Scouting made me a leader

As a young boy, I was timid. Despite doing well, academically, I was often bullied at school. My dad took me to Scouting when I was nine, and there I was accepted as who I were. I started discovering that I was quite good at leading others, and I gradually became a leader, which I have been ever since. At the age of 27, my boss told me to take over his job “because I was a Scout, and Scouts know how to lead others”. At the age of 34 I became director of Denmark’s National Research and Technology Laboratory “because I was a Scout”. I continued my career in business, using everything I had learned as an adult Scout leader, and applying the Scout values that I had learned to live by.
I owe Scouting everything and I could not have done it without the training I went through as a Scout, and without the role models I met in Scouting. Once a Scout – always a Scout.

Submitted by: Lars Kolind of Lyngby, Denmark