Steinar Valade-Amland

Steinar has been affiliated with Triagonal since 2016, serving as an external advisor until 2019, where he joined the company part-time as Head of Strategy and Business Development.

Steinar is dedicated to improving organizational performance and innovation capacity through stakeholder engagement strategies and design thinking. He has held leading export, product, and marketing management positions in the private sector—primarily in design-based manufacturing companies, followed by senior management positions in the design industry, a.o. as CEO of the Association of Danish Designers.
Steinar is the author of the book “InnoliteracyTM: From Design Thinking to Tangible Change” published in Denmark (2015) and in the US (2018), besides contributing to several books on design, innovation and creative industries, a.o. “The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design” (2015).