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

Independent management consultant · Digital & AI · Copenhagen

Programme leadership, digital transformation, and AI.

Advisory and interim leadership across digital programmes, AI readiness and adoption, technology governance, and portfolio design. 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 technology leadership

    Digital and technology direction, including AI priorities, without a permanent hire.

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

    What this involves — Fractional technology leadership

  • 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.

Writing

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