Mikkel Pilgaard is an experienced teacher (Design for Sustainability), leader, coach (certified) and advisor with more than 10 years experience working with consulting, project leadership and change management.
He is a Kaospilot alumni and holds a Master of Science in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability from Blekinge Institute of Technology. He has deep insight into the workings of organizational reality from working in many large organizations on long cultural development projects focused on building relational capacity and cross-boundary cohesion to drive collective problem solving, innovation and performance around complex 21st century tasks and challenges.
Mikkel is also a social entrepreneur and political innovator. Specifically he was one of the co-founding leaders of the Danish green party and today is a co-founding member of The Sustainability Collaborative. He has a particular expertise in leading strategic sustainable development, sustainability innovation, futures design, ecological economics and sustainable business anchored in science and evidence-based methods. He brings a philosophic, rigorous and creative approach to all of his work through a combination of radical & appreciative inquiry, systemic thinking, social constructionism and design praxis.