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Values Based Leadership, Swedish Scout Movement

Mariannelunds Folkhögskola

Uddevalla Gymnasieskola

Chalmers University of Technology

Ecole Centrale Paris

Harvard University

School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg

Acting COO / Growth Director

Warm leads, made easy. Zaplify provides a smooth experience that puts the multi-channel outreach part in business development and sales on autopilot.

I joined as a board member and partner early 2021, and now got the opportunity to enter the team and lay the foundation for an organization that develop our employees to evolve into the best version of themselves.

Zaplify

Acting COO

Heading up marketing/comms as well as new business development. Growing Prototyp in line with our vision of using our expertise and unique set of resources to help build a better working world.

Prototyp

Growth Director

Diversify Foundation

Chairman Of The Board

Custodi's digital platforms create conflict free business relationships. Follow our newly launched digital service Ireno (<a href="http://www.ireno.se">www.ireno.se</a>).

Custodi Sverige AB

Board Member

Strategically developing and refining the goals and vision of We Know IT.

<a href="http://weknowit.se">http://weknowit.se</a>

We Know IT

We're a code lab that builds digital products for companies who want to break new ground. I'm heading up business development and external relations.

Business Lead

Advising the management team in Leaders Alliance on strategic questions regarding their digital journey - in both business, technical and user experience terms.

Leaders Alliance

Digital Advisor

Advising the founder and core team on investments, branding, marketing and communications.

Centiglobe

Strategic Advisor

Advised on investments in (i) Innovation projects in small and medium-sized companies (ii) Civic tech: Digital services for enhanced trust between citizens and the public sector and (iii) innovative startups.

Vinnova is Sweden's innovation authority. Every year, Vinnova invests approximately SEK 2 billion (>200 M USD) in various startups, projects, etc. Vinnova strengthens Sweden's innovation power for sustainable growth and social benefits. Vinnova promotes sustainable growth by funding needs-driven research and stimulating collaborations between companies, universities, research institutes and the public sector. Vinnova is also the national contact agency for the EU framework programme for research and innovation.

<a href="http://www.vinnova.se/en/">http://www.vinnova.se/en/</a>

Vinnova

Investment Advisor

Independent consultant working mainly on projects associated with strategy, tactics and implementation of digital growth, employee/candidate/user experience, digital service/product development, digital marketing/communication, innovation processes and digital community building/development/management.

A selection of clients:
Talent Match AB
Scandinavian Executive AB
Leaders Alliance AB
Future Place Leadership AB

Clingweld & Co

Consultant

Part of the executive team and responsible for the end-to-end user experience and growth of Nova's most valuable asset - its members.

Nova Talent

Chief Member Officer

The mission of Diversify Foundation is to advocate for a flexible and non-biased workplace and labor market where all people are ensured the right to equal participation while promoting means of employment as a key path to integration. Our method for achieving this is to conduct studies and be the convener among stakeholders.

Our main achievements so far include designing/launching the social businesses Just Arrived and Just Tech as well as lobbying/advocacy work based on data and stories from our own independent studies "Voice of the Newcomers" and "Voice of the Work Permit Holders".

We’ve 30+ media mentions in 2018-2019 including Sveriges Radio, Metro, Forbes and BBC.

Nova is a meeting place for top talent and the world’s most progressive companies. We're experts in Employer Branding and Recruitment.

We envision a world where your development is not limited or held back by who you know, where you are from or how much financial resources you have.

Our mission is to help the most capable people find their passion and the place were they best utilize this in an organizational and societal setting.

As Director of Strategy and Communication I'm in charge of brand and strategy at the central service organization Nova HQ, overlooking the priorities of the teams focusing on Product, Community and Growth.

Director of Strategy and Communication

We give new arrivals a chance to enter the Swedish labor market. The method is a digital service that matches new arrivals with simple jobs and thereby gives them credentials and reviews - a kind of social trust building tool. Our goal is to bring the time it takes for a newly arrived to get a full time job in Sweden down from 8 to 2 years, and help 50 000 newcomers in Sweden, Germany, Norway and Denmark get a foot in to the labor market before 2020.

