When Great Security entered a phase of rapid expansion, the leadership team faced a defining challenge:
How do we build a leadership culture strong enough to carry a national growth journey?
The company had already begun accelerating its development — integrating new teams, expanding its footprint across Sweden, and preparing for greater operational and financial responsibility. But with growth came a clear insight: as the company scaled, its leaders needed to scale with it. That became the starting point for a long-term partnership between Great Security and NSM.
Co-creating Great Academy
From the outset, Great Security emphasized the need for solutions tailored to their reality — a dynamic organization, growing quickly, with leaders spread across the country.
In close collaboration with the founders and senior leadership, NSM helped create Great Academy: a long-term, flexible leadership program designed to strengthen both leadership capacity and company culture.
Great Academy combined:
- individual coaching,
- four full-day leadership development sessions per cohort,
- shared facilitation between NSM and Great Security’s own leaders,
- and a modular structure that allowed real-time adaptation to organizational needs.
The intention was clear: to build leaders who were equipped not only to manage people — but to shape the culture and coherence of a growing national organization.
Leadership themes for Growth
Each module in the Academy reflected the demands of a fast-scaling business, with themes such as:
- Leadership & culture building — responsibility, mandate, motivation.
- Communication — behavioral insights (DISC), clarity of goals, employee motivation.
- Team development — delegation, conflict resolution, self-leading teams.
- Financial management & efficiency — meeting structure, decision processes, follow-up.
Through repeated cohorts, leaders from across Sweden met, learned, and developed together — creating a shared language and a stronger leadership community.
Impact – what the client says
Fredric Öjebrandt, founder and former CEO and CMO, describes the collaboration this way:
“We had started accelerating our growth journey and saw that more of our managers needed support to lead in a larger organization. Nordic School of Management adapted their solutions to our reality and co-created Great Academy with us — a long-term, flexible program for leadership and culture.
Their execution, holistic approach, and adaptability were excellent, and the initiative strengthened us as an organization.”
Fredric Öjebrandt, Founder, Great Security AB
A partnership built for sustainable growth
For NSM, the work with Great Security became a clear example of what happens when leadership development is woven into the fabric of a company’s growth — not as a one-off intervention, but as an evolving, co-created journey.
Great Security’s expansion demanded clarity, capability, and cohesion. Together, we built the leadership capacity to support it.