World-Leading Expert · High Achieving Culture
The world's most visionary founders
and CEOs don't just build companies.
They build exceptional cultures that reimagine what’s possible.
Therese Gedda is the world's leading expert on designing High Achieving Cultures.
For 20+ years, across 14 countries and 30,000+ people, she has guided the most remarkable
founders and CEOs through the moments that define what their company becomes next.
Whether you are realigning your leadership team, transforming after a raise, scaling, or designing
the culture that becomes your greatest competitive advantage, this is where it begins.
Featured In and Trusted By
Stages in New York · London · Paris · Stockholm · Lisbon · Barcelona · Boston · San Francisco · Venice · Amsterdam · Dublin · Helsinki · Toronto
On the World's Most Extraordinary Stages and the World's Most Respected Screens.
This is what it looks like when a room full of leaders shifts
Invitation-only gatherings with founders, CEOs, and investors in New York, Venice, and Switzerland. Global summits in Dublin, London, and Toronto. Guest lecture halls at NYU, Boston College, and the Stockholm School of Economics. The stages of Apple, LVMH, Web Summit, and TEDx. Every room is different. The transformation is consistent.
Reimagining How Companies Are Built. As seen in CBS,
NBC News, Fortune, and Forbes
CBS. NBC News. Fortune. Forbes. Nasdaq. VentureBeat. Therese has been featured across broadcast, print, and digital media as a leading voice on the future of work, the limitlessness of what founders can build, and what it truly means to lead with a customer-centric vision. When the ideas change how people lead, the story finds its own audience.
High Performance Culture By Design
Every High Achieving Company Reaches a Moment When the Culture That Built it Needs to Become Something Greater.
It shows up differently for every founder. Sometimes the leadership team is ready to operate at a completely new level. Sometimes a new round of capital opens a chapter that the entire organization needs to rise into. Sometimes the company has scaled and the ways of working that got it here are ready to evolve. And sometimes, a culture of toxicity has quietly taken root and the founder is ready to address it permanently, not with a workaround but with a culture designed to thrive from the inside out.
These are the defining moments of every exceptional company. And they are exactly where Therese Gedda does her best work.
Research shows that 8 out of 10 employees worldwide are not fully engaged in their work. Yet High Achievers outperform the average team member by 14% in productivity, 18% in sales, and 23% in profitability. The difference is culture. And high performance culture can be designed, codified, and scaled. It is the highest-leverage investment any founder or CEO can make.
Through her proprietary High Achieving Culture Modelᵀᴹ and Futuristic Leadership Frameworkᵀᴹ, built from 40 original methodologies and field-tested across 1,000+ founder and CEO engagements worldwide, Therese gives leaders the clarity, the tools, and the conviction to transform that moment into their greatest competitive advantage.
Twenty years. Thousands of founders.
One mission.
Served 1,000+ Founders & C-level clients
Delivered 2,500+ Keynotes & Workshops
Impacted 30,000+ Company Cultures
The Impact
What becomes possible when the culture is designed, not left to chance.
Performance
Your High Achievers perform at a level most companies never unlock.
High Achievers who share your vision and embody your culture are your greatest competitive advantage. When the culture is designed around them, everything around them rises. Therese works with you to design the conditions that release that level of performance, and to sustain them as the company scales.
Culture
The most extraordinary cultures are intentionally designed.
Not a values poster. A living architecture. One that removes toxicity, restores alignment, and makes your company the place the best people in your industry are fighting to join, whether you are building to scale or building to exit.
Results
Extraordinary culture produces extraordinary results.
Clients have generated $10M+ in new business, achieved 3x ARR growth, and unlocked 10x deal sizes. Not because they pushed harder. Because they built the culture that made extraordinary performance inevitable.
The work. The impact. The vision that made both possible.
Founded a management consultancy at the age of 17.
20+ years working directly with remarkable founders and CEOs.
1,000+ founders, CEOs, and C-suite leaders advised around the world.
Generating and raising hundreds of millions of dollars for both Built to Last and Built to Exit clients.
Our Innovation Reimagined program has produced $10M+ each in new revenue for multiple clients.
