Per Aspera Ad Astra
Keypoint works with owners, boards and management teams in situations that require senior leadership, independent assessment or practical implementation.
This may involve providing senior leadership capacity for a defined period, assessing a company ahead of an acquisition or sale, or accelerating the implementation of an approved change.
Each engagement is led by a senior professional who is accountable for the work and remains the client’s point of contact throughout the engagement. The mandate and engagement period are agreed from the outset.
Situations
Engagements rarely begin with a completed specification. They begin with a situation.
Owners or the board need an independent outside-in assessment of whether the right things are being done, how effectively the business operates, where improvement potential lies and what is required to achieve the objectives. The findings are brought together in a clear business plan with priorities and a practical way forward.
A senior position is vacant, or the existing management team needs additional capacity to manage day-to-day operations alongside a major change.
The decision has been made and recorded. The impact is not visible in the business, and no one has the time to drive it forward.
Margins are declining or costs are rising, while the causes and the most important priorities need to be clarified.
You need to understand the true state of the business, its organisation and the execution risks, not just the numbers on paper.
Owners or the board need an independent assessment or a sound basis for a specific decision, provided by someone who has held comparable responsibility.
An organisation, function or unit needs to be adapted, relocated, merged or closed down in a controlled and respectful way.
Services
We step into, or work alongside, the management team for an agreed period. This may involve filling a senior role, reinforcing a management team or leading a defined project that requires an experienced engagement lead.
We can take overall responsibility for strategic, operational, commercial, organisational, financial, legal and technical due diligence ahead of an acquisition, sale or other important decision. Keypoint leads the engagement and delivers it using our own expertise and, where required, qualified specialists from our network. We can also support implementation after the decision.
We work with cost reduction, procurement, logistics, production, service organisations and business development. We assess the current situation, prioritise actions and lead implementation together with your organisation.
Within this area, we also lead and coordinate restructuring, closures, reorganisations and workforce reductions.
Experience and engagements
Over the years, Torbjörn Geijer and Michael Flodin have carried out assignments for, and held roles within, organisations including:
Why Keypoint
People
Keypoint is led by partners Torbjörn Geijer and Michael Flodin. For engagements that are larger in scale or duration, or require specific specialist expertise, Keypoint adds selected partners and specialists from its network. Keypoint retains leadership of the engagement, and the client has one clearly accountable point of contact.
Both Torbjörn and Michael have held senior line-management positions. Together, their experience includes CEO, COO and CFO roles, international assignments and service on more than 30 boards in Sweden and abroad.
Torbjörn has held senior line-management positions as CEO, COO and CFO and served as a board member. He works with governance, due diligence and business development, bringing an owner and board perspective to restructuring and transformation.
Michael has served as CEO and as a board member and has held operational leadership roles across procurement, logistics and production. He works with performance improvement, due diligence and the practical delivery of change.
Process
A few lines are enough. The engagement does not need to be fully defined.
to agree a time for an initial conversation of around 15 minutes.
so that the scope, cost and objectives are clear.
throughout the agreed engagement period, followed by a handover when the work is complete.
Next step
A few lines about the situation are enough. The person whose experience best matches your needs will contact you personally by phone or email.
