Anna Eldestrand

Anna Eldestrand works as a consultant at Kairos Future. She joined Kairos Future in 2004, and has since been involved in a number of projects and studies, mainly regarding value changes, work and leadership. She is currently project leader of "Succesful leaders of the future", a study that shows how companies can work in order to get stronger, healthier managers that achieves more.

Anna is a political scientist who has also studied sociology and international relations at Stockholm University. Her interest in international relations has been further developed through active membership in associations, studies and work in Latin America and the Middle East.

In her free time she likes to socialize with friends and family, and enjoys cooking, reading and acting in amateur theatre productions.

Phone:
Office: +46 8 545 225 27
Mobile: +46 730 75 65 55

E-mail: Anna Eldestrand

Anna Geist, Paris, France

Anna Geist is Director of Kairos Future in France. Since 1992 she works in an international context with strategic development in general, and marketing and management in particular. She easily adapts in multicultual environments and she speaks French, English and Swedish fluently. 
Before joining Kairos Future, Anna was the Director of the French branch of an international company, and, subsequently, headed a  consulting firm of her own in the field of business development.

You reach her through e-mail: Anna Geist
or at our Paris office:

21, avenue Condé, 78600 MAISONS LAFFITTE, France
Tel office 1: +33 8 75 53 58 87
Tel office 2: +33 1 34 93 08 17
Mobile: +33 608075191

Anna Kiefer

Director Kairos Future International

Anna is responsible for enhancing Kairos Future’s international activities. She manages and develops our international network of Research Associates and foreign offices and works with international surveys and trend analyses, for example our survey "Global Youth", on youth values and lifestyles.

Since 1996, she has worked with strategic business development issues and the promotion of trade and exchange in a global context. She easily adapts in challenging multicultural environments and speaks English, Swedish and French.

Her Master's degree in law from the University of Stockholm, Sweden, was complemented by European Community law studies in Brussels, Belgium.

Anna has previously lived and worked in Asia and in France.

Phone:
Office: + 46 8 545 225 02
Mobile: +46 70 547 25 02

E-mail: Anna Kiefer

Annica Nordlander

Financial Manager

Annica is responsible for economic matters ranging from accounting to salaries.

Phone:
Office: +46 8 545 225 08
Mobile: +46 70 664 32 22

E-mail: Annica Nordlander

Birthe Linddal Hansen

Cand. Scient.Soc. Senior consultant and futures analyst.

Birthe will be on maternity leave until 2009. Please contact Kairos Future Denmark, tel. +45 33939060

Birthe Linddal Hansen is a senior consultant and futures analyst at Kairos Future Denmark. Her areas of expertise are sociology and change processes in general. More specifically she focuses on people and modern life and future consumers.

Birthe has degrees in sociology and history from the University of Roskilde and the University of Amsterdam. She has worked as futures analyst and consultant for six years before joining Kairos Future Danmark. Birthe has great experience as project manager and process moderator and she is an appreciated speaker and author of articles. She is often quoted in media and a regular columnist in Danish press.

Birthe has in her professional career worked with areas such as: Change processes and regional development, Family, children and single life, Ecology and nature, Consumption.

Contact Birthe at Kairos Future Denmark, if you need to know more about tomorrow's people, consumers, organizations and possibilities. Or if you need assistance in tranforming knowledge into action and strategies to prepare for the future. She can also inform you of other services offered by Kairos Future.

Birthe speaks: Danish, English and German

Some of Birthe´s lecture topics:
Food Trends towards 2017
The Food Consumer of tomorrow
Consuming kids
Consumptions and Identity - Buying personality
The future of the family
Single lifestyle and individualisation
 
E-mail: Birthe Linddal
Cell phone: +45 30651110

Björn Ljung

Björn works as analyst at Kairos Future and is responsible for data collection and quantitative analysis of Kairos Futures surveys in the fields of health, tourism and general values.

Björn holds degrees in statistics and political science from Uppsala University and likes to work with both words and numbers, preferably at the same time. He has among other things been working as a journalist.
Questions of values and beliefs in a global perspective are a special interest, which Björn has studied at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, USA. His bachelor thesis in political science dealt with questions of identity and shared values in the light of the EU’s 2004 eastward enlargement. Visualization of quantitative data is another special intererest.

