Hi 👋 My name is Martin

As a management consultant, I built an Innovation Agency for a Big4 to 7 figures. I have consulted in nearly every industry, from disruptive Startups to fast-growing Scale-ups, B2C, B2B, and Enterprise SaaS, from The World Bank to Fortune500s, from shaping regulations in the US to implementing agile at a $60Bn revenue corporate, from designing battery tech spin-outs to medical tech IPO pitch decks.

If you are a scaleup CEO with annual revenues over 5 mUSD, feel free to reach out (DM) to discuss:

- Strategy execution
- Increasing margin play through revenueops (e.g. pricing) and cost optimization

I am an Entrepreneur (40%) and Management Consultant (60%).

As an entrepreneur, I run a portfolio of Life-enhancement apps (www.brightday.app), a digitally-driven Innovation Consulting and a stealth-mode climate startup. I do invest (1-2 deals per year) in exceptional early stage AI first and climate tech companies and I share pipeline with top tier VCs.

Martin Gallardo

MASSIVE CAREER UPDATE ✨
I M BECOMING CEO OF A TECH SCALEUP IN EUROPE 🚀🧨

I have enjoyed so much being COO of a Global 100 Fintech
while Building My Online Businesses

but I could not say no to this

#1 rated Software in its category
Amazing +140 People team
Global Customer Base
Solid Tech 
Profitable!
Bootstrapped!
Insane Potential

The Founders gave me a Mandate

10x
...
In five years

I am already thinking how we can achieve 10x in 12 months

I am beyond thrilled to build an European Unicorn 🦄❤️🫶

I am on fire because I just trusted the Universe and the Quantum field to do its job.

Over the next weeks I will talk about my transition and letting go of my previous status quo.

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I left Norway to Poland exactly 2 years ago. "How does it feel in Poland?"

2 years ago I left Big4 in Norway to start my own Strategy Consulting Practice in Poland.

There are many personal reasons behind I will not disclose,

but I did not regret for a second.

Poland is great!

- Safe
- Fairly Modern
- Spotless Clean
- Things work
- Meritocracy & Hard Work
- High level of culture
- Family & Kids first
- Great taxation for entrepreneurs
- Acceptable cost of living
- Soon taking over Japan and UK
- Easy to run a business
- Great developers
- Great weather 50% of the time
- Occassional snow and winter cozyness

And...

My net disposable income after all costs


Skyrocketed 7x!

The only price

- Polish Bluntness
- Missing Norwegian politeness

But it is always better to hear the truth even when it comes uncoated.

I love Poland.

Great Polish People
Hard History
Bright Future

Thanks for accepting me

I will retire in Spain but until then

Let me help as much as I can this Beautiful Country 🇵🇱

Many years ago NEOM called me to be their Innovation Director. Today they are scaling back.

Not only their financial offer was not spectacular and entailed living on a container house in a mega contruction size...

I just did not agree with the Innovation Principles

NEOM was meant to fail as originally planned.

They should have built an MVP

The first module by the sea.

Let the city be born and be experienced

Learn and Adapt

Build module number 2-10

Learn

Module 10-100

Now Saudi Arabia is scaling back NEOM megaproject after review signals strategic reset

Saudi Arabia is preparing to significantly scale back and redesign NEOM, the flagship development chaired by Mohammed bin Salman, as a year-long internal review nears completion.

Officials briefed on the plans said the project is now envisaged as far smaller than originally conceived, reflecting budget overruns, construction delays, and tighter fiscal conditions amid subdued oil prices. NEOM spans Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast across an area roughly the size of Belgium.

Key developments
	•	The Line, the project’s central concept, is set to be radically downsized and redesigned.

	•	NEOM may pivot towards becoming a data centre and AI infrastructure hub, leveraging coastal seawater cooling and renewable energy.

	•	The Trojena ski resort has been downsized and will no longer host the 2029 Asian Winter Games.

	•	A broader review of megaprojects is under way under new chief executive Aiman al-Mudaifer.

NEOM, owned by the Public Investment Fund, said it is reprioritising projects to align with national objectives and long-term economic value as Riyadh recalibrates spending ahead of Expo 2030 and the 2034 football World Cup.

Source: The Financial Times

LinkedIn has become a pile of scam. Latest trick. 
"I landed 40 meetings following A" > "Send DM for Blueprint" 

AI fake profiles posting viral AI content 
"Irresistible" sales method with Comment "Sales"

AI optimized profiles connecting with you 
promising UHNW and family offices intros.

Link to calendar with another guy.

20 year old guy calendly
Meeting about "Service to land 40 meetings following A"

That is the entire A.

Rinse and Repeat.

The guy is not booking 40 meetings a week

The guy is lying 400 times a week

Sad to see what this platform is becoming

Being a CEO is easy... you only need to do three things:

- Stop doing what is not good for the company

- Use most of that time to do more of what you are already doing great

- Use a bit of time to find new ways that do better than the way you are doing great

I know this seems utterly simplistic and stupid

But read it again.

If you know how most companies operate...

