Kent Jonasen

KENT JONASEN, is cofounder and global CEO of Leadership Pipeline Institute. Before cofounding LPI together with Stephen Drotter, Kent spent twelve years in Human Resources in A. P. Moller - Maersk as regional HR director and later as deputyhead of group h human resources from 2003 to 2008. In this role he was responsible for talent management, leadership development, executive development, and strategic talent acquisition.

At A. P. Moller - Maersk, Kent led the implementation of company-wide integrated leadership development initiative based on the Leadership Pipeline concept to impact more than ten thousand leaders in more than one hundred countries. The project secured reliable executive succession plans and a 90 percent hit ratio on talent in the executive talent pool.

Over the past ten years, Kent has been part of implementing the Leadership Pipeline and the Specialist Pipeline concept in more than fifty large international organizations.