developing cancer or depression also increases with a sedentary lifestyle. Common ailments can be traced to lack of exercise.

So what happens when you become more active and take regular breaks from your desk? You become more productive, your body feels better and your mind and energy levels will become positively affected too!

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Chris Bergstrom
COO, Alice Wellbeing

Mindful Leadership: From Mary Poppins to Special Forces

The Lounge

Participate in an experiential workshop that not only communicates the core competencies of mindful leadership but also allows you to playfully experiment with bite-sized mindfulness tools. This workshop will give you an understanding of mindful leadership as well as practical methods for cultivating mindful leadership.

Chris Bergstrom

Chris Bergstrom is the COO of Alice Wellbeing, a Helsinki-basedwellbeing AI startup, as well as a bestselling mindfulness author, a leader in the field of mindfulness, and the founder of BlissfulKids.com, a community of parents, educators, and therapists dedicated to children's mindfulness and psychology. Chris has over 20 years of experience in leadership roles and guiding people of all ages through meditation and psychological interventions. Chris is a certified mindfulness facilitator who has been trained to teach mindfulness to students in grades K-12. He has received psychology and mindfulness training from UPenn, UCLA, UNC, Mindful Schools, and Mindfulness WithoutBorders.

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Anna Kuusela
Leadership Coach & Change Artist, SISU Collective Ltd

Mindful Leadership: From Mary Poppins to Special Forces

Anna Kuusela

Anna Kuusela is a certified leadership coach and creator of experiential shifts through her training and speaking. She comes from a decade-long consulting career, working for eg Deloitte and KPMG in London and across Europe. Anna is an explorer of conscious leadership and the potentiality of our energy through eg brainwave shifting - her curiosity is to support stress-driven clients to relax and land into the frequency of Alpha, known as the source of creativity, intuition and flexibility. All factors which are required for leaders wishing to be & do outside the box. As a former ballet dancer, Anna activates people to wander outside their usual top-down, cerebral processes and invites them to connect with their hearts, bodies and the untapped potential of presence.

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Reidar Wasenius
COO, Breaks Finland

Public Speaking: Finding Your Voice

The Lounge

Reidar Wasenius is an experienced professional in communications and business development. He has been working as a Voice since 1979, on stage since 1981 and in the tech sector since 1984.

Reidar is currently the Chief Creative Officer of Breaks Finland Ltd. Before that, he was the Managing Director of the Finnish Business Angels Network (FiBAN). His past employers in the tech sector include Samsung, Nokia (twice), Telecom Finland, Digital Equipment Corporation and TEKES - the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (now: Business Finland). He has worked in radio and TV for several commercial channels and the national public broadcasting company YLE. Today, Reidar's voice is heard by more people than any other Finnish voice. You hear it in multiple languages on your telephone since 1992 and on board Finnish trains since 2014.

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Nina Karlsson & Heli Backman
Leadership Consultants, Co-Founders, Energy Coaching

The Secret Sauce of Successful Team Growth

The Lounge

Do you want to take your team to a next level?

Do you want to learn how to ensure high performance and proactiveness in your team?

Nowadays most of the work people do happens in various team formats. There are many kinds of teams;  ad hoc teams like project teams, deal teams and more permanent operational teams. Many teams work in a hybrid mode. Challenging times lead easily to teams losing their forwardgoing (anabolic) energy and a sense of belonging.

Learn more about Clarity Focus Energy® model & team coaching method and how your team could benefit from them.

 Come and learn the secrect sauce for successful team growth!

Nina Karlsson & Heli Backman

Nina is an Energy Coach & Co-founder, Certified Business Coach Master® (PCC) with strong visualization skills. Her work experience journey includes over 20 years of leadership, human relations management, and culture development in various business fields such as IT, HR, marketing, and hotel and restaurant management. Supporting leaders and experts in reaching their goals and in succeeding has been close to her heart throughout her work history.

Heli is strategic oranisational energy consultant and leadership coach with strong a business background. Her passion is to help organizations shift their energy through leadership and to create a big positive impact in their customers’ operations and their own organization.  She has combined business, law, teaching, coaching and leadership for over 20 years. Heli has worked in legal corporate functions in big ICT and Technology corporations, has been a member of many leadership teams in international context, acted as a commercial lead in a data driven start up accumulator unit in a publicly listed company and acted as a leadership consultant, trainer and a coach.

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