Bio
Jan B. Olsen is a Transformation Lead and Coach with experience across large, complex, and dynamic transformations. His conviction, built through that experience, is that sustainable and lasting change happens through empowered and involved people who can thrive in a constantly changing environment and show leadership themselves.
Background & expertise
For Jan, leadership is an organisational behaviour that needs to be embedded across the whole organisation, catalysed by leaders who actively support the changes needed in structure and culture for a transition to reach its full potential. He has set more than 600 leaders off on their own leadership journey, building the awareness needed to see change as possible and turning that awareness into action through practice, and has led the reshaping of organisational behaviour and culture for 5,000 people as part of a single organisational transformation, embedding the changes through genuine co-creation of the actions needed to reach the target.
Approach
He is a Certified Systemic Coach (Mannaz) and holds a Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from Aarhus University. Recent freelance engagements include supporting Danish Crown, one of Europe's largest pork and beef processing companies, as a Management and Organisational Change Management (OCM) Consultant.
Recent articles
The Strategy Translation Canvas: A Tool for Closing the Gap Between Vision and Execution
19 Jan · 3 min read
Why Most Strategies Fail Between the Slides and the Doing
2 Jan · 3 min read
OKRs: Ambitious Goals, Honest Numbers, and Why 70% Is Actually Fine
19 Jul · 3 min read
Story Points: What They Are, What They're Not, and How to Use Them Well
3 Apr · 3 min read