Hi! I’m Henriette Friis. I work at the intersection of project management, systems thinking, strategic design, sustainability, life centric innovation, societally engaged design & tech.
⚲ Copenhagen

I’m drawn to intersections and contradictions; the complexity of the spaces in which environmental, political, and social sustainability meet creativity, ethics, justice, and care. I’m driven by my curiosity about the world, and I thrive with novel challenges. I think systemically, and consider it a strength of mine that I’m able to identify both challenges and opportunities in complex systems.

What I offer is hard to put into a single box. Here are a few examples:

  • I help organisations create direction, structure & meaningful narratives.

  • I design, plan and execute programmes for learning.

  • I create and sustain meaningful partnership networks for collaboration.

  • I make ambitious experiments feasible.

I am passionate about identifying more equitable ways to share public resources and strengthen accessibility through sustainable and inclusive transformation. I believe life centric innovation and universal design are beautiful ways of doing this. By combining these two schools of thought, we can ensure better access to resources — while respecting and learning from nature.

I believe we all have a responsibility as humans to do what we can, with what we have. And to create a little more space for kindness and joy.

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After 3.5 years at ETHOS Lab, I decided it was time to try something else. I am currently looking for new work opportunities in Copenhagen. I’m open-minded to what should happen next, but would love to land somewhere where I can work with project management in the intersection of design/facilitation/creativity and sustainability/social innovation/systems thinking.

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I hold a Masters degree in Sustainability from Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland. Prior to this, I completed a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design from The Royal Academy in Copenhagen, Denmark, with one semester spent at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia.