About me

As an independent strategist and senior design leader I support leadership teams at digital agencies and product companies.

Together we take big leaps and achieve big positive changes. You can work with me on a project, interim or permanent basis.

The benefits to my clients are clear:

  • Alternative insights and futures research lead to better-informed decision making
  • Custom AI agent building and model training become part of the strategic design toolbox
  • Actionable, collaboratively-laid plans bring more effective ways-of-working
  • International commercial and cultural insights strengthen local and regional offerings
  • Global experience and network eases entries into sought-after markets

How we get there

  • Evolving creative teams into strategic, commercially strong, design organisations
  • Enabling the merging of design and AI expertise
  • Bringing foresight into strategic design processes
  • Coaching management as a team and as individual leaders
  • Commercial market entries with a focus on Singapore, Japan, Northern Europe and US

Let's have a call!

As a non-executive director in our organisation, Orvet was a trusted partner for our executives and team leads.

Their praise arrived quickly and consistently, as it did from our A-level clients.

— MD/Co-founder, Pan-European/Asian digital agency*, Q4 2024

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Now

Principal and advisor, 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

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Partner and Global Strategic Design Director at Manyone 2022-2024.

Partner and Singapore lead at Manyone Asia 2019-2022.

Ideation workshop with Manyone. Photo by Manyone

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.

Delivering the keynote at Metta Hong Kong during Business of Design Week. Photo by Vicky Lo

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.

(* specifics still under NDA)

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