Micke Hermansson

Awarded educator, TEDx-speaker and international best selling author with an uni...

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In-person: £3k-£5k
Virtual: £1k-£3k

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Micke Hermansson, awarded educator, TEDx-speaker and international best selling author with an unique, worldwide-spread microlesson-concept

Micke also has a successful prescription how anyone can lift their presentations and go from boring to brilliant on any stage.

Micke Hermansson is a former teacher who created a new way to encourage a love of learning in his students. Facing a particularly difficult class forced him to revaluate all his ways of teaching and presenting. The results were truly amazing and the concept (Grej of the Day – GOTD) has taken off and is now used by 100.000s of teachers all over the world. Today Mickes ideas have also been adopted by companies and CEOs who want to get their message across in an effective way.

Why you should book Micke Hermansson for your next event:

  • With keynotes based on equal parts research, storytelling and hands-on examples, Micke will share how GOTD has changed the teaching climate in thousands of classrooms.
  • With a mix of theory and practice he also helps business leaders and companies to become more effective and confident in this “Age of Presentation”
  • With one foot in education and one in public speaking, Micke really knows how to reach out to any audience and he will help you to find tools and techniques to make your presentations memorable. An edutainer on any stage.

 

Micke Hermansson began his teaching career 30 years ago in Sweden. In 2010 he experienced a very challenging class. Being disheartened and frustrated he decided to try some new ideas to get the students involved and wanting to learn. He called the concept ‘Grej of the day – GOTD (with ‘Grej’ meaning ‘one thing’ in Swedish).

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In this keynote about Grej of the Day, Micke guides the audience through how and why this method has become an international success. The concept GOTD is perfect if you want students to love your lessons and also remember most of it afterwards. Based on recent studies and evidence on how the brain works, this keynote will make the audience think about learning in a brand new way.

This is Micke’s little baby – his idea from the very start – and with this lecture you will get EVERYTHING you need to succeed with GOTD in your own classroom – starting tomorrow.

In this keynote he also takes a deeper look at WHY a method like GOTD can make such a difference. Micke connects new learning theories to how we can work with Grej of the Day. He also provides you with a handy tool box of memory techniques and strategies for hyper-effective learning.

This keynote has been road-tested in 15 different countries (including USA, Kenya and Australia) to rave reviews. It’s practical, useful and entertaining. Don’t miss this opportunity to be inspired in a totally new way.

GOTD involves three basic steps;

  • A Clue. Always given the day before the microlesson. This make the students curious and ready to learn.
  • A Microlesson: The next day, you give a microlesson (eight to ten minutes) where you will present the facts in a storytelling manner. Included are also a WOW-ending!
  • A Retelling Part:  The final step is for the students to go home and retell parts of the GOTD to their parents.

 

There are some spectacle pedagogical principles behind this method and Micke was amazed by the transformation of his students. GOTD soon became very popular in Scandinavia and is now being transmitted all around the world.

In this energy-filled lecture on the art of reaching out, you as an audience get, among other things, this:

  • Loads of useful tips on simple and effective presentation techniques that you can start using the very next day.
  • Knowledge about the importance of sharp intros, how to work with storytelling, concrete tips about your body language and of course why, when and how you should add a couple of memorable WOW moments.
  • Micke will also show you how to create the ultimate PowerPoint presentation. (The audience will get a quick glance at his collection of some of THE WORST ppt slides ever seen!)

In short – you´ll get access to Micke’s most effective presentation tools, and rhetoric techniques that you want to use in your next presentation.

This is a keynote that will make the audience go home with smiling faces and a strong desire to modify their upcoming presentations.

With his background in both rhetoric and pedagogy, he is well aware of how knowledge transfers successfully and in this humorous and energizing keynote the audience will be inspired from the first to the last minute.

The presentation Lift has a wide target group.  Leaders, sellers, teachers…well, basically anyone with a desire to REACH OUT.

What people say

He’s a rare breed! No matter the audience- be it a group of teenagers, a room filled with entrepreneurs or a gathering of international ministers – he knows how to connect with them and have them learn something new that they will never forget.

Stolze, tech entrepreneur, Amsterdam

He is like a mix of Hans Rosling, a stand up comedian and that great teacher you wish you had at school …

Maria Nygren, Education dean, Stockholm

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