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When people and organizations need to perform in a changing reality

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My name is Thomas.

I work with leaders and teams when they're facing change – and when there's a need to create shared direction and strengthen collaboration.

I don't implement strategies or promise transformation.

Instead, I create spaces and processes where direction can be clarified—and action possible.

I facilitate processes, coach leaders, and design learning spaces based on your reality—not on ready-made models.

My approach is practical and reflective, focusing on bringing out the knowledge, tensions, and perspectives that already exist in the room.

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Examples of work

Cases

From idea to action: Strengthening creative capacity in the Danish Society for Nature Conservation

The Danish Society for Nature Conservation, Denmark's leading nature conservation organization, wanted to strengthen its ability to engage the public in important environmental issues. Together, we created a program focused on creative collaboration and finding new ways to make complex technical and political issues more accessible to the Danish public.

Danish Broadcasting Corporation: Creativity and innovation in a changing media landscape

Through workshops and learning courses, we worked to explore the new strategy and what it meant in practice for the department. Together, we developed a mindset that took change seriously and created room for experimentation—as a starting point for a more creative and adaptable work environment.

Wonderful Copenhagen: Accelerator for sustainable innovation in the tourism industry

Strengthening innovation efforts in the tourism landscape through teaching lean startup principles and facilitating coaching and mentoring for innovators and founders.

Danske Bank: The connection between new strategy, culture, and leadership

I designed and facilitated leadership programs, leadership conferences, and development initiatives, where new strategic priorities were put into practice while strengthening the internal culture and identity through the unit's leaders and change agents.

TV2: Facilitated innovation across the organization

Helped TV2 by designing and facilitating a creative process across the organization, which brought the entire creative capacity into play and resulted in new concepts for covering the upcoming parliamentary elections. The process also became a model for how to work with creative and innovative concepts across the organization.

Hyper Island: Strengthening leaders' ability to drive business and cultural transformation

Since 2008, I have been an integral part of Hyper Island's global network of experts and have led teams in business transformation and leadership development for a broad portfolio of more than 100 international clients.

Copenhagen Legacy Lab: From events to engaging communities

Copenhagen Legacy Lab is an initiative developed for Copenhagen Convention Bureau with a focus on rethinking conferences and events as platforms for long-term value creation. Through a structured process of stakeholder involvement and co-creation, a set of tools was developed that enables organizers to work systematically with legacy and sustainable impact.

Vestforbrænding: Strengthening collaboration, learning, and transparency through agile working methods

I worked with Vestforbrænding to strengthen an agile culture within the organization, where teams were given better conditions for collaboration and for responding appropriately to changing demands.

Bakken & Bæck: Creating a strong leadership community

Support for the technology-driven design studio Bakken & Bæck in maintaining a culture characterized by collaboration, innovation, well-being, and personal development—while the organization grew and scaled its business.

IKEA: Strengthening creative capacities

Tailor-made program for IKEA with a focus on creative collaboration and the courage to think innovatively across disciplines.

Through workshops and shared workspaces, we worked to strengthen common language, collaboration, and confidence in experimenting together—delivered in Scandinavia, the UK, and Germany.

Unilever: Facilitation training for global design teams

We worked with Unilever's global design team to create greater value in their cross-functional coordination and alignment sessions and strengthen the team's ability to facilitate and deliver with greater confidence. Over the course of three days, the management team was equipped with tools and processes that they could put directly into use in the business.

Surprisingly Good - Lab for Social Innovation

As co-founders of Social Lab—a non-profit organization that combined stakeholder engagement, design thinking, and experience design—we worked with social innovation in the areas of green energy, youth homelessness, and bicycle culture. The work was carried out in collaboration with a number of key partners and sponsors.

MAD: Facilitation and learning design for MAD Academy's pilot program

In 2019, I contributed as a facilitator and learning designer to MAD Academy's pilot program—an international learning program for professionals in the hospitality industry, founded by René Redzepi, among others. The program combined strong voices, concrete tools, and shared reflection with a focus on clear leadership, judgment, and long-term, positive change.

Stendahls: Co-creation of a shared vision

In connection with its 60th anniversary in 2014, Swedish communications agency Stendahls wanted to prepare the organization for the future and rethink its purpose. Through a two-day facilitated process, all 100+ employees participated in the work of creating a shared vision based on the agency's identity, values, and ambitions.

Wonderful Copenhagen: Co-created future strategy

A future strategy co-created based on Google's Design Sprint framework and put into practice through small experiments driven by all employees at Wonderful Copenhagen.

I'm often invited when something is in flux. When direction needs to be clarified. When collaboration needs to be strengthened. Or when organizations want to work in a more future-oriented and experimental way.

The work always starts where you actually are.

What I help with

The collaboration takes various forms - from workshops and leadership courses to longer development processes.

The work is designed along the way—based on your situation, not on a fixed program structure.

How I work

We start in reality – not in models or theory: The work always takes its starting point in your context, relationships, and challenges.
The knowledge is already there: my role is to bring it out—not to provide the answers from outside.
Conversations create movement: It's often the quality of the conversations that determines what becomes possible.
Direction is created together: Shared ownership is more important than ready-made solutions.
Change requires courage and security: these two things must be developed side by side.

Principles of my work

Leadership in motion - a learning process

When change is a fundamental condition, leaders need more than models. Here, we work with practice, reflection, and shared learning over time.

What others say

“The process Thomas initiated in our organization has been crucial in creating coherence between strategy and culture across the organization. It helped both teams and leaders translate new strategic priorities into everyday action—and deliver the business results we need to remain competitive in a demanding and volatile market.”

— Laila Gyldenhøj Jakobsen, Global Head of HR, SVP, Wealth Management, Danske Bank

"We had a really good course, and we developed both as a group and as individuals. Thomas showed us in very concrete ways that the secret to developing good ideas is not so secret after all. Today, I know how to inspire creativity. It's not always easy to live up to, but it's reassuring to have a new set of tools. I use them today, no matter where I am."

— Kristoffer Pinholt, Editor-in-Chief, TV2

"A truly excellent course, from which I believe both new and experienced facilitators can learn a great deal. An appropriate pace and a fine balance between emotional and functional perspectives – delivered with great style and professionalism, which in itself demonstrated the concepts being worked on.

I particularly appreciated the way the content was delivered and the flexibility in adapting it to our needs. It was in itself a good example of practicing what you preach—which is crucially important to me."