Thor Lasthein Molly-Søholm

Thor is a Partner and Chairman of the Board at LEAD. He supports public and private organizations in designing and implementing complex development initiatives for leaders, employees, and organizations. Thor serves as a strategic advisor, process consultant, and lecturer, and is the author of several of the most widely used leadership books in Denmark.

In his work, Thor is particularly specialized in:

• Effective leadership teams and leadership organizations: Does your leadership team function as a strong, collaborative unit that executes close to the strategy, or is it characterized by loose coupling and a lack of shared direction?
• Strategic leadership and execution: Do your leaders spend enough time on strategic work and master it, or are they overwhelmed by operational and day-to-day tasks?
• Developing leaders for cross-cutting leadership: Are your leaders equipped with the mindset and methods to deliver results across silos, professional disciplines, and organizational boundaries?
• People management and personal leadership: Do your leaders possess the right competencies and self-awareness to drive high performance, development, and employee motivation?
• Internal leadership development: Does your organization have the ability to develop its own strong leaders at all levels?
• Development of specialists and professional environments: Does your organization actively work to cultivate deep professional environments and strong specialists as a strategic resource?

What unites these areas of specialization is a fundamental belief that leadership is the decisive factor in whether organizations achieve their ambitions. Good leadership is about creating the right structures, cultures, and competencies that enable leaders at all levels to succeed together.

In his advisory work, Thor combines:

1. Many years of experience as a founder, CEO, and executive at LEAD, Rambøll Management, and ATTRACTOR
2. Nearly 30 years of experience as a management consultant, organizational psychologist, and strategic advisor.
3. 10 years of research experience as an associate professor at Aalborg University, focusing on leadership, effective leadership teams, and coherent leadership organizations
4. Knowledge from several of the most widely used leadership books in Denmark, including Leadership Pipeline in the Public Sector, Effective Leadership Teams, Leadership-Based Coaching, The Leader as Team Coach, and Team-Based Organizations in Theory and Practice,as well as approximately 100 articles on leadership and organizational development

Thor co-founded LEAD in 2013 with Claus Elmholdt and Kristian Dahl. Today, Thor serves as Chairman of the Board and plays a central role in LEAD’s leadership and strategic development.