Just Arrived is an initiative with focus on both value and values. It's a network organization with a core team of 20 people, set up as a non-profit company with it's long term direction secured by our own Diversify Foundation as majority share holders.

Impact investors include Norrsken Foundation (founded by Niklas Adalberth, Co-Founder of Klarna), Lars-Henrik Friis Molin (Founder of Universum Group) and Jonas Nordlander and Filip Engelbert (Founders of Avito).

As CMO, I was in charge of building our brand and communication in order to build a strong community of supporters and grow the numbers of newly arrived looking for jobs and companies posting entry level jobs.

Just Arrived

Chief Marketing Officer

In charge of selecting individuals for and leading the Swedish delegation to the EU commission-enabled conference Crowd Dialog Europe.

The conference aims to gather thought leaders and experts within the Crowd X segments crowdfunding/-sourcing/-innovation from 28 member countries to learn from each other and better understand how we can leverage the power of digital technology and the crowd to improve Europe.

Crowd Dialog

Country Patron

A digital service that matches new arrivals with jobs and gives them a chance to enter the Swedish labour market.

Brought the idea from an email to an actual project, and overlooked as it went from a project to a social business and foundation.

Inititator and Strategic Advisor

Coach and instructor at Values Based Leadership - an advanced leadership training program for promising young leaders from the non-profit sector, who are 20-25 years old.

Konungens Stiftelse Ungt Ledarskap

Leadership Educator

The beating heart for startups of Gothenburg. A live arena for collaboration and growth.

G-Lab21

Built the central service organization Nova HQ to take Nova digital and global. Went from scratch to a team of 12 in just over a year, spread across the areas Product, Community and Growth.

Director of Product and Member Growth

New Business Development. Creating a global learning organization for top talent.

Summer 2014:
Creator and lead of the Startup Manager Summer Program - 10 'super connectors' from outside the Nordics coming together from all over the world during 8 intensive weeks in Stockholm to design a global expansion model for the Scandinavian top talent network Nova.

Fall/Spring 2014-2015:
Strategic brand and identity work as a fundamental base to enable a scalable platform for the new era of Nova.

Universum

Project Manager / Business Developer

The forerunner of breakit.se, who later acquired them.

-  Initiated a Gothenburg section at the fast growing blog for inspiring and bringing together the Swedish startup community
-  Recruited 3 journalist students to do interviews and write blog posts about the most exciting startups in the city as well as covering news of the tech scene
-  Created 3 out of the top 5 most read posts on the blog nationally all time

Swedish Startup Space

Team Leader

Gothenburg Startup Hack is a day for developers, designers and innovators living in Gothenburg to meet and build things together. This hackathon is about igniting the startup community, celebrating creativity and opening up the world of tech to more people. We want our city to be a place where startups thrive and create the next wave of innovation-based companies.

-  Co-founded the concept, built the brand and created the marketing/growth hacking strategy
-  Developed a sales/sponsorship strategy and got SEK 250 000 on board in a month
-  Got Spotify, Google and Dropbox on board as sponsors
-  Created and moderated the Open Track - a full day workshop series open to public with nearly 300 visitors
-  Recruited and created the concept of a jury with 4 of the most prominent local investors and startup role models

Gothenburg Startup Hack

Co-Founder and Strategist

Hitta Lägenhet - Göteborg is a Facebook-group to help solve the housing problem for young people in Gothenburg by creating a trustworthy link between people who want to sublease and people that need housing.
-  Created and managed the group that today includes 11000 members and has mediated about 150 rental apartments
-  As a result of this initiative, Hitta Lägenhet also exists in Stockholm, Uppsala and Malmö, helping many people in need find housing.

Hitta Lägenhet - Göteborg

Creator and Curator

Raoul Wallenberg Academy for Young Leaders supports and develops young leaders in developing their own personal leadership towards a sustainable future from a values-based perspective.

-  Was selected to be part of a pilot group of 15 that were educated to facilitate a program of two full day workshops on values-based self-leadership for high school students all over Sweden.

<a href="http://raoulwallenberg.se/about-us">http://raoulwallenberg.se/about-us</a>

Raoul Wallenberg Academy for Young Leaders

Workshop Facilitator

uLabs was a disruptive incubator for software projects redefining the way companies find and recruit talent. We were mapping the worlds most talented individuals and helping them succeed in the best way possible.

