Dennis Dybdal & Bo Blaabjerg
Dan Boyter
Chaiman of Board
Dan Boyter has more than 20 years of top management experience from his family business, Pressalit, combined with active participation in projects, activities and board work within culture, social organizations, and diversity management.
As a business leader, Dan Boyter has been responsible for Corporate Communication, HR, CSR and innovation. He has also been his company's face to the outside world and contributed to the development of Pressalit's knowledge and reputation in the public. In 2015, he resigned from the day-to-day management, but he is still an active owner and board member for the company.
Alongside his management role, Dan Boyter has been an active board member for other companies, cultural institutions, and public initiatives. He was a member of the board for ARoS Aarhus Art Museum from 2009-2017, a board member for Moesgaard Museum from 2014-2020, and Chairman of Den Jyske Opera from 2010-2016. Today, he is a member of the board for Design Museum Danmark, a member of DI’s Special Committee for Design, and he has recently been appointed as Chairman for the steering committee of LINKED, a government initiated Lab for Innovation and Creativity in Denmark.
Bliss Browne
Master Community Builder, Episcopal Priest
Bliss W. Browne is Founder and President of Imagine Chicago, a non-profit organization devoted to cultivating hope and civic commitment, which has inspired a global movement of social innovation. Bliss is an Episcopal priest and a former senior banking executive. She was in the first class of undergraduate women at Yale, and has graduate degrees in theology and finance from Harvard Divinity School and Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.
Bliss is recognized internationally as a keynote speaker and a creative, skilled designer and facilitator of generative community building projects and programs. Her global work of community building, and the lessons learned from it, can be found at
www.imaginechicago.org. She can be contacted at
bliss@imaginechicago.org.
Bliss has taught at the Kaospilots for 15 years and hosted 8 KP interns. Her greatest joy currently is exploring life with her five young granddaughters, two of whom (from Beijing) she has been homeschooling during this pandemic year. She lives in Florida.
Anders Geert Jensen
Anders Geert Holding
Alexandra Hasdorf
Team Leader
Abi Mapúa
Experience Design Partner Philippines
Abi believes that we can shape the future we deserve. Her practice in the fields of strategic Social Design, Experience Design, and Environmental Science, exposed her to the key importance of empathizing with the needs and values of people as powerful vehicles towards clear articulation of desired futures and the design of paths towards it. Having worked for decades in the intersections of academe, grassroot communities, public and private sector presented her with the opportunity to cross-pollinate various disciplines and facilitate co- creation for regenerative impact and sustainable business values. Abi is Founder and President of KindMind, a social design laboratory.
Anders Krøyer
IT Manager
As a working musician my interest in computers came late. At the age of 41 (1999) I took an MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional) in NT4 Server, NT4 Workstation and NT4 in the Enterprise. The day I got my MCP I started at Kaospilot and have worked there ever since. I did the daily administration on a Debian Linux Server for 20 years. The Server was build and maintained by Dr Jones who has been my guide and teacher. Now Kaospilot has changed IT to Microsoft 365, so I am back to the beginning working with Microsoft, and supports around 150 Mac and PC users.
Aga Szostek
Co-designer of Become
Aga Szóstek, Ph.D. is a strategic designer. For the past two decades she worked at the forefront of combining design, technology and business. She collaborated with brands such as Google, Microsoft, Philips, Canon, Samsung, EY, Santander, ING, Orange and many more, bringing the experience-focused strategic approach to project teams and boardrooms. Her approach inspired many organisations to refocus and bet on experiences as their strategic differentiator.
Carol Sanford
Author, Speaker, Business Educator
Carol Sanford has worked business and organisations, for more than 40 years. She has laid the foundation for hundreds of ideas that are later adopted via her education clients and spread across industries.
She has three award winning, best selling and highly respected books on the practicality of living systems thinking and consciousness at work.
Her company, Carol Sanford Institute, has researched and designed education based on Sanford’s experience and findings. Always using frameworks and reflection to assess and design responsibility for all stakeholders by way of seeing the effects before and during, and soon to be after, taking action.
