I became a certified professional coach because I am passionate about and deeply committed to sharing my strengths, skills, and experience with you in a confidential, safe, and trusting space. This way, you can bring all those questions, challenges, problems, opportunities, ideas, and aspirations you do not feel able or ready to share with anyone else.
As a former COO of a 4.0 bUSD S&P500-listed company and CEO of Private Equity-owned companies, I know the pressures of meeting or exceeding expectations on a quarterly reporting cycle or in relation to investment cases while driving long-term growth, profitability, and culture.
I am married, the father of two adult boys, and a grandfather. I know how it feels to never be fully present to all the people who matter while living a physically and emotionally healthy life and professionally living up to my and others’ expectations.
I have a 30-plus-year international career in which I have worked with private (family), private equity, and public ownership and reported to the board of directors as CEO, COO, or President. I appreciate the different stakeholder conflicts associated with ownership structures and can support you as you solve strategic, tactical, interpersonal, or governance challenges in your role as CEO.
I have always believed that sometimes we change chapters in a current book and other times we change the book itself.
I have changed many chapters in my professional career, expanding my breadth of responsibilities and my geographical and cultural experiences. These have also seen me lead or participate in diverse leadership teams and manage through severe crises.
I have also changed books, like when I left Denmark and took over a small manufacturing company in the US at 25 or when I relocated my family to Switzerland to establish a new leadership team for two newly merged companies. Or when my wife and I decided to pull out from school, our two boys, traveled around the world in backpacks while deciding on our next book. Or when I decided to end my executive career at age 55 to educate myself as a professional coach and start my own company with my wife so that we could dedicate ourselves to helping others.
I am a certified coach, having completed a stringent Certified Professional Coach Program, with hundreds of hours of coach experience. I have been in executive positions for the most part of my career and have developed, inspired, and been a coach and mentor for numerous peers and employees.
I have worked in startups, mid-sized, and large corporations in life science tools and medical technology. I have worked in family, Private Equity, and publicly listed companies and actively managed both internal and external stakeholders. My passion and most impactful results have been centered around disruptive business modeling, geographical expansion of activities, team/organizational development, and mergers and acquisitions.
I have always had a strong focus on achieving a healthy balance between my professional life, family, social relationships, and my personal health. This is my life challenge and something I will always have to work on actively. My core strengths are: 1. Achiever, 2. Learner, 3. Responsibility, 4. Self-assurance, and 5. Focus. I thrive in conflict situations, which has allowed me to help others who are moving through conflicts of their own.
We significantly increase our chances of feeling and being successful when we use our core strengths to achieve the goals that matter to us. I am here to support you in setting, confirming, and reaching your goals. I can also help you embrace your core strengths, so that they become active tools that you apply in any given situation.
We all know the saying that you should walk the talk and that actions matter more than words. I am pragmatic and execution focused. I will meet you at eye level. Together, we will identify the tools you need to reach your potential, take on your challenges, and drive sustainable changes.
I am self-aware and believe in transparency, honesty, humility, and frankness in my communication. You will always meet the same ‘me’ when we talk, and there is nothing you cannot ask, share, or bring to our conversations. I am 100% here for you whenever we talk.