Rasmus Ankersen alias the High Performance Anthropologist, is the only speaker in the world to have literally lived and trainer with the best athletes on Earth. For six months he travelled the globe, to live with fastest people on earth in Jamaica, to train with the boys of the Brazilian favelas, the infamous shanty towns that produce the world's best footnall players and to discover how Korea's female golf machines have taken the world by storm, achieving massive domination of the international golf scene.

Rasmus is teaching companies, organisations and teams how to adopt the mindset and the kind of habits which produce World Class performance.

With his powerful refreshing style, Rasmus challenges our most fundamental beliefsabout success, leaving us with new, effective strategies, which he knows will work. The High Performance Anthropologist walks the talk.

At 27, Rasmus has already published four bestsellers, which have sold more than 35,000 copies in Denmark alone.

His latest book The Gold Mine Effect - Unlocking The Essece of World Class Performance which is currently on
submission to publishers worldwide, and he is a personal coach to several top athletes as well as senior executives.

Rasmus pumps winner's DNA into the blood of his audiences, and his primary principle is: CUT THE CRAP! No empty theories or clichés. He never leaves his
audiences unmoved! He may inspire, shock, disturb or even blow them away. But indifferent - never!

Rasmus Ankersen is giving talks and lecturing around the world. His approach to developing high performance is highly practical and brutally honest. He combines story-telling with his own personal experience and the latest scientific results in a profoundly powerful cocktail.

This style prompts organizations and companies from Bangalore over London to Sao Paulo to keep booking him over and over to shake up, inspire and move their employees and leaders. Rasmus' speaking principle number one is: "Never ever leave people untouched".

Rasmus can speak in any of these formats: Keynote presentations: 25-90 minutes Workshops: 2 hours; half day; full-day.

The Gold Mine Effect (workshop)

Today executives and organizations all over the world talk about "The War on Talent". The scenario is crystal clear: Future success is about being able to attract the greatest talents. But do leaders know what they look for when they are supposed to spot talent? Are smart people overrated? And what if people don't succeed because of their talent, but in spite of it? "The Gold Mine Effect Workshop" will challenge your most ingrained convictions about how to spot and grow talent. It raises questions such as: How did one athletic club, which trains on diesel-scorched grass tracks in Kingston, Jamaica, manage to win nine sprint medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics?

Why do 35 of the world's 100 best female golfers come from South Korea which, with its inhospitality cold climate and atronomical green fees can scare off the vast majority of golfers? How did one single tennis club in Moscow with dilapidated facilities manage to produce more top players in 10 years than the whole of the USA and the United Kingdom put together? And how did one Ethiopian village with 30.000 inhabitants succeed in winning four Olympic Gold Medals in middle distance running at the recent Olympics?

In "The Gold Mine Effect Workshop" Rasmus Ankersen will reveal the answers to those questions. It's is based on The Five Gold Mine Concepts and will answer what talent really is, how it is identified, grown and ignited.

1. The New Talent Concept
2. High Potential Scouting
3. A Culture of Practice
4. The Six Rules of Mastery
5. Sustainable Hunger

"The Gold Mine Workshop" is a very interactive workshop. No empty theories or buzzwords. It's all build on real-world-examples, the most recent scientific results and first-hand-stories from the world's best athletes, coaches and finest gold mines.