Flemming Norrgren

Flemming Norrgren has spent nearly three decades developing management skills, building industrial R&D functions, and coordinating large international R&D projects in pharmaceuticals, technology, and other knowledge-intensive industries. During the 1980s he spearheaded a number of change projects within the manufacturing industry that encompassed the redesign of factories, work organizations, and logistics. As a researcher, Norrgren is founder and associate director of the Fenix Executive Ph.D. program and research center. Currently, Norrgren is a professor in Technology Management at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. He is also director of TruePoint Center Europe, and Partner at TruePoint, a research-based firm that works with select organizations and their leaders to build institutions that achieve sustained high performance by unlocking the energies and the capabilities of their people.

Norrgren has led more than 30 different management research projects – in change management, industrial R&D management, project management, leadership and socio-technical systems design – for leading companies such as AstraZeneca, Ericsson, TELIA and Volvo. He works with firms that transform themselves in ways that create financial performance while demonstrating commitment to social values. Norrgren conducts intervention research, seeking to enable meaningful organizational change by addressing organizational design, integration processes and leadership issues.

Norrgren is the co-author of “Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value,” (2011) an in-depth look into the corner offices of companies like Campbell’s Soup, Cummins, IKEA, Infosys, Standard Chartered Bank, the Tata Group and Volvo that consistently outperform their peers. With powerful stories and timely advice, “Higher Ambition” reveals how today’s most successful business leaders are harnessing the energy and potential within their organizations to deliver economic and social value. Norrgren received his Ph.D. in psychology at Göteborg University in 1982, where he later served as associate professor.