Björns most recent engagement was at the public opinion analysis department of Synovate Sweden.

Christine Sandmark

Christine works with business development, sales and marketing for Kairos Future Academy. Contact Christine if you are interested in knowing more about training programs and courses in business intelligence, situational and trend analysis, scenario planning, the development of visions and strategies and the communication of situational analyses.

Christine has a Master’s degree in Business Economics from Stockholm University. She has previously worked as Manager of Marketing and Business Development at the Swedish-American Chambers of Commerce, USA Inc and as Sales Manager at Berlitz International Sweden AB. She has a strong interest in building networks, organize events and organize business matchmaking. She is a member of several networks and is Chairman of the AmCham Young Professionals. Christine has a great interest in international contacts, cultural exchange and new trends within the experience industry.

Office:   +46 8 545 225 23
Mobile: +46 709 80 25 23
E-mail:  Christine Sandmark

Daniel Salzer

Daniel, consultant and future strategist, is in charge of Kairos European survey on the mid-life generation, the so-called Generation Ambition. He also works with marketing and communication of our futures projects.

Daniel has studiend political science and is interested in modern society and worklife. He also has a big interest in the European Union. His master thesis was on the European Parliament and the MEP's relation to their national political parties. He is also a devoted consultant and is hired as a speaker to discuss organizational culture from the perspective of Generation Ambition and what the attitudes towards life and work among people between 30 and 50 means for tomorrows employers and managers.

He has also got a great interest in culture, both as spectator of trends and as a consumer. He has worked at Kairos since spring 2006.

Phone:
Office: +46 8 545 225 16
Mobile: +46 730 622 516

E-mail: Daniel Salzer

Dr. Mats Lindgren, Founder, CEO Kairos Future Group

CEO and Partner

Mats Lindgren is the founder and CEO of Kairos Future and head of its Futures Research Division. He is frequently hired as a speaker on futures related topics; over the years he has given more than 1000 speeches. Mats has been involved in youth research since 1990 and wrote his first book in that field in 1992, based on research on Generation X: Tomorrow's values.

He holds master degrees in engineering physics and human services and a doctoral degree in business administration, his specialty being strategic management in turbulent business environments. Mats is also the author of more than a dozen books on values, lifestyles and media, and coauthor of Beyond Mobile and Scenario Planning - the link between future and strategy, both published by Palgrave Macmillan, and The MeWe Generation, published by Bookhouse Publishing in 2005.

Phone:
Office: +46 8 545 225 03
Mobile: +46 70 595 70 20

E-mail: Mats Lindgren

Dr. Pernilla Jonsson, Director Consumer, Marketing & Innovation

Senior Consultant

Pernilla Jonsson works as researcher and strategy consultant focusing on consumer behavior, marketing and media.

She joined Kairos Future after having participated in the 4 year interdisciplinary research program on "Commercial cultures" at Center for consumer science, Gothenburg school of Business, Economics and Law.

Her doctoral thesis emanates from a cultural perspective on consumer research and treats how consumers are socially organized in markets. Pernilla previously worked in the automobile industry and as a management consultant for Accenture.

In 2004 and 2005, she was part of the Swedish association for Advertising trend scout team.

Phone:
Office: +46 8 545 225 04
Mobile: +46 70 55 225 04

E-mail: Pernilla Jonsson

Dr. Thomas Fürth, Research Director

Associate Professor

Thomas is Research Director at Kairos Future and has been working in the field of future studies for over 20 years. He is an acknowledged lecturer and has published several books on future oriented subjects - especially on values and the shifting of values in society.

He is an Associate Professor of history at the University of Stockholm and was during the 1990s deputy director at the Institute for Future Studies in Stockholm.

Phone:
Office: +46 8 545 225 09
Mobile: +46 70 657 12 42

E-mail: Thomas Fürth

Elin Åström

Elin is a consultant and future strategist and works with Kairos Future's international values and lifestyle studies and is specialized in values, attitudes and lifestyles of young people. Among other things, she has worked with research and analysis of the survey “Global Youth”, which covers over 22 000 respondents in 17 countries. She has previously worked as a journalist in Stockholm, with public affairs in Brussels and at a Swedish NGO supporting social projects in India and the Baltic States. She holds a M.S. from the Stockholm School of Economics and has studied international relations at Stockholm University.

