People

Real people leadership in a global, diverse and complex world.

The people behind Saxskiold — advisers who work with cultural awareness and difference across markets, and who take leadership seriously as something lived rather than described.

A small team, each with a defined area of contribution, working with owners, boards and executive teams through change and ambiguity — drawing on colleagues in more than thirty Taplow offices when a mandate reaches beyond the Nordic region.

We set the right team for each assignment and judge candidates against the organisation they must lead, stating clearly what we know, what we assume and where the risk sits.

Kenneth

Founder & Managing Partner

Copenhagen, Denmark

Former international business executive and board member, now an executive-search partner working with Nordic owners, boards and executive teams — and on international assignments through colleagues across more than thirty Taplow offices. Author of CURRENT: A Practice of Living in Motion, the thinking that underpins the firm's advisory work.

Leads the search and succession mandates where the organisation, role or market is changing faster than a conventional brief can describe.

“If you keep pushing elephants up the stairs, there will ultimately be way too many elephants on the top floor.”

Executive search · Board & succession advisory · Organisational reading

kenneth@saxskiold.com

+45 30 89 24 27

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Joan

Chief Executive Officer

Copenhagen, Denmark

A seasoned executive who keeps Saxskiold's work anchored in human leadership, ensuring each assignment is matched with the right team, the right rigour and the right relationship.

Holds the delivery standard: how assignments are staffed, paced and governed from first conversation to follow-through.

“The right people in the right environments are ultimately the glue in organisations that enables sustainable results.”

Operations · Client delivery · Governance

joan@saxskiold.com

+45 29 70 14 44

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People we think with

No practice develops alone.

SAXSKIOLD is shaped through ongoing conversations with people who bring different experiences, disciplines and ways of seeing.

Some contribute an occasional perspective on technology, talent platforms, organisations, capital or leadership. Others help us question assumptions, recognise changes earlier or understand a situation from somewhere we have not stood ourselves.

They are not employees, partners or a formal advisory board. They hold no general client-facing or commercial role in SAXSKIOLD. Their contribution is personal, independent and based on conversation rather than governance.

We think with them because judgement grows through contact with perspectives beyond one’s own.

Simon

Talent platforms · Professional networks

Simon offers an occasional, non-operational family perspective on how digital professional networks, talent visibility and platform behaviour are evolving.

His contribution helps us understand how platforms shape access and behaviour — while reinforcing why search must never be reduced to algorithms, databases or subscription models.

Simon holds no employment, ownership, client-facing or commercial role in SAXSKIOLD. His perspective is personal and independent; no current employer is affiliated with or endorses SAXSKIOLD.

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Domains

Key international business domains where we have created value.

Global Pharma
Medical Devices
Healthcare
Transport & Logistics
Global Supply Chains
Manufacturing & Production
Renewable Energy
Process Industries
Offshore
Enterprise Software
AI & Cloud Technologies
Global EPCs
FMCG & International Retail

Beyond the firm

Colleagues in more than thirty offices.

As a member of The Taplow Group, we draw on partners across Europe, the Americas and Asia when a mandate reaches beyond the region — with the same advisor still holding the thread.

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