We provide our clients with exceptional executives.

With strong networks, high quality, flexibility and a drive to succeed we utilize our combined expertise to help our clients exceed their business goals.

The pillars of Ahrle Laurell & Partners

Our offer

To contribute to world-class sustainable leadership, cultural and operational excellence, and thereby deliver tangible competitive advantages through our executive services.

Our approach

To leverage on +60 years of experience and the latest in technology in a personalized, agile boutique setting.
As a team we collaborate seamlessly and dedicate our time to adding value.

Our goal

To bring exceptional minds together.
At Ahrle Laurell & Partners we invest our reputation in our candidate’s and client’s accelerated success.

Our drive

To make a sustainable impact and deliver beyond expectations.
As each position, company and culture is unique, we take great care in delivering tailored solutions.

Ahrle Laurell & Partners is an independent and value driven firm combining an extensive knowledge of executive search and leadership consulting with the highly-personalised service of a professional boutique firm.
As each assignment, company and culture is unique, we take great pride in finding the best solution – for the client and for the executive.
Founded in 2016 by Lena Ahrle and Karin Laurell and early on joining forces with Kjerstin Blomquist, Ahrle Laurell & Partners is built on more than six decades of experience and insights from the field.
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"We started Ahrle Laurell & Partners with the goal of building a firm based on strong values and a common drive to never settle, and always push ourselves to deliver above and beyond. At the centre lies the many clients and executives we have had the privilege to work with, a continuous source of inspiration"

Karin LaurellFounding Partner

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Lena
Ahrle

FOUNDING PARTNER 

A veteran and innovator in the industry. Specialises in board services, interim executive solutions and executive search.

Lena’s industrial spike is wide ranging from Healthcare, Financial Services, FinTech, FMCG, Life Science and the Industrial Sector. Lena has a clear expertise in offering unique support to organisations and companies when challenged with a CEO’s transition or succession.

Lena has a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration and Economics from Stockholm School of Economics with a major in Organisation and Management. She spent 8 years in the manufacturing as well as professional services industry before joining the executive search firm Alumni. During her almost twenty years in the industry, Lena has been a pioneer in highlighting the relationship between business performance and diversity & inclusion as well a driving force in tailoring solutions enabling the NGO sector to attract and retain top talent.

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Karin
Laurell

FOUNDING PARTNER 

A seasoned professional and trusted advisor. Specialises in executive search, board recruitment and management assessments.

Karin has a wide industry experience ranging from Veterinary and Life Science, Healthcare, Technology, Industrial Manufacturing and Consumer Goods. Her expertise covers the full spectra of different ownership structures – from private equity, listed companies and venture capital to membership organisations and NGO’s.

Karin spent close to twenty years at the executive search firm Alumni, during which time she also founded the company Impact Executives. Impact Executives is today the leading interim management firm in the Nordics. Prior to joining Alumni, Karin worked as management consultant at a leading consultancy firm focusing on change management. She holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration with a minor in German from the University of Uppsala.

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Kjerstin
Blomquist

COO & RESEARCHER

Continuously striving towards empowering sustainable organisations with diverse and great teams.

For well over a decade, Kjerstin, has delivered local and international CxO projects covering a broad spectra of industry sectors and functions. Her core expertise is the consumer and retail sector as well as digital transformation and disruptive and transformative technology.

At Alumni, Kjerstin led multiple development projects aimed at continuously developing processes as well as led the setup and managed an outsourced support services team based in Vietnam. Having British origin (the family immigrated to Zimbabwe in the mid 50’s) and lived in UK, Kjerstin is completely bilingual in English/Swedish. Kjerstin holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Environment Analysis from Mälardalens’ University coupled with studies in Economics and Psychology.

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