Elin has spent a lot of time abroad and has studied French in Paris and participated at the MBA-program at McGill University in Montreal. Since she has a Turkish background she has also lived in Istanbul, which is a favorite city together with Paris. She easily feels comfortable in international environments and speaks Swedish, English, French and Turkish. Some of her greatest interests include international politics, history and to dance jazz dance.

Phone:

Office: +46 8 545 225 28

Mobile: +46 733 64 55 90

E-mail: Elin Åström

Employees in Denmark

Birthe Linddal-Hansen, Cand.Scient.Soc. Senior consultant and futures analyst.

Marie Skov Christensen, Cand.Scient.Pol. Office manager

Erik Herngren, Partner, CEO Kairos Future Sweden

Senior Partner and CEO of Kairos Future Sweden

Erik Herngren is a senior partner in Kairos Future and the CEO of Kairos Futures' sedish operations.

He works as a strategic adviser for a broad spectrum of clients ranging from business to public bodies to ideas-based organizations. Assignments range from strategic tasks for corporate management to implementation of exterior world analysis. He is highly regarded as an analyst with a broad experience to draw upon. Furthermore he is a Certified management Consultant CMC.

Erik is also a much appreciated lecturer and educator, regularly hired for ”inspiration lectures” on the exterior world and the future. His specialization is in regional development, housing and accommodation issues, as well as value shifts in society.

Erik has written two books, ”Morgondagens småstad” (Tomorrow’s Small Town) and ”Morgondagens hem” (Tomorrow’s Homes). His formal training was at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) as a land surveyor with special focus on social planning.

Erik is married to Kristina and lives in Mälarhöjden, south of Stockholm, in an old modernist house which is slowly being updated.

Phone:
Office: +46 8 545 225 06
Mobile: +46 70 543 96 60

E-mail: Erik Herngren

Göran Krafft

Senior Consultant

Göran is a Strategy Consultant and, originally, a behavioral scientist. After a B.Sc. in Social Work at Gothenburg University in 1983, he pursued his studies at international level – with examinations in Clinical Transactional Analysis at Blackpool in 1988, and Cybernetics at the School of Psychotherapy, Zagreb in 1993.

Göran works principally as a futures strategist, helping companies and organizations make strategic directional choices for the future based on broadly based analyses of exterior world factors and the future.

Göran has previously worked with large-scale strategic projects in companies and organizations, as well as the development of leadership, leadership groups and leadership support in various forms.

In addition to his work as a consultant, Göran is a busy reader and lecturer in questions arising out of issues such as human values in the future, work, leadership and citizenship. He is also the co-author of the book “The Record Generation – what they want and how they think” (Bookhouse Publishing, 2005).

Phone:
Office: +46 8 545 225 24
Mobile: +46 70 549 05 55

E-mail: Göran Krafft

Hans Bandhold, Partner, CEO Kairos Future Denmark

Senior Consultant and Partner

Hans Bandhold is chairman of the board and senior partner at Kairos Future, and head of its strategy divison. He has a broad experience of helping public and private organizations with future analysis and strategic orientation.

Hans is the architect behind TAIDA-labs™ – unique settings where executives together with futurists and strategists idenfify and evaluate strategies that meet future demands. He is also co-author of the book "Scenario planning - the link between future and strategy".

With a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science from the US, he has worked as management consultant for over twenty years.

Phone:
Office: +46 8 545 225 05
Mobile: +46 70 516 4240

E-mail: Hans Bandhold

Helena Mella

Phone:
Office: +46 8 545 225 14
Mobile: +46 70 585 24 63 

E-mail: Helena Mella  

Heléne Olsson, Barcelona, Spain

 Heléne Olsson is heading our Barcelona branch. You reach her through e-mail:  Heléne Olsson

Mobile +34 619 75 77 92

or through the office in Barcelona:
KAIROS FUTURE
c/Pere Serra 47, 3, 1
E-08173 Sant Cugat del Vallés (Barcelona)
Spain

Jack Zimmermann

IT Manager

Jack Zimmermann is responsible for IT at Kairos Future. He is an old-timer, having worked in the computer industry for many years. Before coming to us, he ran his own company.