She is adjunct faculty at Kaospilot University in Denmark, Babson College, UW of Washington, and lectures at 4-5 universities around the world annually; she speaks at a dozen more very large events both public and private. She has numerous TEDx talks that have extensive views.
Christian Hyld
Tromsø Kommune v/Tvibit
Annina Laaksonen
nuorisoseurat.fi /Finnish Youth Association
Alina Christina Bruhn Andersen
Andy Sontag
Program Director
Andy Sontag is the Program Director for our professional programs,
Become and
Experience Design. Andy holds a degree in sustainability and entrepreneurship, and he has agency experience within organisational development work and experience design work in the United States and in Scandinavia. Andy works with talented producers and experience production teams globally to create the sought after Kaospilot learning experience.
Pernille Berg
Member of Board - Vice Chair
Pernille Berg, fil.dr.
Science Manager, BLOXHUB
Passionate and experienced when it comes to leadership, research, innovation, sustainability, and entrepreneurship Pernille has worked extensively with research and innovation throughout her career. From establishing incubators for student startups and startups to creating applied research communities Pernille has extensive experience with creating new educations, new learning communities and environment, and international collaborations, incl. EU projects’ steering group responsibilities. Furthermore, Pernille has experience in developing fundraising strategies as well as project portfolios. Pernille is a staunch advocate of network collaboration, social innovation, knowledge-sharing and ideation.
As part of BLOXHUB’s vision to ensure the development of sustainable cities Pernille is responsible for running the programme Science Forum which entails industrial research networks, BLOXHUB Academy and Science Talks.
Alberto Barreiro
Co-designer of Become
Alberto spent the last 20 years exploring the relationship of people with digital media as an artist, designer, entrepreneur, business consultant, and media executive, working for global digital media players but also starting new businesses in the fields of media and experience design. Alberto is always driven by the aim of trying to make the world slightly more beautiful, useful and meaningful than we found it.
Gry Guldberg
Gry has a long career as an organisational- and leadership consultant behind her. Working with; processes, facilitation, transformation, coaching and leadership development, both in the public-and private sector, has led Gry to work with very esteemed clients through the years. Her ability to spot client needs and to challenge and engage her collaborators in open and honest dialogues, has created very loyal and long-term client partnerships. Focusing on growth, sustainability, and learning, Gry has managed to contribute to organisational transformation across different industries and sectors with great success.
Besides having worked as an international teamleader at The Kaospilots in Aarhus, Gry also achieved the position as Principal for The Kaospilots Øresund, in Malmö, between 2007-2009. Since January 2018, Gry has worked as a Strategic Leadership Consultant & Organisational Transformation Activist in the innovative consultancy Emerging Earth, which she is also a co-founder of.
Anna Ulrikke Kristoffersen
Christian Kirkegaard Bay
Ungdomsbureauet
Kristin Birkeland
Program Director
Kristin Birkeland is an experienced teacher (
Powerful Presence), leader and consultant and she has worked for more than 20 years with creativity in education and in organisations.
She is Kaospilot alumni and former team leader at Kaospilot and is recognised for her expertise in building strong learning cultures in teams.
Kristin is also co-founder of the the NGO ‘Citizen Change’ (Sager der Samler) which has become a national point of reference for the innovative potential of citizen mobilisation. Kristin is also a member of the ‘OECD Innovative Citizen Participation Network’.
Danièle Bienvenue
Licensee / Canada
Danièle is an official licensee of the
Designing & Facilitating Learning Spaces professional program in Canada. With a Bachelor of Arts and a Masters of Science in Public Health, Danièle Bienvenue challenges the impossible, entertains paradoxes and tames the unacceptable. The ever-adapting human machine has fascinated her for the last 35 years. It is with an organic approach, recognizing the important core of each person and organization that she builds tailored learning environments. She lived and worked in the USA where during 10 years, she created and implemented social integration programs for adult immigrants. In 1994, she returned to Canada to join a consulting firm in human capital and in 2003, she left the more conventional consulting world to explore new coaching and facilitation tools. All tailored programs gravitate around the human dynamic themes. Her methodology encourages an active contribution from the participants and leaves them with practical, realistic and manageable tools. She completed her NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) Certification in June 2010.
