About me
'New' simply means it's our first encounter with what others have already mastered.
Many of the organisational and collaborative challenges faced by design agencies, product companies and inhouse teams have already been solved in other parts of the world.
I've lived these solutions while building and transforming creative teams in Europe, Asia and North America, through technological disruptions, economic volatility, and cultural shifts.
Now I use those experiences as a foundation to help design agencies and product companies evolve their businesses, and their teams flourish. And to identify the huge new opportunities that are born daily out of global experiences and insights.
The approach
❯ Staying relevant by identifying the shifts
Early signals reveal tomorrow's opportunities. Bringing foresight into modelling and strategic design processes, connecting seemingly unrelated topics and findings, helps organisations spot the shifts, signals and movements that will reshape their audience's needs and their own business models.
❯ Finding hidden talent
There is no such thing as a lack of talent. Finding exceptional skills in overlooked places, within an organisation and outside of it, takes an explorative mindset. It's 50% strategic attraction 50% intentional encouragement.
❯ Reimagining how work gets done
Exploring and creating bold new methods, systems, and workflows has three purposes: meeting business needs, enabling team fulfilment, and delivering audience impact. AI tool chains and agents are part of getting you there and keeping you nimble, no matter the size of your organisation.
❯ Building magnetic organisations
Consistently sharing how an organisation chooses to work, builds its own tools, runs collaborations and measures their outcomes is a magnet for the right type of attention. Especially in new markets and new talent.
The formula
My formula balances equal parts insight and inspiration:
❯ Insight drives understanding and ultimately creates the strategy, the clear path forward. It is based on global human and commercial patterns, and proven (and occasionally experimental) solutions.
❯ Inspiration fuels execution, it is the human momentum that turns plans into transformative action.
The outcome
When applied to an organisation, the above approach + formula elevates:
- Organisational design
- Talent development
- Value proposition clarity
- Leadership capabilities
- Market relevance
The organisation strengthens the way it handles perpetual change, it evolves its capabilities, and commits to purposeful action in a very attractive way.
Next
I am available for strategic projects, interim leadership, advisory and fractional roles or full-time engagement with forward-thinking creative agencies and product companies.
As a non-executive director in our organisation, Orvet was a trusted partner for our executives and leads.
Their praise arrived quickly and consistently, as it did from our A-level clients.
Now
Advisor and partner via Orvet Stockholm.
Academician at Academy of Urbanism.
Speaker, lecturer, moderator: Spectrum Tokyo Festival スペクトラムトーキョーフェスティバル, Los Angeles Design Festival, AoU, 城區活動」, Business of Design Week, Gather Festival, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Aalto University, …
Swedish, formerly based in San Francisco and London with a stint in Washington D.C. Currently living in Stockholm. Previously working in Singapore and Hong Kong.
Co-host of The All-Design Podcast and Dauer & Orvet – Practical Design Leadership.
Recently
Partner and Global Strategic Design Director at Manyone 2022-2024.
Partner and Singapore lead at Manyone Asia 2019-2022.
Before
Global Cities Lead at M by Volvo Car Mobility.
Global Head of Design for the Futurice agency (Berlin, Helsinki, London, Munich, Oslo, Stockholm, Tampere).
International Head of Creative at Comprend (Stockholm, London, Lisbon, Milan).
Global Head of Creative at Nansen (Stockholm, Chicago, London, New York, Washington D.C.).
UX & Design Director at cloud collaboration leader Huddle in San Francisco.
Co-author, State of Mind at Work.
Co-author 'Noded - The untouchable business', listed together with Apple and Nintendo Wii as ideas and companies that “got it right and are leading the way to the future".
Inaugural judging panel member Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) with founding partners NASA, The World Bank, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!.
Alumni of Yahoo!, Stanford University CSP and JMK Stockholm University.
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