Jack enjoys many different kinds of leisure activities, which often have a common denominator: computers. For example, he draws on his computer skills to pursue digital photography and video editing in his spare time.

He also responds well to words like Linux and Open Source.

Jack and his wife Ylva have two delightful children, Groucho and Mira.

Phone:
Office: +46 8 545 225 10
Mobile: +46 70 614 25 10

E-mail: Jack Zimmermann

Jan Agri

Senior Consultant 

Jan Agri is a senior consultant in the business area Society and General Future since the summer of 2007. He has previously worked as a business developer, project manager and trend analyst within a number of Swedens’s largest corporations. Jan has also worked as a consultant focusing on innovation and new business generation.
 
Before joining Kairos Future Jan worked as regional manager at the Swedish Industrial Design Foundation, SVID, where he initiated and oversaw a number of projects using the methods and skills typical for industrial design. Jan has a special interest in User Driven Innovation, Service Logic and business focused environmental management. He has extensive experience as a public speaker. A particular strenght is his ability to transfer ideas from diverse fields to generate new solutions.
 
Jan holds a Master of Science from KTH in Stockholm, with a major in Industrial Marketing. His studies included a number of courses taken at the Stockholm School of Business. He has helped write a number of books and reports in his areas of expertise.
 
In his spare time Jan likes to be with his family, to travel and work on the house outside Stockholm where he lives with his wife and two children.

Phone: +46 730 39 94 57

E-mail: Jan Agri

Jennie Bäckman

Jennie Bäckman works at Consumer, Marketing & Innovation as a consultant.

Prior to joining Kairos Future, Jennie worked at United Minds as an analyst/project manager for three years. Among other things she helped clients gain knowledge about their customers for decision-making on marketing position and for internal and external communication.

Before that, Jennie worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Futures Studies in the project ”The dream about mister/miss Right” that discussed changed attitudes towards children and family from a gender perspective.

Jennie has a master’s degree in human geography. She lives at Södermalm in Stockholm with her boyfriend Martin and their son Felix. In her spare time, she likes to be with her family, read books, take photos and have dinner with friends.

Email: Jennie Bäckman

Phone: 0761-35 61 70

Johanna Danielsson, Director Travel & Tourism

Johanna is responsible for the business area travel and tourism. Her competence is based on many years of research- and consulting experience for the tourism industry. Before joining in the Kairos Future team she worked both as a self-employed consultant and as assistant director/project manager for the tourism research institute N.I.T. in Kiel, Germany. Practical working experiences from the tourism industry (e.g. incentive agency) nourished her interest in combining knowledge about scientific working methods with understanding of industry needs and reality.

Thematically her main focus is on the customer side - what do (potential) guests want, how do they plan and act?

Johanna studied sociology, psychology, Nordic languages/literature and communication at the universities of Växjö, Sweden and Kiel, Germany (master's degree 1997) and published several articles/other publications about travel and tourism. Many years abroad increased her curiosity about other people and cultures.

Phone:
Mobil: +46 70 39 245 37

E-mail: Johanna Danielsson

Jörgen Jedbratt, Partner

Senior Consultant and Partner

Jörgen Jedbratt is a futures researcher and advisor, with a focus on trends- and futures-adapted strategic development in companies, public authorities, and organizations.

He has extensive experience in business intelligence and scenario planning and is particularly interested in the consumer of the future, the development of new media arenas, and the new challenges in changed business environments that the organizations of the future will face.

Jörgen is a partner in Kairos Future AB. A market economist, he received a degree from the Institutet för Högre Marknadsutbildning [the Institute for Advanced Marketplace Training] and holds a MBA, with a specialization in organization and leadership, from an American university.

