Ultimate Beauty

Ultimate Beauty is a fast-growing, people-first, fully remote organization. Our purpose is to enable our team members to live their best life, while doing this "business thing" really really well.

As Chief People Officer, I'm responsible for developing a world-class culture as we 10x our business. This means I get to play with radical, leading-edge concepts such as Remote Work, Unique Ability, EOS, and Best life Coaching.

The bigger goal is to first prove we can have a couple hunded people live their best lives, while delivering outsized results.. -> And then share our learnings to inspire a million people to live better lives through better work.

Chief People Officer

Running Remote

Community Member

The Future is Remote

Ex-management consultant/entrepreneur/leader → turned Remote Evangelist. On a mission to inspire, educate & coach individuals, teams & organizations to succeed in a remote world.

20-30 minute conversations with the leaders, thinkers, and doers of Remote Work. 

Highlighted episodes
🎙 Humanizing Remote w/ Chase Warrington, Head of Remote @ Doist (https://spoti.fi/3U7N8b7)
🎙 The Benefits of Remote Work w/ Tony Jamous, Founder @ Oyster (https://spoti.fi/3hd1TL7)
🎙 Asynchronous Work w/ Nicolas Cava, Engineering Manager @ Zendesk (https://spoti.fi/3h36QWE)

Podcast Host / Remote Evangelist

Beleco

70% of companies are already hybrid (intentional or not). However most companies do not know how to realize the benefits (up to 50% reduced cost, while increasing productivity and engagement)

Beleco helps companies with the transition to Hybrid, through subscription based furniture for Offices and Home Offices. 

As Head of Hybrid I lead our internal Hybrid Transformation, and act as a thought leader with the wider community. 

As VP of Sales, I am  building a World Class Sales Organisation, to help our customers with their Hybrid Transformation, and create great workplaces for their employees - wherever they are.

Head of Hybrid / VP of Sales

NetSuite

Sales Manager, Nordic Startup & Scale-up segment. 
Led the turnaround of an underperfoming sales team of 11 remote account executives.

Sales Manager, Nordics

Google

Leading Google's engagement with startups across Northern Europe (Nordics & Benelux) 
- Grew function by >120% to 42M ARR
- Managed Google's portfolio of top 10 Scaleups to help drive hypergrowth (~200% YoY)
- Engaged with VCs and the Startup Ecosystem to support top 100 startups at scale

🚀 Head of Startups, Northern Europe

- Account Executive for Spotify, one of Google Cloud's top 3 customers globally (>300M ARR)
- Grew product adoption -> account revenue by 57%
- Led team of 16 cross-functional Googlers (Stockholm, New York, Dublin)

Account Executive, Top Account, Google Cloud

Business developer responsible for larger technology partners in Northern Europe and FRITES. Worked with two of Sweden's most exciting startups, helping them develop world class ad-tech products. 

Responsible for progressing and closing the largest deal in Channel Sales EMEA history.

Strategic Partner Developer, Channel Sales

- Helped Secure 50M SEK investment form Norrsken Foundation
- Hired and managed product and tech team
- Responsible for product strategy and development

Head of Product

Kugghuset AB

- Responsible for Future Labs (Product development hub)
- Managed design and development of a sales competition tool for Bambora
- Implemented internal sales pipeline & dashboards
- Trained colleagues in relationship driven sales

Product Developer

Seed Nordic

Startup Accelerator / Startup Factory

- Invested in 3 startups and led them through a 4 month program (1 exit) 
- Delivered startup-as-a-service innovation projects (6 weeks from idea to first paying customer)

Sample projects:
- Bambora Growth Capital
- Butlr
- Pimobo
- Frameworks
- NYFoodBox
- GetSocial

CEO / Product Developer

Serendipity

Serendipity Innovations was a management company with specialist expertise in innovation processes and early corporate development. 

