What Systems7 does

Systems7 is a boutique management consulting firm headquartered in Oslo, Norway, founded in 2021 to help senior leadership teams in large enterprises and private equity portfolio companies drive transformation. The firm operates with a distributed team of nine practitioners across Norway, North America, the UK, South Africa, and Australia, and was incubated as a partner of Summa Equity, now Europe's largest impact fund. Its core deliverable is intellectual frameworks and facilitation methodologies applied through six modular service offerings: developing leaders and teams; equipping leadership teams for change; aligning on strategic direction; mobilising the wider organisation; building contextual fluency; and accelerating impact performance.

Systems7's underlying 'technology' consists of proprietary methodologies and intellectual property rather than software. Key components include the S7 Impact Map, co-developed with Summa Equity, which frames impact across three spheres (own operations, value chain, beyond value chain) and is paired with the Immunity to Change framework and a systems-thinking methodology that accepts seven layers of complexity. The firm has built an advisory network of externally recognized thought leaders (e.g., Jeremy Leggett, Pia Heidenmark Cook, Lt-Gen Sir Graeme Lamb) who extend its contextual fluency for client engagements, and it delivers content through the WTF Now? podcast, events, and adventure-based leadership experiences.

The firm monetizes exclusively through bespoke, engagement-based professional services fees, with no standard pricing, no digital self-serve product, and no resellers. Distribution is entirely direct, combining enterprise field sales rooted in senior-level networks with event-driven demand generation. Customer segments are hybrid: enterprise leadership teams (with disclosed work for Unilever, Verizon, Mastercard, Equinor, DB Schenker, Yara, Nordea via team backgrounds, plus named engagements with Orkla HPC, a global maritime classification society, and home furnishings companies in Germany and Poland) and investment firms/portfolio companies (anchored by Summa Equity, with CSRD health checks delivered in partnership with GIST Impact and Celsia).

Name

Systems7

Legal name

Systems7

Website

https://systems7.co

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Systems7 is a Norway-based boutique consulting firm that helps senior leadership teams and private equity portfolio companies drive strategic, cultural, and impact transformation through bespoke engagements built on proprietary frameworks and a global advisor network.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Management Consulting

NAICS

Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services (541611), Management Consulting Services (54161)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Organization Design & Change Management Consulting (BPAHACAD)

Keywords

• Leadership development consulting
• Organizational transformation advisory
• Executive coaching services
• Sustainability strategy consulting
• Strategy facilitation services

Headquarters

HQ city

Oslo

HQ country

Norway

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Modular consulting services: S7 offers six modular service offerings delivered as consulting engagements. Services can be standalone projects or combined into larger transformation programmes. Revenue is generated through professional services fees for leadership development, strategy facilitation, organisational transformation, and impact performance advisory. Also includes services tailored for portfolio managers of investment firms.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Systems7 is a boutique consulting firm that helps senior leadership teams in large enterprises drive transformation through six modular service offerings: Developing leaders and teams; Equipping leadership teams for change; Aligning on the company's strategic direction; Mobilising the wider organisation; Building contextual fluency; and Accelerating impact performance. The firm also delivers a tailored service line for investment fund portfolio managers covering CSRD health checks, impact sprints, culture definition, leadership capability building across portfolio companies, and events for portfolio leaders, plus an end-to-end events and experiences design service.

Product overview

Systems7 offers six modular consulting service offerings for leadership transformation: Developing leaders and teams, Mobilising the wider organisation, Building contextual fluency, Equipping leadership teams for change, Aligning on company's strategic direction, and Accelerating impact performance. For portfolio managers, S7 provides five specialized services including CSRD health checks, impact sprints, defining cultures for performance, building leadership capabilities across portfolio, and designing/delivering events for portfolio company leaders. The company also offers inspiring events and experiences, produces the 'WTF Now?' podcast, and has developed proprietary intellectual property including the S7 Impact Map tool. The offerings are delivered through their advisory network of thought leaders and can be combined into larger programmes.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• WTF Now? by S7: A podcast by Systems7 for Nordic and European leaders exploring geopolitics, energy transition, sustainability, climate, and societal issues. Episodes available on Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube.