He co-authored one of the first Swedish business-oriented books about the Internet, Internet - En vägvisare till morgondagens affärer [The Internet: a Guide to Tomorrow’s Business]. In 2000, his book Morgondagens marknadsföring [Tomorrow’s Marketing] was named Book of the Year by the Swedish Marketing Federation. Subsequently, he published Morgondagens reklammarknad [Tomorrow’s Advertising Market] and most recently, Morgondagens mobila marknadsplats [Tomorrow’s Mobile Marketplace].

Phone:
Office: +46 8 545 225 12
Mobile: +46 70 580 14 63

E-mail: Jörgen Jedbratt

Kajsa Ahlgren

Kajsa is a consultant and futurestrategist at Kairos Future International since 2008. She is specialized within the field of Travel & Tourism and is responsible of the Agora Tourism network.

Kajsa has previous experience as a market analyst within the telecom industry. It was when realizing the importance of combining social and business development that she came in contact with Kairos Future.

Kajsa holds a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering and Management from Lund University Faculty of Engineering. Her genuine interest in cultures and international business has continuously brought her abroad. During her recent year at University of California, San Diego, she studied mathematics and business on a graduate level and at Université de la Sorbonne in Paris she studied the French language, literature and art history.

Being fluent in the Scandinavian languages, English and French, Kajsa easily operates in an international context and she finds it a pleasure to discover new countries and cultures worldwide.

Phone:

Office: +46-8-545 225 25

Mobile: +46-70-380 77 17

E-post: Kajsa Ahlgren

Karin Andersson

Senior Consultant

Karin is a Senior Consultant, who is part-time based in the Netherlands, and works with research, strategy and implementation.

Her main undertakings at Kairos Future include extensive work on regional development and the emerging experience economy. She is devoted to liberating and making use of human resources in change and development work.

Karin has a Master’s degree in economics from the Swedish University of Agriculture. She has studied adult pedagogy at the University of Stockholm, and she has an American Master’s degree in organization and leadership.

Previously, she has, among other things, headed the Education Department of the Swedish National Association of Farmers.

Phone:
Office: +46 8 545 225 22
Mobile: +46 70 665 7248

E-mail: Karin Andersson

Magnus Kempe

Senior Consultant

Magnus is a senior consultant at Kairos Future. He has a broad consulting experience ranging from business development and business intelligence projects for industries like Telecom, Manufacturing, Consumer goods, and Financial services, where he has managed several projects. Magnus was project manager for Kairos Future’s generation study of the Record generation, the Swedish baby boomers. He was also co-authors of Kairos Future’s book The Record generation, what they want and how they think, nominated for marketing book of the year 2005 and the number one selling book by the Swedish Association of Advertisers.

Before joining Kairos Future, Magnus worked as strategy consultant at Ernst & Young Management Consulting and with sales and marketing in Paris. Magnus has an academic background in mathematics and a MSc in economics. After graduation he studied as exchange student at the MBA program at Stern School of Business, New York University.

Phone:
Office: +46 8 545 225 11
Mobile: +46 70 545 18 11

E-mail: Magnus Kempe

Marie Eriksson

Office Manager

Marie is our office manager. She started at Kairos Future in 2003, having worked for a telecom company for two years.
However, her career started in the restaurant business, where she worked for eight years. When that was no longer a challenge she went to a theatre school for one year. That was a year where she gained a lot of maturity and developed as a person, but still not enough. Marie wants more action than drama, that's how she ended up at Kairos.

Before Marie started her professional career, she went to school in Sweden and the US. That made her fluent in both English and Swedish.
Her free time is spent with family and friends. Going to movies, theatre and just enjoying life it self. She loves to cook and clean!

At Kairos Future, Marie handles everything from answering the phone and taking care of clients and book orders, to assisting our CEO and consultants.

Phone:
Office: +46 8 545 225 00
Mobile: +46 70 667 25 27

E-mail: Marie Eriksson

Marie Skov Christensen

Marie Skov Christensen has a master's degree in Political Science and works in Kairos Future Denmark as Office Manager

Marie Skov Christensen graduated in Politcal Science from the University of Aarhus in Denmark. During her education she had an internship in the Commercial Department at The Danish Embassy in Latvia, worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Copenhagen and studied at The University of Toronto.

