Leadership, sustainability and creativity

"We believe in lifelong learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement."

leadership

Leadership

Development of leaders, employees, and organizations. Strandkälla can coach you or your management team, run workshops, act as a sounding board, provide support, or actively lead and drive change. We have extensive experience in developing strategies, both in creation and implementation. We believe in diversity and are happy to support you in your DEI work (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion).

sustainability

Sustainability

We are happy to support you in developing and refining your sustainability strategy, integrating it with your business strategy, and identifying future circular business models. We assist with DMA (double materiality assessment) and CSRD — especially for smaller companies that are not directly covered by CSRD but still have everything to gain from understanding what their customers will expect

Health, Safety & Environment (HSE)

HSE – Health, Safety & Environment, work with ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISO 50001, continuous improvement, ensuring legal compliance, environmental reporting, risk assessments and the development of processes for these areas, crisis preparedness, business continuity plans, and systematic work environment management.

Continuous improvement and quality

Continuous improvement and quality

Continuous improvement, Kaizen events, training and development of root cause analysis methods, work with cultural improvement in both quality and HSE, Quality Assurance, process mapping, value stream analysis, as well as the development of processes and management systems.

interim solutions

Interim solutions

Strandkälla can support you when a key piece suddenly goes missing or when recruitment takes longer than expected. We offer interim solutions within sustainability, HSE, quality, and project management — primarily in leadership roles, but also in specialist positions. We are happy to help drive change within these roles.

project management

Project management

Project management within change initiatives, system implementations, integrations, administrative projects, as well as customer-facing project delivery, and development‑intensive projects within R&D and product development. Technical project management.

Vision and core values

•Strandkälla was founded with a vision of a sustainable working life where curiosity, creation, and creativity can thrive. Important values for us include trust, inclusion, collaboration, engagement, honesty, and transparency.  

Our Way of Working

We believe in lifelong learning and the importance of working with strategic issues. We strive for simple processes and enjoy contributing to the development of others. We are flexible, accustomed to handling change, and try to see opportunities. We want to stay close to our clients, listen to them, and at the same time dare to challenge.

Dialogue

Communication is important, and we value good dialogue and personal interaction. We are grateful that we can communicate in both Swedish and English, in speech and writing. We work well with all types of roles, at every level of an organization.

Our team

Birgitta Källstrand

Birgitta Källstrand

Birgitta holds a PhD and has spent 20+ years working at ABB Corporate Research and Hitachi Energy Research as a development engineer, R&D project manager, and department manager. In her manager role, she was heavily involved in HSE-related tasks and responsibilities. In 2022, Birgitta founded AB Strandkälla and has since been working as a consultant. Assignments have so far primarily been within the HSE field, but she has the competence to take on many other types of roles. Current focus areas include legal compliance, internal audits, environmental reporting, and continuous improvement.

+46 730 673 676

Jakob Källstrand

Jakob Källstrand

Jakob has over 25 years of experience, with a consistent focus on improvements — both in the quality domain and in larger transformative projects. He has held several local and global quality management roles. Jakob has a strong background in leadership management, strategy work, internal audits, and second- or third-party audits (such as ISO audits). Other areas of expertise include sustainability, HSE (Health, Safety & Environment), and BCP (Business Continuity Plan). Jakob possesses excellent problem-solving and root cause analysis skills and holds a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.

+46 70 292 10 38

Strandkälla was founded to happily and professionally share sound knowledge within leadership, sustainability, health, safety, environment and quality.