About me
I have successfully built and transformed creative teams in Europe, Asia and North America while navigating technological disruptions, economic volatility, and cultural shifts.
Now I use those global experiences to help design agencies, product companies and city leaders evolve their organisations, sharpen their offerings and identify huge new opportunities.
The approach
❯ Identifying early shifts and movements to stay relevant
Early signals across seemingly unrelated topics reveal tomorrow's opportunities. Bringing foresight into modelling and strategic design processes can feel like magic when done right.
❯ Finding hidden talent
Identifying exceptional skills in overlooked places takes an explorative mindset; 50% strategic attraction 50% intentional encouragement.
❯ Reimagining how work gets done
Creating bold new methods, systems, and workflows has three equally important purposes: meeting business needs, enabling team fulfilment, and delivering audience impact.
❯ Building magnetic organisations
Consistently sharing how an organisation chooses to work and measure its outcomes is a magnet for the right type of attention. Especially when entering new markets.
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 (very!) attractive way.
Next
I am available for strategic projects, interim leadership, advisory and fractional roles. Or even full-time engagement with forward-thinking creative agencies and product companies.
I also offer 1-on-1 coaching for senior level design and strategy executives (VP, Head of, Director, etc) and practicing designers and strategists with leadership responsibilities (team lead, Senior, CD, etc).
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.
What other major clients say >
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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