Jakob Kulas
Advisory and coaching grounded in real CEO and board experience.
With a background as a leader in both smaller, owner-led companies and large international organisations, I have carried the responsibility myself as founder, CEO and leader. I know what it feels like to navigate complexity and face decisive choices. That experience helps me support entrepreneurs, business leaders, owners, management teams and organisations in the private and public sectors.
Through Occulus I offer independent strategic advisory, business development, change management, mentoring and professional coaching.
As a neutral and independent partner, I listen actively, contribute experience and expertise, and help you gain insight into both your current and your desired situation.
My view of endurance and focus on goals has been shaped both in the boardroom and through demanding sporting challenges, including a completed Ironman. Real change requires patience, discipline and the ability to hold your course even when it gets hard.
My approach is built on understanding the whole picture, identifying what really needs to change and turning insights into concrete action.
- Owner, Chair of the Board, CEO and interim CEO
- Executive MBA, EFL / Lund University
- Master in Information Systems: Digital Business Development, Linnaeus University
- Diploma-holding coach via CoachCompanion (ICF-accredited programme)
- Coach in EFL's Executive Management Program
Experience and expertise
I combine a strategic, holistic perspective with the practical ability to deliver. My advice starts from real organisational and business circumstances, with a focus on decisions that can be anchored, implemented and followed up.
I use coaching as a professional tool to create reflection, new perspectives and conscious action.
Board work and corporate governance
I am a certified board member with extensive experience of professional board work in both owner-led and member-driven organisations, including as chairman of the board and as vice chairman of the board of StyrelseAkademien Skåne.
Leadership development and coaching
I am a diploma-holding coach and for many years a coach in EFL's Executive Management Program. I support experienced leaders in navigating complex choices and turning insights into action.
Hands-on leadership experience
I have been a founder, CEO and interim CEO myself, in times of both growth and crisis. My advice is therefore built on the experience of carrying the responsibility myself.
How I work
- Personal commitment
- You work directly with me throughout the assignment, from the first conversation to the follow-up.
- Strategic understanding
- The whole picture and context come before individual models, methods and solutions.
- Experience-based advice
- The advice starts from real circumstances and is adapted to the organisation's goals, capabilities and situation.
- Practical execution
- The focus is not only on what should be done, but on how decisions can be put into practice.
- Independence and trust
- Our conversations are confidential and I have no interests of my own in your decisions, so you can speak openly about what is truly difficult.
- Long-term value creation
- The goal is changes that keep working after the individual assignment has ended.
Voices on working together
”During my time on the Leading Impact leadership programme, I had the privilege of being challenged by Jakob as mentor and executive coach. He generously shared his experience and made sure I maintained the highest quality based on my goals.”
”During a period of rapid business growth, we succeeded with our change management and developed our organisation in an excellent way. As chairman of the board and interim CEO, Jakob was an enormous help to us owners. He coached us into board work and business development, gave us tools we benefit greatly from and was hugely appreciated by our employees.”
”Jakob has an exceptional ability to create momentum in the way he coaches. With his generous approach, humble attitude and confident way of expressing himself, the insights he creates become opportunities for better business with clearer value propositions – which also become concretely measurable.”
Facing an important choice or a change?
As an independent sounding board, I help you see your current situation clearly and find the right direction forward. Let us start with an open, no-obligation conversation.
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