Bio


Trond is a futurist, scholar, podcaster, venture partner, nonresident Fellow at the Atlantic Council, co-founder of Yegii, and Lead Ecosystem evangelist at Tulip. He formerly worked with MIT, WPP, Oracle, and the EU. He’s a co-author (with Natan Linder) of Augmented Lean (Wiley 2022), an author of Health Tech (Routledge 2021), Future Tech (Kogan Page 2021), Pandemic Aftermath (Atmosphere Press 2020), Disruption Games (Atmosphere Press 2020), and Leadership From Below (Lulu Press 2008). In addition, he hosts two podcasts, Augmented and Futurized, and is a Forbes columnist. He holds a Ph.D. on the future of work and artificial intelligence.

Academic Appointments


  • Social Science Research Scholar, Center for International Security and Cooperation

Honors & Awards


  • Interoperability Fellow, Open Forum Academy, Belgium (2010-2012)
  • Marketing Fellow, Hogenheuvelcollege, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (2010-2011)
  • Salzburg Fellow, Salzburg Global Seminar (2005)
  • Erasmus scholar, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (University of Trondheim) (1993 and 1995)

2023-24 Courses


All Publications


  • Augmented Lean: A Human-Centric Framework for Managing Frontline Operations Linder, N., Undheim, T. Wiley. 2022
  • Pandemic Aftermath: How Coronavirus Changes Global Society Undheim, T. Atmosphere Press. 2020
  • Disruption Games: How to Thrive on Serial Failure Undheim, T. Atmosphere Press. 2020
  • The java community process standardization, interoperability, transparency 7th International Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology (SIIT) Curran, P., Undheim, T. 2011
  • Leadership from Below Undheim, T. Lulu.com. 2008
  • Getting connected: How sociologists can access the high tech elite The Qualitative Report Undheim, T. 2003; 8 (1)