Associate Consultant at Challenging Learning

Bosse Larsson is a Swedish teacher, trainer and concept developer. He has extensive experience developing creative thinking and learning with primary and secondary students, and is a sought-after keynote speaker and workshop leader.

Bosse has an MSc from Uppsala University, the oldest university in Scandinavia. He graduated from the university in 1985 and went on to work as a teacher, senior leader and then mentor for trainee teachers. In 2000, he began to specialise in supporting secondary school dropouts and students with special educational needs. Today, as a concept developer for a free school organisation in Sweden, he focuses on entrepreneurial learning, pedagogical development, emerging technologies and health.

Responding to many requests to share his ideas, Bosse began his own educational consultancy in 2007 (www.tankvidare.nu). Through this he aims to broaden, break and change thought patterns about education, organisation and leadership.

Bosse has given presentations, keynotes and led workshops both nationally and internationally, and has worked with staff training from pre-school to further education. The main themes of his work focus on creativity, future skills, thinking habits, thinking tools, Dweck’s mindset, motivation and feedback. Key titles include ‘Learning to Learn’and ‘Thinking about thinking.’

Bosse has attended courses in de Bono’s ‘Six Thinking Hats’ and ‘Serious creativity and lateral thinking’ at the World Centre Of New Thinking in Malta. He is also a leading member of the group responsible for the Thinking Schools Network and the team that organises TEDx events in Norrköping, Sweden.