Current
- Partner at The Innovation Architects, working with senior executives to create a structured and sustainable approach to innovation in their companies, focusing on strategy, process and leadership.
- Guest lecturer at IESE Business School, teaching MBA and Executive Education programs ‘The Innovation Architect‘ and ‘Creative Cultures’ with Professor Paddy Miller
Advisory board positions
- Prehype (product development company)
- Basno (Online certification startup)
- CO2penhagen (world’s first CO2-neutral festival)
Past misdeeds
- Management consulting for Joost, MTV, Abbott Laboratories, Rambøll Management, DR, and others.
- Managing Partner at 13 MBAs, a professional network for top-tier MBAs
- Campaign planning, The Danish Parliament.
- Founder of Opgavebank.dk, a Danish non-profit knowledge sharing service.
- Four years of military service as officer and platoon commander in the Danish Royal Guards.
Education
- MBA, IESE Business School, Barcelona.
- MA, Film and Media Science, University of Copenhagen. Minor in Economics.
- Infantry officer, Lieutenant’s Academy, Denmark.
Press and publications
- “FT case study: How to innovate from the bottom up” (PDF), article in Financial Times, May 2011.
- “Living architecture: The furtive cities of Burning Man” (PDF – in Danish), article in Louisiana Art Magazine, Mar 2011.
- “Stealthstorming: Making innovation happen under the radar” (PDF), article in Developing Leaders, Mar 2011.
- “Six ways to fail at innovation” (PDF), article in Critical Eye, Dec 2010.
- “Where ideas really come from” (PDF), article in IESE Alumni Magazine no. 116, Jan-Mar 2010. Also available in Spanish (full magazine).
- “Jordan Cohen at pfizerWorks: Building the Office of the Future“, IESE Business School case study (2009)
- “Leading Innovation: Four Dangerous Myths“, article in MWorld (American Management Association, 2009).
- “Setting the Standard? Two generations of wireless telecoms”, case study, IESE Business School (2009). Co-authored with Luis Cabral
- “No Limits at work in Abbott France”, case study, IESE Business School (2008). Co-authored with Paddy Miller
- “Trendsetters in Private Networks” (PDF), article about 13 MBAs in Børsen (2008, in Danish)
- “How the Semmelweis Reflex prevents us from knowing our customers” (PDF), article, The Edge (2008)
- “Changing the Culture at Abbott Denmark”, case study, IESE Business School (2007). Co-authored with Paddy Miller
- “The Market for Television Formats”, Master’s thesis (2006).
- “Markedet for TV-formater” (PDF), scientific paper, MedieKultur no. 39 (2005).
- “Storytelling as a management tool“, Bachelor’s thesis (2002).
- “Ingen god politik uden spindoctors“, article, Kommunikationsforum (2002)
- “Historiefortælling for 17.000 medarbejdere – og for 35“, article in Kommunikatøren, Dansk Kommunikationsforening (2002)
- “Nyhederne og fremtiden”, interview with Stig Hjarvard, Samson (2002).
- “Reklamespots i TV-avisen“, article, Samson (1999)
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