Jacob Langvad Nilsson — Programme Leadership, Digital & AI, Copenhagen
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Jacob Langvad Nilsson

Independent management consultant · Fractional CAIO · Copenhagen

Programme leadership, digital transformation, and AI.

Advisory and interim leadership across digital programmes, AI readiness and adoption, technology governance, and portfolio design. Fractional CAIO where AI needs an owner at leadership level. Based in Copenhagen.

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Capabilities

Selected organisations

  • SHV Energy
  • Saint-Gobain
  • Merlin Entertainments
  • Færdselsstyrelsen
  • Rigspolitiet
  • Københavns Kommune

Capabilities

Five forms of engagement. Each scoped before it begins.

How I work with clients.

  • Fixed scope

    Programme review

    Independent assessment of whether a live digital or transformation programme will deliver, while there is still time to change course.

    2–3 weeks · written report + readout Findings, risks, and recommended changes

    What this involves — Programme review

  • Interim

    Interim programme leadership

    Full accountability for a digital, AI or transformation programme — stalled or newly formed — until handover is safe.

    3–4 days per week · 3–12 months Full seat · handover built in

    What this involves — Interim programme leadership

  • Fractional

    Fractional Chief AI Officer

    One accountable AI seat at the leadership table, without a permanent hire. Priorities, governance and vendor choices, with digital and technology direction alongside.

    1–2 days per week · 6–12 months Monthly strategic reviews · handover built in

    What this involves — Fractional Chief AI Officer

  • Fixed scope

    Portfolio governance

    Decision forums, cadence and reporting for the digital and transformation portfolio — designed with the people who will use them.

    4–8 weeks · design + first cycle Forums · cadence · reporting

    What this involves — Portfolio governance

  • Fixed scope

    AI and digital readiness

    Organisational posture on AI and digital — before or beside a programme — including a prioritised use-case portfolio and what governance will support.

    2–4 weeks · assessment + executive readout Scorecard · use-case map · 90-day roadmap

    What this involves — AI and digital readiness

Also available for board briefings and keynotes — 45–90 minutes, Danish or English.

Fees
Fixed fee for reviews, assessments and speaking; day rate for interim work; monthly for fractional roles. A figure is given in the first conversation and does not change.
Clients
Nordic organisations, typically 500 to 25,000 people. Regulated industries and the public sector.
Location
On-site for the opening weeks, then hybrid. Copenhagen; travel across the Nordics.

About

Background

Programme and portfolio leadership, digital transformation, and AI — for Nordic enterprise and the public sector. Engagements sit between strategy and delivery: funding, governance, and adoption. The constraint is seldom the technology.

Delivery experience at Københavns Kommune, Merkle and Devoteam. Methods: PRINCE2, SAFe, portfolio governance. Earlier work in journalism and visual ethnography still shapes how I read an organisation.

Currently Digital Project Lead at Mediq, on contract · PRINCE2 7 Practitioner, PSM II · MSc IT Leadership (ITU)

Curriculum vitae  ·  Also co-founder of Applied Futures (AI enablement, forward-deployed AI product leadership, and leadership coaching) — a separate company.

Insights

Selected articles.

All writing

Contact

By appointment.

Initial consultation.

Thirty minutes. I will confirm whether I can act.

Arrange a consultation

30 min · Google Meet
Times in CEST

Checking the calendar…

Enquiries to jacob@jlangvad.com