About us
We founded Länka Consulting in 2015 to provide an arena for exploring multi-stakeholder collaboration – in very practical ways. We were convinced that the future will require more collaboration between organizations, knowledge areas and different perspectives.
During the years, we have gathered a great amount of experience and knowledge about how we can lead complex collaboration processes successfully forward. We work with collaboration initiatives in different parts of society, at different hierarchical levels and with different types of organizations and sectors.
Our work has given us a deep insight in how a silo-driven culture in many areas has led to artificial separations that make it difficult to find solutions for the whole. That makes it even more crucial to strengthen the links, interactions and communication between different sectors, disciplines, issues, and geographical contexts to harness all the resources (competences, experiences, know-how, financial resources) our society as a system actually comprises.
Being part of many long-term collaboration processes we have also seen pitfalls and the effects of not having the competence needed to make the most out of collaboration. This makes us even more inspired to develop and spread knowledge and practical tools to people working with collaboration.
Anna Zingmark
Co-founder
Anna holds a Bsc in Economics from Umeå University and has been working for the last 25 years with multi-stakeholder development. She has previously worked at national development agencies in Sweden, business development organisations, small companies and a large consultancy firm. Anna has long experience in supporting public and private sector clients in complex development and transformation projects – in Sweden and abroad. She is an expert in local and regional development, research and development, cluster development and international collaboration. Anna has experience from designing multi-stakeholder collaboration initiatives, working within collaboration initiatives, analysing collaboration and supporting multi-stakeholder collaboration initiatives. She has a profound experience in helping organizations in various sectors to increase their collaborative capacity, and to effectively leverage and maximize capacities and potentials. Anna has developed expertise in efficient intra- and inter-organizational collaboration and organizational performance.
Contact: + 46 708 627 457
anna.zingmark@lankaconsulting.se
Karoline Bottheim
Co-founder
Karoline holds a MA in Pedagogics and Organizational psychology from Munich’s Ludwig-Maximilians-University. She is a certified systemic coach (EMCC senior practitioner level) and a certified systemic process consultant. She has great previous experience of providing systemic trainings in the fields of team coaching and process consultancy. Karoline has worked in different consultancy companies and has long international experience in designing and managing organizational development projects in the public, private and non-profit sector. Since starting to explore multi-stakeholder collaboration, Karoline has been involved in several collaboration initiatives, both analyzing and providing hands-on support to collaboration teams in a variety of fields. Her international background from Norway, Germany and Sweden has given her profound insight in the “being within” culture and language, and how important it is to understand the context from which people are speaking.
Contact: + 46 708 627 363
karoline.bottheim@lankaconsulting.se
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International organizations such as the EU Commission, EU programs and collaborations, Nordic cooperation organizations, government offices, national agencies, regions, county administrative boards, municipalities, clusters and network initiatives, universities and colleges, research institutes, national collaboration platforms and initiatives, innovation collaborations, non-profit organizations, interest groups, urban development projects.