Anna Elkjær
Community & Communication Responsible
Lone Hansen
Member of board
David Jul
Resonans, alumni
Bo Blaabjerg
Program Director, Head of Consulting
Drew Bonfiglio
Licensee / USA, North East
Drew is an official licensee of the
Designing & Facilitating Learning Spaces professional program in the North East region of USA. Drew prides himself in bringing a multitude of experiences to the the learning process. He has the unique combination of experience as facilitator, consultant, learning designer, engineer, and operations manager and combines big picture thinking and detailed implementation planning. Drew is the co-founder of
Emzingo, a certified B Corp, focused on creating the next generation of responsible leaders. He has extensive experience with Academia, partnering with universities across the world to design and run experiential learning programs focused on leadership development and social impact. His corporate experience spans a multitude of sectors, including Aerospace & Defense, Construction, Healthcare, IT, Consulting, Non-profit, and Social Enterprise/B Corp. Drew is also co–founder and co-chair of the B Local Boston board (a professional working group of certified B Corps) where he is helping Greater Boston to use “Business as a Force for Good”. Drew holds an M.S. in Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from IE Business School and lives in Boston with his family.
Mikkel Pilgaard Madsen
Program Director
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.
Mette Rønnau
Member of board
Ditte Graa Wulff
Bespoke/Manyone, alumni
Christer Windeløv-Lidzélius
Principal
Christer Windeløv-Lidzélius is the principal at
Kaospilot. He holds a PhD from Tilburg University and his areas of research evolves around strategy, leadership and innovation. Amongst other things, he is a guest professor at Saint Paul Business School in Brazil and the chairman of Cemecon Scandinavia. For more than 20 years, he has been working in the fields of leadership, strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship. He has lectured and advised companies on 5 continents, and worked in more than 25 countries for private companies, NGOs and public organizations alike. He is a frequent contributor to both international and Danish media.
Nana Dall
Nana is a former student of team 13. On top of her
KP-education she holds a Master in Psychology and is certified Conflict Mediator. For 10 years she’s been focusing on difficult situations, conflicts, communication, resistance, reaction patterns, and mediation.
The main theme in her work is discovering what is below the tensions that arises when human beings are together.
Edda Kruse Rosset
Co-Founder Kaospilot+Berlin
Edda Kruse Rosset, Co-Founder
Kaospilot+ Berlin.
Edda is a process designer & facilitator, community builder and performer. Her passion lies within systemic change and culture, critical thinking and education. From Berlins squat and art scene, she studied cultural sciences, sociology and politics and graduated
the 3 Year Kaospilot Enterprising Leadership Program. She truly lives life experimentally, explores embodied leadership and loves the challenging adventure of re-thinking and re-designing education, economics and how we are in relationship to one another.
Gitte Nipper
Member of board
Fanny Posselt
World's Most Travelled Hotdog Stand, alumni
David Storkholm
Program Director
David Storkholm is the Program Director of our professional program,
Creative Leadership. David has dedicated his life to making people grow and reach their highest potential in leading creative collaboration in innovative teams and organizations. In his own professional, yet playful way, he inspires passion and urges people to meet the world with curiosity. David is a professional coach and leadership trainer. He holds a position as a senior faculty member at the Coaches Training Institute in San Rafael, California, the world leading school when it comes to coach training. He has 20+ years of experience training entrepreneurs and innovators with a creative edge and a global mindset at Kaospilot. To reach the full creative potential and ability to drive change in organizations, Creative Leadership is an intensive and practical journey that raises the overall awareness and readiness to lead less hierarchical and more agile work processes. The program has 500+ alumni from organizations such as IKEA, PayPal, Greenpeace, IDEO, Adidas and Royal Bank of Scotland.
