Strategy builds shared reality and choreographs collective movement. Great strategy is an adaptive system that enables organizations to read their environment, move with clarity, and operate confidently in complexity.

  • Institutional and Corporate Strategy: For companies, cultural institutions, and public bodies redefining their long-term vision, role, opportunity, and impact.

    Business and Growth Strategy: Future-fit business models, value-creation logics, service ecosystems, and revenue architectures that align ambition with impact.

    Brand Strategy and Transformation: Brand evolutions, narrative reframes, and purpose setting that ground identity in meaning, cultural relevance, and future opportunity.

Strategy Offering

  • Continuous learning: Strategy evolves as the world does. Futures, goals, and everyday actions are updated as contexts shift and learning accumulates.

    Collective alignment into action: Shared direction turns into coordinated action, ensuring that teams, partners, and stakeholders pull toward the same future.

    Experimentation as direction: Prototypes, pilots, and strategic bets generate evidence, de-risk decisions, and reveal paths that cannot be planned in the abstract.

What Strategy Is Now

  • Systems view and business intelligence: To read structural forces, economic trajectories, and changing logics of value creation.

    Social sciences and cultural studies: To understand emerging behaviors, shifting identities, and the meanings that shape relevance.

    Design inquiry and creative methods: To transform understanding into prototypes, models, and new ways of acting that accelerate organizational learning.

The Practice of Strategy

I work with businesses, institutions, and brands as a consultant or fractional strategy lead. The need is usually the same: a threshold moment that requires both clear thinking and decisive movement.

ENTERING a new phase: evolving, repositioning, expanding, or restructuring.
RETHINKING your business model, brand, or partnerships in the shifting market.
PREPARING for a major economic, spatial, digital, or organizational transition.
ALIGNING growth with cultural, social, or ecological value, without compromising ambition.
SEEKING new markets, opportunities, or alliances that drive good growth.
DEVELOPING a more adaptive organisation capable of sensing and responding to change.

Tools, processes, frameworks, coaching for human-AI collaboration in strategy work.

  • AI in Strategy is a diagnostic tool that tells you where AI belongs in your strategy work, based on the type of strategy, the phase you're in, and what kind of thinking the task requires. It covers 28 strategy types and runs four criteria per task to determine what AI can carry and where human judgment is essential. Available as a web app and a Claude skill.

    The coaching offer builds on this foundation. Working with strategy teams and their leads, we map where AI currently sits in the strategy process, surface where it's useful and where it's creating risk, and develop new workflows calibrated to what the work actually requires.

    Available as a workshop, an advisory engagement, or an ongoing retainer.

AI in Strategy
Helping strategy teams work well with AI

Digital strategy and vision for organizations where scale, reach, and cultural ambition demand more than a technology plan.

  • The museum had been running pilots in digital exhibitions, generative technologies, and web3. The question was what to do with that foundation.

    Using the worlding framework, we developed a strategy and operating concept that positions digital as a cultural force and an institutional capability, not a support function. The work defined how digital art, media production, and underlying infrastructure can evolve together across all three museums.

    The result is a model for producing layered media worlds around exhibitions and collections, extending reach beyond museum walls while opening new forms of revenue and artistic possibility.

The Finnish National Gallery
Digital Strategy and Vision

Finnish National Gallery, Remix the Archive. Two digital display screens showing vibrant images, set in an unfinished industrial-like space with exposed pipes and ductwork.

Brand strategy for technology, lifestyle, and cultural organizations ready to become genuinely beloved.

  • Suunto is an iconic Finnish sports technology brand. Its watches and instruments are trusted by athletes, explorers, and outdoor professionals worldwide. The brand had the heritage. It needed a sharper sense of where it was going.

    Together, we defined a future-facing brand purpose and built it into an updated narrative, value propositions, and strategic direction. To make the change stick, we designed a company-wide activation program that translated purpose into everyday decisions, giving teams a shared language and the clarity to act on emerging opportunities.

Suunto
Brand Strategy and Purpose

Suunto. A person wearing yellow jacket standing at the summit of a snow-covered mountain peak, with a vast range of snowy mountains in the background on a cloudy day.

Growth strategy, operating models, and business architecture for organizations with the ambition to evolve.

  • Fuuga is a new music hall for Turku. Acoustically world-class, architecturally distinctive, and culturally ambitious. When complete, it will anchor Turku's music life and sharpen the city's international identity along the Aura river.

    I worked with the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, the steering group, and key stakeholders to shape Fuuga's strategic direction and operating concept: mission, vision, audience profiles, service offering, and two governance scenarios for long-term management.

    In a continuation project, we developed the service and business model, outlining two strategic directions supported by financial modeling. The future business centers on a high-quality service experience for audiences and corporate clients, with revenue across programming, venue rental, events, and partnerships.

Turku Music Hall Fuuga
Institutional and Business Strategy

Turun Musiikkitalo Fuuga, Turku Music Hall Fuuga

Organizational clarity for leadership teams and complex organizations that need to think and move better together.

  • UN Global Pulse is the United Nations' innovation initiative for data, AI, and emerging technologies in service of sustainable development and humanitarian action.

    The work focused on how teams collaborate. We designed a custom diagnostic probing key dimensions of smart work, adapted to knowledge-intensive, mission-driven teams within the UN system. From there, we developed a practical set of directions and experiments to help teams clarify their collective mission, improve information flows, strengthen psychological safety, and move toward more self-organizing ways of working.

UN Global Pulse
Collaboration Dynamics and Strategy

Strategy Clients and Work

Client Work
Aalto University, ARTS & IDBM Vision Setting
Ami Foundation Brand Strategy
Amos Rex Partnership Strategy, Creative Strategy
Archinfo Institutional Strategy, Strategy Revision
Architecture and Design Museums Institutional Strategy, Goal Setting
Business Finland Institutional Strategy
Children's Culture Centre Färi Institutional Strategy, Brand Strategy, Creative Strategy
City of Turku Organizational Strategy
Creative Finland Vision Setting
Finnish Heritage Agency Institutional Strategy, Goal Setting
EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art Institutional Strategy, Expansion Vision
Global Climate Partnership Fund Brand Strategy
HAM Helsinki Art Museum Expansion Strategy, Business Strategy, Vision Setting
Helen Vision Setting
Helsinki Biennial Partnership Strategy, Creative Strategy
House of Visual Arts Institutional Strategy, Service Strategy, Operational Strategy
IHME Helsinki Brand Strategy
Iittala Design Strategy, Brand Strategy
KONE Strategy Training
Lahti City Museums Institutional Strategy, Operational Strategy
Nokia Impact Strategy, Innovation Strategy, Design Strategy
Slush Organizational Strategy
Suunto Brand Strategy, Purpose Setting
The Finnish National Gallery, Ateneum & Kiasma Digital Strategy, Business Strategy, Vision Setting
The Finnish Youth Housing Association NAL Institutional Strategy
The Museum of History and Future Institutional Strategy, Organizational Strategy, Service Strategy
The New Aviation Museum Service Strategy, Business Strategy
Torikorttelit Institutional Strategy, Brand Purpose
Turku Music Hall Fuuga Institutional Strategy, Business Strategy, Service Strategy
UN Global Pulse Collaboration Dynamics, Strategy
University of Arts Helsinki Communication Strategy, Impact Strategy
Yle, The Finnish Broadcasting Company Impact Strategy
YTK Fund Institutional Strategy, Goal Setting
Zound Industries Communication Strategy