Reports people use.
Meetings that couldn't have been an email.

About

How I ended up doing this.

I'm Kelly Draper Rasmussen and I'm based in Aarhus. I hold an MPhys in Astrophysics from Cardiff University, which means I've been thinking rigorously about complex systems since long before "data-driven" became a buzzword.

I came to Denmark from the UK. I spent two decades in education: designing curricula, analysing performance data, finding ways to make difficult ideas land clearly. That shapes everything I build. Analytics tools the way a good teacher designs a lesson. Nothing wasted. Nothing obscure.

That same rigour shows up on both sides of the work. On the data side, I build Power BI dashboards and applied models for industrial operations, municipalities and studios who need decision-ready numbers, not quarterly reports. On the governance side, I sit on three boards: Fair & Fornuftig / Forandring (Head of Change and Treasurer, focused on data work and project management), Aarhus Improv (founding member, in charge of ops) and the newly founded Kulturbroerne (board member). That's the actual differentiator on the governance work specifically: most governance consultants advise from outside the room. I've sat through the meetings.

Writing as a British immigrant for The Copenhagen Post eventually became something more systematic: Data in Denmark, a Substack tracking migration, labour markets and integration through public statistics. Now I write for The International. The same question drives all of it: what does the data actually say, once you stop listening to the slogans?

That facilitation instinct also shows up outside governance work. I run a weekly writing community in Aarhus, designing and facilitating every session, and I hosted two seasons of Coffee Pod, 15-minute conversations with people in Denmark about their professional journeys. Getting someone to actually open up in 15 minutes is the same skill as getting a board to say the true thing in a meeting. It's part of why the workshop format works: I've done the structure-through-doing thing enough times to know what makes a room function.