Erik Korsvik Østergaard

Erik Korsvik Østergaard (b. 1973) is a futures thinker, leadership advisor, speaker and author. Some people call him a ‘CEO Whisperer,’ alluding to his role as organizational advisor at the C-suite level.

With a background in engineering (MSc in Applied Mathematics), Erik has held numerous leadership roles as project manager, program manager and people manager in large, complex, regulated industries.

For the past decade, he has had his own boutique consultancy, helping leaders in scale-ups, SMBs and corporate enterprises understand the Future of Work and embrace their own New Ways of Working. He is a popular speaker and advisor, helping organizations in many countries and with numerous cultural backgrounds, but with a preference for large, complex, regulated industries.

He has written three books on progressive leadership and organizational design. The first, The Responsive Leader, was published in 2018 and described the roles and behaviors of progressive, modern leaders. The follow-up, Teal Dots in an Orange World, came out in 2020 and focused on the organizational design of pockets of progressiveness inside classic, hierarchical organizations, inspired by the work of organizational reinvention advisor and coach Frederic Laloux. This third book, Anticipatory Leadership, is a continuation of Erik’s focus on the future of work, leadership and culture. It brings Futures Literacy, Futures Thinking and Strategic Foresight into play in the tactical world of organizational change management — on the inside of your organization.

About Good Morning April

Good Morning April is a boutique consultancy, focusing on Futures Thinking and the Future of work, leadership, collaboration, and community.

We use Futures Thinking to explore and evaluate the plausible and preferable effects of the Future of Work, inside your organization. We focus on the intersections between the clients’ organization, Futures Thinking, and the Future of Work. We deliver advisory and consultancy projects for private companies, Danish as well as and international. We focus on scale-ups and large corporate companies, withing life science, healthcare, and greentech.

We make all of this happen by

• Being interested in methods, trends, signals, cases and research within Future of Work and Futures Thinking.
• Communicating our ideas and thoughts through keynotes, articles, podcasts, books and other media of our choice, so that the leaders can be inspired and engaged.
• Making it possible for leaders to find a solution, get started, get help, solve their problem, create a way forward, and get continuous support and good advice; primarily strategic and tactical.
• Driving selected projects and programs together with the leaders so that the ideas and architecture for the modern organization become reality.