About GOAA
GOAA is founded on experience and evidence-based knowledge from within the industry of aviation and selection. Through their careers, founding partners Olav Guldbrandsen and Bjarke Overgaard have worked with the development and improvement of selection processes and person assessment – in aviation as well as other industries.
With a shared background in research, development, management, and recruitment, their experience and knowledge have now been condensed in GOAA.
In recent years, there has been an increased focus on Human Factors, personality, and Pilot Core Competencies to heighten safety and human performance in the aviation industry. With their new regulations in the area, EASA have only added to this focus.
About Bjarke Overgaard
Bjarke Overgaard is a licensed psychologist with more than 20 years of experience in the areas of organizational development, compliance, person assessment, safety culture, and strategy – at both the individual-, group-, and organizational levels. In particular, he has a broad experience from within the police, aviation, and security industries.
During the past 10 years, Bjarke has been more narrowly focused on the area of human factors and development in organizations that combine significant demands for safety with high-pressure conditions. With a professional background in complex and politically driven organizations, combined with a solid, theoretical foundation as a licensed psychologist, he efficiently integrates elements of organizational culture, internal safety culture, and operative procedures.
Today, Bjarke’s main area of expertise is guiding organizations through transformational processes where compliance and code of conduct are integrated with operative efficiency requirements. More specifically, he develops and customizes safety strategies, risk assessments, and security clearances. He also directs testing and selection processes of managers and specialists in a variety of roles.
Bjarke’s approach is holistic, strategic, and data driven. Striving to be as informed and unbiased in his problem-solving as possible, he is frequently engaged in a broad range of research projects. Among other things, Bjarke has done research on pilot safety behavior, as well as on personality profiles of individuals involved in organized crime.
Overall, Bjarke is passionate about understanding and improving behavior in organizations and roles where ruled-based behavior is of key significance for organizational success. With GOAA, this is exactly the task he has set out to solve.
COMPETENCIES:
• 20 years of experience as a psychologist – in the police, aviation, and security industries.
• 20 years of experience with operational management and human factors – including human resources management, leadership- and organizational development, and transformational management.
• Specialized in assessing and managing processes in organizations with numerous stakeholders, expansive operative complexity, and high demands for compliance and safety measures.
About Olav Guldbrandsen
Olav has more than 40 years of experience as a pilot in both military and civil aviation.
His ambition has always been to contribute to an efficient and professional operation while maintaining the highest levels of safety.
His knowledge and competencies have been formed through a broad range of professional roles, including Chief pilot in SAS and Leader of SAS’s pilot recruitment processes. Olav has also functioned as Board member, consultant, instructor, and currently he is a reserve officer in the Royal Danish Air force.
From these roles, he has gained a solid experience with operative management, organizational development, and project planning.
Olavs motivation stems from a deep interest in selecting and training skilled pilots with a focus on their personal as well as professional competencies.
He has a broad experience in the development of pilot profiles, competency profiles, organizational profiles, and administration of protocols and regulations – and he knows how to apply it at a managerial level.
Overall, Olav has a positive and open approach to cooperation, as well as a real passion to share of his knowledge from within the areas of aviation and operation.