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Meet the Founder

Charlotte is an experienced CEO and Board Member with a strong entrepreneurial mindset. She is highly motivated by creating exponential growth. Her passion of building businesses and organisations has taken her through a wide range of industries, around the world

  • Her Corporate Finance career sharpened her analythical skills at the very start of her carreer
  • Her international work experience has heightened her intercommunicational skills and perspectives
  • Her first CEO role was in a TV station in Ghana, where she and her team grew the TV station into become the most popular channel in the country
  • She was also the first ever female CEO of a professional ice hockey team in Sweden, hence she knows how to operate in male dominated industries, to manage turnaround cases and to handle media strategically 
  • Comprehensive Corporate Governance skills from her 5 year tenure as CEO at the Academy of Board of Directors in Stockholm, Sweden. She lectured business owners, CEOs and NEDs in strategy and governance
  • The businesses she has led over the years has shown steep growth, due to her creating compassionate joyful company cultures that helps the team to flourish, be innovative, and to create new revenue streams 
  • She is a mentor to African Female Entrepreneurs in her free time, through a think tank in the US, because giving back and paving the way for other women are important


Creating successful teams starts at the top - building and supporting confident compassionate leaders are key. She believes that given the right tools, anyone can be successful in managing people around them. The compassionate and trust-building leadership style Charlotte is advocating is focusing both on the wellbeing for you as a leader, as well as creating a prosperous foundation for your entire team.


Charlotte Gustavsson | LinkedIn 


Read her blog on Governance and Leadership 

A few previous gigs and activities

Mentor & Coach

  • African Women Entrepreneurship Cooperative - mentor since 2016
    Visit AWEC: www.weareawec.org
  • Mentor/lecturing entrepreneurs through Liberty Ventures accelerator program, USA
  • CEO coach (confidential clients)



Podcasts & Media

Executive Education

  • Creator and facilitator of an online crash course in Corporate Governance
    Visit: Styrelsekursen (framgangsakademin.se)
  • Styrelseakademien – Creator and facilitator of a CEO Leadership Program - Corporate Governance from
    a CEO perspective
    (2-day program) 
    Styrelseakademien
  • Styrelseakademien – Co-creator (with Mikael Salo) and facilitator of a CSRD training for Board of Directors (1 day class)
    Styrelseakademien


Public Speaker

  • Speaker at the 2023 annual Corporate Governance conference in Yerevan, Armenia on ESG, arranged by the CGC 
    supported by CLDP and CIPE
  • Silicon Valley – European Governance Models vs. the US 
  • Dagens Industri – 2-hour session for Group CEOs on the important relationship between the CEO and the Board
  • (AWEC) African Women Entrepreneurship Cooperative (Botswana) – two sessions on Corporate Governance from an entrepreneur perspective – Corporate Boards vs. Advisory Board
  • (AWEC) African Women Entrepreneurship Cooperative (Botswana) – two sessions on Leadership, deep diving into the key factors of building trust and accountability.

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