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Deana Nannskog
Deana Nannskog is a Swedish-American strategist, keynote speaker and founder of Kin Innovation Agency, based in Malmö, Sweden. Her work focuses on Capability Architecture, AI-era organisational capability, innovation capability, skills transformation and the future of work.
What Deana Nannskog is known for
Deana Nannskog is known for helping leaders translate strategic ambition into the organisational capabilities needed to act, adapt and create value in complex environments. Her work connects business strategy, people, work, technology and value creation.
She works with leaders, teams and organisations on capability-driven transformation, innovation systems, skills-based organisations and human-centred AI adoption.
Core areas of expertise
Capability Architecture
The practice of connecting strategic intent, work, people, skills, systems and value creation so organisations can build the capabilities they need to act, adapt and improve repeatedly.
AI Transformation
Helping organisations move from AI activity and experimentation to repeatable AI capability - the organisational conditions for AI to create real, sustained business value.
Innovation Capability
Building the system ability to turn uncertainty into repeatable value. Innovation is not a lab or a hackathon - it is an organisational capability that must be designed and sustained.
Skills Transformation
Connecting skills strategy to work, technology and business outcomes. Skills are not an HR project - in the AI era they are strategic infrastructure.
Future of Work
Understanding how work, roles, human agency and value creation are changing as intelligence, automation and AI shift the boundaries of what organisations and people do.
Organisational Learning
Designing the conditions for organisations to learn, adapt and improve at the speed the environment requires - not just train, but genuinely build new capability over time.
Human and AI Collaboration
Helping leaders think clearly about where human judgement, values and social intelligence are irreplaceable, and how to design systems that keep people in meaningful roles.
ISO 56000 and Innovation Management
Grounding innovation capability work in the ISO 56000 family of standards - a practical discipline for building and measuring repeatable organisational innovation ability.
Strategic Capability Building
The leadership discipline of deliberately designing what an organisation must become able to do, where that capability needs to live, and which conditions make it sustainable.
Keynote speaking and advisory work
Deana is available for keynote speaking, executive sessions, masterclasses and advisory work. Her talks help leaders understand why activity does not equal capability, and what it takes to build repeatable organisational ability when AI, work and value creation are changing at the same time.
Founder of Kin Innovation Agency
Deana is the founder of Kin Innovation Agency, a Malmö-based innovation and capability studio helping organisations build structured, repeatable innovation systems and future-ready organisational capability.
Background
Deana has held global leadership roles in skills, reskilling and organisational capability development at Ingka/IKEA, and is now transitioning fully into her work through Kin Innovation Agency. Her background spans higher education, learning ecosystems, workforce transformation, innovation management and organisational change.
She holds a master's degree in Education, with a focus on organisational learning, strengthening her work at the intersection of capability building, skills transformation and organisational development.
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