Darow

Darow is a Swedish company that works in the intersection of investors, owners, boards and management teams as a long term growth advisor and executive recruitment partner. It describes itself as a trusted advisor to growth companies and an expert in insight driven organisational growth, and its tagline is ensuring conscious growth. The company's services fall into three groups. Assessment services cover team assessment, board assessment and individual assessment. Advisory services cover mentoring, organisational roadmap development, alignment assurance and tailored services. Recruitment and placement covers executive recruitment and board placement.

The firm's advice is based on insights from partnerships with numerous top growth companies in Scandinavia, several spanning over a decade and multiple growth phases, which shapes the questions its published insights address: what an investor should do once due diligence is complete, the four steps to insight driven organisational growth, why very talented entrepreneurs fail to scale, whether a new CFO is just an overpaid accountant, and the problem of the external CEO who is needed but not wanted. Its focus is therefore on leadership, board and C-suite appointments and on the organisational capability behind them, rather than on volume hiring.

Darow has operated since 2009 and its team consists of 15 consultants working from offices in Stockholm and Gothenburg. The Stockholm office is at Birger Jarlsgatan 8 and the Gothenburg office is at Ekelundsgatan 4. The company says the ecosystem it operates in is daring, ambitious and forward leaning, which is where its name comes from. Internally it deploys a systemic model to develop its own business, expects everyone to contribute from day one, fosters self leadership and holds multiple off-sites each year, summed up in what it calls the Darow World, where fun is the enabler of everything and excellence is key to growth.