Michael Laursen Email & Phone Number

Copenhagen, DK

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

Senior consultant - providing C-level management and project/programme/PMO management expertise based on 18+ yrs of middle and top management experience in both line and staff roles, at large multi-national companies.

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

Execution Consulting Group provides advisory services within strategy, business development, project portfolio management, programme and project management, organizational development, and IT strategy, transformation and governance.

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

Senior consultant - providing C-level management and project/programme/PMO management expertise based on 18+ yrs of middle and top management experience in both line and staff roles, at large multi-national companies.

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

Drive project pipeline via PMO for CEO and senior management team - managing inter-dependencies between projects in portfolio, assist sponsors in maturing business cases, support & coach project managers, participate in the Q/A role at steering committees, and develop & maintain project management methodology/framework.

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

Create and embed a project portfolio approach and methodology across 8 global regions - to ensure that all new Damco customer wins get onboarded across commercial and operational departments in a systematic and monitored way.

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

Define a set of global KPI's (commercial/operational/financial) and develop a toolkit to support the more than 200 local branch managers. Create a workshop programme, and participate with regional management in sessions (both on-site and remotely) across 8 global regions.

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

Lead and project manage the creation/formulation of 5-year IT strategy, working with Enterprise Architect and CIO. At the same time, act as interim leader of the IT Facility Management team, and assist the CIO in hiring new manager for this function. Took project lead on improving working-together setup and collaboration with the largest outsource partner.

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

Leader of department in the airlines that was responsible for creatiing and optimizing the "rotation plan" (i.e. the commercial timetable combined with technical departments requirements to maintain the aircraft and crew office's legal and union agreement). Introduced a project/portfolio approach to planning multiple seasons in parallel.

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

Leader of department in the airlines that was responsible for creatiing and optimizing the "rotation plan" (i.e. the commercial timetable combined with technical departments requirements to maintain the aircraft and crew office's legal and union agreement). Introduced a project management and portfolio management approach to planning multiple seasons in.

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

Reporting to the new CEO of the joint company, led a 7-man Integration PMO (3 internal and 4 external consultants) - as a team we were responsible to drive, project manage and coordinate the 10 merger workstreams and provide weekly project progress reporting to top management (serving as steering committee), and Board (acting as oversight committee).

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

Leader of PMO with 4 full-time project managers, and tasked with the complete re-furbishment of the airline's commercial, operational and technical applications including process improvements and necessary change management (in order to sunset outdated mainframe).

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

Lead project to replace 3270/Unix based order/invoice/ticketing travel agency system (TAS3) with a client-server solution (Pro:TAS). This entailed new processes and role&responsibility changes, in addition to introduction Total Quality Management (TQM) as productivity/management concept.

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

1996-1996 IT Manager1994-1995 Internal Helpdesk Manager & Project Specialist1993-1994 Financial Controller1992-1993 Ticketing Specialist1990-1992 IATA Travel Agent trainee