- As a business developer I supported clients with their innovation needs, while continuously identifying establishing and growing new businesses.
- I was the initiator of S:Growth Accelerator, which we spun off and renamed Seed Nordic.

Business Developer

Head of Hybrid @ Beleco 🏡👨‍💻 Subscription based furniture for office and home office 📢 Remote Evangelist 🌟

🚀 On a mission to inspire a million people to live better lives through better work
🌟 Strategic thinker with 19 years experience across consulting, technology, commercial & people roles. 

Chief People Officer at Ultimate Beauty, ensuring that our people are happy, healthy engaged and able to do great work remotely.

🎙️ Podcast Host for "The Future is Remote", I engage in insightful conversations with industry leaders and thinkers in the remote work landscape.

Kenneth Hellem

The Maple Leaf Coach

The Maple Leaf Coach is a professional coaching/consulting service supporting individuals from all backgrounds, levels, sectors and locations to transform their careers and change their lives. Its founder, Paula Melbourne, coaches from the heart: inspiring, guiding, and building confidence to make positive changes. Paula delivers workshops and HR projects that create maximum value and impact for clients.

Career, Leadership and International Mobility Coach/HR Consultant 

Hanover

Executive career coach for award-winning international executive search, career consultancy and outplacement services firm. I guide clients through career options and support them to succeed at securing new employment. As a writer, I create sharp and impactful CV's, cover letters and profiles that generate interest and results.

Executive Career Coach, Leadership Development

Let's Talk Talent

Let's Talk Talent are a values-driven Talent and OD consultancy with a mission to support businesses to unlock potential in their people. Working with SME’s and multi-national corporations across diverse sectors on projects delivering practical and innovative solutions.

Senior HR Consultant and Career Coach

Chubb

The ACE Group acquired Chubb Insurance in January 2016 as one of the world’s largest multiline property and casualty insurers, with a diverse client base and operations in 54 countries. I led a team of 5 EMEA Resourcing Business Partners recruiting for 29 countries across the region, notably the UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Turkey, Saudi Arabia.

Head of Resourcing, EMEA

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu

I established Global Partner Director Acquisition Team (PDAT), internal hiring group that enabled fast-growing non-US member firms to acquire executive talent. I drove Russia/CIS's hiring plans and relocated to Hong Kong to deliver an ambitious talent agenda for APAC Region. PDAT supported emerging market talent acquisition strategy in Tax, Consulting, Financial Advisory and Human Capital Consulting. This role involved international mobility at executive level.

Associate Director Global Talent Acquisition

I led recruitment for the consulting practice, indirectly managing an in-sourced RPO to deliver 400+ experienced hires, increase referrals and directly sourced candidates. I personally a number of senior Partner and Director hires.

Senior Resourcing Manager

Senior Resourcing Manager, Tax

Barclays Investment Bank

Resourcing Manager

Linklaters

Business Services Recruitment Leader

Arthur Andersen & Co.

Dell

European HR Manager

Hodes UK

HR Recruitment Consultant

I am a global Talent Business Partner and qualified Career and Leadership Coach, passionate about values-driven culture and equal opportunity. I offer 20 years' experience in private sector talent acquisition, development and management: building, inspiring and leading successful, diverse teams in UK, Europe, Canada and Asia Pacific.

As a Talent Consultant, I advise clients and deliver projects with progressive, international and inclusive organisations. As a Leadership Coach, I enable leaders to leverage talent to maximise performance and results, improve retention, engagement, employee satisfaction and well-being. I support transformational change through development programmes. 

As a Career Coach, I support and expertly guide individuals towards rewarding career opportunities.

I am a qualified behavioural assessor and multi-lingual dual national (British-Canadian). 

I am a keynote speaker and provider of HR Advisory services as an Associate, to leading Consultancies Hanover Talent Solutions, Endaba Group and Let's Talk Talent. I am an advocate for the strengths and powers of neurodiversity.

As an international mobility expert, I offer relocation coaching and advice.

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