Products and services

• Developing leaders and teams Leadership development programmes that level up the capabilities and mindsets of leaders and teams to enable strategic and commercial aims; demonstrated via a nine-month programme for next-generation market managers at a German home furnishings company.
• Equipping leadership teams for change Identification of barriers to performance in leadership teams and alignment on actions for dismantling them; demonstrated via a strategic alignment engagement using the Immunity to Change framework for a Polish home furnishings company, producing a 'winning aspiration' integrated into business planning.
• Aligning on company's strategic direction Building a shared view of a company's futures and longer-term strategic ambitions; demonstrated via strategic direction alignment for Orkla Home and Personal Care, working on making sustainable living irresistible through strategic narrative work.
• Mobilising the wider organisation Transformation support ensuring the people required for implementation understand and support the change; demonstrated via the design and delivery of a Global People Summit for ~100 participants from multiple countries for a global maritime classification society, crowdsourcing solutions for people-function transformation across 100 countries.
• Building contextual fluency Rapid help for leaders to achieve enough fluency in a new area to enable decision-making against uncertainty, delivered through S7's network of senior advisors and external experts.
• Accelerating impact performance Helping organisations move beyond compliance to impact-driven value creation to stay ahead of regulation; underpinned by the proprietary S7 Impact Map tool covering environmental, social, and governance-related impacts across own operations, value chain, and beyond value chain.
• CSRD health checks Double materiality analysis and action plan preparation for complying with the EU's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), delivered together with partners GIST Impact and Celsia to portfolio leadership teams.
• Impact sprints Support for portfolio company leaders in building a gameplan for impact that is co-linear with core business, backed by robust KPIs and targets.
• Defining cultures for performance Support for portfolio companies needing to evolve their cultures to enable transformation by defining how the team needs to show up for stakeholders.
• Building leadership capabilities across portfolio Development programmes that raise the leadership game across an investment portfolio, efficiently meeting the needs of key leadership groups across portfolio companies.
• Events for portfolio company leaders Design and delivery of events including high-level summits, roundtables, and kick-offs for portfolio company leaders, building community and shared learning across a fund's portfolio.
• Inspiring events and experiences

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• GIST ImpactcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerS7 partners with GIST Impact as part of its CSRD health check service offering. Together with Celsia, GIST Impact helps portfolio leadership teams conduct double materiality analysis and prepare action plans for compliance under the EU's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive.
• CelsiacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerS7 partners with Celsia alongside GIST Impact for its CSRD health check service. The partnership enables S7 to offer portfolio companies a comprehensive double materiality analysis and CSRD compliance action plan, combining S7's transformation expertise with Celsia's sustainability reporting capabilities.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• BSR (Business for Social Responsibility): Sustainable business advisory network helping companies integrate ESG and sustainability strategy across operations, value chain, and beyond — directly mirroring S7's Impact Map framework. Comparable on CSRD-relevant advisory work with global enterprises and supply chains.
• SystemIQ: Systems-change advisory firm working on climate, circular economy, and nature transitions with corporates, investors, and policymakers. Comparable to S7's systems-thinking methodology and impact-driven approach, though SystemIQ's primary focus is sector-level transformation rather than executive facilitation.
• Volans: Boutique sustainability and innovation advisory firm working with senior leaders on regenerative business, ESG, and systems-level transformation. Closely matches S7's boutique positioning, sustainability depth, and C-suite engagement style.
• FSG (Foundation Strategy Group): Impact strategy consulting firm advising corporations, foundations, and NGOs on social impact strategy, ESG, and shared value. Highly comparable to S7's portfolio-manager services (impact sprints, CSRD health checks) and systems-thinking-informed approach; also a boutique nonprofit consultancy.

Broad incumbents

• Egon Zehnder: Executive search and leadership advisory firm with practices around CEO succession, board advisory, and team effectiveness. Comparable to S7 on senior-level leadership advisory and strategic alignment engagements; differs in being broader and more established.
• Bain & Company: Global management consulting firm with practices in organization, transformation, and ESG/sustainability. Competes with S7 on leadership transformation and strategic alignment engagements, with significantly deeper bench, brand, and geographic coverage.
• Russell Reynolds Associates: Global executive search and leadership advisory firm with practice areas covering leadership assessment, succession, and organizational transformation. Comparable to S7 on equipping leadership teams for change and strategic alignment, at materially larger scale.
• Spencer Stuart: Global executive search and leadership advisory firm with practices in CEO succession, board effectiveness, and organizational transformation. Overlaps with S7's senior-team equipping and strategic alignment services, but at significantly larger scale and brand recognition.
• Korn Ferry: Global organizational consulting firm spanning executive search, talent assessment, and leadership development. Its Leadership & Succession Consulting practice competes directly with S7's modular offerings on equipping leadership teams and aligning strategic direction, though Korn Ferry operates at much larger scale.
• Heidrick & Struggles: Global leadership advisory and executive search firm with a dedicated Leadership Consulting practice serving C-suite and senior leadership teams on transformation, team effectiveness, and succession. Comparable to S7's leadership development and team-equipping offerings but at materially larger scale and with broader geographic coverage.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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