-  Assisted in 5 projects during summer as concept developer, whereof three turned into startups, one discontinued and the last integrated with the Universum Group.
-  During fall/spring, part time work, developing strategies and working on product design for the new talent solutions

uLabs

Business Developer

The vision of World Values Day is to inspire people to discover and to live their authentic values in co-creating a just, equitable and sustainable world. One day every year where people pause, reflect, listen and share collectively their unique life experiences, values and visions for a common future. One day every year where people can offer their services and time freely to support others in the community, neighbourhood or city.

-  Managed a core team of 6 in creating the first World Values Day in Gothenburg
-  Brought together 110 top students and 40 business leaders for a full day event awarded with top reviews from participants as well as partners
-  After project completion, I recruited the next project team and got involved in strategically developing the organization, brand and concept as part of the Global Team based in Stockholm

World Values Day as a brand was later donated to a UK-based non-profit running social media campaigns on this topic world wide, and we continued locally in Sweden under the new umbrella World Values Initiative.
<a href="http://worldvaluesinitiative.se">http://worldvaluesinitiative.se</a>

World Values Day

Co-Founder and Project Manager

For more than 10 years, Antura has successfully developed and implemented Antura Projects - a complete solution for project, portfolio and resource management. This year
with 4 well renown awards in hand - Superföretag, Gasell, AAA and HIT-listan.

-  Full time position developing the new Sales & Marketing department together with another associate
-  Personalized the new role for marketing and communication efforts including events,
print, web and media
-  Managed 4 customer accounts to learn B2B-sales
-  Investigated, organized and initialized the implementation of a CRM system
-  Created a newsletter concept and rolled it out to all stakeholders
-  Managed two 0,25M SEK full day events for 120 executives from the industry

Antura AB

Sales/Marketing Associate

Startup Grind is a global startup community designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. We host monthly events in more than 600 cities and 170 countries featuring successful local founders, innovators, educators and investors who share personal stories and lessons learned on the road to building great companies.

-  Founded the first chapter in Scandinavia (3rd in Europe)
-  Built the Startup Grind brand in Scandinavia and went from 0 to 1000 relevant social media followers in 2 months
-  Created teams, planned and executed 5 high quality events, inspiring and connecting 70-90 entrepreneurs featuring five of Sweden's most famous serial entrepreneurs during 2013
-  As Director, I was in charge of building and managing the Stockholm chapter as well as being the host of the events, interviewer on stage and the main brand carrier
-  Was in Dec 2013 named one of the top 3 chapters outside of Silicon Valley
-  Even after this tenure, I kept being involved and set up the team and launched the chapter in Gothenburg May 2014

<a href="http://startupgrind.se">http://startupgrind.se</a>
<a href="http://startupgrind.com">http://startupgrind.com</a>

Startup Grind

Stockholm Chapter Founder and Director

- Carried out a six-month traineeship in urban development at the new business unit Skanska USA Commercial Development in Boston, USA
-  Analyst and Researcher in 4 different real estate projects, with a total investment budget at over $300 million
-  Gained experience in the fields of urban planning, contract negotiation, architecture, engineering, finance, marketing and event photography
-  Created a property overview tool that connects data sheets with Google Maps and Google Earth
-  Designed the framework for a rent analysis and prediction tool for a 350-unit high end apartment building

Skanska USA Commercial Development Inc.

Development Trainee

Managed the Talent Management team within We Know IT. The role included conducting human resources, setting up a strategy for continuous recruitment and branding towards future employees.

-  Defined and embodied a new role in the organisation
-  Developed and incorporated new creative approaches for student recruitment
-  Supported the new CEO and Regional Directors in the transition from centralized to regional organization
-  Networked actively to attract talents and promote our brand
-  Followed up on key account projects
-  Started to build an organisation that empowers talents by following up on professional achievements and connecting dots with interests and personality

Talent Advisor

Venture Cup is an organization that helps you develop and implement your business idea by letting you be part of the world's largest business plan competition.

