I am a strategic thinker with analytical abilities that outplay in my DNA because I am raised with professional politics, an overview of the whole, and the connections in the main structures in Denmark.
Growing up in a political community of practice, I have analyzed how decision-making was made based on networks, information dissemination, and political power play.
While growing up, leadership has always been a neural topic. After I had finished my first formal apprenticeship education as a Mediegrafiker, I worked at newspapers setting up pages and ads. The financial crisis came, and to be frank, I had a couple of managers who didn’t have the faintest clue how to manage a newspaper. Yet, I also had skilled, empathetic, supportive secretarial managers who created psychological safety among employees, listened, and took the things said into account in their decisions to look after the well-being of the employees. I had been a spokesperson at 22, and I could see how I could create changes and get happier, less stressed, and less confused colleagues that would produce better results. So, I started to study management and leadership.
At 24, I studied further to be a Multimedia designer and took a professional bachelor's in Design and Business, specializing in Design Thinking, Ideation. Afterward, I studied for an MSc in Techno-Anthropology at Aalborg University, but I needed a different student environment, so I switched to ITU, Digital Innovation, and Management. Here, I made the first mapping of the Maker movement in Greater Copenhagen and Roskilde in my thesis, which gave me a grade of 10.
In my spare time, I am a part of the Maker movement in Greater Copenhagen and Roskilde. It is us with 3D printers and laser cutters etc. I travel between Fablabs, Makerspaces, and Hackerspaces as a 'broker' and share knowledge across the initiatives. From this, I create IT solutions so we can grow.
As a person, I am independent with personal responsibility, structured, holistic, and targeted with a good overview, mood, and a twinkle in my eye - even when time is limited. As a newspaper graphical designer, I am a fast learner with a high personal drive and an efficient coordinating working system. I am a team player with a high professional commitment, ambitions, and drive. I am also good at sparring and working together to get a job solved. In addition, I can design innovative solutions based on the whole and the contexts. I am brave, communicate clearly, and dare to go first.
I thrive when a good job is rewarded because I am career-oriented and committed. I am innovative, visionary, multi-creative, and have many interests, which is why I like varied tasks that are ambitious and difficult to fulfill.
I am educated in and can practice various design roles such as initiator, researcher, project manager, facilitator, and intermediary. I use these roles as tools in my tasks based on my 12 years of education and 15+ years of work experience, and I have worked with design since I was 17.
The Photo was taken by Photographer Mads Lending.
