Our Perspectives
Alumni Global's perspectives on leadership, succession and board governance
Alumni Global works with executive search, board services and leadership assessment and development. Here we gather our articles and perspectives on leadership, drawing on what we learn from the boards, CEOs and leadership teams we work with, and from our events such as the Alumni Executive Summit. The topics range across leadership in change, succession, board governance, AI leadership and how organisations develop their leaders, written by our consultants for those who lead, recruit or serve on a board.
Leadership when the ground is shifting
Geopolitical tension, technological disruption and social polarisation are reshaping the conditions in which leaders operate. At the Stockholm Executive Summit 2026, five leaders from diplomacy, business, academia and the Church explored what responsible leadership requires when uncertainty is no longer an exception, but the environment itself.
Leading Through Uncertainty: Nordic Perspectives on Leadership in a Changing World
Uncertainty is no longer an occasional challenge for leaders; it has become the leadership context. At Alumni Global's Öresund Spring Summit in Malmö, Anna Borg of Vattenfall, Mikael Bratt of Autoliv, board chair Malou Aamund and Björn Rosengren, former CEO of ABB, pointed to three answers: adaptable organisations, empowered people and a clear sense of purpose.
The power of change and growth: an interview with Erik Ringertz, CEO Netlight
Self-leadership and mutual support can let a consultancy grow large while staying close-knit. In a 2021 interview with Magnus Tegborg of Alumni Global, Erik Ringertz, then CEO of Netlight, describes the firm as a flock of birds in which everyone both leads and follows, and explains the pay-it-forward principle he credits with engaging 1,500 employees.