Organisations succeed when people commit and thrive. I work with founders and leadership to identify and solve problems to release the full growth potential: building trust, culture and purposeful processes that enable people to thrive, and bringing focus and reducing founder dependency.

Helping organisations grow on healthy foundations

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Susanna Laanikari

I’m a generalist and a human-centred leader. My approach to helping organisations is open-minded, systemic and result-driven.

Susanna Laanikari, Founder of the Grounded Company

Ambiguity in an organisation eats productivity and innovation. Small problems grow into big ones over time.

I help organisations to create clarity, identify their most critical bottlenecks to unlock the full growth potential by figuring out ways to address them — through people, systems, and structures.

Services

  • Organisational development and change

    Effective and growth-oriented organisations

    Organisational development and change

    Helping organisations grow through flexible but structured practices that improve efficiency, strengthen collaboration and empower decentralised decision-making.

  • Leadership & team development

    Trust-based leadership that drives performance

    Leadership and team development

    Building leadership that creates clarity, a culture of trust and openness, and establishing capabilities that foster a sense of ownership, empower the team to commit, innovate, collaborate and grow.

  • Operationalising strategy to drive the vision

    Turning strategy into clarity and action

    Operationalising strategy to drive the vision

    Helping clarify priorities, bring focus, and connecting strategic direction with day-to-day work to help people commit and work towards a shared direction.

“As interim COO at Gubbe, Susanna was able to identify where the real need was and helped us direct our focus to the right things, namely interpersonal trust, leadership structures, and creating clarity.”

— Meri-Tuuli Helin, Founder & CEO of Gubbe

Get in touch

If you want to hear more, please reach out to me.

Book a 30-minute intro call

You can also send a message or call me:
susanna@groundedcompany.fi
+358 50 4386 489

Koskelantie 25 F 51
00610 Helsinki
Finland