Kristiansand · Norway
Lasting change is built, not announced.
Independent advisory for leadership teams closing the gap between strategy, execution and adoption, drawing on more than thirty years in international industry with Elkem, PPG and Jotun.
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01 · Advisory
From strategy to lasting practice.
Change & transformation
For leadership teams taking an industrial organisation through change: from strategy, digitalisation and AI to new everyday practice. From pilot to full scale, until the change stands on its own.
Continuous improvement
Improvement as part of how the business is led, not tools imposed from outside, but a way of working built into the organisation. The toolbox includes Lean; the method is thirty years of practice.
Executive coaching & facilitation
Confidential counsel for executives and leadership teams through demanding change, grounded in certified coach training (NLP). And working sessions designed to produce real decisions and shared ownership.
Board & governance
For owners and boards of industrial companies who set the direction of a transformation and want it followed through into operations, not just reported on. Board service and discreet counsel from both sides of the table: board roles in Norwegian and international industry, and a career answering for how decisions land in the plant.
02 · Approach
Structure and discipline. Engagement and ownership.
I believe lasting change is built with the people it concerns. Not announced to them. And it requires strategy, people, technology and processes to evolve together. That is the core of what I call the Symbiosis Transformation Model. In practice I combine the structure of Lean with the craft of coaching: clear priorities and discipline in execution, and ownership among those who will live with the result.
The work happens where the change happens: in the boardroom, with the leadership team, on the shop floor. In English, Norwegian or French. I take on a small number of engagements at a time, and everything is treated in confidence.
03 · Case
From pilot to operation at Elkem.
Arpuro, a three-person Norwegian startup, set out to solve a problem nobody had cracked: real-time monitoring of industrial dust. From Elkem's side, Arianeh organised the whole effort. She defined the real needs, set clear KPIs and OKRs and guardrails against feature creep, and brought three plants into piloting across three different applications. Development and rollout ran as Scrum with more than ten stakeholders on a weekly cadence, aligned from top leadership to the operator on the floor. Security and compliance were built in from the start, and the framework she established later became the template for similar arrangements.
“Arianeh enabled a three-person startup to deliver enterprise hardware and software to a global industrial giant. That takes institutional stamina and a real understanding of change management.”
Coverage: NRK Dagsrevyen (national TV news) · NRK.no · Eyde Cluster
04 · Background
More than thirty years in international industry.
Arianeh Aamodt has worked in international industry since 1990, at Elkem, PPG, Jotun and Alcro-Beckers, leading research, production and transformation. She has served as technology director with industrial responsibility for eight plants across Europe, Asia and the Americas and for technology and development portfolios of NOK 60 to 70 million a year, as vice president for R&D and HSE at group level, and on operational boards of industrial companies in Norway, Iceland, India and China.
In that time she has trained and coached more than 150 leadership teams and leaders on three continents, and has led innovation portfolios contributing to roughly NOK 100 million in annual revenue from new products. She holds a doctorate in organic chemistry from Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, and works in English, Norwegian and French, and is also fluent in Persian.
05 · Contact
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Kristiansand, Norway
Accepting introductory conversations now, for engagements starting in November.