Professor Kolind is a world-renowned businessman, entrepreneur, author and philanthropist. He graduated from Aarhus University in 1972 with a degree in Mathematics and Statistics. His career spans 9 years as an international management consultant, four years as a director of the largest research laboratory in Denmark (Risoe National Laboratory), four years as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Radiometer A/S, a leading supplier of high-precision diagnostic instruments, ten years as CEO of Oticon and William Demant Holding A/S and 17 years as Group Chairman of Grundfos and the Poul Due Jensen Foundation. Kolind has been involved in businesses in more than 20 countries. He has started more than 25 businesses in a wide range of industries including pharmaceuticals, software, hardware, consulting, real estate and retail. Kolind has advised some of the world’s largest corporations such as Michelin, Movo Nordisk, LEGO, Coors and GlaxoSmithKline. Kolind is particularly known for the creation of the world’s first truly knowledge-based company Oticon in 1991. Oticon is among the most widely used management education case stories ever. Kolind has written a number of books including UNBOSS (2012) and The Second Cycle (2006), which has been translated into Chinese, Russian, Korean, Thai, Spanish, Swedish and Danish. Kolind has served as chairman of the World Scout Foundation under the patronage of His Majesty the King of Sweden. Kolind currently is a member of the foundation board and also sits on the board of the World Organization of the Scout Movement. In December 2012, Lars Kolind joined DeTao Masters Academy as a DeTao Leadership and Strategy Master.

Through comparing status quo comprehensively between Denmark and China, Prof. Kolind pointed out: “Danish happiness index is very high because they trust each other, and they trust their government.”  In his opinion, “the actual effective enterprise target is not profit, rather it is to make people smile, when the clients are satisfied, profit will be generated naturally.” Therefore, he raised up a 6P model for enterprise operation: a human oriented enterprise PURPOSE, to promote employee’s PASSION, to attract more PEOPLE, so that to build a PLATFORM, then make more PROGRESS, finally make PROFIT.