3x ARR growth and 10x deal sizes for clients across industries, including
life sciences, services, climate, and deep tech.
Merged two rival companies into a single thriving culture, one of the most complex transformations in business, and set the foundation for exponential growth.
Audiences of 30,000+ impacted through keynotes and workshops
across the world.
2,500+ keynotes and talks delivered to audiences of 5 to 5,000
across 14 countries.
40 proprietary frameworks invented to unlock high performance in
people and organizations.
Received the Future Innovator Award given in memory of Alfred Nobel.
Named by Nordic 100 as one of the most influential entrepreneurs
from the Nordics.
Organized hundreds of gatherings across Europe and the United States, leading to the creation of the invitation-only Reimagine Salon.
Guest lecturer at NYU, Stockholm School of Economics, Boston College,
and the Royal Institute of Technology.
Featured in CBS, NBC News, Fortune, Forbes, Nasdaq, and VentureBeat.
Three ways to bring Therese
into your world.
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Keynotes
From 5 to 5,000 people, Therése commands a room with the depth of a world-class visionary, the precision of a strategist, and the warmth of someone who genuinely sees every person in the audience. Every keynote is designed around your audience, your event, and the exact shift you want to create in the room.
Highlighted Keynotes
The Exceptional Impact of a Brilliant Culture – Curating High Performance Company Cultures Where High Achievers Thrive
Built to Last vs Built to Exit – High Performance by Design
A Life of Significance – Reimagining the Path From Resilience to Greatness
Invited by Apple, LVMH, Web Summit, TEDx, TNW, and AmCham.
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Workshops
Immersive, hands-on sessions designed entirely around what your team is ready to achieve next. Real case studies. Live practice. Proprietary frameworks applied directly to your context. Every participant leaves with the tools, instincts, and conviction to take everything they are already building to the next extraordinary level.
Highlighted Workshops
Your Advantage Hidden in Plain Sight – Reimagining How You Build Your Company with Clarity and High Performance
Sales Reimagined – From Closing Deals to Creating True Fans
Performance Reimagined – Unlocking Greatness and Peak Performance
Half day, full day, or a full workshop series. Always bespoke.
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Advisory and Programs from Reimaginez
For founders and CEOs ready to design and scale a high performance, thriving culture. Whether you are scaling fast, transforming after a raise, realigning your leadership team, or building toward an exit, Therése brings 20+ years advising 1,000+ founders and CEOs and 40 proprietary frameworks invented from the ground up.
The work has generated hundreds of millions of dollars for clients across life sciences, health tech, climate, deep tech, SaaS, and services.
Founder and CEO Advisory. An ongoing one-on-one partnership at the highest level. The person in your corner through every decision that shapes what the company becomes.
Transformational Programs. Proprietary programs including Innovation Reimagined, Strategy Reimagined, and Company Culture Reimagined, delivered to leadership teams, functions, or entire organizations.
Companies achieving 3x annual revenue growth. Teams moving from fragmented to fully aligned. Leaders stepping into their full potential while building companies of lasting significance.
Advisory and programs are delivered through Reimaginez.
Explore what’s possible at Reimaginez.
From the founders, CEOs, investors, and event organizers who know the work.
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"Therése is a very talented, sharp and competent professional who is extremely passionate about her work and making a difference. She has acquired immense knowledge through her experience as a serial entrepreneur and international speaker. This unique combination of personal experience and scientific research is what has made her, her business and the people around her so successful. I believe she is an invaluable mentor, speaker and advisor."
Jonas Almeling · Regional Director Nordics & Northern Europe of Startup Grind
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"Therése is a fantastic entrepreneurial speaker and CEO advisor who shakes the sky. On every occasion, the audience left on cloud nine, empowered to challenge the status quo and make a big impact in their businesses, careers, and lives."
Amanda Evans · CEO, IMR
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"Therése is an extraordinary entrepreneur and international motivational speaker. A conductor of energy and magnetism, she engages audiences through her passionate performances, providing audiences with immediate and actionable insights. Combining her background in elite fitness and her extensive professional experience, Therése has motivated people all over the world to reach their goals in both their personal and professional lives."
