Hanna Westerholm is a professional coach specialising in leadership development. She helps teams and leadership groups work more seamlessly and effectively, believing strongly that the foundation of successful leadership is strong self-awareness.

In her coaching, Hanna uses a wide range of tools, including personality and emotional intelligence assessments. She also conducts profiling in recruitment processes, helping organisations find the right people for the right roles.

Hanna has a strong background in marketing and HR and has worked in large global companies such as L’Oréal and Orkla, as well as in smaller startups.

Jari-Pekka Jouppi is an experienced professional in marketing, sales, sponsorship and event production. Throughout his career, he has worked across a wide range of sports and events, including developing new event concepts, building corporate partnership networks and leading event operations.

He has also represented several well-known cultural and event organisations such as the Savonlinna Opera Festival, Pori Jazz and the Ateneum Art Museum.

Jouppi was responsible for organising the Tall Ships Race events in Kotka and Turku in 2017, securing sponsorship contributions of more than five million euros. Under his leadership, the Finnish Ski Association’s Ski Weeks were awarded Sports Event of the Year and Sponsored Event of the Year in 2023.

Timo Lappi is an experienced lawyerpreneur who combines his expertise as a lawyer with his experience as a growth entrepreneur. He serves as CEO of Fondia, the only publicly listed legal services company in the Nordic region, and as chair of the board for several interesting growth companies.

In autumn 2025, Timo published the book Osakeyhtiön johtoketju, which explores the core structure of leadership in a limited company: The roles, authority and responsibilities of shareholders, the board, the chair, the CEO, the management team and the personnel.

The book draws on Timo’s experience as a growth entrepreneur and offers practical tools for building an effective leadership structure, as well as concrete insights for addressing the challenges faced by company leadership.

Lauri Nummenmaa is one of the world’s leading neuroscientists and a professor of medical imaging at the PET Centre. His research focuses on brain function, decision-making, and the mechanisms behind emotions and motivation.

Lauri has published more than 200 scientific articles and several books on emotions and human relationships. He has received the Academy Award for the societal impact of research on emotions as well as the Alfred Kordelin Prize for advancing Finnish brain research.

Lauri also studies how emotions are expressed and experienced in organisations, on social media, in everyday life and in celebrations.

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Peter Nyman is a charismatic communications professional who has built his career across television, publishing and live events. His voice and face are familiar to the public as a news anchor, the judge of the iconic Finnish programme Uutisvuoto, a journalist, and the moderator and host of hundreds of major seminars and corporate events across Finland.

He is also a communications coach who has guided national leaders and executives of listed companies to outstanding results.

Nyman has written three books. His latest, Viesti, Vaikuta, Vakuuta, is a guide to persuasive communication and interaction, showing how anyone can become a more effective communicator, presenter and influencer.

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Pertti Pitsinki and Tuomo Ketola have developed business operations for Finnish and international clients for more than twenty years. They have been involved in founding companies such as Palmu, Noren and Bear Co., and have worked extensively in consulting, service design and customer experience leadership.

Their strength lies in combining participatory and visual methods to support business development. Through the tools and processes they have developed, organisations are able to create clarity, build shared understanding and find more impactful solutions.

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Andreas Veilstrup Andersen, CEO of the Liseberg Group, leads the largest amusement park in the Nordic region, in Gothenburg. Having worked in the amusement park industry since 2000, Andreas has previously held many different leadership roles, also at Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen.

Andreas has also been highly active internationally within IAAPA (The Global Association for the Attractions Industry), where he has served, among other roles, as Chairman of the Board. He currently sits on several boards within the amusement park industry, including LEOs and Momentum Leisure.

He is also widely recognised as a strong advocate for sustainability within the attractions industry.

Torfinn Slåen is an experienced executive coach who has worked alongside thousands of leaders for more than 40 years. Through this work he has observed how modern work can become exhausting, and how small insights can restore clarity, energy and joy to leader’s work life.

His book Oman työsi kulkija is not a traditional leadership or time management guide, but rather a companion that helps readers make their work more meaningful, lighter and more sustainable. It encourages readers to reflect on what they truly want to do, what they can contribute and who they can become.

The central idea of the book is that people do not need to become someone else, but instead they should rediscover their own strengths and build a personal strategy that reflects what truly matters to them — rather than what is externally expected.

The book also provides a range of practical tools that can be applied immediately to one’s own leadership journey or when supporting the leadership of others.

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