Independent management consultant · Copenhagen
Programmes that land. Decisions your steering group can stand behind.
Management consulting, programme leadership and interim technology leadership for CIOs and sponsors in Nordic enterprise and the public sector — from someone who has run the gate himself.
Organisations I have led work in
Work
Six shapes. Each scoped before it starts.
How I help
Fixed scope
Programme review
An independent read on whether a programme will land, while there is still time to change it.
2–3 weeks · written report + readout Findings, risks, and what I would change
Interim
Interim programme leadership
Take over a programme that has stalled, or start one that cannot afford to. I run it until it is safe to hand back.
3–4 days per week · 3–12 months The full seat, handover built in
Fractional
Fractional technology leadership
Strategic direction and technical governance without a full-time hire. For organisations between CTOs.
1–2 days per week · 6–12 months Monthly strategic reviews · handover built in
Fixed scope
Governance & PMO design
Portfolio governance and a PMO that people actually use, because every part of it passes one test: does this help projects succeed?
4–8 weeks · design + first cycle Forums · cadence · reporting that gets read
Fixed scope
AI readiness & use-case portfolio
Where you actually stand, a prioritised use-case portfolio, and an honest answer on what your governance will carry.
2–4 weeks · assessment + executive readout Scorecard · prioritised use-case map · 90-day roadmap
Speaking
Keynotes & board briefings
A session your leadership team leaves with a decision from, not a slide deck. Transformation, programme leadership, and AI in the real organisation.
45–90 min · keynote, board or leadership session Danish or English
- Pricing
- Fixed price for reviews, assessments and talks; a day rate for interim work; monthly for fractional roles. You get a number in the first conversation, and it does not move.
- Organisations
- Nordic, roughly 500 to 25,000 people. Particular depth in regulated industries and the public sector.
- On-site or remote
- On-site for the first weeks, to read the culture, then a hybrid rhythm. Based in Copenhagen, travelling across the Nordics.
About
In brief
I started in journalism and visual ethnography — working out how people actually behave rather than how they say they do. It is still the first thing I look at when a programme is stuck. The delivery discipline came later and deliberately: PRINCE2, SAFe, portfolio governance, PMO at Københavns Kommune, programme leadership at Merkle and Devoteam.
Most of my work sits between the strategy deck and the delivery team: the part where something has to get funded, get past governance, and get used. Increasingly that something involves AI. The problem is rarely the technology.
Digital Project Lead at Mediq · previously Devoteam, Merkle, Københavns Kommune · PRINCE2 7 Practitioner, PSM II, SAFe · MSc IT Leadership (ITU)
Full background → · I also co-founded Applied Futures, which does AI enablement and leadership coaching — a separate company, a different job.
Book
First conversation is free
Thirty minutes on the programme you are trying to land.
No pitch, no slides. If I am not useful to you I will say so.
Book a meeting
30 min · Google Meet
Times in CEST
Checking the calendar…
Rather write? jacob@jlangvad.com — I answer everything myself. · Not ready to book? Run an assessment: AI Readiness or Use Case Prioritizer.