Leadership in challenging times

Leadership is especially critical when organizations have to adapt to difficult business environments.

Usually, companies have access to plentiful resources, customers are satisfied, and opportunities might be everywhere. However, when your company faces difficult times and the economic conditions are changing the leaders have to make fundamental changes in their approach external and internal circumstances. They need to focus on survival and they need to motivate people through the downturn. Most importantly, they need to take the opportunity to regroup, rethink and renew their strategies, and to take advantage of new opportunities.

BI Norwegian Business School has the pleasure of inviting you to an interesting and motivational dialogue between Jacob Schram, CEO of Norwegian Shuttle AS and Inge Jan Henjesand, president of BI. The topics of discussion relate to challenges all leaders may cross upon difficult times.

Jacob Schram

Chief Executive Officer at Norwegian Shuttle AS. Degree Master’s in science in Economics and Strategy, 1989, Copenhagen Business School

Jacob Schram joined Norwegian as Chief Executive Officer in January 2020. Schram holds a Master of Science in Economics and Strategy from Copenhagen Business School. Jacob has several years of experience from large international companies. His experience includes 22 years including Head of Statoil Fuel & Retail (SFR), Senior Advisor at McKinsey, Director of Public Relations at McDonalds Norway and European Director at the Canadian enterprise Alimentation Couch-Tard that had more than 2000 services stations all around Europe under the name Circle.

Jacob served as Group President in Statoil Fuel & Retail for Europe for a period of 14 years until he stepped down in 2018. Under this period, he led the process of publicly listing for SFR on the Norwegian Stock Exchange. In addition to this, he led the global rebranding of 10,000 fuel and convenience stores from Statoil to Circle K. During 2019, he worked with private investments, start-ups, and presentations related to his book “The Essence of Business”.

In his book, Jacob describes the importance of understanding the complete picture about leadership;

• You must understand the essence of strategy
• You need to listen to your employees,
• You need to set goals you can achieve
  
  

Jacob Schram’s book is available in English and Norwegian at Akademika online bookstore in Norway.

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