BCC is a constantly growing and changing organization. This fall, around 85 local churches have been involved in a comprehensive idea workshop with the goal of producing new suggestions for BCC´s conferences in the future. We spoke with the woman whose job is to ensure order in the creative chaos.
Text: Johanne Reiersrud – Photo: BCC
In a little office in Ski sits a 46 year old Dane whose job is to lead the global brainstorming project which started this fall. She will safeguard all the valuable input in such a systematic way that not a single innovative idea is lost. Her blue eyes sparkle behind her black-rimmed glasses, and her Jutland dialect flows swiftly and evenly from a firm yet smiling mouth.
«Picture what happens when we gather our innovative power on a global level and give 8,000 people creative license for 2 months. When I follow that thought to completion, I am totally convinced that we will get fantastic results above and beyond our expectations,» smiles Lise Larsen, newly employed project leader for strategic development of future BCC events.
Didn´t plan on switching jobs
She explains that it actually wasn´t in their family´s plan for her to start a new job and move to Oslo in the fall. «But when I received an unexpected phone call in the middle of August, it didn´t take long before I realized that this was one of the most interesting projects on Earth,» she laughs. She left her leadership role in politics and organization for a Danish municipality and brought her management skills here.
«I´m actually the type who can live anywhere under the sun,» she claims convincingly, «I have lived in the USA for 2 years and in Greenland for 2 years, so why not test the waters in our sister nation of Norway?»
Systematic process will result in new event plans
Lise is in full swing, coordinating and aligning the means to activate all BCC members who are interested in the topic, in a worldwide idea development process which will last for two months. This global idea workshop is actually the first step in an evolution which will lead to a new event strategy, she explains. First, every event participant worldwide was asked what they would like to see at future events.
