Christel Beck Laursen

Christel Beck Laursen is a digital business partner at Hedensted Municipality, with experience in both municipal IT and organisational development. She previously worked as a project manager in Aarhus Municipality's cloud team within Shared IT and Digitalisation. There, she worked in an environment exploring new cloud opportunities and the professional challenges of using them in a large public organisation.

Her background includes project and change management in IT and HR. Before joining Aarhus, she ran her own business, Hvorfor, Derfor & Co. In her professional account of that period, she highlighted digital transformation, organisational change and implementation as central areas of interest and expertise. She emphasises working with the people affected by change and being part of a professional community.

When she moved from Aarhus to Hedensted after almost six years, she stressed the value of maintaining relationships with colleagues and partners in other municipalities. She notes that municipalities of different sizes often face related tasks, and that existing knowledge and solutions should therefore be put to use. Within AI Alliancen, she contributes this perspective on implementation and collaboration: technical opportunities need to connect with the organisation, and experience becomes more valuable when it can be shared and reused.

Selected experience

• Digital business partner with experience from Hedensted and Aarhus.
• Former project manager in Aarhus Municipality's cloud team.
• Project and change management in IT and HR.
• Cross-municipal collaboration and reuse of knowledge and solutions.