I work with executive teams at offsites and leadership events – through keynotes, workshops and design labs that turn uncertainty into direction.
Happy Company. Moon Design. CHAOS, the school magazine that started from the back and won the award for second best in Germany. Coca-Cola’s first East German event. None of it was sophisticated. All of it was the same pattern: imagine something new, bring people together, make it happen.
From there: building one of the first in-house service design capabilities at Aegis, establishing the customer experience practice at Veryday – including Experio Lab, embedded into the Swedish county council system and scaled. Then McKinsey, where I built their global immersive design lab and founded WARP: speculative design and foresight for boards making decisions from the future back.
Along the way: IKEA, LEGO, Ericsson, Scania, Disney, Adidas – and organisations across financial services, energy, retail and healthcare.
Co-founder & Dean – redefining humanity’s most undervalued resource: time. →
Vision advisor, keynote speaker and strategic possibilist – helping executive teams time-travel and turn uncertainty into direction. Keynotes, workshops, design labs and fractional advisory. →
Visiting professor at SDSI in Latvia · Guest mentor at SCAD in Savannah, Georgia · Board member, Samhällsnytta (Swedish Policy Innovation Lab) · Accreditation Council, Global Service Design Network
Founder – a community for transformation leaders who believe better visual language builds better futures. Forty metaphors and growing. →
»Goosebumps is my favourite KPI.«
Stefan Moritz
We need to run a marathon in sprints – but establishing that in a larger organisation is extremely difficult.
Each session is available as a keynote, full-day or half-day design lab, or virtual workshop. Tailored to your audience and context – always hands-on, never just a presentation. Fees available on request.
How do you lead confidently when the future feels unstable? This keynote gives leadership teams a practical way to make long-term strategic decisions from the future back – turning uncertainty into a design challenge rather than a threat.
Outcome: Teams leave with a shared direction and the confidence to act
AI is rewriting the rules of work faster than most organisations can process. This session shows how leaders can turn uncertainty into momentum – connecting service design, systems thinking and AI to move from reactive adaptation to proactive reinvention.
Outcome: Clarity on where human potential and AI capability meet
The organisations that shape the future are the ones that bring people into the thinking. Co-creation – done right – isn’t a workshop technique. It’s a conviction about where good ideas come from and how lasting change actually happens.
Outcome: A shared language and method for innovation from the inside
Chief People Officer
Global financial services, 8,000 employees
»Stefan has a rare quality: he makes the future feel like something you’ve already decided to build together. Our leadership team left the offsite with more alignment than we’d achieved in two years of strategy work.«
Being human is more valuable than ever.stefan-moritz.com
The world is full of solutions. We just need the right problems to find them.stefan-moritz.com
Good design is not about quick fixes. It’s about creating resilient, future-proof solutions that stand the test of time.stefan-moritz.com
Co-creation isn’t a workshop technique. It’s a conviction about where good ideas come from.stefan-moritz.com
I coined the term ‘HumanAIzed Growth’ because I believe being human will become more valuable than ever.stefan-moritz.com
From ›what if‹ to ›what now.‹ That’s the shift I’m here to make.stefan-moritz.com
Podcasts, keynotes and writing on the things I think about most.
A conversation on what it means to design human experiences when AI is part of the creation process – and where human judgment becomes non-negotiable.
On how AI is reshaping the experience of work – and what leaders need to understand about the human side of that transformation.
On what it means to lead when your newest team member is an AI – and why the organisations that navigate this best will be the ones that invest in human skills, not just AI tools.
▶ KeynoteKeynote at the 2018 Global Service Design Conference – on what it means to design work that brings out the best in people, not just the most efficient version of them.
▶ DocumentaryA documentary curated with inspiring examples of Nordic service design in practice – what it looks like when human-centred thinking becomes a cultural default.
▶ PodcastOn how AI is reshaping the foundations of financial services – and why the organisations that get it right will invest in trust and human values, not just technology.
✎ WhitepaperA TDTI whitepaper on how the culture of urgency is stealing our most valuable resource – and what leaders can do to take it back. Part of our ongoing State of Time research.
✎ ArticleThe essay that launched the Doodle Time Institute – on why time is the most undervalued resource in modern organisations and what it would mean to truly prioritise it.
✎ EssayA featured thought piece in INNOVATE™ Stockholm – on why Sweden’s culture of collective thinking is a strategic edge for the future of Europe.
✎ ArticleCo-authored for McKinsey – on how organisations can use design thinking to create personalised, authentic employee experiences that strengthen purpose, energy and performance.