Emanuele Ciccarelli
Licensee / Italy
Emanuele is an official licensee of the
Designing & Facilitating Learning Spaces professional program in Italy. Emanuele is an international explorer of chaos characterized by a strong transdisciplinary and human-centered expertise in creative talent development and personal transformation. With a Bachelor and Master’s degree in Aesthetics Philosophy and a specialization in Human Resources Management, he worked for big fours in Human Capital and Digital Transformation for 6 years. Starting from 2018 with his independent project Laborintus – Talent through chaos he carries out innovative labs for creative talent development, aiming to uphold corporates, teams and individuals with an appetite for human-centered innovation. His personal approach is grounded in performative and visual arts, gamified experience design, philosophy and psychology as well as in business and digital transformation. By leading transformation through complex ecosystems and uncertain environments, he helps people, groups, schools and organizations to discover, develop and sustain their own potential in a creative, experiential and transformative way. He’s also a
Lego® Serious Play® certified facilitator and
Oneiric Drawing Bermolen-Dal Porto counsellor.
Stephen Rappaport
Perfomer
Stephen Rappaport is an actor, director, singer-songwriter, solo theater performer, and playwright. He has written, performed, and toured 5 solo theater performances internationally. He has taken part in and co-created numerous theater and film works. His screen credits guest-starring roles in Star Trek Voyager, Beck, Modus, ER, Brooklyn South, And God Spoke, NYPD Blue, etc. He tours internationally with his performance band, THE STEPHEN RAPPAPORT BAND. For the past 25 years,
Stephen has led his INTUITION IN ACTION WORKSHOP, for virtually all elite schools of higher artistic learning in Sweden, and for businesses, groups, individuals, institutions, and universities worldwide. For more information:
https://www.stephenrappaport.com/
Heidi Meier Bach
Heidi Meier PR & Communication, alumni
Dennis Dybdal
Program Facilitator / Staff representative for the board
Finn Köhler
Co-Founder Kaospilot+Berlin
Finn Köhler, Co-founder
Kaospilot+Berlin, is researcher and journalist exploring desirable futures.
He explored new learning and new work around the world in communicates his findings in various ways through public talks, documentaries, written studies for foundations, or own implementation. He worked as a freelancer, as the Head of Research for the startup Forever Day One in Berlin, and as a Learning Researcher at SPACE10.
Sustainability sits close to his heart
Caroline Victoria Riggelsen Raundahl
Helen van Baal
Co-Founder Kaospilot+Berlin
Helen van Baal, Co-Founder
Kaospilot+ Berlin.
Helen is a designer and educator with a passion for experiential learning design.
In the past she has worked as a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art, as programme lead and coach at the HPI School of Design Thinking, was a resident designer at SPACE10, and a freelance designer and lecturer all over the world. She has experience in teaching design and design thinking in various cultures, working in education, social innovation and entrepreneurship, spanning all levels of the design process.
Ditte Kofoed Staalgaard Nielsen
Emil Winther
Funding & Partnerships
Jörgen Fransson
Helsingborgs Stad
Henrique Versteeg-Vedana
Licensee / Brazil
Henrique is an official licensee of the
Designing & Facilitating Learning Spaces professional program in Brazil. Born and raised in Brazil, Henrique traveled all over the world and had the privilege to meet, work and study with a range of incredible people. He’s a trainer and facilitator for over 10 years, and he knows how to engage people and generate collaborative processes for co-creation and raising awareness. Many of his travels and work experiences were inspired by his connection to AIESEC, and later by
his three years at KAOSPILOT, in Denmark. After being the first Brazilian to graduate from the school, he has been a partner at CoCriar Colaborative Practices upon his return to Brazil. He recently cofounded
Manifesto 55, with the purpose of sharing his love and knowledge for educational innovation and social transformation.
Federico Bortoletto
Team Leader / Head of Studies - Curriculum Designer
I am a professional experimenter who is constantly propelled by “the why”.
I live and work in Aarhus by way of Milan and New York. I’m passionate about what I do because it allows me to reimagine education and empower students through supporting multi-stakeholder innovation.
One day I want to get a masters in medieval history, but until then, I’ll continue to support individuals, communities and institutions who recognize that we need new approaches to respond to the challenges of our increasingly complex world.
What gets me up in the morning is the desire to build relationships and enable collaborations among people who have the will to work on things that they care for and that positively impact the world.