Stefan Engeseth · Guest Professor and Author
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"Working with Therése and the Reimaginez team represents a powerful investment in the future of any organization. Their work is about fostering a vibrant and sustainable culture that enhances performance, promotes engagement, and drives innovation. Most importantly, how deeply passionate and driven she is by her mission, that energy is infectious."
Robert Sur · Founder & CEO, Delegate
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“Therése Gedda came and delivered a ‘spot on’ and inspiring keynote on how to design a thriving culture to business owners and leaders. With a fantastic performance, Therése contributed greatly to a successful day! She provides a unique futuristic, and actionable perspective on Business Culture and Workplace Engagement founded upon extremely insightful models that truly change the status quo.”
Milla Ottosson Sippola · Head of Events at The Swedish Federation of Business Owners Nacka
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"I hereby give Therése Gedda my highest recommendation both as a strategic advisor and as a motivational speaker. Her spoken qualities are excellent as well as her analytic capabilities as an advisor."
Johan Jörgensen · Founder and Partner at Grädde Invest. Venture Capitalist of the year, 2011
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“Therese and her team will empower your leadership team to identify and nurture high potential employees and develop them into high achievers, inspire creativity amongst the teams to achieve extraordinary goals, and create scalable support systems based on behavioral science. They have been a great asset to our company, and I’ve recommended them to several other executives who have also gone on to have very positive continued engagements with them.”
Sridhar Iyengar · Founder and CEO at Elemental Machines
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"She helped me see and understand myself, and has given me the tools to take my professional and personal life to another level. I highly recommend her to anyone serious about elevating their performance and improving the quality of their life."
James Benedict · Co-Founder & Vice Chairman, Bedowin360 Capital
Meet
Therese
Therese Gedda is an award-winning Founder and CEO of Reimaginez and is a leading expert on designing High Achieving Cultures where exceptional people thrive and extraordinary companies are built. Her entrepreneurial journey began at 17, when she founded her first management consultancy. What started as an early instinct for what makes organizations truly exceptional became a 20+ year body of work that has influenced 30,000+ leaders across 14 countries.
She has worked directly with 1,000+ founders, CEOs, and C-suite leaders as the person they call when the stakes are highest and the decisions are hardest. The founders and CEOs she works with have their own names for her. Yoda. Master Teacher. Founder Therapist. Every one of those names reflects the same truth: that Therese does not just advise. She sees people completely, champions what they are building, and helps them lead at the level they were always capable of.
As a Keynote Speaker, Therese has taken the stage at Apple, LVMH, TEDx, Web Summit, Inbound, and Davos Decompression, among many others, delivering transformational experiences to audiences of 5 to 5,000 spanning continents. She has been recognized by CBS, NBC News, Fortune, Forbes, Nasdaq, and VentureBeat as a leading voice on the future of work, high performance culture, and what it truly means to lead with vision and purpose.
She has been named by the Nordic 100 as one of the most influential and impactful entrepreneurs from the Nordics, and received the Future Innovator Award given in memory of Alfred Nobel, one of the highest innovation honors in the world.
Therese’s vision has never changed. To give every mission-driven founder and CEO the frameworks, the clarity, and the support to build something truly extraordinary. To champion them as they design thriving, high performance companies and cultures that drive positive change in the world.
Recognized for
Reimagining What's Possible.
Recognized by the SKAPA Foundation via the ‘Future Innovator Award’
given in memory
of Alfred Nobel
Therese Gedda was named by the Nordic 100 as one of the most influential and impactful entrepreneurs from the Nordics
Speaking on stages spanning TEDx Made in Europe, Web Summit, Apple, Stockholm School of Economics, Davos Decompression, NYU, LVMH, Startup Grind
Trusted by the organizations
for 20+ years, where
transformation matters most.
Founders Confidential
by Therese Gedda
Every week, Therese writes directly to the founders, CEOs, and change-makers who are carrying the world on their shoulders and building something extraordinary. Insights, frameworks, and stories for the remarkable humans who are ready to build high performance, thriving companies and cultures while living a life of significance.