Lars Godell

Senior adviser and project manager for a greener future

Greater Oslo Region

About

As senior adviser, team player, and executive, my 25+ years of experience spans strategy and business development as well as regulatory and advisory work for top management at large international technology and infrastructure companies, with an emphasis on telecoms and transport mobility. Curiosity and interest in cross-functional problem solving motivate me for both strategic and hands-on operational work where I can utilize my proven skills within analysis, strategy, process and project management. Strong interest in the decarbonization of value chains and industries as well as sustainability and the energy transition. I deliver results via good cross-functional processes and projects that involve people, look for compromises, and anchor proposals in advance of decisions. This is helped by curiosity, strong analytical skills, work ethic and integrity as well as the ability to ask the right questions and look for solutions. I'm open to interim management positions as well as project consulting work but my preference is a regular full-time job. My specialties include: - Strategic and operational work in complex international organizations and business environments - Process and project management, corporate governance, strategy, and analytical work - Advisory work within business development, public and regulatory affairs across Europe - Innovative analyses of long-term shifts in the business environment like climate change, the energy transition, and connected mobility - Evaluating the business case for new technologies, with a particular interest in the revenue/demand side

Experience

  • Project Manager at ZEM - Zero Emission Maritime Solutions
    Sep 2025 - Present · 11 mos

  • Owner/consultant at Godell Consulting
    Sep 2022 - Aug 2025 · 3 yrs

    Engagement as consultant within electrification of transport. Competence building around the energy transition and decarbonization, sustainability, agile methods, and corporate governance.

  • Director, Strategic Insight at PTOLEMUS Consulting Group
    Dec 2021 - Aug 2022 · 9 mos

    Wrote report about what other countries, public charging operators, and automotive OEMs can learn from Norway's experience with electrification of the car fleet. Co-managed PTOLEMUS' overall research and knowledge management activities within connected mobility. The key connected mobility markets and technologies are connected vehicles, IoT, shared mobility, connected insurance, electronic tolling, automation, decarbonization of transport, and enabling technologies. Supported consulting projects and business development.

  • Senior Consultant at Orbion Consulting
    May 2021 - Nov 2021 · 7 mos

    Strategic and operational project management engagements within IT, telecoms, health care, and the public sector. Certificates for Prince2 project management

  • Consultant at Godell Consulting
    Nov 2019 - Apr 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos

    Engagements as process and project manager. Board positions and interim management. Assistance with strategy and business development around connected (transport) mobility. Research into business opportunities within renewable energy and hydrogen as well as increasing competence in regulation of the data economy.