IBM 

• 1968 I was hired as a Systems Engineer consultant in IBM, Denmark. In those days, there were no academic programs in IT/computing. IBM had created their own Nordic Education Training Center in Stockholm. My favorite disciplines were systems analysis/design and project management.

• 1977 I became an instructor at the Nordic Education Center, Stockholm and trained new systems engineers in data processing disciplines and project management.

• 1979 I was promoted to Systems Engineer Manager (SEM). Here, I learned leadership and management.

• 1984 I became Business Area Manager (BAM). Here, I learned strategic business thinking and planning. This job involved regular interaction with IBM’s European headquarters in Paris in relation to strategic decisions. 

 

 

Organizational Development/Facilitator 

• 1987 I co-founded the “Institute for Social Ecology”, I worked as a process consultant and facilitator in the area of Organizational Development. Working areas included: team building, change management processes, vision-building, leadership training, judgment building and initiative taking.  

• 1990 I became a member of International Organization Development Association (IODA) which is an international network of OD professionals, consultants and practitioners. I was IODA’s liaison to Denmark in a period. Through that work, I started giving seminars in Moscow in 1990, which at that time was still The Soviet Union.

• Also in 1990, I founded danSET Consulting (Danish Social Ecology Transformation). The mission of danSET was to contribute to the Social Ecological Transformation of organizations, in that they became sustainable through the use of the Social Ecological methods. I added conflict resolution, dialog, value-based leadership development and facilitating to my working areas. I went on to add personal development and biographical/life story seminars. Years later, in 2005, I began to offer seminars based on Theory U and Social Ecology to my clients who were primarily municipalities and universities.

• 1990 I became a member of the “Association for Social Development” (ASD), an international network of OD consultants based on the Lievegoed Impulses. In 2014, I became an emeritus member of ASD.

• Since 1992, I have regularly offered non-profit seminars in Social Ecology in Eastern Europe, primarily Lithuania, for those connected to Waldorf Schools and Kindergartens.