Saxskiold
Leadership is found, formed and followed through.
Executive Search & Leadership Advisory
Helping organisations find, assess and strengthen leadership when the decisions matter.
SAXSKIOLD works with owners, boards and executive teams on critical appointments, succession and leadership transitions — particularly where the organisation, role or market is changing faster than a conventional brief can describe.
Kenneth has placed two senior management positions for me recently with success. Kenneth’s approach to matching companies and candidates is rare — he takes a personal involvement to ensure not only job qualifications but also personality matches, including a long-term success approach for the company and the candidates. Kenneth’s experience in top management and his broad industry experience give him an ability to advise at a professional level. I can highly recommend him as a headhunter.
One voice among many. Most of the work is confidential; what can be said publicly is gathered together.
Organisations we have worked with
- IBM
How to use this section
What you will find inside Saxskiold.
Saxskiold is the advisory practice: search, assessment, succession and leadership development. These pages set out who does the work, what clients say about it, and how to begin a conversation. The thinking that informs all of it lives in CURRENT.
Main sections
- Inside the Search →What actually happens before, during and after an executive appointment — step by step.
- Orientation →Three perspectives on the same field — the person, the field between people, and the wider system.
- People →Who you will actually work with — partners, backgrounds, and where each of us sits.
- Contact →A first exchange about the appointment, transition or team you have in mind.
Additional resources
What we do
Our core sector of expertise is leadership development, mentoring and executive search for international and people-oriented leadership and business roles in critical business processes — including leadership, sales, marketing, people processes, finance, analytics and strategic transformations.
We deal comfortably with complex capability mapping and with leadership structures that span several countries and cultures.
01 · Flagship engagement
Executive Search
Board, C-suite and critical leadership appointments across the Nordic region — read against the organisation, not a generic profile, and run as a considered process rather than a transaction. Particular strength where the role or market is moving faster than a conventional brief can describe.
02 · Flagship engagement
Organisational Value Programme
Finding where organisational value is being created, constrained—or quietly lost.
The Organisational Value Programme examines the conditions beneath performance: how leadership, organisation, technology, capability and strategic execution work together in practice.
It creates a clear, evidence-based view of where value is flowing, where friction has become structural, and which interventions are most likely to improve performance without adding another layer of activity.
Recruitment & RPO
Flexible recruitment capacity — from modular process support to a fully outsourced talent acquisition function, integrated with the client's organisation.
Read the engagement →Succession & Board Advisory
Long-horizon work with owners, chairs and boards on succession, governance and the composition of leadership over time.
Read the engagement →Leadership Assessment
Structured assessment of individuals and teams: capability, judgement under pressure, and fit with the situation the organisation is actually in.
Try the CURRENT leadership assessment →Leadership Development
Programmes and dialogues that build adaptive capacity in leadership teams — grounded in the CURRENT practice.
See the CURRENT engagements →When opportunity finds you
You weren’t looking.
But something found you.
An unexpected approach introduces a possibility you hadn’t been considering — and something happens before you’ve decided whether you’re interested.
Irritation. Recognition. Curiosity.
The interesting question isn’t whether you explore the opportunity. It’s what your reaction tells you.
Part of a wider network
A member of The Taplow Group.
The Taplow Group S.A. is a global organisation of independent executive search and talent advisory practices. Clients get a local partner who knows the Nordic market well, with reach into more than thirty offices worldwide when a search or a mandate crosses borders.
Independent partner firms. Shared standards. One point of contact.
References
Judged by the appointments that lasted.
Most of our work is confidential. What clients say about it, they say in their own words.
The intellectual foundation
CURRENT — the thinking behind the practice.
The book and the practice that inform every Saxskiold engagement: a way of reading leadership in motion, not a separate offering. The advisory work is where that thinking meets a live mandate.