Posts tagged Leadership
Rethinking ‘our work’

ReD Associates recently spent time with a dozen young professionals working across a range of industries in Shanghai, Paris, Copenhagen, Stockholm, and NYC. We wanted to see the future of work through their eyes: What has changed in their work attitudes, practices, norms, and expectations for employers?

Counter to popular narratives around the rise of slacker culture and young people ‘check- ing out’ of work, we’ve seen a renewed passion among young professionals for work, often spurred by a greater sense of autonomy with fewer office- or workplace-related distrac- tions. For organizations, this raises questions about how to harness this passion and build a thriving company culture and community.

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Building a growth engine by balancing soft and hard

In 2019, the global investment organization EQT acquired Karo Pharma with the ambition to build a leading Over-The-Counter healthcare provider in Northern Europe. Later that year, Christoffer Lorenzen was brought in as CEO to lead that journey. Christoffer made the transition from the bioscience company Chr. Hansen, where he had been part of leading the company’s successful growth journey.

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