Kaare Pedersen
Kaare has extensive knowledge and practical experience with implementation, digitalization, digital transformation and benefit realization. He works on a daily basis with teaching, lecturing and advising both public and private organizations.
He has a background as a management consultant, and previously as a project manager at KL, center manager at Sorø Municipality, internal consultant at Roskilde Municipality, and researcher at RUC. This has given him extensive experience with organizational processes and people in change, whether it has been about digitalization or other development initiatives. He has also been responsible for the operation of a job center and knows and understands the importance of safeguarding operations and the people who keep it running. Kaare has worked as a project and program manager and advisor in numerous processes, especially in municipalities and the state, but also has solid experience in teaching and dissemination, facilitator at workshops and networks, external lecturer, etc.
Kaare is present with a twinkle in his eye in his communication. He is theoretically and practically equipped and has the ability to make his material situation-specific. He works well in organizations and has a good sense of what is needed in a specific situation.
Kaare's interest is people in change. He is interested in the complexity and dilemmas managers and employees face in a daily life with many operational considerations and development initiatives.
Kaare has written the bestseller "Problem-oriented project work - a tool book" which is in its 5th edition. In recent years, he has written blog posts on Linkedin and in Danish Project Management.
Kaare holds an MSc in engineering and a PhD in social science.
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Selected publications
Problem-oriented Project Work - a tool book
Samfundslitteratur. 5th edition
Problem Oriented Project Work - a Tool Book
Samfundslitteratur. Now in 2nd edition, 5th printing
3 benefits: Profit-driven projects challenge habitual thinking and create profit, KL, 2022
Environmental regulation - interdisciplinary perspectives, Roskilde University Press, 1997
Meaning in the meeting between strategy and operations, Journal of Danish Project Management, May 2018
More responsibility, fewer templates, Journal of Danish Project Management, no. 1, 2018
The Spice Girls Principle: Succeed with small changes.
From great idea to widespread practice - the art of finding what works.
The manager who wanted to know who put digitalization on her head
Strategy tsunami surrounds municipalities. KITA magazine, Nov. 2022, page 28
KL on business cases: From freaks to meaningful gains, Altinget, 2016.
Kaare Pedersen has 20 years of implementations in municipalities behind him "The chain can break in many places", Ingeniøren, DigiTech, Jan 11, 2023.
References
Work experience
Senior Consultant at LEAD - enter next level (2021 - )
Management Consultant at Peak Consulting Group (2016 - 2021)
Project Manager/Deputy Office Manager at KL (2012 - 2016)
Head of Center for Labor Market and Health, Sorø Municipality (2010 - 2012)
Consultant, chief consultant, project manager at KL (2001 - 2010)
Internal consultant, Roskilde Municipality (1998 - 2001)
Researcher - Ph.D student, assistant professor and associate professor, RUC (1991 - 1998)
Specialties
Implementation
Change
Digitalization
Profit realization
Podcasts
Distributed leadership
An expert panel of two consultants and a school principal delves into the importance and value of distributed leadership. What do you need to pay special attention to? When will it go wrong if you're not? What are the first steps to getting started with distributed leadership?
The potential of new organizational forms to promote well-being
Podcast The potential of new organizational forms to promote wellbeing. New organizational forms such as TEAL, Agile and Sociocracy are becoming more and more widespread. In this episode we zoom in
Learning culture - what do we need it for?
Podcast Learning culture - what do we need it for? What is learning culture? What can it be used for? How can you develop a learning culture? All of this
Psychological safety - what is it and how do you create it?
Podcast Psychological safety - what is it and how do you create it? Psychological safety is the shared perception among team members that interpersonal risk-taking can be done safely