Sweden's leading lecturer in AI, digitalization, complexity and change management.
Nominated for Excellent Speaker 2024 and Speaker of the Year 2022. He has spoken to hundreds of the country’s largest organizations about transformation, complexity and digital innovation.
Nicholas Fernholm is an award-winning expert on change management and technological innovation. He was the first in Sweden to publish a book entirely written by AI and is actively involved in several AI initiatives.
With experience as a robotics manager at the New Karolinska Hospital and a logistics leader during crucial healthcare crises, Nicholas combines theory with practical action.
Weaving together practical knowledge with the latest research in change management, he creates insights, laughter and a strong sense of community.
Nicholas’ stories touch, tickle the nerves and give audiences the courage to dare to change and try new solutions in an increasingly dynamic world.
He is also the author of Handbook for Unpredictability and Sweden’s first AI-written book, Triss Traktor.
Profession
Current roles
Milestones
Awards &
achievements
Excellent Speaker
An award given by DI’s managerial network, where members vote for the speaker who has inspired the most during the year.
2024
Nominated Speaker of the Year
An award where audience votes, customer evaluations and a jury from Talarforum determine the winners.
2022
Founder of Generic Insight
Generic Insight uses predictive AI to predict competitor behavior in generic drug pricing.
2020
Senior Advisor at CTI
ClimateTrackerInitiative uses AI to make ESG data structured and accessible.
2018
Sweden's first AI-written book
Author of the children’s book Triss Traktor – where the text, illustrations and narration were created by artificial intelligence.
2016
Head of robotics at NKS
Head of Robotics at Nya Karolinska in Solna, Sweden, responsible for one of Europe’s most advanced hospital projects in automated logistics.
2014
Handbook on unpredictability
Author of the book The Unpredictability Handbook which offers concrete strategies for navigating an increasingly complex and chaotic world.
2012
Nicholas Fernholm inspired us and made us look up.
Anna Ferber
Grant Thornton