24 Facts About Lars Kolind

Lars Kolind was born on 5 May 1947 and is a Danish businessman.

Lars Kolind is adjunct professor of leadership and strategy at Aarhus University Business School since 2000.

Lars Kolind serves as Detao Master of Leadership and Strategy since 2012.

Lars Kolind introduced a non-hierarchical organization in 1991 and took the company public on Nasdaq Copenhagen in 1995.

Since 1998 Kolind has served as non-executive board member of K J Jacobs AG, Grundfos, Poul Due Jensens Fond, Unimerco Group, Zealand Pharma, LinKS and Wemind.

Lars Kolind is chairman of the board of Jacob Jensen Holding ApS, and LinKS.

In 2011 Lars Kolind became Chairman of Jacob Jensen Design, and in 2018 became a majority shareholder.

Lars Kolind co-authored the book, Unboss: Leadership For Today and For The Future,.

On 7 May 2007 Lars Kolind announced that he had supported the newly formed party, Liberal Alliance with a donation of DKK 100.000 hoping that he could help establish a new political agenda for Denmark in relation to the increased competition from low-wage countries, the environmental challenge and the future for Danish culture.

At the November 2007 parliamentary election, Lars Kolind ran for Liberal Alliance in the Fyn region.

Lars Kolind was not elected, but he continued to actively support the party, currently chairing the Liberal Alliance Business Club since 2018.

Lars Kolind served as associate professor of economics and planning theory at the Copenhagen University from 1977 to 1982.

In 1998, Lars Kolind co-founded The National Competency Council where he led the establishment of The Danish National Competency Accounts 1999.

Together with Minister for Social Affairs Karen Jespersen, Lars Kolind founded The National Network for Social Cohesion in 1996 and The Copenhagen Centre for Social Cohesion in 1998.

In 2000 Lars Kolind co-founded The National Council for Children and Culture.

In 2017 Lars Kolind co-founded and chaired the Danish National Advisory Board for Food, Meals and Health.

In 2017, Lars Kolind co-founded the World Guide Foundation under the patronage by Her Royal Highness Princess Benedikte of Denmark.

Lars Kolind has received the highest international award of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, the Bronze Wolf Award, the Swedish Gustav Adolf Award, and the Boy Scouts of America Silver World Award and Lars Kolind is a member of the Regal Circle of the Baden-Powell World Fellowship.

Lars Kolind is a knight 1st class of the order of the Dannebrog and member of the Danish Academy for the Technical Sciences.

In 2012, Lars Kolind exited his post as Chairman of the Board at Grundfos after power struggle problems with Niels Due Jensen.

Lars Kolind said he had been affected by the negative publicity against him that the book had generated.

In 2016, Keepfocus was sold to the German Noventic Group, where Lars Kolind had to write off DKK 51 million.

In 2020, Lars Kolind said he had lost over DKK 20 million as a major shareholder in the IT company Conferize.

Lars Kolind announced it would close down in the same year.