Experience

Teacher, Army Military Police School; Aalborg – 2009-Present

At my current position I teach in adult pedagogy, leadership, prisoner of war service, tactical combat casualty care and maintenance. When I not teaching I’m developing new soliciting material (both printed and internet based), new course programs and testing coming students.

Freelance Process & Project Consultant, The KaosPilots; Denmark – 2006-2009

During my time at the KaosPilots I lead, and contributed to at least 6 concrete projects  from creating The Day for Sustainable Energy to a commercial for an Internet based company. I was co-facilitator and designer in at least 6 workshops aimed at creating better cooperation between employees in companies from the National Guard to BRF Kredit.

Section Commander, Danish Contingent; Basrah, Iraq – 2006

For half a year, I was a section commander at the military police unit at the Danish contingent in Iraq. My duties consisted of coordinating and monitoring the training of Iraqi police, intelligence gathering and serious incidents in the area, including inquest of Danish soldiers, arrests and traffic accidents.

Section Commander, Army Military Police; Aalborg – 2001-2006

My primary task was to educate young men and women before they were to be dispatched to either Kosovo, Afghanistan or Iraq and make course programs for the education. Daily I was teacher for these 8 – 20 people in the age from 20 to 30.

Bodyguard & Paramedic, Army Military Police; Baghdad, Iraq-2005

I was a bodyguard and paramedic for the employees at the Danish Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq. Leading up to the dispatchment I had to co-develop the education we needed, which have influenced how the Military Police functions today.

Shiftcommander, Army Military Police; Kabul, Afghanistan, 2002-2003

I was leader of a team consisting of 10 multinational military policemen. A task which was to identify the individual’s skills. Tasks ranged from mass graves over a helicopter crash to secret proceedings.

Skills

Education & Competence Development

I have taught almost daily during seven years at the Military Police (2001-2006 and 2009-present). I am trained to do course-programs and curriculums (by the Army Sergeant School) and has been part of the Pedagogical Council at the KaosPilots. Through my education, I have been working with Co-active coaching.

Leadership

Throughout my nearly 10 years as a leader in the Army and my training at KaosPilots. I have dedicated my experience and knowledge on how best looking people from diverse backgrounds. I have experience in creative and effective project management, building in particular Dee Hawks project model.

Project Management

Throughout the education to become a KaosPilot, I’ve worked with different projects. In these projects I’ve used different methods to run them i.e. SCRUM, IDEO, Grove’s Graphic Templates and Dee Hock’s project model, and found that the one I think best of, when certain results are demanded, is SCRUM, which can be spiced up with at bit of the other models.

Language

English at negotiation level – writing and oral.
Swedish and Norwegian at comprehension level.
German at comprehension level.

Software

Microsoft Office – Daily user of Word, Powerpoint, Excel & Outlook.
Apple iWork and iLife – Almost daily user (installed at home computers).
Adobe Acrobat Professional, Photoshop and Flash – occasionally user.
Web-development – I’ve developed several webpages with open source software: Social Innovation, Kvindepolitisk Forum, and KaosWorks.

Education

The KaosPilots, Aarhus – KaosPilot, 2006-2009

Core Competencies:

Project Management

Project management and leadership through creative and innovative processes and techniques ensuring tailored solutions, outcomes and the steps for their implementation or role out.
Change Management
Initiate, design and lead processes and strategies for change. KaosPilots are educated in process leadership, facilitation and intrapreneurship, aiming at developing and empowering people, organisations and communities.
Create and manage relations
KaosPilots are challenged to create, maintain, use, contribute and understand all aspects of human networks.

Human Resource Management
See possibilities as opposed to limitations. KaosPilots shall be able to see beyond existing patterns in order to see the new, and also to look holistically at problems, challenges and the further development and management of peoples skills for making strategy happen.

Internships:

Vestas, Competence Development Department; Randers – 2009
My final project at the KaosPilots. The main focus was: How do Vestas create more meaning for their production workers through their yearly people review process (Performance Development Dialogue) and thereby increase production.
BDO ScanRevision, HR-department; Aarhus – 2008
I looked into how a large partner-owned company can create happier employees, through an increased sence of meaning.
InnovationLab, Development Department; Aarhus – 2007
My process exam, where I did a 1-day workshop based on 3 weeks of research in-house focused on how the employees could reflect on the past and make the future cooperation better.

Hærens Sergentskole, Sønderborg – Sergeant First Class, 2004

Course programs and military skills.

Hærens Logistikskole, Aalborg – Sergeant, 1999

Instructor and leader-skills

Risskov Amtsgymnasium, Risskov – Student, 1997

Publications

2008 Social Innovation – A Travel Guide.

Co-writer and editor on the book Social Innovation – a Travel Guide published by the students on Team 13 at the KaosPilots. The content was compiled by the team after 3 months in Shanghai, China.

2007 From tribal fighting in Basra to consensus democracy in Århus

While I was attending first year at the KaosPilots I wrote the article  From tribal fighting in Basra to consensus democracy in Århus, an article on how it was to come from a management position in the Danish Battalion in Basrah, Iraq to an education where consensus democracy was the preferred form of leadership.

References

Morten Juul-Olsen, 2nd in command at the Army Military Police Sergeant School
Lars Bak Pedersen, Specialist at Vestas Competence Development Department
Morten Daus-Petersen, HR manager BDO Scan Revision
Jannie Friis Kristensen, Team Leader Innovation Lab