This is really hard

They rarely operate like this

Europe >>> US
Only beats us 6x on entrepreneurship

I got Claude AI to analyze Trump signature as a normal person (at the end how to do it for yourself), and this is the outcome:

Psychological Analysis of This Signature

Legibility & Privacy
The signature is completely illegible, suggesting:

- Strong need for privacy and psychological boundaries
- Desire to maintain mystery or distance
- Protection of personal identity
- Possible distrust or guardedness in relationships

Stroke Characteristics
Extremely erratic, jagged, and chaotic movements indicate:

- High internal tension or anxiety
- Restless mind with racing thoughts
- Potential emotional turbulence
- Nervous energy or agitation
- Possible impulsivity

Pressure & Intensity
The heavy, intense pressure with sharp peaks suggests:

- Strong emotional intensity
- Accumulated stress or inner conflict
- Forceful personality that may feel overwhelmed
- Potential for explosive emotional release

Rhythm & Control
The highly irregular rhythm and lack of fluidity reveal:

- Difficulty with emotional regulation
- Inner chaos or lack of peace
- Scattered focus or attention
- Resistance to conformity or structure

Vertical Emphasis
The prominent upward spikes indicate:

- Spiritual or intellectual aspirations
- Idealism or high ambitions
- Possible disconnection from practical reality
- Tension between desires and circumstances

Angularity
The extreme angularity throughout suggests:

- Defensive posture
- Critical or analytical mindset taken to extremes
- Potential aggression or confrontational tendencies
- Mental sharpness but possibly directed defensively

Baseline & Stability
The unstable, fluctuating baseline reveals:

- Emotional instability or mood variability
- Inconsistent energy levels
- Difficulty maintaining equilibrium
- Possible stress or burnout

Overall Impression

This signature belongs to someone experiencing significant internal conflict, stress, or emotional turbulence. 

The writer appears highly intelligent and intense but may be struggling with anxiety, overwhelming emotions, or feeling psychologically under siege. 

There's a strong protective barrier around their identity, suggesting either past wounds or current vulnerability they're defending against. T

his person may benefit from stress management techniques, creative outlets for their intense energy, or professional support to process their inner experiences.


You van do yours very easy:

- Upload your signature
- "you are a signature psychologist. psychological analysis of this signature"

EKKO Consulting AS

Helping organizations and teams to change, develop & improve

Changemaker & Founder

Aker Solutions

Continuous Improvement Manager

Agile coach

Thrust AS

CEO & Product Manager

Equinor

Facilitator and advisor of change and improve initiatives, coaching teams, product owners, leaders and scrum masters. Team leader and course instructor.

Change management and agile coach

KONCAV

Agile & change management coach / co-owner

NorSea

Member of management group with overall responsibility for improvements in NorSea AS. The responsibility included building an Improvement culture, methodologies like Agile and Lean ways of working, managing resources involved in improvement projects, implementing structure and processes for improvement in the organization, provide training and coaching in processes and tools for improvement work, provide advisory to management group regarding improvements, set and work towards quantifiable and qualitative improvement goals.

Business Improvement Manager

Accelerate AS

Senior advisor within change management, process management, project management and risk management. 

Within change management the important part has been implementing changes in an organization by focusing on the people affected by the changes and ensuring that we identify the right change actions for the organization. Facilitator of process improvement workshops using LEAN techniques.

In addition to being an advisor to organizations, I have established internal process and methodology for risk management and contributed to further develop the methodology within change management.


Accelerates advisory services:
•	Business analysis; to provide added business value to your organization
•	Process improvement; to contribute to your organization’s sustainability
•	Change management; to ensure that your organization is strengthened by readjustments
•	Organizational development; to increase efficiency and productivity in your organization
•	Project and risk management; to assist your organization in achieving the project goal

Senior Advisor Change Management

Statoil

Team lead and task responsible for Services provided to Project Managers within Project management areas such as Agile, Risk Management, Planning, Estimating, Facilitation, Courses, Training. Included in the role is also team management, advisory within Business support projects process and project management processes, such as planning, estimating, risk etc. There is also a responsibility to identify and implement continuous improvements, in addition to working with Leading adviser project management and management team with larger improvement initiatives, one example being modelling the Business Support Project Process in ARIS and implement the usage of the process.

Risk management specialist and team lead, a task which involves training project managers within the process of risk management and PIMS Risk IT tool, advisory to both project leaders and management team, facilitating risk management workshops, responsibility and continuous development of the course “Risk management in BS projects”, training new course leaders and facilitators, and QA of risk management in projects.

Co-facilitated process improvement initiatives within Service management, Procurement managament and Project management using LEAN and agile techniques.

Facilitator within risk workshops, experience workshops, stakeholder workshops, LEAN.

Sr. Consultant Project Management

Capgemini Stavanger

Senior Consultant within project management and heading the Consultant school (Internal training for consultants). Responsible for the local branch of the CSR initiative Naandi. 

Hired by Statoil working within Business support project services, a service provding support and training to project managers within project management processes and tools (SAP PS, PIMS, Excel, Safran, MS Projects) and .

Senior Consultant

Managing several internal bid processes, internal knowledge management, and heading the internal Consultant school (all internal training of consultants).

Consultant

Stavanger Døvesenter

Handling day to day operations at Stavanger Døvesenter.

Manager

With 15 years of working with change management, improvements and sustainability, I help organizations, leaders, and employees to change, develop, and improve through working with people, exploring the need, the what, and the how of change, and facilitating and supporting the change process. 

I am currently the CEO and Product Manager at Thrust AS, a startup that develops digital solutions for sustainability, and the Changemaker and Founder at EKKO Consulting AS, a consultancy that helps organizations and teams to drive change, become more agile, customer-centric, and innovative.

I am a skilled facilitator and driver of change, in addition to being an experienced trainer and speaker. I have worked with many different frameworks such as LEAN, Agile, Design thinking, and Radical innovation, and have applied them to various sectors such as oil & gas, banking, and agriculture. I hold a Master's degree in Change Management from the University of Stavanger, and have completed courses on Business Sustainability Management at the University of Cambridge and Risk Management at the University of Stavanger. My passion is to create positive impact and value for customers, society, and the environment through sustainable change.

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