Independent executive support · Sweden and internationally

Independent executive support when accountability, decisions and execution do not hold together.

Peter Öberg helps executive boards and leadership teams understand complex problems, secure decision-ready evidence and translate decisions into practical execution. My clients have direct access to senior experience from the first conversation to completed delivery.

Peter Öberg Consulting – strategy, governance and execution

When an issue crosses organisational boundaries and requires a decision that can be implemented.

Choose the category that best reflects your challenge. Each route helps you define its scope, test possible causes and select a proportionate next step.

Projects and cost

A critical project is losing momentum or becoming more expensive

Identify governance, forecast, decisions and recovery needs before options narrow.

Assess the project

Decisions and governance

Leadership lacks decision-ready evidence

Test whether alternatives, consequences, risks, ownership and feasibility are sufficiently clear.

Review the decision material

Accountability and authority

Issues fall between functions or suppliers

Identify where ownership, authority, escalation and follow-up break down.

Assess governance

AI and digitalisation

Technology exists but value or control is missing

Assess leadership accountability, law, security, data, adoption and operational value.

Assess AI maturity

Change and execution

The decision is made but everyday practice does not change

Examine whether priorities, capacity, behaviours and follow-up support the change.

Assess change capability

Property and energy

Cost, maintenance or premises lack coherent governance

Connect assets, demand, operations, investment and energy to long-term objectives.

Assess property governance

Different levels of awareness require different next steps.

Not every client needs to begin with an assessment. Choose the route that best reflects what you already know and what you need to achieve.

Understand

We see signs of a problem but need to define it

Use an executive assessment to structure the current position, test assumptions and identify which questions require evidence.

Choose an executive assessment

Verify

We know the problem but need an independent view

Test causes, risks and consequences before leadership selects an intervention or makes a material decision.

Discuss an independent review

Design

We need a governance model, decision paper or clear accountability

Develop a practical model for decision rights, roles, follow-up and ways of working that fits the organisation.

See how an assignment works

Execute

We know what must be done but lack capacity or specialist capability

Strengthen the organisation with senior support able to integrate decisions, risk, stakeholders and execution.

Test the need for senior support

Orient

We know something is wrong but cannot yet identify the underlying problem

Begin with a high-level orientation call. We frame hypotheses and identify the evidence required before you select an assessment or intervention.

Start without a fixed problem definition

Three areas where I create clear value.

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Strategy and governance

Support in defining direction, goals, priorities and governance models. I help management and boards move from a broad problem picture to concrete decision material.

Read about governing complex assignments

02

Projects and execution

Leadership of projects where many stakeholders, dependencies and decisions need to be held together. The focus is progress, responsibility, risk management and results.

Assess project governance and execution

03

Analysis and organisational development

Reviews, current-state analyses and recommendations that create decision capacity. Especially relevant in reorganisations, cost pressure or unclear governance.

Read about organisational change

Test whether governance can be evidenced in practice.

The 30-question Governance Assessment is designed for boards, leadership teams, steering groups and accountable executives. It examines decisions, accountability, risk, control and execution—and generates questions for leadership discussion rather than a superficial score.

Examples of assignments where analysis, governance and execution had to be kept together.

The cases are described at an overall level. The focus is on assignment type, method and client value.

Teledermatoscopy: from medical opportunity to workable implementation

Challenge: A clinically valuable idea depended on several organisations, professions and technical systems working as one process. Unclear interfaces between clinical assessment, technology, information flows and operational ownership risked delaying implementation and weakening accountability.

Peter's contribution: brought the parties around a shared problem definition, mapped critical dependencies and connected clinical needs with technology, governance and implementation responsibility.

Delivery: a documented current state, a workable target process, clarified roles and decision points, and a sequenced implementation plan.

Result: leadership received coherent decision material and a clearer route from medical opportunity to controlled operational implementation.

What the case demonstrates: leadership of complex change where no single function owns the whole problem.

Trade union organisation: unclear IT contracts and responsibilities

Challenge: Contract terms, invoices, purchasing responsibility and the services experienced by the organisation did not form a reliable overall picture. This made it difficult to challenge costs, manage supplier performance or determine who was accountable for corrective action.

Peter's contribution: reconciled contracts, delivery evidence, costs and responsibilities, separating verified commitments from assumptions and informal practice.

Delivery: a consolidated contract and service overview, material risk analysis, prioritised decision questions and an action plan for supplier dialogue.

