Laterna Executive Search

Laterna Executive Search is a Swedish recruitment company working across Nordic, European and global markets with qualified recruitment for management, sales and specialist roles. The firm describes itself as motivated by engagement, trust and knowledge, committed to deep understanding of every assignment, passionate recruitment expertise, thorough understanding of all recruitment process phases, strong personality and cultural matching focus, and updated extensive recruitment networks.

Laterna operates with focus on personality and cultural matching alongside competency, understanding that management talent and experts need clear mission, optimal technical fit and sociocultural environment enabling full talent expression. The firm offers executive search with cultural matching, coaching and mentorship including onboarding, management and outplacement programmes across career levels, interim placement when speed is priority, and competency mapping and second opinions including complete 360 competency assessment.

The firm's success stems from long-term client relationships, positioning itself as "Trusted advisor" offering counsel before, during and after recruitment. Laterna places coaching demands on client organisations alongside supporting candidates, offering advice on assessment questions, cases and candidate profile interpretation. The team includes Johan Haraldsson specialising in technology talent, Marcus Sandell working with C-level and specialist functions across sectors, and Sven Waldenström with extensive leadership experience in Sweden and Europe. The firm positions itself as taking all clients equally seriously, viewing client success as best business reference.