How Building the Future Really Works - with Mats Larsson

About this episode

Mats Larsson discusses his extensive experience in business strategies related to electromobility and sustainability.

Mats Larsson is the founder of Global Energy Transformation Institute. He has over 30 years’ experience as a business and management consultant, developing business strategies for companies in many different industries. He has worked with the large-scale transformation to electromobility and sustainability since 2004, leading a sequence of projects. This work has resulted in five internationally published books, starting with Global Energy Transformation, published in 2009, then The Business of Global Energy Transformation 2012, Circular Business Models 2018, Redrawing the Map of the Future 2019, and The Blind Guardians of Ignorance 2020. In Global Energy Transformation 2009 Mats launched the idea that the large-scale change to electromobility and a sustainable society will require large-scale transformation programmes. He has since then elaborated on this idea and developed strategies for various aspects of the transformations, such as the expansion of vehicle fleets and charging infrastructure, power generation and distribution, the development of training programmes for the groups of professionals that need to become involved in the change, and development of the companies and…

People in this episode

Guest: Mats Larsson

Topics covered

• electromobility
• sustainability
• business strategies
• energy transformation
• charging infrastructure

Keywords

• Mats Larsson
• Global Energy Transformation
• sustainability
• electromobility
• business strategies
• charging infrastructure
• energy transformation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Global Energy Transformation Institute

Books & works: Global Energy Transformation, The Business of Global Energy Transformation, Circular Business Models, Redrawing the Map of the Future, The Blind Guardians of Ignorance

Places: Sweden

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