Head of Research & Publishing at Rehumanize Institute
Co-founder of SingularityU Nordic and global SingularityU faculty on innovation in large, established organizations
Co-founder of multiple innovation initiatives such as the accelerator Thinkubator and the incubator DARE2mansion
Author of bestselling business book “Transforming legacy organizations” on how to turn your business into an innovation champion
Editor of the No 1 Amazon bestseller “Ethics at Work – Dilemmas of the Near Future and How Your Organization Can Solve Them”
Co-author of “The Fundamental 4s: How to Design Extraordinary Customer Experiences in an Exponential World” and, “After Shock - The World’s Foremost Futurists Reflect on 50 Years of Future Shock―and Look Ahead to the Next 50”
Host of the SingularityU’s “Corporate Innovation Podcast” + The Responsible Innovation Podcast.
Holds a position at GeoTech Center Action Council Member (the Atlantic Council is a nonpartisan organization that galvanizes US leadership and engagement in the world, in partnership with allies and partners, to shape solutions to global challenges.)
Member of Ethics advisory board for neurocommunications company Neurons
A talk based on Kris Østergaard’s bestselling business book Transforming Legacy Organizations.
How large established companies must see the world from new perspectives, explore their 6 degrees of competition, understand the individual, organizational and societal immune system barriers that are holding them back, and how they can hack their cultures to become the innovation champions of the future.
A talk based on the Amazon #1 bestseller “Ethics at Work”, edited by Kris Østergaard, as well as several research studies he has directed in collaboration with Accenture on the 4 key pillars that companies who do the most on the responsible business agenda while creating better financial returns at the same time double down on: Future Focus, Ecosystem action, Responsible Business Indicators, and Impact Leadership.
A talk based on Kris’ 10+ years work on the cutting edge of technology and corporate innovation as co-founder of SingularityU Nordic and keynote speaker at Singularity Group where he deep dives into crucial cutting edge technological developments that are important for the world, and, most importantly what this means for you and your organization. This talk also includes unique research that Kris has spearheaded on leadership in the age of generative AI.
In a fun and fast paced but thought provoking workshop, Kris’ guides your group through a series of near future dilemmas where you explore the pros and cons of important technological developments and their impact on your organization. In a tightly facilitated process the participants reflect on the ethical implications, develop arguments for and against these developments, and, in the end, collectively decide which future they would like to see.
Is your organisation really as future proof as it thinks it is? In this workshop you investigate what threats and opportunities you will face in the future by investigating your six degrees of competition and learn how coffee, brain technology and self-driving cars are directly connected to each other in a commercial perspective.
Kris Østergaard is a certified LEGO Serious Play facilitator, a fun, engaging, and deeply immersive method where you use LEGOs to build future aspirations for your organization. This methodology is great for investigating highly complex matters such as corporate transformation or the future of leadership and work. Whether it is executive leadership groups, software specialists, sales and marketing people or folks from HR, Kris has run LEGO workshop with them providing great insights and highly actionable output.