Highly engaged individuals are building the successful companies of today and tomorrow. However, 85 percent of employees worldwide are not engaged in their work, leaving only 15 percent who are involved in and enthusiastic about what they do. It’s time to re-imagine the workplace, starting with a culture where people come first. Combining 17 years of experience as a Future of Work and business culture expert, executive coach and transformative change advisor, Therése Gedda has developed the Actionable Workplace Engagement Model and Futuristic Leadership Framework to support companies in designing thriving business cultures to empower their High Achievers.
While many are focused on technology in the Future of Work, Therése is uniquely positioned by championing a people-first mindset. She deeply understands the needs and wants of the High Achievers of today and the High Potentials of tomorrow. With her deep understanding of the influences shaping the Future of Work and how to create long-lasting employee engagement, Therése is making a unique stand amongst today's Business Culture thought leaders. As a High Achiever herself, serial entrepreneur and leader on the road, Therése applies her models daily and is a real-life example of how to lead a people-centric organization. For too long, the outsized impact of High Achievers in the world has been overlooked, but no longer. Learn how to transform your culture to increase employee engagement and to release your company’s potential. 
Welcome to The Future of Work!

High Achievers thrive alongside fellow High Achievers, and they attract each other. These are people who care deeply about your company’s success and together are achieving the majority of your positive results. Their choices are increasingly driven by purpose, desire to excel, and the opportunity to contribute. They seek greatness and are looking for companies which celebrate a high performing culture. A purpose-driven culture is the foundation of a thriving company. However, without a scalable and future-oriented way of systematically attracting and keeping High Achievers who share the same values and mindset as your company, you risk ending up with low engagement across the company and with your best people leaving.
For more than 17 years, Therése Gedda has been supporting companies in re-imagining how recruitment is done. The futuristic and scalable Recruit on Culture method combines Therése's years of leadership development, her entrepreneurial journey, and extensive wisdom from working with thousands of High Achievers. The method and Therése's insights can be tailored for every business model and are scalable to answer fast-growing companies’ needs. The model is founded upon behavioral science and positive psychology to give applicants a greater sense of your culture and to match their skills and talents to opportunities in your company ideal for their growth and engagement.
Therése is reinventing recruitment from within the Future of Workspace with a fresh perspective, which is attainable for all business leaders by ensuring a greater connection with High Achievers through cultural design methodology. A strong cultural foundation starts not only with your current workforce but also with your future employees. Explore how to keep and attract the best people, the High Achievers, to your company.

It starts with the decision. The decision to build a purpose-driven startup. For more than a decade, Therése has been supporting thousands of founders, investors, startup– and fast-growing company executives in designing, re-designing and scaling companies where culture, strategy, and futuristic leadership enable transformative change. Therése has seen the good, the bad and the ugly of entrepreneurial journeys and has taken on the responsibility of being the champion of founders through executive coaching, business advisory, and keynote speaking. Her extensive expertise on behavioral science and the High Achiever mindset pinpoints the importance of meaning, contribution, and purpose for High Achievers and for upcoming generations of High Potentials. The importance of designing and scaling a thriving culture has never been so critical in order to build an engaged, creative, and fast-growing startup.
A thriving culture is not something that just happens. It can be designed and designed well. Even if it’s easy to overlook the importance of culture for a startup, especially a young one, culture influences everything: How well the teams work together. How you engage with customers. How you celebrate your successes. How you share the rollercoaster with your teams. How you build your brand. How you develop your product or service and how you grow.
Learn about Therése Gedda's Actionable Workplace Engagement and Recruit on Culture models to design a thriving culture. Explore how culture influences productivity, achievements, and growth. Learn how to lead, recruit, train, and measure on culture. Learn the key aspects of what drives engagement and how to keep your company creative, fast-moving, and innovative while growing. Being a leader of a futuristic, agile startup herself with a distributed team, Therése doesn’t only share the latest discoveries, she also brings actionable insights on how to operate and scale a thriving people-centric business.

To innovate successfully, you need to be intentional. The concept of the spark of a creative moment or a brilliant idea works on occasion, but to build a thriving culture of innovation, you can’t rely on those moments alone. Innovation doesn’t happen in a vacuum. It requires a culture that embraces and celebrates everything leading to innovation. Experimentation, co-creation, design, and friction are all a part of it. However, innovation is not just 'look and feel.' Innovation is how it works. Innovation is an attitude. When we design a culture that encourages and fosters innovation, it becomes possible to bring the most creative ideas to the table to achieve something radically new.
Exploring the iterative design thinking process includes elements of empathy, ideation, prototyping, and co-designing. Learning not to consider friction the opposite of unity and using disagreement as a source of ideas and breakthroughs can lead to unexpected and market-changing results. Learning how fast-growing, successful startups create an environment of speed, innovation, and creativity in how you can do the same. And, how to fostering a culture that incorporates the best from design thinking helps you achieve greater innovation across boundaries.
For the last 17 years, award-winning entrepreneur and keynote speaker, Therése Gedda, has built, advised and supported thousands of founders and change-makers worldwide in designing thriving cultures where innovation is part of the DNA of the business. She’s recognized for her expertise on the Future of Work and the High Achiever mindset, which uncover the key components of creative, motivated, and high performing individuals. Her mission is to bridge the gap between what science knows and what business does, and she brings a wealth of expertise in behavioral science and positive psychology in addition to her startup and entrepreneurship background. Ready to learn how you can hack innovation?

How do we thrive? Why do we struggle at times? How can we come closer to our own potential? Just as in the movie The Matrix, limitations are only in our mind. “There is no spoon.” There isn’t one way of being successful or living a fulfilled life. However, our mindset influences all aspects of our lives.
For more than 17 years, Therése Gedda has accomplished unparalleled achievements and inspired more than 30,000 founders, executives, leaders, and High Achievers. Therése has hacked the High Achiever mindset while maintaining a positive giver approach and is inspiring and empowering others to do the same. Therése's behavioral science and positive psychology expertise and life experiences have been combined into a life-changing methodology for you to help you step outside your comfort zone and design your own thriving purpose-oriented lifestyle. Therése's purpose, which she lives by, is to empower individuals to reach their full potential. What’s yours? Explore the key elements of thriving with the high achieving mindset both in your personal and professional life by applying our proprietary MAPPED Brilliance framework. Therése will show you how to experience a daily sense of achievement, how settling is the enemy, how passion is contagious, and why it’s crucial to focus on your strengths while disregarding your weaknesses. Additionally, you will learn how to embrace opportunities, challenge fears, and experience moment after moment of brilliance.

True courage is risking being uncomfortable. To live the life we desire, we need to do things we have never done before. When Therése at the age of 17 founded her own management consultancy, the outcomes were unpredictable and required her to step outside her comfort zone every hour of the day. By engaging with a great deal of focus, determination, and hard work, she was able to achieve great successes for her clients from the start. Her purpose for empowering individuals to reach their full potential drove her to unparalleled achievements and brought her immense joy. Throughout her journey, she has deep-dived into the High Achiever mindset and brought actionability to behavioral science and positive psychology so that we can all learn how to reach our fullest potential.
Lifestyle design is about designing a life in line with your individual purpose, goals, values, and priorities. It’s about getting on your path to performing at your full potential regardless of what you dream about. It’s about exploring in which environments you thrive, the rhythm of your body clock, and how that influences your wellbeing. It’s about valuing your time and making the most of it. Learning to let your purpose influence your goals, your goals guide your plans, your plans design your habits, your habits empower your thoughts, and your thoughts drive your life. Experience how Lifestyle Design can help you thrive!