Result: management gained stronger commercial control, clearer requirements and a defensible basis for decisions and continued supplier governance.

What the case demonstrates: connecting legal and commercial conditions with practical accountability and execution.

Larger municipality: crisis preparedness, organisation and execution

Challenge: Formal preparedness requirements and plans existed, but leadership needed confidence that roles, mandates, priorities and escalation paths would also work under pressure across organisational boundaries.

Peter's contribution: tested the current position against operational demands, clarified critical accountability and connected formal requirements with mandates and practical ways of working.

Delivery: a structured gap picture, clearer role allocation, prioritised measures and an actionable sequence for implementation and follow-up.

Result: leadership gained a shared view of the most important gaps and a practical basis for strengthening preparedness, ownership and follow-through.

What the case demonstrates: making a cross-functional and socially critical area governable in practice.

Municipality: property strategy and needs analysis

Challenge: Operational demand, the property portfolio, investment needs and financial constraints were assessed in different parts of the organisation. Without a common evidence base, short-term requests risked driving long-term commitments and costs.

Peter's contribution: integrated premises demand, portfolio data, financial consequences, accountability and feasibility into one leadership-level problem picture.

Delivery: a structured needs analysis, explicit strategic choices, decision criteria and recommendations for continued prioritisation.

Result: decision-makers received a shared basis for comparing needs, challenging assumptions and prioritising property interventions over time.

What the case demonstrates: connecting operational needs with long-term property governance.

Examples of organisations and environments where experience has been built.

Assignments and experience include private companies, municipalities, regions, public-sector environments and international contexts.

COOPAkademibokhandelnRegion StockholmSwedish Environmental Protection AgencyMoxyIDInera ABSwedish Transport Workers’ UnionMunicipalityLarger municipalityCanon Inc.UAE GovernmentÖssur ABHaninge MunicipalityRegion GotlandRegion Norrbotten

One point of access to broader senior expertise.

Peter Öberg Consulting acts as the senior point of contact when an assignment requires several perspectives. Peter remains responsible for the problem definition, assignment structure, quality and client dialogue. Selected independent specialists are involved only when the need is clear.

One accountable contactThe client receives an integrated delivery without having to coordinate separate advisers.
Expertise matched to needThe team is formed around the assignment's actual risks, scope and capability requirements.
Seniority throughoutThe people introduced to the client also take part in the delivery.

Collaborating consultant

Björn Ljung

Björn Ljung Consulting AB

Contributes to larger, execution-intensive assignments where senior analysis, governance, stakeholder anchoring and practical change capability need to be combined.

Björn Ljung on LinkedIn

Collaborating consultant

Niklas Franzel

Franzel Consulting AB

Provides complementary senior specialist expertise when the assignment's content and scope require a broader team. The exact role and accountability are always agreed with the client.

Niklas Franzel on LinkedIn

Every participating consultant is introduced to the client. Accountability, scope, confidentiality and commercial terms are clarified before work begins.

Simple method. High standards. Clear delivery.

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Define the assignment

We clarify purpose, mandate, expectations, stakeholders and what must be true when the assignment is completed.

2

Create decision material

I gather facts, structure the problem picture and formulate actionable alternatives.

3

Drive results

Execution is followed up with clear responsibility, short decision paths and concrete documentation.

Collaborative working session focused on analysis, decision support and practical problem-solving
The work stays close to leadership and operations: testing the problem definition, clarifying alternatives and preparing the next decision together.
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Senior consultant focused on leadership, structure and execution.

Peter Öberg Consulting works with assignments where experience, judgement and the ability to create progress are decisive. I help organisations make difficult issues understandable, create direction and translate decisions into practical action.

My strength lies in combining strategic understanding with operational precision: listening, structuring, prioritising and driving the process forward without losing quality or responsibility.

Do you have an issue that needs structure, decisions or momentum?

Book a free 30-minute orientation call. You do not need a settled problem definition; a high-level description of the situation is enough to begin.

Start at a high level. Do not send confidential information, sensitive personal data or security-critical material by email. An initial conversation can take place without those details. If further work requires confidential material, scope, confidentiality and information handling will be agreed before anything is shared.

Email: peter@oebergs.se

Phone: +46 70 533 58 32

Company: Peter Öberg Konsult AB

Company registration number: 559592-1080

F-tax: Innehar F-Skatt

Address: Victor Balcks Väg 127, 122 40 Enskede