Through her education Marie has received competences as a generalist with the main focus on internationalization and globalization, including negotiation games in international and global forums, the roll of international institutions and consequences of the economic globalization.

In Kairos Future Denmark Marie is the daily leader in the office in Copenhagen, coordinates projects and sale at the Danish as well as the South Swedish marked.

If you like to hear more about Kairos Futures products in general or have more specific questions you are welcome to contact Marie. Direct mob. +45 24603279. E-mail: Marie Skov Christensen

Mats Olsson

Mats Olsson has since 1980 held leading positions within the pharmaceutical industry. Among these was the position as Country Manager for Syntex Nordica. Between the years 1995 and 2006 he was Marketing Manager within The Swedish Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry. His areas of responsibility were then statistics, marketing analyses and external environmental analysis. Together with Kairos Future he has in recent years published many reports under the theme Tomorrow’s Pharmaceutical Market.

His interest in analyses has led to his involvement in a number of extensive business development programmes. Several of them have been it-based, such as CRM-development (LISA and MedeaMed) and the implementation of extranet solutions (InformX). The projects have included everything between requirement dialogues with the customer and sell-in. Basically it has been all about creating better business intelligence solutions.

Mats has basic knowledge in general medicine with a speciality in Sports Medicine. He has for many years held positions of trust at the Swedish Society of Sports Medicine. Also, he has added on to his curriculum by taking further trainings, such as leadership trainings in England and the US and the leadership training Management and IT.

In order to create more efficient marketing communication Mats has developed a keen interest in generational differences. The in-depth studies of the zapping part of the population resulted in the book From homo sapiens to homo zappiens. This book describes the Swedish welfare individualists in the global society where time is scarce. He published the book in cooperation with his journalist wife, Marina.

Telephone: 0708-670 570

Per Florén, Director Society & Future

Per Florén works primarily in exterior world monitoring, trend assessment and scenario planning. The main purpose of these is to consolidate awareness in companies and organisations about what is going to happen in the future, and how various lines of development will impact on the company. Assignments may also at times touch upon strategic questions.

Per co-authored the first Swedish-language book on how companies would be able to use the Internet in their activities (the title of the book was "The Internet", the year was 1994). Since then he has produced some ten books and reports along lines such as Tomorrow’s Daily Newspapers, Tomorrow’s Industrial Work, IT and The Nation State. Per has a broad, scientific educational background with an M. Sc. and Lic. Sc. in ecological morphology.

Over a period of ten years he worked with IT questions at Chalmers Technical Institute and Gothenburg University.

Per lives in Stenuga by just outside Herrljunga with his family - i.e. Eva-Lena and their children Jonatan and Kristina.

Phone:
Mobile: +46 70 899 04 30

E-mail: Per Florén

Peter Pernemalm

Peter Pernemalm works as an analyst and researcher at Kairos Future. He holds degrees in statistics and political science and he has also studied economy and mathematics.

Outside of his studies, Peter has worked as a survey statistician for the student organizations SSCO and SSIF. Peter is very interested in world events and follows news reports from various sources daily. Being curious about international issues, Peter has travelled to many countries. He has been travel coordinator for the Stockholm Association of International Affairs and the most interesting country he visited so far is Madagascar off the southeastern coast of Africa. 
 
Outside of work Peter enjoys music and spending time with his friends. He also plays football on amateur level where he prefers the role of the hard working midfield strategist.

Mobile phone: 0761 35 57 35

E-mail: Peter Pernemalm

Peter Siljerud

Senior Consultant

Peter is working as a Senior Consultant and Future Strategist for Kairos Future. His work includes future research, trend analysis and strategy consulting within various fields, but with main focus on new technology and its impact on business, people and the society. Customer cases include areas such as TV, management consulting, IT effectiveness, printing, audit, accounting, agricultural, construction, industry and healthcare.

Peter previously worked as Program Manager for Intel Wireless Competence Center, conducting research of future wireless communication technologies and applications globally. He was also the EMEA lead for Intel’s Mobile Entertainment Taskforce, including responsibility for managing relationships with 3rd party developers in EMEA. The work also included responsibility for applications in mobile phones launched on the European and Asian markets.

