LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT FOR THE WALLENBERG SPHERE SINCE 2002

We believe in empowering our leaders with the right mindset, skillset and network to be able to lead the sustainable transformation ahead. This leadership program provides a compass to navigate our complex business landscape. The participants are all senior executives linked to companies who are part of the Swedish Wallenberg Sphere

Novare Leadership Academy has been entrusted with running Forum Novare since 2002, when the program was initiated to reinforce relationships and know-how between prominent leaders in the Wallenberg Sphere. Today, over 20 years later and with FAM as our new partner in The Novare Group, our ambition is to be a source of inspiration and connection for the new generation of top executives within the sphere.  

In the Novare Executive Program – Forum Edition, we work with strategic leadership issues from an international perspective and with sustainability in focus. We also look inward and work with our self-leadership and strengths as leaders. The program gives the participants a unique network and access to prominent leaders and experts as our guest speakers. 

SELECTION OF PREVIOUS SPEAKERS

Peter Wallenberg Jr
Chairman
The Wallenberg Foundations

Eva Fors
Managing Director
Google Cloud Nordic

Vahid Zohali
General Manager
IBM Sweden

Jessica Häggström
Head of HR
Investor

Michael Treschow
Chairman
Wallenberg Investment 

Hans Stråberg
Board Assignments
Investor, Atlas Copco, CTEK, Roxtec, SKF

Åsa Tamsons 
SVP and Head of Business Area Technologies & New Businesses
Ericsson

Cecilia Sandberg
Senior Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer
Altas Copco

Tom Johnstone 
Chairman Husqvarna, Wärtsilä
Board Member Northvolt, Volvo Cars, Investor AB

Petra Sundström
Vice President & Head of Digital Offering
Sandvik

Mattias Frumerie
Head of Delegation to UNFCCC
Swedish Ministry of Climate and Enterprise

LEADERSHIP, GLOBAL OUTLOOK & NETWORKING – PROGRAM DESIGN 

The program design is based on four interactive modules. Three two-day-modules in Stockholm and a trip to Northern Sweden to study the sustainable, innovative transformation that is taking place in the region. 

The program is tailored based on the global agenda, with a focus on opportunities and challenges and will give participants new knowledge and perspectives on business strategy, sustainable change, leading towards results and self-leadership. 

We mix workshops, experience-sharing and reflection within the group. To each module, we invite top executive leaders and other highly respected experts. Through personal dialogues and fruitful discussions, the participants will gain new knowledge and inspiration. After each module, the participants make a personal action plan. 

• Module 1 – SETTING DIRECTION
• Module 2 – DECIDE HOW TO PLAY AND HOW TO WIN
• Module 3 – PEOPLE FIRST
• Module 4 – NOVARE NORTH INNOVATION TOUR

NOVARE NORTH INNOVATION TOUR

Our business trip to Northern Sweden – “Sweden’s Silicon Valley” is a unique experience to explore the extensive transformation that is happening in this region. For four days, we will do company visits and take part in exclusive experiences and meetings with leaders and experts representing different sectors; business, culture and the public sector. Our focus is sustainability, innovation, leadership and culture. Read more about Novare North Innovation Tour 2023 here. 

NOVARE ALUMNI NETWORK  

After the program, participants become members of the Novare Alumni Network. We arrange regular network events where members come to be inspired by interesting guest speakers, meet their peers and to create new business contacts with people from Novare’s network. The membership is included in the program investment. 

“The program has been a great asset for me. A very good mix between inspiration from interesting experienced leaders and a lot of time to dig into one’s own individual leadership and what drives me. The greatest value for me has been gaining access to the valuable network of the other participants in my group and being able to reflect together and learn from their successes and challenges as senior leaders. And the North Innovation Tour was the ”grand finale” of the program.”

Calle Medin
Senior Vice President Sustainability
Husqvarna

“Novare Executive Program gave me deepened knowledge about important trends, and I got the opportunity to work on my leadership and how do drive change from a strategic perspective. The business trip to Northen Sweden was incredibly inspiring! The region is at the forefront of sustainability and energy transition, and several sectors work together to find solutions to major issues. It’s facinating to see that by combining one’s unique abilities, conditions and future visions, one can implement major changes in short time. The trip also gave me the opportunity to deepen and broaden my business network.”

Kristin Nordin
Chief Operating Officer
SEB Private Wealth Management & Family Office