Performance Management

Helena Tronner is a Senior Partner at Navigio, focusing on Leadership Services. She works with executive teams and boards to assess and strengthen leadership capabilities, drive transformation, and build resilient organisations ready for growth and complexity.

With over 20 years of leadership and advisory experience, Helena has guided more than 70 organisations through successful transformations, combining strategic vision with measurable outcomes such as improved efficiency, profitable growth, and stronger leadership capacity.

Before joining Navigio, she held several senior roles at Knowit, including CEO of Knowit Datalytics, CEO of Knowit Transformation Management, and Vice President at Knowit Insight Accelerate. She led large-scale change initiatives, developed leadership frameworks, and enhanced clients’ capabilities in AI, analytics, and data-driven business models.

Helena has deep expertise in people strategy, organisational growth, strategic sales, and social sustainability, with a proven ability to align cultural and leadership transformation with business goals. A key achievement includes leading Knowit’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion agenda, taking the company from the bottom to the top of Allbright’s list and earning Sweden’s Most Gender-Equal Listed Company award in 2019.

She is also a sought-after speaker on transformation, DEI, AI implementation, and leadership.

Helena is a trained psychologist from Stockholm University.

Malin Tessell serves as a Partner, building strong executive teams through Executive Search and Management Assessments, and is the Co-Head of Executive Search at Navigio. Malin works across various industries, bringing extensive experience in collaborating with large and growing companies, including those in Financial Services, Consumer Goods, Tech, Business Services, and Construction & Real Estate.

She is specifically responsible for the CFO-practice at Navigio, possessing a deep understanding of the requirements for modern CFOs in diverse contexts such as private equity, listed companies, and start-ups. Her broad experience includes recruiting for a wide range of leadership roles, including CEO, CHRO, CCO, M&A, and Sustainability.

Earlier in her career, Malin worked as a management consultant at The Boston Consulting Group and held roles within Strategy and Finance at the Daimler Group in Germany, operating in a highly international context.

Malin holds an MSc in Business Administration from the Technical University in Berlin, Germany. Fluent in Swedish, English, and German.

Måns serves as the Managing Partner at Navigio and has extensive experience in assisting clients with Executive and Board Search, as well as Board and Management Assessments. He works across industries but primarily focuses on the Consumer Product & Services (CPS) and Tech sectors.

Måns leads the CPS customer area at Navigio and is the Co-Head of Executive Search.

Earlier in his career, Måns held the position of COO at Keybroker (now part of Altor-owned ARC), where his responsibilities included building and leading Operations, Client Delivery, and the KAM function. Before that, Måns worked for over 10 years as a management consultant at Andersen Consulting and Accenture, both internationally and in Sweden.

Måns holds a Master of Law (LL.M.) and a BSc in Business Administration and Economics from Lund University.

Nicholay Tehrani currently serves as Partner at Navigio and holds the position of Country Manager for Norway and Denmark. With an 18-year career, he boasts 12 years of expertise as a consultant in executive search and leadership assessment. His key focus areas include competence models, competency mapping, leadership assessment, evaluations of executive groups and boards, and executive recruitment.

Nicholay’s professional reach extends internationally, collaborating with global businesses. His specialisation lies in searches for intricate leadership roles, assessments of leaders, and guidance in the selection process.

Nicholay Tehrani, an experienced professional, served as an International Business Consultant at Mercuri Urval Norway, aligning individual capabilities with organisational needs. As a Headhunter at Hodejegerne Møllerstad & Christiansen, he specialised in the digital media, communication, and PR sectors, contributing to strategic human resource consulting and talent acquisition. Nicholay is currently involved in multiple boards.

Nicholay holds a Master of Management in Consulting and International Business from BI Norwegian Business School, as well as a Bachelor of Science in Marketing with a specialisation in Human Resource Management from the same institution in 2006.

Stefan is a senior professional and Partner at Navigo with 25 years’ experience from consulting. Primary focus on Executive Search, Board Search, Management Assessments, and Board Evaluation. With extensive experience in the field, Stefan is dedicated to delivering top-tier talent solutions and is a valued advisor to owners, boards and CEOs.

Stefan leads assignments over multiple industries with focus on Consumer Product and Financial Services. Stefan leads the Performance Management Service Area.

Prior to his current role at Navigo, Stefan served as a Management Consultant at both Accenture and Connecta were he built up expertise in supply chain, sourcing and leading change management programs.

Stefan holds a Master of Science in Social Science from Linköping University, complemented by studies in Economics at UCL, London. He has a European Test User Certificate ‘Work & Organisational Assessment’ issued by European Federation of Psychologists’​ Associations, EFPA.

Thomas is a senior professional with broad experience in conducting senior leader assessments, enhancing team effectiveness, and providing onboarding coaching for executive and management levels across Nordic and global organisations. His expertise extends to coaching executive management levels and crafting evidence-based Talent Management processes.

Before joining Navigio, Thomas spent the last four years as the Head of Leadership Development, Assessment & Succession, and Commercial Lead for the Nordics at Korn Ferry. He also has an extensive background as a Management Consultant, having served as a VP for consulting and marketing in another Assessment company in the Nordics. Additionally, he held the position of Vice President at a Centre of Excellence in Paris for another professional firm.

Thomas holds a Master of Business Administration from Rotterdam School of Management. He also holds a Marketing and Business degree from the Norwegian Business School and a Bachelor’s in Military Sciences from The Royal Norwegian Military Academy.