Rasmus Ankersen

Rasmus Ankersen

One of Denmark’s leading motivational speakers

Rasmus Ankersen is a bestselling author, motivational speaker and advisor for world class athletes and businesses around the world.

Why are 137 of the worlds 500 best female golfers from South Korea? How has one tennis club in Moscow managed to develop more top tennis players in 10 years than the whole of the United States? For 6 intense months Rasmus Ankersen has been travelling around the world visiting gold mines. He has talked, trained and lived with the world’s best athletes and coaches to crack the code - and he is very confident that he has succeeded. The secret is "The Gold Mine Effect"! Rasmus is brutally honest about what it takes to create world class performance and how organizations, teams and companies can adopt the secrets from the gold mines. No crap, no empty theories. Only first hand impressions from the worlds best.

Rasmus Ankersen has already written three bestsellers. The first book "The DNA of a winner", uncovered the psychological characteristics behind 25 Olympic and world championship winners. His follow-up, "A Leader’s DNA", examined the minds of 25 top executives and leaders. And in his third book "Raising a Winner" he is trying to crack the talent code.

He dreamed about becoming a professional football player but at age 18 a serious knee injury forced him to quit. The career stop led him to take up coaching. Since then he has worked as mental coach for the Danish national youth teams and he was head coach of FC Midtjylland’s youth football academy at age 22. Rasmus Ankersen is one of Denmark’s leading motivational speakers, offering a fresh and dynamic approach to a wide range of businesses and organisations.

"The business world owes Rasmus much gratitude for his facts based, in depth studies of what it truly takes to be, identify and build talent"
Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, CEO and President, The LEGO Group

"Rasmus is an inspiration for anyone wishing to deliver high performance. His work and ideas are just fascinating and have not only challenged me, but also helped me improve the quality of my daily training."
Tom Kristensen, racing driver, the only person to win the 24 Hours at Le Mans eight times

"Rasmus has exceeded expectations by far receiving the best speaker evaluations seen in Management Events’ six-year history. In the last two evaluations Rasmus received the highest score possible."
Peter Rosendahl, Country Manager, Management Events