I live life to explore, learn, and develop to have a positive impact. Lately, I have been focusing on AI for two reasons, first how to use AI tools to enhance my work and processes and second learning about AI to use it as material in designing AI tools, systems and the world. AI holds great opportunities to solve problems and should be a natural tool in our toolbox. If we use the technology wisely we can achieve better solutions that benefit humans, organisations and the world. As always, new technology leads to new tools that change how we get things done. To succeed with AI, facilitate collaboration and co-creation to involve all sorts of people, experiences and skills are key. I am a visionary, and living in those times gives me such excitement about what we can get done! At the same time, I inform myself learning about AI.
This is not the first time I become an early adopter. I grew up in the Swedish countryside and from childhood I loved to explore my surroundings. With a mother working in fashion and a father in the forest industry, creativity was part of everyday in various ways. I was building a shed, I ran around in the forest, painted watercolours, wrote stories and recorded my own stories on tape. When the Internet arrived it was clunky, but I still remember the thrill of noise when you connected with the otherworld. Secretly, because back then being a nerd was social self-murder. At school, I programmed a multiplication programme and at home I borrowed my father’s manuals from work of Microsoft package. Pagemaker became my favourite programme, it made me lose time and room. Driven by curiosity to discover what happened in the world, the day after school ended I got work in Dublin and moved abroad for a year until I started my studies 2001 in Malmö. It was brilliant!
Much happened since I 2005 took my Bachelor’s degree in Media and Communication at Malmö University. Fast forward, today I have my base in central Stockholm, I still love to travel and spend time back in the countryside now and then. During the years, I have bravely worked in various industries, such as Internet & IT, Education and Media, NGOs, Bank and Finance. In 2015 I achieved a Diploma in Higher Vocational Education for Digital Creative Media at Hyper Island which gave me a ticket towards new adventures abroad, such as setting up workshops at Tech Open Air Berlin with Wired Germany as a sponsor, pitching a startup idea at Seedcamp Berlin and creating the innovation event History Hack.
I always have a beginners mindset, although I realise I have had lots of learnings. Development excites me, and I have been sniffing at digital transformation, change management, and design processes through my professional years. The last couple of years I humbly tried to work and learn about the human-centred design processes I fell in love with, and it is such a big and exciting field in constant evolvment I believe it will be a never-ending story. I have had many roles and titles and tasks during my working life. Today I see use cases for how AI in combination with Design holds exciting opportunities ahead no matter if you call it UX, service design, change, organisational as well as business development, marketing, project management … or something completely else we might not even know yet.
As a person, I am a mixture of analytical, strategic and creative and drawn towards complexity, with the aim to make it more understandable and simple. When I was younger I did not like that people described me as kind since it felt as dull and boring. Now I understand why its a trait to point out. In the countryside, not much work without a helping hand and collaboration and to perform at work you need a kind trustful environment, no matter where you are. For a countryside girl, it can be challenging to promote herself, but some people mentioned I am especially good at uncovering underlying problems, connecting the dots, and identifying new opportunities and make change happen and set visions forward. I basically solve problems to bring true value for people, organisations and the planet. Now, I hope that you also are one of those brilliant people that believe in win-win, win and .
