45–60 min keynote
The capacity to change
Why change efforts fail even when the strategy is sound, and what makes an organization genuinely able to act.
Keynote topics
45 min keynote
Innovation is a behaviour, not a department
What fifteen years with founders and researchers suggests about where useful ideas actually come from.
45–60 min keynote
AI, and the things it can't decide for you
A calm look at what changes when machines get good at answers, and why the value moves to better questions.
30 min or workshop
Better questions
A practical case for curiosity: how the questions a team asks quietly determine what it is able to build.
Talks and video
TEDx · Why your best ideas need somewhere to land
TEDxStockholm
14 min · 2024
Keynote · Innovation without a mandate
Nordic Tech Summit
42 min · 2025
Panel · What research commercialization keeps teaching us
Vinnova Impact Week
28 min · 2025
Talk · The uncomfortable middle of every change
Stockholm School of Economics
36 min · 2023
Testimonials
What organisers say
“Donnie left the room thinking rather than nodding. Three months later people were still quoting one of his questions back to each other.”
Programme director
International innovation conference
“He read our organization quickly and said the thing nobody had said out loud, without making anyone defensive.”
Head of R&D
Nordic manufacturing group
“No slogans, no hype about AI. Just clear thinking our engineers respected and our leadership team could act on.”
CTO
Listed technology company
“Easy to work with, generous with preparation, and genuinely interested in our audience rather than his own material.”
Event producer
Business summit, Copenhagen
For your programme
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Donnie SC Lygonis is an innovation strategist, entrepreneur, coach and author based in Stockholm. For more than fifteen years he has worked with entrepreneurs, researchers and organizations on how people, ideas and organizations create meaningful change. He speaks across Europe in Swedish and English.
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Practical questions
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