Peter has got a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology, and a diploma in Graphical Design and Communication from Berghs School of Communication, Stockholm.

Phone:
Office: +46 8 545 225 20
Mobile: +46 70 649 10 60

E-mail: Peter Siljerud

Petra Skaffloth, Director Kairos Future Academy

Petra Skaffloth is responsible for Kairos Academy – Kairos Future’s educational business. She manages and develops our courses, lectures and publications.

In addition to receiving a degree in international sales and marketing from the Sales and Business School, part of the Mercuri International Group/School of Economics in Umeå, she has pursued courses in media/communications science, journalism, and sociology, with an emphasis on evaluation studies. Petra used to work with market communication and the networks Kairos Agora at Kairos Future.

Phone:
Office: +46 8 545 225 13
Mobile: +46 703 91 02 02
E-mail: Petra Skaffloth

Sonja Källström, Los Angeles

Sonja is Kairos Future's area representative in the US. She is based in Los Angeles and is working to generate interest in the
Global Youth Survey within the U.S. market.  She has experience in consumer product development and specializes in visual media, action sports and apparel, especially as they relate to teenagers and young adults.

Sonja has a bachelor’s degree in Cultural Anthropology from Emory University. Her field research focused on the integration of Tibetan youth into the Indian labor market. She has also participated in academic training and research in London, Germany and Kenya.

You reach her through e-mail: Sonja Källström or at our LA office:

TrendLucent
3113 5th Avenue,
Santa Monica, CA 90405
USA

Mobile: (310) 980 - 8813
Int: +001 310 980 8813

Tanja Tiberg

Tanja Tiberg is Junior Consultant within the business area Society and General Future, where she focuses on global trends and major changes in society. Among her many tasks, she is involved in the “School 2021” project, which focuses on the knowledge, schools, and teaching of the future. As coordinator she is also responsible for the knowledge arena Agora Society and Future.

Tanja has a degree from Uppsala University, where she majored in political science, with an emphasis on international and equal opportunity policies. In addition, she took courses in criminology and learned German at the University of Freiburg.

Previously, she worked in the Swedish Cabinet and the Ministries as an international coordinator at the Ministry of Culture and with labor market issues at the Ministry for Industry, Employment, and Communications. Tanja’s concentration on international affairs has also led to her involvement with non-profit organizations and democracy projects in Latin America.

To satisfy her passionate interest in culture, she sings in a chorus and frequently goes to the movies, the theater, and art exhibitions. Tanja gets a kick out of traveling to new, exciting places; her most resent trip went to New Zealand and the island of Samoa.

Phone:
Office: +46 8 545 225 07
Mobile: +46 70 65 225 07

E-mail: Tanja Tiberg

Ulf Boman, Director Leadership & Change

Ulf Boman, future strategist and senior consultant, director Ledership & Change.

Responsible for the network Kairos Agora Leadership

With many years of experience from R&D and future studies within the fields of energy and environment, Ulf joined Kairos Future in 1998. As a future strategist, he leads future studies for clients in business and in the public sector. He also teaches future studies within the Kairos Academy.

Ulf has worked in international projects for more than 15 years, e.g. for IEA (International Energy Agency), EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, Ca, USA), WBCSD (World Business Council for Sustainable Development), and others. During 1999 Ulf was in charge for the scenario project “Futures for Sustainable Energy” in Colombia.

Ulf combines a strong interest in people with a formal training in engineering (M.Sc, Lic.Eng.). With additional training in systemic management and leadership he tries to combine the best of two worlds. He is a member of Society for Organisational Learning (SOL).

Important issues for the future are all about sustainable development: how can we achieve balance in our lives and our workplaces in order to create social, economic, and environmental sustainability? How do we create and maintain diversity and learning in times of great change?

Phone:
Office: +46 8 545 225 15
Mobile: +46 70 377 21 65

E-mail: Ulf Boman

Vivian Ichu

Vivian Ichu works in administration. She came to Kairos in 1997 after working as website designer and teaching assistant.

When she is not working, Vivian likes to spend time with her family at their home in Botkyrka, southwest of Stockholm. At present, she is on parental leave.

E-mail: Vivian Ichu