Meet Our Team

MARI ELLESTAD
Managing Director
and ​Senior Consultant
+47 971 22 107
mari.ellestad@giramar.com

Mari has broad experience from developing leaders and management teams, and has a special interest for the power of conversations in organisations, and how conversations are a premise for driving change, creating stability and delivering outstanding results through people. With this as a basis, she is helping leaders and management teams develop their ability to ask the right questions at the right time, and find the balance between involvement and setting direction. Mari has  been supporting leaders and management teams on all levels, in industries like Insurance, Banking & Finance, Engineering and Energy.

Before becoming an consultant, Mari spent several years as head of department in a technology driven company with responsibility for competence development and information flow. Her theoretical background lies in business development, change management and innovation, and she is certified Executive Coach by DNCF.  

Mari joined Giramar Consulting early 2018, and holds the position of Managing Director and Senior Consultant.  

Mari lives in Oslo, Norway, with her boyfriend and their son.