Iben Gabel Jørgensen
Service & Logistics / Office Manager
Joska Spruyt
Licensee / Netherlands
Joska is an official licensee of the
Designing & Facilitating Learning Spaces professional program in the Netherlands. Joska has a warm personality and a creative mind and is able to balance both an analytical and intuitive way of thinking. A colleague once told him that he has the ability to see the big picture down to the smallest details. This mindset proved to be a powerful tool for Joska as teacher of Organisational behavior at the School of Arts in Utrecht (HKU). Using a personal approach to complex organizational issues, he was able to capture the attention of large groups of students. His background as a scientist, therapist and singer have provided him with a solid foundation for this work. Joska is now focused on increasing employee participation, job satisfaction and work quality improvements. The motto of his Spruyt-Lourens academy is: ‘Whistle your way to work’.
Malene Lunden
Samsø Energi Akademi
Karina Aguillón
Office Assistant
Juliana González
Experience Design partner Columbia
Juliana is a Colombian designer that transcended the product world and landed in the Strategic field. With a creative mind and a high social awareness, she works as a consultant around projects with human impact, uniting the design universe with the organizational development. She enjoys working with companies around the globe, using design tools to open people's minds, grow awareness and release their creative potential to achieve and promote transformation.
She is a believer of the power of collaborative action to shape a better future. Co-creation is one of the things she enjoys the most, sharing ideas, perspectives and working with different disciplines inspires and motivates her. Food and human sensitivity make part of her internal engine, that’s why travel and yoga are two of her happy words.
Katja Subrizi Wessling
Co-facilitator Kaospilot Experience Design
Katja has 20 years international experience leading purposeful organizational development and culture to help clients/employers make a meaningful difference. She is a Kaospilot alumni, with experience working at IDEO, Frog, ustwo and has consulted for many fortune 500 companies. Experience design thinking is in her DNA. Her motto is ‘kindness rules’.
Heiða Norðkvist Halldórsdóttir
Nikoline Nybo
Inclusify/Ladies First, alumni
Kristina Green Bonne
Graphic Design & Communication
Helga Bryndis Einarsdóttir
Simon Lægsgaard Madsen
Brandbjerg Højskole
Lais Glück
Experience Design partner Brazil
Designing purpose-centered brands, experiences and products. In 2018, after attending
the Experience Design training with the Kaospilot, she decided to converge different design approaches by creating Glück: a company focused on creating happiness through design. Today, it is comprised of a multidisciplinary team of creative professionals who believe that being in the business of creating happiness is not just about what makes you happy, but about embracing pain and complexities as opportunities for innovation and sense making. Lais is enthusiastic about happiness and making beautiful things. She currently serves as Chief Happiness Officer & Founder at Glück, a company focused on developing design solutions based on subjective well-being. Instagram:
@laisgluck
Elisabeth Nordenbæk Christensen
Josephine Gosvig Pedersen
Jacob Petersen
Student Representative for the Board
Theis Petersen
Muskelsvindfonden
Marite Irvine
Experience Design Partner Philippines/France
Managing Partner at KindMind, a social design consultancy and Official Partner of
the Kaospilot Experience Design in SE Asia. Marite brings her background in Psychology & the creative industries to her experience, learning & service design work with corporates, NGOs & local governments.
Lis Østergaard
Account Manager
Thor Thorøe
Social Foodies
Michael Liehmann
Experience Design partner Austria
Michael is a versatile consultant who helps organizations achieve transformative change by utilizing his diverse skills in systemic consulting, experience design and coaching. This combination enables him to deliver innovative solutions that address complex challenges and drive measurable results.
