Copenhagen Area, Denmark
- Current
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- Strategy & Innovation Consultant at LeaderLab
- Entreprenuer & Manging Partner at LeaderLab
- Past
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- External Strategy & Innovation Consultant at Egmont
- Head of Strategic Development at The Danish Broadcasting Corporation
- Head of New Media Development at The Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR)
- Partner at Runemedia
- Education
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- MBA, AVT, Copenhagen/Boston
- Information & Media Science, Aarhus University
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Sofus Midtgaard’s Summary
My name is Sofus Midtgaard. The last 12 years I’ve been working in the field of new media - with a special focus on how digital media transforms business, relations and organizations.
I am Founder and Managing Partner at LeaderLab - a start-up company based in Copenhagen Denmark. We work towards the launch of a social/professional network to help leaders, employees and students develop personally and professionally through self-insight and group reflection.
I do selected strategy-, innovation- and business-development consulting. I among other work for/have worked for Egmont, The Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) and Netdoktor. If you need a fresh perspective on the challenges and opportunities of your company or organization please contact me.
From 2001-2008 I was Head of Corporate Strategic Development and Head of New Media Development at the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR). Before this I was co-founder and partner at Runemedia an Internet consultancy company.
My educational background is from Information- & Media Science from Aarhus University. I finished an MBA in the summer 2006. I was born in 1972 and I live in the central part of Copenhagen.
Among many other things I was the initiator and co-founder of New Media Days - a yearly new media conference held in Copenhagen:
http://www.newmediadays.dk
Sofus Midtgaard’s Specialties:
Strategy, Innovation, Concept Development, New Media, Social Media, Change Leadership, Design & User Experience...
Sofus Midtgaard’s Experience
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Strategy & Innovation Consultant
LeaderLab
(Management Consulting industry)
June 2009 — Present (7 months)
I work as a Strategy & Innovation Consultant. My primary focus is helping organizations see themselves, their customers and competitors anew.
Please feel free to contact me if you need help with:
- a strategy process or review
- a business review / optimization
- business development
- future scenarios
- new customer insights
- open innovations processes
- User- or employee driven innovation
- Internet & social media strategy
- web-site traffic growth and SEO -
Entreprenuer & Manging Partner
LeaderLab
(Management Consulting industry)
February 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)
I am Founder & Manging Partner of LeaderLab, a start-up company based in Copenhagen Denmark. We are working towards the launch of a global service based around personality testing, professional networking and personal feedback through online social networks.
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External Strategy & Innovation Consultant
Egmont
(Privately Held; Media Production industry)
November 2008 — March 2009 (5 months)
To fund my start-up - LeaderLab - I work as free-lance Business Dev. consultant at Egmont Corporate Strategy. I'm heading a quite interesting global concept- & business development project...
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Head of Strategic Development
The Danish Broadcasting Corporation
(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
January 2006 — February 2008 (2 years 2 months)
As Head of Strategic Development in the Danish Broadcasting Corporation I worked closely with the Board of Directors as responsible for Market Analysis and Corporate Strategy.
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Head of New Media Development
The Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR)
(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; DR; Online Media industry)
August 2001 — February 2006 (4 years 7 months)
I headed a unit of two teams working with strategy and innovation. My responsibilities was DR's long term strategy within new media, new product development and forming R&D partnerships with external partners.
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Partner
Runemedia
(Online Media industry)
November 1996 — June 1999 (2 years 8 months)
Still a student at Arhus University, I co-founded the Internet Consultancy Company Runemedia - in partnership with 4 other students. Runemedia worked for clients like UNI2, Danske Bank, Zentropa og Nimbus Film.
Sofus Midtgaard’s Education
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MBA, AVT, Copenhagen/Boston
MBA , Strategy, Marketing, Negotiation, General Management, Financial Reporting and Control, Tech&Opp. , 2005 — 2006
We were taught in Copenhagen and Boston by experienced professors from international business schools like Harvard, Berkeley, Yale, Wharton, Tulane and Oxford.
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Information & Media Science, Aarhus University
Master (Not finished) , Media Markets, Media Law, Audience Research, Organisation Theory, Reception analysis, Technology , 1995 — 2000
Information and Media Science gave me a broad introduction to as different disciplines as Audience Research, Media Markets, Media Law and Regulation, Organisations theory, Technology history, Media Production, Programming, Design ect.
The primary value of the study looking back today was a strong focus on qualitative audience research - but also organization theory, have been highly usable.
I must stress that I never actually finished the last year of studies due to heavy workloads in a Internet company where I was co-founder and as a consequence of my job at the Danish Broadcasting Corporation.
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