Morten Toft is a speaker, coach, author, and changemaker with over 30 years of experience in teaching and training leaders and employees in innovation, change, leadership, and collaboration.

He has delivered more than 1000 lectures and courses both nationally and internationally.

As a speaker and communicator, he is engaging, humorous, and highly inspiring.

Morten is the author of four books, some of which are used for teaching purposes. For example, "Innovation recipe" is a required reading in several innovation and entrepreneurship programs.

His books include:

"To Be Perfectly Honest" - About authentic leadership 
"Innovation recipe" – a guide on creating a healthy innovation culture.
"Changemakers" – a young adult novel about change and making a difference.
"Fitting Together The Puzzle Of Your Life" – a book about dreams and goals in life.

Morten has previously worked as a marketing manager in a major Danish retail chain, and he has also founded the organization now known nationwide as Danske Hospitalklovne (Danish Hospital Clowns).

• A specialist in innovation, co-creation and healthy corporate culture.
• A facilitator, based on proactive planning, plays a crucial role in guiding and assisting groups or individuals in achieving their goals and objectives.
  
• He enjoys exploring how to get the best from the past, present and future.
• He challenges peoples’ potential, whether they work in groups or as individuals.
• A Changemaker. He is passionate, driven and a social entreprenur.

Morten Toft holds a degree in commerce and has served as a business manager and sales and marketing director at Photo experten, overseeing 146 stores in Denmark. For several years, he worked as a consultant in the advertising industry, including at GREY, until he gained recognition as an author with the book “The Puzzle of Your Life” in 1995, which focuses on dreams and goals in life. In 2001, he published the book “To Be Perfectly Honest” by Aschehoug’s publishing house. The book is about authentic leadership, both in personal and professional life. In 2006, together with Ole Vestergaard Poulsen, he published the book “The Recipe for Innovation” by Politikkens forlag. The book deals with methods and processes in modern innovation management, drawing on experiences from LEGO’s innovation teams, among others.

In 2020, he co-authored the book “Changemakers” with Rachel Rounsfield (UK). The book emphasizes the importance of striving to make a positive difference in your life and inspiring others to do the same.

Morten Toft is the initiator of the idea behind starting the Danish Hospital Clowns. Following an inspirational stay in the USA at the Gesundheit Institute in West Virginia with its creator Patch Adams, Morten Toft brought together a group of enterprising individuals who later became known as the Danish Hospital Clowns organization.

Morten Toft is a speaker with themes centered around positive thinking and how strengthening the subconscious can contribute to achieving one’s goals. He uses humor and costumes to illustrate his points about not taking oneself too seriously, emphasizing the importance of relaxation, openness, and seeing opportunities.

See small film from Mortens first workshop (from 2001) in England for 100 CEOs from private and public companies.As you can see, Morten love making an innovative, serious and fun presentation, surprising in a good way, creating active involvement of the participants, stimulating the senses and the ability to use the imagination: LINK TO FILM

From 2000 to 2008, Morten was part of the extensive engagement project“The Butterfly Project”in Peterborough, England, where several thousand young people were empowered in personal development and simultaneously involved in the city’s challenges. The project aimed to create co-ownership and shared responsibility.

Morten Toft and Rachel Rouncefield have initiated a global project called Changemakers, initially in Denmark and England. The goal is to create life stories and take young people on an ongoing educational journey that influences and lives on through multiple generations. CHANGEMAKER is a unique method that enhances the well-being of young people and equips them to collectively address their own lives and challenges in their local communities. It is an educational journey that transforms them into Changemakers.

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For many years, Morten Toft has been an inspiration and facilitator in innovation processes for some of the largest Danish companies, such as Grundfos and Danfoss. Morten Toft has been involved in the creation of the MAD House Denmark Innovation Centerin Middelfart, which is supported by Middelfart Savings Bank.

For years, Morten Toft has collaborated with the Aarhus-based musician Søren Eppler, who supports lectures and creative team processes.

Some clients says:

“He makes you seriously reflect on your own ambitions as a leader. He provides you with the tools for change and creating new habits. He also explains you the methods needed to keep innovating as well as reflect on processes. Morten is a brilliant process manager. He ‘nudges’ you into processes of change, but with a high emphasis on co-creation. If you want lots of motivation, involvement and success, I highly recommend Morten. He will give you a colourful dose of energy and ambitious goals that will leave you flying! Enjoy the journey.”

- Theresa Blegvad, CEO of Insights Nordic

“At Danfoss we need to be ‘cutting edge’ when it comes to technology. But we also need to have the best personal skills, not just be good at working hi-tech equipment. In other words we need to train ‘soft’ skills, not just ‘hardware’ skills. Morten has really started a valuable process for many of our staff, and in so doing has done a great deal for Danfoss. It’s very powerful stuff!”

- Lars Thomsen, HR Consultant, Danfoss A/S

“I’ve had the pleasure of working with Morten on a strategic project. The goal was to develop an Innovation Task Force Team at the Grundfos Technology Centre. The purpose with the project was to create a team, that would be able to facilitate teams and departments, helping them be more innovative. During the development phase, Morten was assigned the Innovation Task Force as a facilitator. He helped spark creativity and ensured a successful implementation of the project. He continued to ‘challenge’ the project group by setting up obstacles, thus ensuring a highly ambitious result.

- Leif Gram Nielsen, Senior Innovator, GRUNDFOS A/S

“It is not often in life that you get the opportunity to experience in just a few hours the chance to make a step change in the way you live the rest of your life. Morten will encourage you to dare to be different, he encourages those around him to have the vision to want to think in a different way which will impact not just on time at work but will ripple across into all facets of your life. Meeting Morten has been one of those moments that I and my collegues will also remember and treasure so if you want to move from living to living significantly, this is the man for you”.

- Karen Beckwith Deputy Head of Business Development Learning + Skills Council (Cambridgeshire)

“There was a very positive acceptance of his material, to the point where a number of organisations took up the offer of working with him to look at their own philosophies and how they worked and dealt with staff. Morten performed as only he can and in his unique style - delivering his ‘authentic’ message. There were a number of truly spectacular outcomes. It was specifically an opportunity to take time out from the hustle and bustle of everyday work, and in a very structured way to review the true priorities of the Learning Partnership, what individuals’ beliefs and values were – and how they fitted into the tasks ahead.

I still network with those people and they continue to talk about how much it helped them to become more effective and efficient in their roles. It also made people feel more fulfilled and less stressed. They now try to instill the same sense of enjoyment and fun-through-work in those they manage. Another talent Morten has is that of inspiration. He is a role model or champion who 'walks the talk' and motivates and empowers others to do the same”

- Roy Brown, Executive Officer, Peterborough Learning Partnership.