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What’s cooking? (updated Friday June 6th 2025)

2025 started crazy busy, and has kept at it, can’t believe we’re almost half way!

Full speed ahead at KTH Innovation, big thing coming up now is the KTH Innovation Readiness Level Summit our international conference, all about the readiness level tool now used by over 3000 organizations all over the world! Last year saw 54 attendees from 15 countries coming to Stockholm for two days of knowledge and experience exchange, and this year we are aiming for 75-80 attendees.

And more on work and KTH Innovation – I’m just back from London where we had a couple of really good days with the Global Change Award, read more about that here.

I’ve also done some fun private speaking gigs, last one was for Samsung and their celebration of employees 2nd anniversary at the company. For speaking I combine innovation, creativity, leadership, sustainability into an inspirational & motivational mix that suits the talk at hand.

I was recently interviewed by RISE podcast “Business With Impact” all about sustainable business, here’s the link to that one: https://www.ri.se/en/businesswithimpact/episode-6-the-entrepreneur-perspective-of-circular-business-models

Get in touch if you want to book a date! donnie @ lygonis.com!

More about me and my job at KTH Innovation in this article in Dagens Nyheter, one of Sweden’s largest morning papers, featuring yours truly and some really nice entrepreneurs that me and my colleagues have supported the past couple of years, here’s a link to the post on LinkedIn, now with 20 000+ views and still counting (!).

(Here’s the link to a PDF with the article, since I am guessing it’s behind a paywall for most of you.)

Apart from that, things that take up my time are mainly EWB and Mellanmål Inc.

Entrepreneurs Without Borders is the foundation I started a number of years ago and after a bunch of rough years (i.e pandemic) we regrouped and were then accepted into a EU funded accelerator for ecosystem hubs; https://www.consolid8.ro/ecosystem/deep-inclusive-social-innovation-ecosystems We are now up and running with the first Impact Chapter in Stockholm, focusing on supporting female founded impact startups. Get in touch if you want to join or support!

The second project taking up my time is my latest food venture – Mellanmål Inc An US company that brings in health(ier) Swedish snacks and beverages to the world, starting in the US. Our main mission is to help small innovative Nordic brands reach the world.

As always, if you want to get in touch, you can reach me on LinkedIn or send me an email on donnie at lygonis . com