Independent advisory

A clear AI direction your leadership team can act on.

I work with leadership teams in knowledge-intensive and regulated organizations on where AI matters for the business, and what has to change for it to create value.

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Anna Gardarsdottir

Most organizations are investing in AI. Far fewer are creating value from it.

The pattern is consistent:

A pilot succeeds technically but stalls before it reaches production.
Employees complete AI training but return to roles, processes, and performance metrics that have not changed.
Investment goes in, but success gets measured in active users.

Most of this gets run as a technology project: deploy the tools, onboard the users. But technology layered on top of unchanged ways of working only makes the old way of working faster.

Every competitor can buy the same tools. The advantage sits in the organization around them, and in how quickly it learns to work differently.

Three ways to start.

You can start wherever fits.

Readiness Assessment

A read on where the organization stands, and what is most likely to hold it back.

Typically two weeks · fixed fee
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AI Strategy

A leadership point of view on what AI means for the business, and a roadmap for what has to change.

Leadership workshop or working sessions
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AI Opportunity Discovery

The AI opportunities worth pursuing, in priority order, and what it takes to move on the strongest.

Whole organization or one business area
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Speaking

Talks on AI and what it changes.

Conference keynotes, seminars, leadership sessions, and events for the whole organization — built around the audience and what matters to them.

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Anna Gardarsdottir

About me.

I work with leadership teams on the strategic and organizational work of AI transformation.

My background is in mathematical modeling, and later in leading strategic initiatives and organizational change inside a fast-scaling biopharma company.

Selected experience
Alvotech · 2020–2026

Led the adoption of an advanced hybrid modeling platform across multiple scientist groups, preparation for a successful FDA manufacturing inspection, and a portfolio of strategic initiatives from the office of the CEO.

Fruman Biotech Center · 2024–2025

Led the establishment of Iceland's biotechnology center with Alvotech and the University of Iceland: labs, accelerator, education program, and investment fund.

Trackman · 2017–2020

Built ball-tracking algorithms in Python and C++ used across professional sport.

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Anna Gardarsdottir

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If AI is on your leadership agenda, I'd like to hear what you're working on.

Location
Reykjavík, Iceland