Ramon Marmolejos
Licensee / Australia
Ramon is an official licensee of the
Designing & Facilitating Learning Spaces professional program in Australia. Ramon Marmolejosis a learning designer, facilitator and strategy consultant with a passion for developing people and organizations. Ramon has worked in consulting for over 12 years, with a focus on human capital strategy and leadership development. He has delivered human capital consulting work in a variety of industries, including financial services, media, pharmaceutical and consumer goods companies and for clients such as Avon, Bayer, Cisco, GlaxoSmithKline, Goldman Sachs, Johnson & Johnson, Maersk, Microsoft, NASA, Ogilvy, Unilever and Verizon. In addition, he has worked with non-profit organizations including WWF, ActionAid, Red Cross, Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation along with universities around the world. Ramon is a Managing Partner and co-founder of
Emzingo Group. Emzingo provides transformational leadership experiences to business students and young talents by applying design thinking to help solve mission critical issues within social enterprises.
Roberta Domingues
Team Leader
Sissel Hansen
Co-Founder Kaospilot+Berlin
Sissel founded Startup Guide, a creative content and media company known for the book series „Startup Guide“ often described as the Lonely Planet for entrepreneurs.
The first book came out in 2014 and is today in 40+ cities around the world. She has a background from the
Kaospilot in Aarhus, where she studied for one year in 2015 before dropping out and to develop Startup Guide full-time. Since, she learned by doing, built a global business, and is today leading a team of 20 people in Lisbon, Berlin and Copenhagen, while being responsible for all new bizz activities in the company and working on various impact entrepreneurship projects, like the „Impact the Future“ Impact Conference in Denmark.
Seyda Nur Günes
Team Leader
Simon Kavanagh
Program Director
Simon Kavanagh is the Program Director of our professional programs,
Designing & Facilitating Learning Spaces and
Designing Learning Spaces (online). Born in Dublin, Simon studied Art and Design Education @NCAD ’96. Already then, showing a passion and interest to create more meaningful learning. But, took a detour for the next 5 years as a Creative Director in multimedia. During these years he designed, programmed and managed hundreds of multimedia titles in the business, educational, IT, online-gaming, leisure and banking sectors and set up divisions in NYC & Paris, where he would soon move. But, not before working as a Learning Consultant for Windmill Lane Studios in the infancy of Interactive Television, Content Management systems, and online gaming.
With the bang of the dotcom in 2001, Simon left Ireland never to return and started on his journey that would lead him to
Kaospilot. After a few years in Paris feeding his passion for music, digital media, photography and art, he answered his vocational call as a Learning Designer, and move to Shanghai.
For nearly 3 years he lead and developed the BA faculty of Visual communication for 2 UK universities, until one day, frustrated by the non- existent focus on personnel development in education he stumbled across Kaospilot, which in 2006, was already one of the most experiential education institutions in the world.
After a spell as Team Leader and Head of Studies, he cracked the Kaospilot pedagogical code as open source and created the Kaospilot's first educational consultancy to share it.
"Deliver education that is authentic and opportunistic in nature, experimental and real in praxis. All else is rudimentary.”
Tim Logan
Experience Design Partner Germany
Tim is an experience designer working in both physical and digital domains. He's the product owner at Miljn, a technology startup creating universal access to expert knowledge, and consults internationally to various public and private sector clients. His practice revolves around empathy, close attention to what is happening in the moment, and often finds himself prototyping first and asking questions later.
Kasper Fabricius Smedegaard
Solveig Marie Johansen
Project assistant
Vicky Corbella
Licensee / Argentina
Vicky Corbella is an official licensee of
the Designing & Facilitating Learning Spaces professional program in Argentina. She is the founder and CEO of Lucyda, a culture and leadership consultancy where she leads a network of exceptional people. She is dedicated to expanding awareness in organizations and empowering leaders to unleash their full potential. Vicky specializes in designing cultural transformations, co-creating purpose, and delivering upskilling programs that facilitate growth and development. The outcomes of her programs derive meaningful and impactful experiences. Vicky brings a unique blend of expertise in strategy, innovation, culture, learning, leadership, coaching, psychological safety, mindfulness, theatre, research, and analytics to her work. Her ability to think outside the box and connect with people on a deeper level is what sets her apart as a leader in her field.
William Hewett
Team Leader
Kjartan Thors Hagedorn-Olsen
Lasse Pablo Pilgaard Andersen
Sara Hegelund Winther Fischer
Thorleif “Sankadudu” Olausen
