Spotlight on Strategic HR | Nordic Capital
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Spotlight on Strategic HR

Exceptional performance comes from engaged, empowered, and capable teams – making people the most important asset and a central focus of Ownership Excellence. By actively partnering with management, Nordic Capital leverages its expertise to help its companies attract, develop and retain high-performing teams and build future-ready organisations.

Supporting organisational performance

A focused value creation plan is established at the outset of every investment. From the very beginning, Nordic Capital’s top priority is to make sure to align people, organisational structure and performance with strategic objectives. Our in-house experts help assessing organisational capabilities to ensure a strong foundation. Throughout ownership, they partner with boards and management to address gaps, strengthen teams and enhance key capabilities. When approaching an exit, the focus shifts to ensuring readiness for a new ownership and to positioning each company for success in the next phase.

Strategic HR in Action

Nordic Capital supports its companies by evaluating leadership calibre and putting the right management in place to drive results. It also engages in recruiting top talent for CEO and C-suite roles as well as appointing experienced board members and chairs.

  • For Siteimprove, Nordic Capital supported restructuring of management, and the development of new commercial capabilities aligned with the value creation plan. It also helped the CEO implement a new operating model and embed stronger performance management practices, resulting in greater clarity, collaboration and accountability.

  • For Conscia, where growth included significant M&A activity, Nordic Capital helped integrate acquired businesses, working alongside the CEO to align strategy, define structure and appoint leaders to key roles.

  • For Regnology, this support was pivotal for Regnology when becoming a standalone company. Nordic Capital assisted with organisational design, talent placement and bringing new expertise into the business. Our inhouse team partnered with the head of HR to review, benchmark and advance HR processes and identify targeted improvement opportunities.

  • For Sambla, Nordic Capital helped to implement 9-boxing to calibrate performance and fit-for-future, and take action on high and low performers.

  • For Hargreaves Lansdown, Nordic Capital helped to upgrade the top team, support the transformation and reinforce a performance driven culture.