-  Pitched the koncept in multiple languages across the universities of Gothenburg
-  Represented Venture Cup at fairs and events
-  Gave feedback and coached 20 business ideas based on my earlier experience within the IT-segment
-  Toastmaster at a 4 h price ceremony with 500 participants

Venture Cup

Student Ambassador

CHARM (Chalmers student union career fair) is an annual two day event that in 2012 attracted nearly 180 exhibitors and 8000 visitors with a total revenue of SEK 6 million.

-  Supported the Project Manager in operations management
-  Mentored the Head of Corporate Relations in leadership and customer relations
-  Co-created and refined new strategies for marketing, recruitment, project management and the overall fair-concept

Chalmers Student Union

Member of the Advisory Board

4potentials is an exclusive talent network for top students, young professionals and executives. We believe in personal qualities - and we define successful behaviour in four words: proficient, passionate, powerfueling and pioneer.

-  Identified talents and recommended them to 4potentials
-  Represented 4potentials at events and happenings

4potentials

Talent Agent

- Represented the university at national, regional and local fairs and events
-  Worked with continuous branding towards potential students

Student Recruiter

We Know IT is a young student based IT-consultant company aiming to become the greatest development arena for young IT-potentials in Sweden.

-  Managed the operations
-  Started a new business unit in Linköping that came to be our most vibrant office towards the end of my position
-  Increased the number of employees from 15 to 30
-  Managed key account projects
-  Initiated and co-developed a new matrix organization to create flexibility and prepare for future growth
-  Did an inspirational lecture at the annual IT fair in Linköping
-  Promoted the company brand well through personal involvement in talent networks and non-profit organizations

Chief Executive Officer

- Representative of all soldiers in the regiment
-  Spokesman and in charge of communications towards highest command
-  Managed the continuous work in a 3-level organization, where the role mainly included change management and lobbying for improvements in work environment, gender equality and mental health

Swedish Armed Forces

Head Elected Official

- In charge of setting up mobile command posts in the field, with power, IT communications and defense.
-  Education in leadership, warfare and logistics, daily managing a squad of 8 including myself. Rotating in position for platoon commander with the other squad leaders. Entire platoon consisted of 35 soldiers.
-  Commanded up to 100 soldiers in training and war simulation
-  Acquired a type C truck driver's license with an additional permit for explosives and flammables
-  Discharged my duties with honors as top 3 in the platoon, graded on soldier performance, leadership skills and social skills

Squad Leader / Platoon Commander

R.Design was a media bureau that focused on delivering web solutions for companies that require high quality and creative approaches.

-  Co-founded the company during high school together with a classmate
-  Overall responsibility for the public end of the company dealing with accounting records, budget, customer relations, marketing and business development
-  Finished 5 successful web development projects at a total of SEK 60 k
-  My role in the projects included the graphic design and front end development in HTML, PHP and MySQL
-  Developed our own CMS (Content Management System) in an attempt to standardize our process
-  Came to a mutual agreement to end the business in March 2011 after a while of inactivity due to full time studies and new professional opportunities

R.Design

Co-founder and CEO

Clas Ohlson is a Swedish well-reputed retail chain with a vision to solve people's everyday practical problems.

-  Alternated full time and part time job during years of studies and military service
-  Acquired extensive skills in the areas of checkout, customer service and direct sales by working in 3 different stores varying with current city of residence
-  Acted in-store manager of returns and complaints during the summers of 2007 and 2008
-  Received four letters of appreciation for extraordinary service from satisfied customers

Clas Ohlson

Sales Assistant

Coordinating the work of the National Student Council Association, west region. Indirect management of 5 full-time employees and lobbying towards school management and politicians. As accountant; Review and follow-up of this work.

SECO

Member of the Board and Accountant

Planned and executed three different month-long volunteer trips in cooperation with The Salvation Army and The Memorial Fund of Folke Bernadotte. This is an experience that added perspective to life and a better understanding of other cultures.

Fristaden Community Church

Human Aid Outreach

Leader at two different youth camps every summer with approximately 150 participants, alternating responsibilities within planning and execution.

-  Brought the design of the promotional material to a higher level
-  Set up the first digital and automated sign-up system
-  Developed new ways of grouping and motivating the participants
-  Created exciting events and themes that were so appreciated that they have played an essential part in the summer camp concept ever since

Per Clingweld